CALL FOR ENTRIES - CHERRY ST PIER - NOVEMBER 2021 PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: TOWARDS THE OTHER SIDE. is a local filmmaker showcase that is seeking work that is experimental, speculative, horror and fantasy, weird and strange. We’re looking for works that spook, bump in the night, bloody and...
SUBMIT YOUR SHORT FILMS: DESCRIPTION: We are looking for films that inspire copious amounts of joy, films that make us feel love, and want us to love—Think: summertime love, young love, messy love, in-your-20s love, grown and inviting love (but not too inviting), seasoned and wholesome love—We...
JOB OPPORTUNITY: EDITOR-IN-CHIEF (PART-TIME; REMOTE THROUGH 2021) About cinéSPEAK: We are a Philadelphia-based cinema and publication that engages diverse audiences through our globally-minded contemporary and repertory independent film programming. We center the stories of individuals and communities that are often underrepresented in mainstream cinema and encourage people...
BY DIANA LU cinéSPEAK is proud to be an official PAAFF 2020 Community Partner. The Donut King is the closing night film at the 2020 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, where it will be screening live on November 15, at 6:30pm. The film is followed by...
BY KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR cinéSPEAK is proud to be an art house theatrical partner of DOC NYC 2020. Our community members receive $2 off tickets with code: DOCNYC-SPEAK DOC NYC, the country's largest documentary film festival, is back for its 11th edition from November 11th to 19th. The...
BY BEDATRI D. CHOUDHURY Thirteen is a strange number; some consider it unlucky, some don’t really care, and some (like Neil Young) insist on it being, indeed, lucky. It’s also a curious age in a person’s life: one’s first year as a teenager—caught in that in-betweenness...
LGBTQ+ filmmakers are taking back a genre that owes them everything. BY HANSEN BURSIC Let’s face it: horror is a queer genre. While it’s important to note the genre hosts some of the most problematic depictions of queer and trans people in film, true horror fans are...
BY GABE CASTRO Horror is a genre that has had a duplicitous relationship with most marginalized groups, including womxn. As the home of the blonde victim trope, a character that could never pass the sexy lamp test, let alone the Bechdel test and the Final Girl...
BY JOE GEORGE I was an unusually fearful child. It only took the trailer for Friday the 13th Part VI to keep me awake and staring through the window all night for signs of Jason Vorhees. A glance at the VHS cover for Ghoulies was enough...
BY ALEX SMITH SERIES INTRO: For these strange times, Alex Smith for cinéSPEAK presents a recurring series of articles and interviews that will take a look at the electric Philadelphia sci-fi, fantasy and speculative futures community! This series will showcase the region’s fantastic arts through a...