BY IREASHIA BENNETT The cinéSPEAK Journal publishes a monthly Philadelphia Artist Spotlight highlighting local filmmakers and moving image artists doing unique and impactful work. Born and raised in West Philadelphia, teen director and screenwriter Lanaa Dantzler uplifts the power and spirit of community in her films. Dantzler...
BY IREASHIA BENNETT The cinéSPEAK Journal publishes a monthly Philadelphia Artist Spotlight highlighting local filmmakers and moving image artists doing unique and impactful work. Kenzä Bousseloub كنزة بوسلوب uses various forms of visual storytelling to explore the nuances of womanhood, the generational impact of colonization on Algerian...
BY IREASHIA BENNETT The cinéSPEAK Journal publishes a monthly Philadelphia Artist Spotlight highlighting local filmmakers and moving image artists doing unique and impactful work. Intimacy and interiority are consistently present themes in films by Katie Harkins, a Philadelphia-born and raised cinematographer. Across genres–from narrative and documentary to...
BY IREASHIA BENNETT The cinéSPEAK Journal publishes a monthly Philadelphia Artist Spotlight highlighting local filmmakers and moving image artists doing unique and impactful work. Lunise Cerin is a Haitian-American filmmaker who crafts stories and immerses viewers in worlds that situate embodied and autonomous Black and Haitian women...
BY IREASHIA BENNETT The cinéSPEAK Journal publishes a monthly Philadelphia Artist Spotlight highlighting local filmmakers and moving image artists doing unique and impactful work. Film transforms how we see space and time. For Baltimore native and Trinidadian filmmaker Kayla Naomi Watkins, documentary filmmaking is a space of...
BY IREASHIA BENNETT The cinéSPEAK Journal publishes a monthly Philadelphia Artist Spotlight highlighting local filmmakers and moving image artists doing unique and impactful work. Vibrant. Visceral. Emotive. Passionate. These words come to mind when describing Jamaican-American filmmaker and artist Tshay’s still and moving image work. Originally from...
BY IREASHIA BENNETT The cinéSPEAK Journal publishes a monthly Philadelphia Artist Spotlight highlighting local filmmakers and moving image artists doing unique and impactful work. Tommy Butler is a director, writer, and instructor whose recent narrative film, The World Takes, tackles nuanced issues such as class, fragility, and...
BY IREASHIA BENNETT The cinéSPEAK Journal publishes a monthly Philadelphia Artist Spotlight highlighting local filmmakers and moving image artists doing unique and impactful work. The behind-the-scenes (BTS) photography of a film gives us a peek behind the veil of the filmmaking process. The fourth wall is broken...
BY IREASHIA BENNETT The cinéSPEAK Journal publishes a monthly Philadelphia Artist Spotlight highlighting local filmmakers and moving image artists doing unique and impactful work. With a commitment to pushing artistic boundaries, Les Rivera has created captivating narratives in the form of short narrative films and documentaries. He...
BY GABE CASTRO The cinéSPEAK Journal publishes a monthly Philadelphia Artist Spotlight highlighting local filmmakers and moving image artists doing unique and impactful work. Drew Swedberg is an artistic collaborator who uses his passion for his community and knowledge of the filmmaking process to help create documentary...