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17 Feb Our Right to Gaze: A Defiant Declaration

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BY BEDATRI D. CHOUDHURY OUR RIGHT TO GAZE is a collaborative project of Full Spectrum Features (Chicago), Northwest Film Forum (Seattle), The Luminal Theater (NYC), and Circle Collective (NYC). cinéSPEAK is honored to be a presenting partner of their incredible short film program. The program will be...

25 Jan Sundance 2021 Preview

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BY ROSA PARRA The Sundance Film Festival is one of the most important festivals in the United States. It's also a special event for me because it was the first festival I ever attended; it turned out to be my only in-person experience in 2020 as...

22 Jan This is Not F*cking Normal: Scenes From Outside Joe Biden’s Inauguration

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BY JASON PETERS Washington D.C. transformed into a mundane yet mystifying military occupation for the Inauguration of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. Metal fences were erected and more than 25,000 members of the National Guard were on sight at the Capitol Building in response to the...

29 Dec After a Tough 2020, Philadelphia Movie Theaters Eye the Post-Pandemic Future

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BY STEPHEN SILVER Ever since the coronavirus pandemic forced the closure of most movie theaters in March, a frequent refrain among many cinema enthusiasts is that they'll get back to in-person moviegoing as soon as there's a vaccine. With the approvals of vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna,...

22 Dec Film Festivals and Podcasts and COVID, Oh My!

Posted at 15:49h in Conversations and Collaborations, Film Festival by Sophia Abraham-Raveson 0 Comments

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A Year in the Life of Promoting a Digital Series During a Pandemic BY LAURA RIVAS AND RUKSHAN THENUWARA Laura and I met in 2013 while cutting our teeth on producing commercials for a major studio. We instantly connected as third culture kids and navigating careers outside...

16 Dec A Year in the Streets: Two Philly-Based Visual Storytellers Reflect on Documenting Movements for Change

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BY MARIAM DEMBELE AND JASON PETERS Two former classmates at Temple University, both notable visual storytellers, talk about how their work overlapped in Philly during 2020. Mariam Dembele works as an organizer and mediamaker with Movement Alliance Project, leading their Philly We Rise initiative, whereas Jason...

14 Dec Disability In Film: The 5 Most Important Portrayals of the Disabled Experience in 2020

Posted at 16:00h in On-Screen Representation, Watchlist by Sophia Abraham-Raveson 0 Comments

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BY DIEGO ANDALUZ Despite the storm of negativity that has been the past twelve months, both within the film industry and outside of it, one of the few positive aspects of our current circumstances has been seeing various facets of cinema blossom that had previously been...

09 Dec Copaganda : An Introduction to How Media Affects Our Perception of Policing and Criminal Justice

Posted at 13:09h in Abolition, Black Liberation by Sophia Abraham-Raveson 0 Comments

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BY JOSH LEIDY This series about copaganda aims to explore how visual media helps shape the way our society views police and policing, and why copaganda is preventing us from progressing to a better society. Telling stories from cops’ viewpoints warps perspective and erases the larger...

04 Dec Introducing cinéSPEAK: Meet the Team Behind Our New Publication

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BY SARAH MUELLER On behalf of Team cinéSPEAK, we hope that you and yours are wholly well and finding space to rest as the flaming dumpster fire that is 2020 comes to wrap. (Seriously though, do take care of yourselves—mental health preservation is vital.) Given all that...

13 Nov Talking with Alice Gu: Why The Donut King is the American Story We Need

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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...