BY GABE CASTRO This article is part of a column by Gabe Castro called "Reel Impact: From Screens to Streets." The column explores contemporary film through conversations with Philadelphia-area community members and organizers. This column is funded with support from Bread and Roses Community Fund. “We are...
BY M. SHANE JENKINS Being disabled is like playing life on “hard mode.” As someone who uses a wheelchair, it’s often impossible to visit friends’ houses and there are many bars and restaurants I can’t go to since my stroke because of the steps leading into...
BY ERICK BARRAGÁN RAMÍREZ The cinéSPEAK Journal publishes a monthly Philadelphia Organization Spotlight highlighting a local film or moving image focused organization, business, or collective doing unique and impactful work. Founded in 2016, Lightbulb Rentals is a community-focused independent rental store for film equipment, cameras, photography, gear,...
BY SOPHIA ABRAHAM-RAVESON Please refer to the official websites for events to ensure that you have the most up-to-date information about ticketing, reservations, delays, re-scheduling, cancellations, and other guest policies for venues, including relevant COVID-19 requirements. Inclusion in the Philadelphia Monthly Arts Round-Up does not signify...
BY C.M. CROCKFORD Pennsylvania’s Film Tax Credit Program, originally established in 2007, offers financial incentives to entertainment companies and movie productions shooting within the state. The credits were intended to help expand the local film industry as well as create new jobs. Pennsylvania’s legislature even increased...
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 ERICK BARRAGÁN RAMÍREZ The cinéSPEAK Journal publishes a monthly Philadelphia Organization Spotlight highlighting a local film or moving image focused organization, business, or collective doing unique and impactful work. Love Now Media is a media production company founded in Philadelphia in 2016. The organization’s mission centers...
The streets of quaint and chilly Park City, Utah were warmed by creatives gathering from around the world to celebrate the 40th edition of the Sundance Film Festival. The festival is renowned worldwide for its initiative to support and highlight independent artists, cultivating the emergence...
BY SOPHIA ABRAHAM-RAVESON Please refer to the official websites for events to ensure that you have the most up-to-date information about ticketing, reservations, delays, re-scheduling, cancellations, and other guest policies for venues, including relevant COVID-19 requirements. Inclusion in the Philadelphia Monthly Arts Round-Up does not signify...
BY ERICK BARRAGÁN RAMÍREZ The cinéSPEAK Journal publishes a monthly Philadelphia Organization Spotlight highlighting a local film or moving image focused organization, business, or collective doing unique and impactful work. Created by the Movement Alliance Project in 2017, People's Media Record is an archive and repository for...