Festival Updates

PIFF News - Updates from past fest films:

Visit the original fest blog here!

Visit the original fest blog here!

Features April 8, 2013 at 10:08 pm 1 comment

We have kept the link of the Blogger Blog here . We will keep adding legacy content so it is searchable on this site. Eventually we will migrate it all, but hey we feel a little nostalgia for the 5 year old Blog!

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2010 Philadelphia Independent Film festival 3

Official winners ~ Philadelphia Independent Film Festival 3 ~ 2010

Features April 8, 2013 at 9:27 pm 0 comments

See the 2010 Winner posting here.

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Kandahar Break – Shaun Dooley interview. Thriller

Kandahar Break – Shaun Dooley interview. Thriller

Features April 8, 2013 at 9:06 pm 0 comments

Kandahar Break – Shaun Dooley interview. Screened as part of the 2010 Film festival. Kandahar Break was awarded Best Foreign Feature film. Actor Shaun Dooley discusses his role in David Whitney’s KANDAHAR BREAK which arrived in UK cinemas in September 10th, 2010. It is available to own on DVD/Blu-Ray.

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The Contradictions of Fair Hope, directed by S. EPATHA MERKERSON

The Contradictions of Fair Hope, directed by S. EPATHA MERKERSON

Features April 5, 2013 at 5:36 am 0 comments

 Listen to the Radio Times (WNPR) Interview by Marty Moss-Coane. Best Documentary Feature 2012. The Contradictions of Fair Hope, directed by S. EPATHA MERKERSON, who played Lt. Anita Van Buren in Law and Order for over 15 years, and attorney ROCKELL METCALF, turns the camera on modern-day Hale County, Alabama, and traces the story of Metcalf’s family [...]

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Filmmaker David Spaltro

Things I Don’t Understand by David Spaltro

Features April 5, 2013 at 2:25 am 0 comments

Best feature 2012 selection continues festival run! View the trailer here – Things I Don’t Understand. See you at the movies!

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THE REVOLUTIONARY will be opening theatrically in NYC

THE REVOLUTIONARY will be opening theatrically in NYC

Features April 4, 2013 at 11:32 am 0 comments

Festival 2012 favorite, THE REVOLUTIONARY, will be opening theatrically in NYC for a limited engagement starting Friday, April 12th at the Quad Cinema. See Quad Cinema for more information. As you know, the film drew a front page article in the Philadelphia Inquirer and a lot of discussion. Congratulations to [...]

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Welcome to #PIFF On Demand - See the award winning films and trailers from past festivals!

Now playing: Papiroflexia by Joaquin Baldwin

Festival favorite in 2008. See it in its entirety online here: Papiroflexia. An origami tale of a skilful paper folder who could shape the world with his hands. Papiroflexia (Spanish for “Origami”) is the animated tale of Fred, a chubby man with a passion for paper folding, who wants to [...]

Whatever Makes You Happy. Trailer. Feature, Drama

Screened as part of the 2011 Festival. View Trailer here. Exploring the all too common trappings of dissatisfaction and infidelity in the relationships of urban twenty somethings, “Whatever Makes You Happy” tells the story of Anna and Alex, two fundamentally different people. Anna is a practical and bookish grad student. [...]

The Lift - Full Version from Robert Kohr on Vimeo.

The Lift by Robert Kohr. Animation

Animation. Winner Best Animation 2010. The Lift explores the consequences of one very common behavior of not holding the elevator door open for someone rushing to get on or worse, lifting your finger and actively pushing the close button.

Digital Pamphleteer from Bill Simmon on Vimeo.

Digital Pamphleteer by Bill Simmon. Short.

Winner best Short Documentary 2008. by Bill Simmon. RT 6:54. Steve Benen is the lead blogger at WashingtonMonthly.com. I made this film when he was writing for his old blog, The Carpetbagger Report. This short documentary explores Benen’s reasons for blogging, his process, and how political blogging is helping to change [...]

Standing Up – Trailer

2008 Selection. STANDING UP is a feature length documentary about young Afghan men training to become professional soldiers in the new Afghan National Army. Situated at the Kabul Military Training Center,

Franklin In Paris – Order of the Quest. 2008 Festival special selection.

A scene from Order of the Quest. The Venerable Master Benjamin Franklin meets privately with the mysterious Baroness Angelique Broussard in Paris, 1774. Scene from the Historical Science-Fiction series shot by MBN Studios in Philadelphia PA.

Santiago – the Movie. Trailer

2012 Festival selection. Santiago (Jesus Guevara) is a drug dealer who agrees to let Miguel (Dan Lopecci), a Mexican actor, follow and study him for his next role. With only Billy (Wesam Keesh) the cameraman at his side, the two set out to document a day in the life of Santiago. [...]

The Beatles at their Best. Short

2012 Selection. RT 24:55. Made primarily from photos, video clips and interviews all found on the Internet, many only recently available, “The Beatles at their Best” provides viewers with the opportunity to meet The Beatles at the time that John Lennon says they were at their best. “We were at [...]

The Revolutionary. Trailer

Runner up, best Documentary film 2012. “The Revolutionary provides a fascinating perspective on the greatest revolution of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of an American progressive swept up in it. Sidney Rittenberg is a master raconteur who tells his tale of dramatic political ups and downs with [...]

Foet – Horror Short.

What would you do to be liked by all? To be admired by millions?