Topic: Film
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Fun Things to Do in Philly this Week and Weekend
This week there's festivals and block parties on North Broad, Lancaster Avenue, the zoo, Chinatown, plus concerts, comedy, dance, and more!
By Lauren McCutcheon and Christina Griffith![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Sandworms-791x400.jpg)
Dune Fan? Thank Philadelphia
The weird story of how our weird city played a crucial role in launching the sci-fi blockbuster, now officially on its third film
By Christina Griffith![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/American-Fiction-Film-Still-791x400.jpg)
Erasure and the Fiction of America
What Zora Neale Hurston, Oscar-nominated American Fiction, and the sacrifice of Black women tell us about America on the cusp of Black History and Women’s History months
By James Peterson![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Velshi-ABCs-book-banning-791x400.jpg)
Listen: Ali Velshi Banned Book Club on The ABCs of Book Banning
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member interviews 101-year-old book activist Grace Linn and George M. Johnson, author of All Boys Aren't Blue
By Ali Velshi![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Anthony-Kelly-displays-pardon-certificate_Hunter-filming-791x400.jpeg)
The Citizen Recommends: Pardon Me
Shuja Moore’s short film about the benefits — to all of us — of pardons for returning citizens screens Monday in West Philly
By Rachel Wisniewski![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Stand-up-shout-header-791x400.jpg)
The Citizen Recommends: Stand Up & Shout
Philly-raised filmmakers Mike Jackson, Ty Stiklorius and Amy Schatz — along with John Legend — debut their short documentary about Hill-Freedman high school songwriters November 7. Watch it on HBO — and then see the kids at our Ideas We Should Steal Festival
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Jason_Kelce_daugters_reading-791x400.jpeg)
The Secret Sauce Behind Kelce
With their newest film about the Eagles captain dropping on September 12, it’s safe to say Don Argott and Sheena Joyce will be delivering Philly its most heartfelt love letter yet. Pro tip: Stay for the credits
By Jessica Blatt Press![](https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Audience-in-theater-2022-By-Daniel-Jackson-1-791x400.jpg)
The Citizen Recommends: BlackStar Film Festival 2023
The Philadelphia-born pillar of excellence in film celebrates BIPOC-made movies and the people who make them — with care for all
By Kiersten A. Adams