Topic: Film

The social justice-themed short-film festival returns for its fourth year to Underground Arts June 18 and June 20.

How Philadelphia guitarist Randy Bowland shaped Hollywood’s next breakout star

Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s latest film in theaters now, is a tribute to Black people, their music, and their American experience

A local filmmaker explores what would happen if the enslaved people buried in Washington Square were to wake up and … eat White people. (Relax, it’s a metaphor.)

A Philadelphia documentarian uncovered the little-known story of the first multiracial Civil Rights protest in 1960. Watch the award-winning film at the Weitzman Museum on February 6

The documentary, followed by a community conversation, explores a proven solution to homelessness. Join the effort November 21

Join former Mayors Nutter and Atlanta’s Kasim Reed with New Yorker writer, scholar and activist Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor for the screening of a story that speaks to the future of cities — and that inspired a young Barack Obama

Is Ted Passon, co-director of Philly D.A. and creator of the new Hulu documentary rom-com Patrice: The Movie, just a South Jersey guy who got lucky — or a humble visionary who just so happens to collab with the likes of Alex De Corte and Tierra Whack?

The weird story of how our weird city played a crucial role in launching the sci-fi blockbuster, now officially on its third film

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