Announcements

  • Course Registration is now open!

    This Spring, we'll be offering screenwriting workshops and a short filmmaking lecture. Registration is open at www.filmadelphia.org/events. Please call 267-239-2941 for more information or to set up a payment plan.

  • We took over MOVIE MONDAYS at the Troc!

    We're proud to announce that we will now be programming the Trocadero Theater's long-running "Movie Monday" series beginning Mondays in mid-January. Our first two weeks will feature films that will screen one day before their DVD/BluRay release and giveaway advance copies as raffle prizes! Join us for 50/50 (Joseph Gordon Levitt, Seth Rogen) on January 27th and for Drive (Ryan Gosling, Carrie Mulligan) on January 30th. More films to be announced so stay tuned!
    *We just added a Resurrect Dead film screening and DVD release party with Director Jon Foy in attendance!

  • We're looking forward to all the new faces that will JOIN US in the new year!

    As a special perk for signing up between December 28, 2011 - January 4, 2012, all new members will receive a special advance preview invitation to In the Land of Blood and Honey, written and directed by Angelina Jolie. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion on Bosnian, human and gender rights moderated by Woman's Campaign International. Join now at www.filmadelphia.org/membership

Blog post: PFS Sneak Preview: HAYWIRE

By Le Anne Lindsay

I read that Steven Soderbergh was looking to make a more beautiful, stylistic action film in the vein of the classic James Bond film From Russia With Love or the Michael Caine thriller Funeral in Berlin when he set about to make Haywire.

His other inspiration was professional mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano:

Soderbergh was flipping between channels late one night and stumbled onto one of Carano's fights. "I see Gina coming out.

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Blog post: Highlights of the 20th Philadelphia Film Festival Win Big at 2012 Golden Globes!

The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards took place last night and this year it was the 20th Philadelphia Film Festival that came out a big winner in terms of programming some of the most notable films of 2011.

From nominees to winners, last Fall's Festival shone through in many of the film-related categories. The Descendants, which won Best Picture and Best Actor (George Clooney) for Motion Picture - Drama, closed out the 20th PFF with a sold out crowd of almost 900 attendees.

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