Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Katherine Clark By Travis Trew, Programming Manager North Carolina-raised filmmaker Katherine Clark has been an active member of the Philly Area’s cultural scene for years through her involvement with Theatre Philadelphia and founding of Trenton-based local filmmaker showcase PopUp Anthology. Her new film, Ways to Look at the Moon, follows a woman who […]

Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Cameron Clay By Travis Trew, Programming Manager A native of the D.C. area, Cameron Clay came to Philly to attend Temple University, where he’s about to start his junior year. His first film, Seeing Things, is about a young man haunted by emotional demons after being diagnosed with a rare eye disease. […]

Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Kevin Quinn By Travis Trew, Programming Manager Filmmaker Kevin Quinn made a splash with his Drexel senior thesis film The American Wake, which premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in 2018. His new film, Fragile White Boy, is a satirical, ultimately tragic story of a privileged young writer whose problems are contrasted […]

PFF27 films The Favourite and Roma both lead this year’s Oscar nominations with a total of 10 each! Other top nominated films include A Star is Born, Vice, Green Book and Black Panther, which all screened at the either the PFS Roxy Theater or Philadelphia Film Center (1412 Chestnut Street). Between the Philadelphia Film Festival and […]

It is January 1 and the PFS Staff is looking forward to a year of brilliant, entertaining, and thought provoking film! We decided to share the films we can’t wait to see in theaters in 2019!

Looking Back on an Extraordinary Year of Film with the Philadelphia Film Society! 2018 Year in Review  By the PFS Staff It’s been quite a year for us here at the Philadelphia Film Society. We began our year with the 5th Annual Oscars® Party & Screening at the Philadelphia Film Center (still the Prince Theater, […]

PFS Staff’s Top Films of 2018! By the PFS Staff As 2018 comes to an end, some of the staff at the Philadelphia Film Society share their favorite films of year… …but as you can see below, we all take on this task a little differently. *All lists are done in alphabetical order.* J. Andrew […]

Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Nelson Vicens By Travis Trew, Programming Associate Since graduating from Temple University, Minnesota-born and Pennsylvania-bred Nelson Vicens has carved out a career as cinematographer while creating his own work. Made after a two-year break from writing and directing, experimental short OPUS follows a painter struggling to complete a piece who’s tormented by […]

Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Connor Hough By Travis Trew, Programming Associate 28-year-old Telford, PA native Connor Hough has been seriously pursuing acting for the last two years, and decided to turn his own story into the semi-autobiographical Pennsylvania Guy Like Me. It’s the story of a young man struggling to get noticed as an actor while […]

Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Chung Wei Huang By Travis Trew, Programming Associate Taiwanese writer and director Chung Wei Huang started out studying business before making the somewhat late transition to filmmaking. Her thesis project at Temple University’s filmmaking program, Midnight Carnival is a drama inspired by Huang’s own experiences. The film follows Andrea, a Taiwanese student […]