Philly Film Showcase

An exhibition supporting new work by talented up-and-coming local filmmakers of all ages, level, and backgrounds complete with a post-screening Q&As with the filmmakers and talent.

Celebrate our talented local filmmakers each month during the Philly Film Showcase. PFS turns the Philadelphia Film Center Black Box into a venue for up-and-coming filmmakers of all ages, level, and backgrounds. Each Showcase is followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and talent to elicit feedback from the audience.

Submitting to the program is FREE! We support our local filmmakers enthusiastically and encourage our community to do the same.

Tickets are FREE thanks to our free ticketing program PFS On Us, though donations to Philly Film Showcase are welcome.

SUBMIT YOUR FILM HERE!

DECEMBER SHOWCASE – December 13 | 7:30 PM

THE TELEGRAPH!
Vincent DiCostanzo | 2018 | 4 MIN
August 16th, 1858: The first message is sent via the transatlantic telegraph cable.
August 19th, 1858: Real history is made.

RUBBERNECK
Benjamin Orifici | 2018 | 14 MIN
After breaking his much-needed glasses, nine-year-old Noah struggles to save his hostage father from a home invasion, to disastrous and comical effect.

MULK
David Esposito | 2018 | 3 MIN
Tom struggles to wrap his mind around the increasingly bizarre circumstances of his day.

BREAKFAST CHICKEN
Thomas Kastrati | 2017 | 1 MIN
Life from the point of view of an egg.

MAIN BLESSINGS
Abigail Bruley | 2017 | 6 MIN
When an ex-alcoholic desperately attempts to convince a weary priest of his spiritual dedication, an uninvited guest from his drunken past threatens his holy facade.

THOSE WHO HESITATE
Mark Janavel | 2018 | 4 MIN
Dating can be as tough as a punch in the face, especially for these two single partygoers.

SON OF BLACKBEARD
Thomas Verdi | 2018 | 15 MIN
Needing to secure his legacy, notorious pirate Blackbeard resorts to drastic measures so that his hapless offspring doesn’t disgrace the family name.

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Past Selections

3801 lancaster (Part ii) – Directed by David Altrogge
A Man Full of Trouble – Directed by Michael Johnston
About Them. -Directed by Justin Boswick
Aerial – Directed by Dom Hilton
Alien Communications – Directed by Kris and Kurtis Theorin
As White as It Gets – Directed by Leslie Rivera
Atmanous – Directed by Graham Cooper
Aquae Sulis – Directed by Dan Papa
Baby Steps – Directed by Chike Nwabukwu
Beta Persei – Directed by Katherine Clark
Bigger – Directed by Chad Fisher
Blind Date – Directed by Jamel Northern
Bloody Mary – Directed by Kenneth Gug, Matt Larsen, Scott J. Ross
Breakfast – Directed by Aleksandra Svetlichnaya
Capture – Directed by Tasha
Center City – August Aguilar
Child No More – Directed by Alex Hutflus
City of Shells Section: 1 Young Woman – Directed by Sean Hamilton
Cure – Directed by Jing Ma
Dalyla – Directed by Alexis Cerezo
Dead Giveaway – Directed by Ian Kimbel; Chris Spence
Death Notwithstanding – Directed by Omar Alqahtani
Detective Dad: The Complete Series – Directed by Michael Yazujian
Dice – Directed by Viraj Nayar
Do You Hear That? – Directed by Fontain
Elevator Man – Directed by Michael Francis Duff
Eleven Past Ten – Directed by Timothy Lanzone
Family Medicine – Directed by Joe Kraemer
Faux Glow – Directed by Mitch Marisco
Fight Hate with Love – Directed by Andrew Michael Ellis
Forlorn Rose – Directed by Justin Boswick
Fishtail – Directed by Andrew Renzi
Francisville – Jonathan Pappas
Freedom Beyond These 4 Walls – Directed by Amber Moment
Further – Directed by Alex Goss
Giraffe – Directed by Mark Kaercher
Guests of a Nation – Directed by Daniel Speers
Gumball – Directed by Kris and Kurtis Theorin
Heads – Directed by Leigh Pietz
Her Untitled Work – Directed by Andrew Caviston
Helicopter – Directed by Kit Zauhar
Home Away From Home – Directed by Tianyao Ma
Hopscotch – Directed by Chung-Wei Huang
Indo – Directed by Xabier Saavedar
In Weeping – Directed by Crystal Willison
Inheritance – Directed by Allen Meadows
It Happens Every Night – Directed by Hannah Silverman
It Was a Quiet Ride – Directed by Grant Schmidt
I’ve Always Been Here – Directed by M. Sean McManus
I’ve Got My Mind’s Eye Set on You (and part of me knows what you’re thinking) – Directed by Samuel Valenti
John Gets Ahead – Directed by Stephen Ohocinski Jr.
Karina and the Composer – Directed by Karl Staven
L’échappée (Wait for Me) – Directed by Jonathan Mason, Hamid Saïdji
Leaving Circadia – Directed by Evan Matthew Weinstein
Lie – Directed by Lisa Jiang
Like – Directed by Steven Gandolfo
Little Red Truck – Directed by Kate Kelsen
Mani Pedi: Episode One – Directed by Paul Triggiani
Marbletown – Directed by Wesley Mellott
Mary & Marsha in the Manor of Madness – Directed by Kris Theorin
Maquette 1:1000 – Directed by Doris ChiaChing Lin
Midnight Carnival – Directed by Chung-Wei Huang
Minuet for a Disappearance – Directed by Maaman Rezaee
Moths – Directed by Andy Fortenbacher
My Aunt Mame – Directed by Krissy Mahan
My Invisible Friend Is An Insomniac – Directed by Laura Hilliard
Nemophilist – Directed by Lucas Wozniak
Nights Like This – Directed by Kevin Nguyen
No One Else – Directed by Michael Long
Of Origins, Part 1: Hannah – Directed by Irit Reinheimer
Opus – Directed by Nelson Vicens
On the Other Side of the Fence – Directed by Henry Nevison
Our Nightly Fling – Kevin Nguyen
Partners – Directed by Haley Monson
Past/Present/Future – Directed by Andrew Gitomer
Pennsylvania Holy Ghosts – Directed by Ryan Pomeranz
Pennsylvania Guy Like Me – Directed by Connor Hough
Pow Pow – Directed by Brynn Antaran
Public Heart – Directed by Claudia Romano
Regular – Directed by Jacquelyn Papanier
Pine Tree – Adam Evans
Red Canvas – Directed by Nicholas Joseph Cunha
Rise of the Tigers – Directed by Max Pulcini and Matthew Albasi
Road Elegy – Directed by Linnea Langkammer
Routine – Edward Waisnis
Safstor – Directed by Adam Diller
Selkie – Directed by Amy Frear
Slashed – Directed by Chad Schultz
Some Gloomy Guy – Directed by Adam Ginsberg
Smoking and You – Directed by John Perrin
Sophie – Directed by Courtney Kehr
Spaced Out – Directed by Anna Gamarnik
Street Rats – Directed by Jared Hirsch
Sundog – Directed by Israel Vasquez
Surviving Kensington – Directed by Mo Scarpelli
Sweepstakes – Directed by Mark Tumas
Sweet Caroline – Directed by Luke Nowell
The Art of Being Izzy – Directed by Colin Pawlowski
The Backyard Philly Project – Directed by Amanda Danzinger
The Binge – Directed by Jessica Vasquez
The Burning House – Directed by Scott Ross and Karl Beyer
The FBI Blew Up My Ice Skates – Directed by Sara Zia Ebrahimi, Lindsey Martin
The Friend Zone – Directed by Robert Jaffe
The Magic Bracelet – By Rina Goldberg
The Mixtape: Stay Black, Baby! – Directed by Jasmine Lynea
The Pigeon – Directed Elizabeth Kazanjian
The Property – Directed by Scott Hudson
The Seagull – Directed by Justin Lee
The Secret Life Art – Directed by Catherine Mosier-Mills
The Thrill of Being Followed – Directed by Mickey Newman
The Witmans – Directed by Joe Lee
There All Along – Directed by Kyle Thompson
Thornbird – Directed by Jonathan Stutzman
Time – Directed by Valerie Genzano
Toast – Directed Sam Thompson
Top Secret Rosies – Directed by LeeAnn Erickson
To A Stranger – Directed by Evan Gilchrest
To My Motherland – Directed by Kristal Sotomayor
Transcriber – Directed by Mark Partridge
Triptych – Directed by Hilary Brashear
Until 20 – Directed by Geraldine Moriba Meadows & Jamila Paksima Rowell
Vessel – Directed by Stephanie Yuhas
Vivisection Mambo: Or Mating Strategies in the Year 3000 – Directed by Alexander Atienza
Watch Me – Directed by Ben Samuels
Whip Whop! – Directed by Will Colacito
Whisper – Directed by Marc Erlbaum
White Mushroom – Directed by Althea Rao
Wicked Conclusions – Directed by Phillip G. Carroll Jr.
Wolf of the Woods – Directed by Evan Maron
Xylophone – Created by Jennifer Levonian
Your Secret – Directed by Daisy Hwang
“Yous’ Got Somethin’, Right There” – Directed by John Nunn
Zipper – Directed by Steven Scott Adams