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 Prince Theater 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, though donations to Philly Film Showcase are welcome. Free ticketing program PFS On Us is presented by PNC Arts Alive.

SUBMIT YOUR FILM HERE!

TO MY MOTHERLAND
KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR | USA | 2016 | 5 MIN

Blending family photographs and home videos, this personal essay explores the complexities of immigration and integration in the United States.

MY AUNT MAME
KRISSY MAHAN | USA | 2017 | 9 MIN

This funny, sad, intersectional animation explores the joys and struggles of butches growing older.

ONE DAY AT A TIME
VALERIE GENZANO | USA | 2017 | 3 MIN

A young woman tries to keep it together while dealing with her college finals and her mother’s cancer diagnosis from 100 miles away.

THE ART IF BRING IZZY
COLIN PAWLOWSKI | USA | 2017 | 27 MIN

A hard-headed Chinese American college student struggles to accept her culture.

AS WHITE AS IT GETS
LESLIE RIVERA | USA | 2017 | 9 MIN

In this documentary, the white mom of a multiracial daughter deals with the complexities of race relations.

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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
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
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
Detective Dad: The Complete Series – Directed by Michael Yazujian
Dice – Directed by Viraj Nayar
Do You Hear That? – Directed by Fontain
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
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
Minuet for a Disappearance – Directed by Maaman Rezaee
Moths – Directed by Andy Fortenbacher
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
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
Regular – Directed by Jacquelyn Papanier
Pine Tree – Adam Evans
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
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 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 Property – Directed by Scott Hudson
The Seagull – Directed by Justin Lee
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
Toast – Directed Sam Thompson
Top Secret Rosies – Directed by LeeAnn Erickson
To A Stranger – Directed by Evan Gilchrest
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
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
Zipper – Directed by Steven Scott Adams