Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Irit Reinheimer By Travis Trew, Programming Associate Philadelphia-based artist Irit Reinheimer was trained in sculpture, but gradually found her way to documentary and experimental films. Her work often combines disparate elements, including text, animation, and her late father’s 8mm home movies. Of Origins: Hannah is the first part of a planned trilogy […]
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Jasmine Lynea
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Jasmine Lynea By Travis Trew, Programming Associate Having studied film and media arts at Temple University and worked on a variety of projects including documentaries, music videos, and shorts, New Jersey native Jasmine Lynea is passionate about using film as a tool to explore relevant social issues. Her film The Mixtape: Stay […]
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Amber Monet
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Amber Monet By Travis Trew, Programming Associate California native Amber Monet moved to Philly in 2012, transferring to Temple University as a sophomore dance major. A chance visit to the campus news studio led to a burgeoning interest in media production, and eventually to a change in majors. Several years later, Monet […]
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Samuel Valenti
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Samuel Valenti By Travis Trew, Programming Associate A recent graduate of Temple’s film program, Samuel Valenti has been to Philly Film Showcase before, with his gonzo teenage exploitation short Youth, Go to Waste!. His latest, the brilliantly titled I’VE GOT MY MIND’S EYE SET ON YOU (and part of me knows what […]
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Will Colacito
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Will Colacito By Travis Trew, Programming Associate Scranton native Will Colacito is about to start his junior year at Temple University, where he’s studying cinematography. Made for one of his Temple courses, Whip Whop! is a bizarre and surreal short about a man who finds a mysterious, shiny object, takes it home, […]
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Sam Thompson
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Sam Thompson By Travis Trew, Programming Associate Sam Thompson hails from Marlton, New Jersey but didn’t start cutting his filmmaking teeth until his sophomore year at West Virginia University. After joining the school’s film club, Thompson discovered his passion for writing and directing movies and hasn’t stopped making films since. His short […]
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Ed Waisnis
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Ed Waisnis By Travis Trew, Programming Associate Growing up in southern New Hampshire, artist and filmmaker Ed Waisnis’s lifelong love of film started early (with seeing 2001: A Space Odyssey on first release as a kid) and has continued ever since. Over the last decade, Waisnis has developed a fruitful working relationship […]
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Elizabeth Earhart
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Elizabeth Earhart By Travis Trew, Programming Associate South Jersey native and NYC transplant Elizabeth Earhart has been to Philly Film Showcase before, as the lead actress in the psychodrama Forlorn Rose. She re-teamed with writer/director Justin Boswick for the moody, chatty ensemble dramedy about them. In it, a young woman named Alex […]
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Adam Evans
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Adam Evans By Travis Trew, Programming Associate Hailing from Reading, PA, filmmaker Adam Evans’s credits include producing or directing several short docs, including Philly Film Showcase slum The Witmans. He wrote and directed the narrative short Pine Tree, which follows a carpenter named Ryan (Tobias Segal) who struggles to let go of […]
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Jonathan Pappas
Showcase Filmmaker Spotlight: Jonathan Pappas By Travis Trew, Programming Associate Jonathan Pappas is a fiction writer and filmmaker who teaches in the English Department at the Community College of Philadelphia. He’s co-produced and co-written films by Explosive Bolts Films (aka the creative duo Josh Crockett and Kristin Slaysman), including the short Dogsbody and the feature […]