First Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival Now Accepting Submissions
Debi Moore
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With a promise to keep its focus on horror, sci-fi, and bizarre films with an emphasis on emerging filmmakers, the first Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival has been announced; and it’s now open for submission of both short and feature-length films. If you live in or near Philly, this is one event you should keep on your radar!
From the Press Release:
The Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival (PUFF) is now accepting feature-length and short film submissions for 2016. The first-year film festival aims to bring independent genre films to Center City Philadelphia and will take place in September (exact dates tba).
Run by Fangoria contributor Madeleine Koestner and longtime pop culture blogger Alex Gardner, PUFF has been hosting monthly screenings at one of Philly’s last video rental shops, CineMug. These screenings will culminate in a weekend-long festival that will feature a networking night, horror trivia, and plenty of exciting new features and shorts.
“Philadelphia has a lot of great retro events, but it lacks a dedicated genre film festival to showcase new and upcoming talent,” explains Koestner. “We are launching PUFF to give Philadelphia its own film festival to celebrate horror, sci-fi, and bizarre movies that are not normally showcased at more mainstream events. We aim to grow PUFF into a multi-media event where people can come enjoy our great city while experiencing the best in new cinema.”
The festival will focus not only on delivering an alternative film festival to the local movie fanatics of Philadelphia but also connecting upstart filmmakers with distribution outlets by working with local independent film distributors. The festival directors offer a combined ten years of film festival and horror journalism experience, working with Fangoria, Famous Monsters of Filmland, Another Hole in the Head, Buffalo Dreams, the Bay Area’s SiliCon, and more.
The festival directors also look forward to working with local filmmakers, artists, and other venues to create a great festival where movie lovers can gather once a year to celebrate film and socialize.
“Eventually we hope to include the popular aspects of all Philly nightlife where filmmakers and attendees can watch great movies, then get together to discuss the films, network, and have a little fun,” said Gardner. “Discovering great films will always be the focus, but after the credits we want to make sure the filmmakers and badge holders have a party to go to.”
Expect more exciting PUFF announcements coming this summer. You can learn more and submit your films via the below links:
FilmFreeway: filmfreeway.com/festival/PhiladelphiaUnnamedFilmFestival
Withoutabox: withoutabox.com/03film/03t_fin/03t_fin_fest_01over.php?festview=1&festival_id=14944
Website: unnamedfilmfestival.com
Facebook: facebook.com/Philadelphia-Unnamed-Film-Festival-1166740610027504
Twitter: twitter.com/PhillyUnnamed
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