We’ve just dropped the official listings for PIFF #18!The full schedule is now live — mark your calendars, make your picks, and get hyped.Let the countdown begin! 
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The Countdown Begins: PIFF 2025 Schedule Drops Tonight The excitement is building — and we’re thrilled to share that the official schedule for the 2025 Philadelphia Independent Film Festival will be released this evening! All screening times and event dates will be posted on our website and sent directly to participating filmmakers. We’re incredibly grateful for your patience, and we promise it’s been worth the wait. We’re launching this year’s festival with something close to our Philly hearts: Opening Night is Comedy Night!Expect an electric evening of locally made comedy films, live stand-up performances, and an open mic that invites anyone brave enough to grab the mic and make us laugh. It’s
Thank You to Our Incredible Filmmakers – PIFF 2025! As the curtain begins to rise on the 2025 edition of the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival, we want to take a moment to express our deepest gratitude to the filmmakers who make this celebration possible — you. This year, we were honored to receive submissions from over 50 countries, a beautiful reminder of the global reach and universal power of independent film. From every corner of the world, across borders and languages, you’ve shared your stories with us — bold, intimate, funny, disruptive, poetic, and daring. Submissions were strong across all genres — from thought-provoking documentaries and genre-bending narratives to experimental shorts and
Well we said it would happen and here we are! Travel over to the ALGORAND Blockchain and let’s get busy with the Filmmakers Lounge PIFF coin. PIFF has long been the innovator in the city of Philadelphia for film festivals, so they tell us. 
Over the years we have used unique venues, been the first to use live Streaming (our own), Social Media live tools (Periscope), the first to offer streaming to our filmmakers (Darkroom.film) connected Technology and Filmmaking and how it alters the story (good and bad) and more. Ultimately our festival has straddled the world of digital filmmaking and film as an art that is only now being discovered.
We are here for our friends and strangers alike in Los Angeles. The magnitude of the devastation is beyond comprehension. If you need to be in contact, please reach out to us! For a way to help out, please go visit the article in the link with some good ideas and options to help out. If you have other organizations and important information, please pass this onn to us and we will help distribute. Fest update: We are working OT here in the UFF and are excited already for next years festival screenings. after a feww hiccups, the 1st Friday open screenings and mic have been great. Thank you to the many
Hello, it was a long and hot summer. A Mild winter and a lovely start to the spring! We hope everyone is able to continue to stay in touch and take part in what is happening across the globe and how it relates to filmmaking. Art and now film (modern story telling) have always been at the vanguard of such cultural moments and now is not different. Thank you to everyone who has submitted and continues to debate the merit of Independent film. This is now more obvious than ever with the current discussion on “why” SAG-AFTRA were on strike (the genie is now out of the bottle and under contract). Thank
We’ve just dropped the official listings for PIFF #18!The full schedule is now live — mark your calendars, make your picks, and get hyped.Let
The Countdown Begins: PIFF 2025 Schedule Drops Tonight The excitement is building — and we’re thrilled to share that the official schedule for the 2025
Thank You to Our Incredible Filmmakers – PIFF 2025! As the curtain begins to rise on the 2025 edition of the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival,
Well we said it would happen and here we are! Travel over to the ALGORAND Blockchain and let’s get busy with the Filmmakers Lounge PIFF
We are here for our friends and strangers alike in Los Angeles. The magnitude of the devastation is beyond comprehension. If you need to be
Hello, it was a long and hot summer. A Mild winter and a lovely start to the spring! We hope everyone is able to continue
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