Archive AFROLATINIDAD OUT LOUD Podcast SUNDAY EVENINGS Community News – Hosted by Lisa Barnes SIFT FILM CLUB – Next 9/27/26 NORTH PHILADELPHIA HISTORY FESTIVAL – THE JOHN COLTRANE EDITION – Sept. 25-27, 2026 Artist Talk + Screening – LOVE + TIME RECAP Sound Production Workshop – Instructor M. Asli Dukan FINDING ELIJAH – Yolonda Johnson-Young Black Earth City Roots – Summer Cinema SIFTMedia GENERAL MEETINGS – Sat. 9/16/26 SIFT Would Like to Thank the Bartol Foundation RECAP:15th Annual BlackStar Film Festival 2026 – Intradependence Shorts Program: Featuring Two SIFTers Queen Mother Documentary Film Screening – Philadelphia Premiere A SONG FOR NIA – Eboni Zamani SIFTMEDIA COLLECTIVE Has 501(c)(3) Status Philly Black Farmers Market – July – Nov Scribe Video: Ghetto Children by Zac Manuel 30th Annual 2026 Philadelphia Fringe Festival Pew Fellow and Filmmaker Bettina Escauriza on the Narrative Power of Images PEOPLE’S MEDIA FUNDS – Local Filmmakers Fund Leeway Foundation ART AND CHANGE GRANT 2026 Big Picture Film Fest 2026 – June 18th PHLAFF Film Festival 2026 THE LOVE LAB – Jos Duncan Asé Film Festivals: TWIN TONGUES / Lenguas Gemelas (2026) – Iliana Pagán Teitelbaum RECAP: CAMERA WORKSHOP – Nov. 22, 2025 ROUGH CUT Screening #2 – Mon. May 11, 2026 / RECAP VIDEOS From ROUGH CUT #1 FEEDBACK/RECAP: INTENSIVE SCREENWRITING WORKSHOP FREE Film Fest & Distribution Seminar Community Share: Scribe – CREATE DANGEROUSLY 4/17/26 RECAP: TCB: THE TONI CADE BAMBARA SCHOOL OF ORGANIZING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: THE HORRORS OF SOCIAL MEDIA – April 4th OSCARS Watch Party – 3/15/26 THE ADDICTION OF HOPE – One Night Only in Philly Charlese Hawkins-Hatton SIP FINALIST! Sotomayor Productions – EXPANDING SANCTUARY Reelblack Renaissance Presents: RIVERBEND Workshop: Navigating Conflict in Artistic Collaboration 28 Days of Blackness Virtual Events Scribbler Screenwriters: Table Read: ECHOES Stephanie Malson (Producer) – WHITE MEAT Screening Event 2.5.26 BSU Creative Virtual Open Mic – Jan 27, 2026 HUMAN.AI.TY – AI, Ethics & Advocacy Lunch Jos Duncan Asé – Pew Fellowship in the Arts Grantee 2025 End of the Year Giving- Thank You for Your Contribution FROM SPARK TO CONCEPT Virtual Workshop (Tatiana Bacchus) 12/6/25 IPMF is now PEOPLE’S MEDIA FUND (PMF) 2026 William and Louise Greaves Filmmaker Seminar cinéSPEAK Philly Cultural Critics Fellowship 2026 Lights, Camera, Joy: A cinéSPEAK Celebration The Love Machine [reprise] by jasmine lynea Hispanic Heritage Month 2025 The Women’s Film Festival Sept 18- 28 2025 RECAP: THE SEEDS WE CARRY – Rough Cut and Feedback Screening (Gabrielle & Tatiana) BLACKSTAR: SUBMIT PROPOSAL Recap: EXPLORING MOTION GRAPHICS WORKSHOP RELISH & REMEMBER (9/13) Foodie Event: Voices of 52nd Street Project Scribe Video Screening: SEPTEMBER EVENTS NOW & AGAIN Post Production – Nikki Harmon SIFT is Honored with a HOMETOWN MEDIA AWARD Good Grief Film Project Recap: BLACKSTAR FILM FESTIVAL 2025 SIFTers Programing Block on PHILLYCAM The Women’s Film Festival – FACING THE WIND Philly Premiere – July 1, 2025 THE SOCIAL CHANGE ECOSYSTEM MAP Tracing Family Trees – Free Library – June 10th RESISTANCE & JOY Screening w/ Scribe Video Melissa Beatriz – 2025 FLAHERTY FELLOW Independence Public Media Foundation $500,000 Awarded to 30 Local Film Projects 2025 IN LIVING MEMORY – Screening at 2 Festivals Big Picture Alliance 4th Annual Film Festival THE DENNIS BOYS – Seed & Spark Campaign LOVE NOW MAGAZINE – LOVE LEADS BRUNCH Punto y Raya Festival 2025 Call for Entries Available on Demand April 11th RELATIVE CONTROL Melissa Beatriz -ACTIVATE STORIES 2025 Leeway Grant Applications are Open! RECAP: THE GHOULS NEXT DOOR LIVE SHOW Shifting Realities:12 Artists Finding Place in Uncertain Times – Taller Puertorriqueño Exhibit Greater Philadelphia Film Office (GPFO) 2024 Leeway Transformation Award Recipients RECAP: UWH Film Fest – Panel: Black & Brown Women in Film GoFundMe Campaign – Stephanie Renée The DNA Journey RECAP: Las Cosas Que Brillan – Fundraising Party RECAP: NAACP Hollywood Bureau: BE IN THE BIZ Symposium 3rd Annual Creative/Nighttime Economy & Arts in Education Forum LOCAL FILMMAKER FUND – 2/28 Deadline Ladybug Crowdfunding Campaign MLK DAY Service Projects & Events PHLdocumenters Training OVERVIEW INVENTORY OF SIFT CAMERAS – M. Asli Dukan (July 2025) RECAP Video: What’s Your Ritual?: Film Screening & Grief Workshop (Gabe Castro) SIFTers, Note HOLIDAY HANG OUT CrowdFunding: Las Cosas Que Brillan GIVING TUESDAY 2024 Rae Shaw Book Release: THE SHORT LOVE NOW MEDIA Next Event – Dec 5 2024 PEOPLE’S MEDIA RECORD: See the Future: Public Access and Media Justice in Philly Watch Our Films on PhillyCAM THE COVID1619 PROJECT BlackStar Palestine Cinema: INFILTRATORS Ghouls Next Door & cinéSPEAK: I SAW THE TV GLOW Bettina Escauriza – Pew Center for Arts Fellow HARVEST DINNER & SCREENING – Gabrielle Patterson SIFTers Celebrate w/ Erika Alexander Seed & Spark Campaign – YOU WERE DEAD YESTERDAY Highlight: Tatiana Bacchus- Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round & Jessica Lange: Something About the Light 10 Best Documentaries Set in Philly Gabe Castro Moderating Events for IPMF & cineSPEAK: Sept 11th & Sept 20th Indiegogo Campaign – Jasmine Lynea DELLA CAN FLY! Plant Imprints: Capturing Nourishment & Connection The Women’s Film Festival Poets Bios – GOOD GRIEF Film Project RECAP: BlackStar Panel: Engines for a New American Narrative Co-presented by Color Congress RECAP: BlackStar Film Festival Aug 1-4, 2024 RECAP: Struggle and Speculation: Genre Film as a Subversive, Radical, and Liberatory Practice RECAP: Workshop – GRIEF, LOSS, AND GOOD GAINS: An Intensive Poetry Workshop w/ Ursula Rucker SIFTMedia 215 is part of COLOR CONGRESS Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $500,000 Awarded to 30 Local Film Projects 2024 Recap: SICK WIT IT: Health & Wellness Symposium FIRST COFFEE MEETUP Friend of SIFT Rea Tajiri – WISDOM GONE WILD RECAP: Screening/Discussion: Fall in Love, Not in Line: The Subversive Power of Comedy & Romance in Film SAG-AFTRA Producers Workshop RECAP: Liberation Through Afrofuturism SIFTERS CURRENT HIGHLIGHTS RECAP: Directing from the Inside: Script Analysis and Working with Actors THE SECOND TIME AROUND: REFINING YOUR GRANT WRITING Crisis in the Holy Land: NO EVIL EYE CINEMA Presents: Cinematic Interventions to Freeing Palestine RECAP Workshop: How to Support Hot Labor Summer: SAG-AFTRA STRIKE S+ages: The Web Series – Prime Act Media RECAP Workshop: Storytelling from the Air IT TAKES A VILLAGE: SIFT GRANT WRITING WORKSHOP SUMMER 2023 RECAP – HOW TO SWING A HAMMER: Basic Tool Use and Woodworking Skills LOCATION SOUND RECORDING WORKSHOP – Sat. April 22, 2023 – CANCELED RECAP: Inaugural Forum for the Creative Economy and Arts in Education Event “LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY” Report Consider SIFT in Your End of the Year Giving! APPLY: BlackStar Philadelphia Filmmaker Lab (2023) SIFTMedia 215 at BlackStar Film Festival 2022 RECAP: The Art of Tone and Staging a Home: Workshop with Set Decorator Nya Patrinos For Us, By Us: Media Mavens RECAP: URSULA RUCKER Pop-up Memoir Poetry & Performance Intensive Workshop RECAP: How To Produce A Film in Philly BLACK HISTORY MONTH 2022 RECAP Public TV 103: Planning Ahead and Preparing Your Film for Public Television Screenwriting Working Group led by Stephanie Malson RECAP Film Festival Strategies RECAP Public Television Workshop 102 SIFTMEDIA 215 GRANTED TWO YEAR OPERATING GRANT FROM INDEPENDENCE PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION RECAP Soulful Screenwriting: Connecting to Self, Character, and Story RECAP: Metaphysical Cinematography Translating Emotions into Moving Images RECAP:VR Workshop Adding Accessible Digital Experiences to Storytelling RECAP: Workshop -Public Television 101: A Filmmaker’s Guide to Navigating Public Television Big Picture Alliance’s COmmunity VIDeo Resiliency Project Herstory in the Making 10.29.2020 at 7PM | Calling on the Ancestors 10.22.2020 at 7PM| LoveNowMedia: 10.15.2020 at 7PM | Fundraiser for ULRICK: Documentary in Progress 10.08.2020 at 7PM | Permission Granted: SIFTMedia 215 Grantwriting Workshop ‘Expanding Sanctuary’ awarded IF/Then North Shorts Residency and Grant 10.01.2020 at 7PM | SIFTMedia 215 DIY Artivist Workshop 09.24.2020 at 7PM | Release & Black Ballerina 09.17.2020 at 7PM | Lost In The Hype: African-Americans in a Super Sports Town 09.10.2020 at 7PM | Baobab Flowers 07.11.2020 at 7PM | Finding Elijah 07.02.2020 at 8PM | LoqueeshaAshleyFranklinJoseBrown, On The JOB with Lani Lou, & Thug 06.25.2020 at 8PM | Expanding Sanctuary 06.18.2020 at 8PM | A Juneteenth Offering SIFTMedia 215 LIVE! 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