Upcoming EVENTS Fitler Presents: Seeding Change | An Indie Film Series POSTPONED Vote Lois Moses to Win TOP HOST (iHeartRadio) deadline 11/5/26 Free: BPA FOUNDING FURTHER Doc & Mixer 11/4/26 Spooky Screenings: People’s Cinema Club (10/13) & Dusky Projects (11/5) 12 PAST Events & Recaps Sotomayor Productions – EXPANDING SANCTUARY SIFT FILM CLUB – Next 11/01/26 Gabrielle Patterson – CONDEMNED: The Toxic Prisons Problem 2027 William and Louise Greaves Filmmaker Seminar 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 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 Scribe Video: Ghetto Children by Zac Manuel 30th Annual 2026 Philadelphia Fringe Festival 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 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 FROM SPARK TO CONCEPT Virtual Workshop (Tatiana Bacchus) 12/6/25 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) Recap: EXPLORING MOTION GRAPHICS WORKSHOP RELISH & REMEMBER (9/13) Foodie Event: Voices of 52nd Street Project Scribe Video Screening: SEPTEMBER EVENTS 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 Tracing Family Trees – Free Library – June 10th RESISTANCE & JOY Screening w/ Scribe Video IN LIVING MEMORY – Screening at 2 Festivals Big Picture Alliance 4th Annual Film Festival LOVE NOW MAGAZINE – LOVE LEADS BRUNCH Punto y Raya Festival 2025 Call for Entries RECAP: THE GHOULS NEXT DOOR LIVE SHOW Shifting Realities:12 Artists Finding Place in Uncertain Times – Taller Puertorriqueño Exhibit RECAP: UWH Film Fest – Panel: Black & Brown Women in Film 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 MLK DAY Service Projects & Events PHLdocumenters Training RECAP Video: What’s Your Ritual?: Film Screening & Grief Workshop (Gabe Castro) SIFTers, Note HOLIDAY HANG OUT 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 HARVEST DINNER & SCREENING – Gabrielle Patterson SIFTers Celebrate w/ Erika Alexander Highlight: Tatiana Bacchus- Ain’t No Back to a Merry-Go-Round & Jessica Lange: Something About the Light 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 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 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 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 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 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 10.29.2020 at 7PM | Calling on the Ancestors 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 SIFTMedia 215 LIVE! Launches June 11th
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