Whose Story to Tell

29 Jul OPPORTUNITY ALERT! CALL FOR LOCAL SHORT FILMS (cinéSPEAK @ Cherry Street Pier)

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SUBMIT YOUR SHORT FILMS: DESCRIPTION: We are looking for films that inspire copious amounts of joy, films that make us feel love, and want us to love—Think: summertime love, young love, messy love, in-your-20s love, grown and inviting love (but not too inviting), seasoned and wholesome love—We...

19 Jul Who Gets to Tell the Story?

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A Note From Our Editor-in-Chief BY MONIKA ESTRELLA NEGRA As I have come into my position as Editor-In-Chief of cinéSPEAK, I have asked myself what power is held within the stories we craft on our own. As a Black, queer filmmaker I have tried to maintain...

24 Jun Five LGBTQ Filmmakers Who Make Philly Proud

Posted at 14:18h in LGBT Liberation, Whose Story to Tell by Sophia Abraham-Raveson 0 Comments

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BY HANSEN BURSIC We are deep into Pride Month, and in Philly we have so much to celebrate. Philadelphia has a thriving and diverse LGBTQ community, and the city is a hotbed of queer and trans filmmaking. This list celebrates five incredible LGBTQ filmmakers who call...

25 May Actor-Writer Aseem Tiwari on the Mental Health Revolution in India

Posted at 17:34h in Conversations and Collaborations, Critical Conversations, On-Screen Representation, Whose Story to Tell by Sophia Abraham-Raveson 0 Comments

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BY SRILEKHA CHERUKUVADA Though mental health has seen brief spotlights in the media in India, the true gems of mental health advocacy lie within the indie film industry. The industry has done a brilliant job of bringing mental health into the spotlight–notably, writer Aseem Tiwari has...

09 Apr From North Philly Stables to Netflix: An Interview with Director Ricky Staub of Concrete Cowboy

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BY KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR Cowboys on horses riding down the streets of Philadelphia with the highrises of the city in the background is a common sight for residents. The Philly cowboy communities in the North and West are “believed to date back to the early 20th century...

19 Mar Rita Moreno Off-Screen: An Interview with the Puerto Rican Women Behind the Intimate Documentary

Posted at 19:40h in Film Festival, Latinx, Whose Story to Tell by Sophia Abraham-Raveson 0 Comments

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BY KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR While Latinx stories and characters in cinema continue to be depicted through racist stereotypes, we take a deep dive into the films and filmmakers re-framing Latinidad through the column Cine alzando voz, meaning “Cinema raising its voice.” Through thoughtful critique and insightful interviews...

03 Sep The Empire of Images: How ‘Epicentro’ Fails to View Cuba

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BY KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR “Utopia means both good place and no place,” meditates Academy Award nominated filmmaker Hubert Sauper in his latest feature documentary Epicentro. The film was awarded the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Throughout Epicentro, the Austrian director...