BY ROSA PARRA The Sundance Film Festival is one of the most important festivals in the United States. It's also a special event for me because it was the first festival I ever attended; it turned out to be my only in-person experience in 2020 as...
BY JASON PETERS Washington D.C. transformed into a mundane yet mystifying military occupation for the Inauguration of Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. Metal fences were erected and more than 25,000 members of the National Guard were on sight at the Capitol Building in response to the...
BY STEPHEN SILVER Ever since the coronavirus pandemic forced the closure of most movie theaters in March, a frequent refrain among many cinema enthusiasts is that they'll get back to in-person moviegoing as soon as there's a vaccine. With the approvals of vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna,...
A Year in the Life of Promoting a Digital Series During a Pandemic BY LAURA RIVAS AND RUKSHAN THENUWARA Laura and I met in 2013 while cutting our teeth on producing commercials for a major studio. We instantly connected as third culture kids and navigating careers outside...
BY MARIAM DEMBELE AND JASON PETERS Two former classmates at Temple University, both notable visual storytellers, talk about how their work overlapped in Philly during 2020. Mariam Dembele works as an organizer and mediamaker with Movement Alliance Project, leading their Philly We Rise initiative, whereas Jason...
BY DIEGO ANDALUZ Despite the storm of negativity that has been the past twelve months, both within the film industry and outside of it, one of the few positive aspects of our current circumstances has been seeing various facets of cinema blossom that had previously been...
BY JOSH LEIDY This series about copaganda aims to explore how visual media helps shape the way our society views police and policing, and why copaganda is preventing us from progressing to a better society. Telling stories from cops’ viewpoints warps perspective and erases the larger...
BY SARAH MUELLER On behalf of Team cinéSPEAK, we hope that you and yours are wholly well and finding space to rest as the flaming dumpster fire that is 2020 comes to wrap. (Seriously though, do take care of yourselves—mental health preservation is vital.) Given all that...
BY DIANA LU cinéSPEAK is proud to be an official PAAFF 2020 Community Partner. The Donut King is the closing night film at the 2020 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, where it will be screening live on November 15, at 6:30pm. The film is followed by...
BY KRISTAL SOTOMAYOR cinéSPEAK is proud to be an art house theatrical partner of DOC NYC 2020. Our community members receive $2 off tickets with code: DOCNYC-SPEAK DOC NYC, the country's largest documentary film festival, is back for its 11th edition from November 11th to 19th. The...