upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Blackstar Film Festival submission deadlines are quickly approaching: Early deadline is February 10th and the final deadline for submissions is March 31st [learn more]
Presented in collaboration with the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Scribe Video Center hosts an online screening and discussion with veteran filmmaker and television producer Madeline Anderson. [learn more]
Scribe’s staff is on hand to answer your questions and give details about all of our programs. [learn more]
The I AM 2018 Video Contest commemorates the 50th anniversary of a watershed moment in civil rights history, when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis, TN to march alongside striking African American sanitation workers who demanded dignity and respect. The contest is looking for 30 - 60 second video submissions that succinctly and creatively connect the struggles of the past to those of the present. The contest opens January 12th, 2018 and closes February 16th, 2018. [learn more]
The Department of Film and Media Arts at Temple University seeks applications for an adjunct instructor to teach a course this spring semester in narrative and/or documentary storytelling through Virtual Reality (VR). [learn more]
The CAMRA Fellows Program provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to explore and engage multiple media forms for their own research projects with the support and guidance of CAMRA scholars and mentors. Fellows will complete a media-based project focused on a social justice issue of interest to them. Application Deadline: October 5, 2017 [learn more]
Sarah Drury (ACG '07) and Alison Crouse (ACG '12) will be presenting media installations in Surface Tensions & Relational Paradigms, film and video projections that study the human body and its interactions with others and the environment. At the Abington Art Center from January 14 through February 25. [learn more]
This first feature-length interview based podcast devoted exclusively to African Diaspora arts and artists features Yolanda Wisher (ACG '08), Lela Aisha Jones (LTA '15), Maori Karmael Holmes (ACG '16, '06, '05, LTA '06), and Pascale Boucicaut and Adachi Pimentel (ACG '15). [learn more]
Eiko Fan’s experimental short Three Stories will screen at Community College of Philadelphia on November 14 as part of the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. [learn more]
Program Director Sara Zia Ebrahimi’s The FBI Blew Up My Ice Skates will screen at International House on November 11 during the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival. [learn more]
Pia Dias will launch Episode 00 of Contemporary Black Canvas on November 14 and Episode 01 on November 22. Contemporary Black Canvas is a bi-weekly podcast that will be available on iTunes, Stitcher and Soundcloud. [learn more]
Sara Zia Ebrahimi (LTA '14, ACG '13, '09) wrote an article about being a mother on set for Mentorless, a filmmaking blog for indie storytellers. She was also highlighted in Geekadelphia, Technical.ly Philly and Rookie Mag. [learn more]
Philadelphia Independant Film and Video Association (PIFVA) announces their next Finishing Fund deadline, May 15. [learn more]
Michelle Angela Ortiz (ACG '13, ACG '12, LTA '08, ACG '05) leads workshops in Mexico and Honduras this Spring. [learn more]
Directors Janet Goldwater (LTA '11, ACG '09, WOO '04) and Barbara Attie (LTA '11, ACG '09) premiere BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez, a documentary about African American activist and poet Sonia Sanchez (LTA '05), on April 11 at Full Frame Festival in Durham, NC. [learn more]