15th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival

By Rich Drees

     With the addition of a new screening venue and two new program tracks, the Philadelphia Film Festival enters its 15th year as one of the biggest and most diverse film festivals on the East Coast. The Cinema at Penn joins two other screening locations in Philadelphia's University City section and raises the festival total screen count to seven, while new programming tracks devoted to music and family-friendly films join the festival's previous series centered on documentaries, cinema from Latin and Muslim countries, American independents and the popular Danger After Dark series.

15th Philadelphia Film Festival Kicks Off-

(March 31) The 15th Annual Philadelphia Film Festival opened with a screening of Akeelah And The Bee with star Laurence Fishburne and writer/director Doug Atchison in attendance.

Robert Downey's Pound-

(April 7) The writer/director screens and talks about his seldom seen counterculture satire.

Reviews- This Film Is Not Yet Rated, The Fisherman And His Wife, These Girls, Little Athens

Reviews- Tokyo Zombie, Midnight, My Love, The Wedding Party, Hamlet Of Women, Hell