In following procedures to keep the whole community safe as part of the campaign to contain the novel coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak, we are closing Scribe Video Center for all public programs beginning Monday, March 16 and continuing until Sunday, April 19, 2020.

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Scribe presents a grouping of short films from our collection under the theme of Pillars. Each film highlights a local organization or business that is integral to the vitality of the communities they serve. As pillars within the Philadelphia region, these organizations continually provide a network of  access to healthcare, housing, food, and various other forms of well-being. This screening is an opportunity to showcase a small sample of local institutions and businesses who need our support during this time.

Street Movies! is back for its 23rd summer this August, offering free outdoor film screenings throughout Philadelphia neighborhoods. We are seeking works that will appeal to our audiences of diverse ethnicities, races, and ages across the city. Rental fees of $50 for up to three screenings during the month of August are available for filmmakers.

*We are closely monitoring the Covid-19 virus pandemic and will make necessary changes as necessary.*

As its 23rd annual edition migrates to virtual spaces to respect public health guidelines to contain Covid-19, the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) presents “Infiltrations:  A Different Media Environment,” an online media exhibition.

• Stolen Dreams II by Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project (YASP)
• Seeds of Awakening by The New Africa Center (Islamic Cultural Preservation and Information Council, ICPIC)
• St. Augustine Church, Philadelphia by Filipino American National Historical Society
• Villa African Colobó by Grupo Motivos
• Palmer Cemetery by the Fishtown Neighbors Association

This three-session workshop will provide participants with a broad-based introduction to oral history practice, including project design, interview preparation, question lists, ethics and law, and interviewing techniques. The course also covers the collection of supporting documents, the construction of memory, presentation in multiple media, and the preparation of materials for deposit in an archive. The third session will focus on discussion of practice interviews and participant projects.

This accelerated workshop teaches participants essential skills needed to edit any video in Premiere Pro whether it’s a 3 minute trailer or an hour-long documentary. Participants learn how to skillfully navigate Premiere’s workflow to make use of its powerful editing tools from importing, managing and editing media to creating sequences, applying transitions and effects, to encoding and exporting their completed projects.

Improve your interviews and voice-overs by learning to acquire the best-quality sound for audio documentaries and multimedia productions. In this four-part class, we’ll discuss the best gear and techniques for using that equipment. Participants will leave with their own 5-minute audio piece.

Creating portraits of familial bonds can be tricky. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Steven Ascher has made films on families, his and others, for more than twenty years, including the documentaries Troublesome Creek (Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award) and So Much So Fast (Sundance nominee, broadcast on Frontline) and the fiction short, Seduction Theory. He’ll talk about the intricacies and best practices of creating intimate portraits of the people closest to us.

Since 2004, Aleks Martray has worked as a filmmaker, composer and arts educator— facilitating projects with youth and communities in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Central America. He is the co-founder of Art of Solidarity (AoS), a media-arts cultural exchange program that has produced over a dozen film collaborations between hundreds of Nicaraguan & North American artists. He is currently the Executive Director of Big Picture Alliance (BPA), a non-profit that uses digital filmmaking to empower Philadelphia youth to define their own narrative.

Four sessions offering theoretical, practical and aesthetic approaches to the edit. Investigating the many ways to ‘find’ and refine story, how to organize for the edit, and hands-on techniques for structuring and crafting a piece. The overarching focus will be on how you can question your material to find a way through the edit. The last session will allow participants to show short scenes from their in-progress work for discussion.

Filmmakers, educators, and organizers, Vivian Vazquez Irizarry, Co-Director and Neyda Martinez, Producer will share the approaches they employed to lift the stories of the community’s unsung heroes. They will discuss the keys to working with authenticity and accountability in order to create a shared and collective filmmaking experience.

Co-sponsored with the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival.

Termite TV's Aggie Ebrahimi Bazaz presents How to Tell a True Immigrant Story, a poetic metanarrative chorus produced in collaboration with members of a community in upstate NY as they respond to increased ICE activity and anti-immigrant sentiment after the 2016 presidential election. The film expands the understanding of experiences widely reduced to politically convenient constructs like "immigrant," while marshaling the 360º video sphere to interrogate the ways in which a documentary can operate.

Places of Power is an exhibition of multi-disciplinary media works created by the Philadelphia-based Termite TV collective in collaboration with the Village of Arts and Humanities. Created in collaboration with community residents, the exhibition features an immersive web and virtual reality project that invites viewers to experience a shifting North Philadelphia neighborhood.