Join us for a special screening featuring Anna Russell Jones, Betty Leacraft and Betye Saar, three women of African descent who have led trailblazing and pioneering careers as artists, often using their work to make pointed and powerful political statements.

We are excited to launch the Street Movies! 2021, our 24th season! Street Movies! is a free screening series for audiences of all ages that tours neighborhoods around the Philadelphia region, bringing a program of independent film - fiction, animation, documentary, and youth and community produced work - from around the world to local parks, lots, playgrounds, and community spaces.

The Philadelphia Independent Media Fund awards grants to Philadelphia area independent media makers with digital video and audio projects in three areas:
Planning - for projects in the planning/pre-production stage - awards of up to $2,000
Next Level - for projects that require a professional consultant to bring to the next level of production - awards of up to $500
Finishing - for projects in the postproduction stage with an anticipated completion date of twelve months from the grant award date - awards of up to $3,500

Securing the rights to use pre-existing music for a narrative or documentary film can be a daunting task for the uninitiated. Rena Kosersky is an experienced professional within the film industry who has extensive experience with acquiring and clearing music for media projects, she will be presenting advice for how to get music cleared for independent media projects.

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In this four-week intensive, participants will study the fundamentals of narrative screenwriting, focusing on finding story ideas, character development, story structure, what makes strong film-writing, and finally, the basics of script format. The goal of this workshop is for participants to complete an outline for a short script and to write the first few scenes so that they have the tools to continue the screenwriting process on their own.

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When the mayor of Rutland, a small city in Vermont, attempts to resettle 100 Syrian refugees, communal discord erupts over resources and civic priorities. Filmed over the course of three years, For the Love of Rutland is an American portrait of a blue-collar city struggling through the opioid crisis, widespread unemployment and poverty. Honest and intimate, Maytorena Taylor provides an interior view of an American city’s clashing ideological and cultural subgroups.

We Tell: Fifty Years of Participatory Community Media series is now available for community screenings and educational use. Select programs (Wages of Work, Turf, and Collaborative knowledges) are available for a three-year educational license.

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An abandoned burial space, once owned by the historic Mother Bethel AME church, where more than 5,000 Black people were interred starting in 1810, was discovered. This is both a story of the struggle to reclaim the overlooked history of Black people in colonial Philadelphia, but also a story of the organizing, coalition building, and strategy employed by community members intent on preserving and memorializing what they termed as, "the ancestors of the African Diaspora.”

Scribe is open by appointment for select small workshops and equipment pickup, strictly following our COVID-19 protocol. Please send an email to inquiry@scribe.org if you'd like to set up an appointment.