Street Movies!

Scribe Video Center’s Street Movies! series brings people together in communities across the Greater Philadelphia Region to engage with independent film and foster discussion around culture, community history, and issue-driven stories. All screenings are free, open to the public, and family-friendly. Check out program and registration details for upcoming events in our spring 2026 (undercover) season below. These events will be held indoors. 

UPCOMING EVENTS: RSVP HERE

IDEA Center for the Arts (217 Market St, Camden, NJ)

Thursday, June 18th at 7PM

Join us for a curated night of local and award-winning short films, discussion, and live music! Scribe Video Center and IDEA Center for the Arts partner on Street Movies! Undercover to celebrate Juneteenth with shorts on Black American music, civil rights, and finding love at the end of the world. 

RSVP is encouraged but not required, entry is free and the event will be held indoors. This event is a collaboration with POV, PBS' award-winning nonfiction film series. https://www.pbs.org/pov/

Film Program:

SONGS OF BLACK FOLK (USA / 2025 / 27 MIN)
Dir. Haley Watson and Justin Emeka
Leading Black musicians come together for a groundbreaking Juneteenth concert in the Pacific Northwest, creating a historic moment that paves the way for future generations of Black artists.

A CONCERTO IS A CONVERSATION (USA / 2021 / 13 MIN)
Dir. Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers
Kris Bowers is one of Hollywood’s rising young composers. At 29, he scored the Oscar-winning film “Green Book” (2018), and this year he premiered a new violin concerto, “For a Younger Self,” at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. For all that success, though, he says that as a Black composer, “I’ve been wondering whether or not I’m supposed to be in the spaces that I’m in.” In Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers's "A Concerto Is a Conversation," Bowers traces the process of breaking into new spaces through generations of sacrifice that came before him, focusing on the story of his grandfather Horace Bowers.

AT THE END OF THE WORLD (USA / 2026 / 7 MIN) 
Dir. Lanaa Dantzler
Teenage Yvette Jones learns how to practice love as an act of justice over the course of a summer in Wildwood, New Jersey.

CROOKED LINES (USA / 2018 / 11 MIN) 
Dir. Monica Berra, Yoruba Richen, and Jacqueline Olive
Meet two women fighting against race-based gerrymandering in North Carolina: Val Applewhite, a plaintiff in a landmark Supreme Court case, and Moon Duchin, a mathematician who empowers organizers to use data to advocate for fairly drawn electoral maps.

THE BLACK BELT (USA / 2016 / 11 MIN) 
Dir. Margaret Brown
In 2015, the state of Alabama closed 31 DMVs across the state. Many of these closures occurred in the Black Belt, a predominantly African-American region, directly impacting voter enfranchisement in a state that requires photo IDs at the polls.

Event Flow:

• 7:00PM - Doors
• 7:10PM - Opening Performance by Aleigha Johnson
• 7:30-9:00PM - Screening and Discussion

RSVP HERE

OPEN CALL

PAST EVENTS:

YEAH Philly (6809 Greenway Avenue, Philadelphia, PA)

Thursday, April 16th, 6-8PM

Scribe Video Center and YEAH Philly presented short films on the theme "Joy and Abolition" on April 16th. YEAH Philly is a Black-Led community-based nonprofit that works with teens and young adults who have been impacted by violence. Two new films will be premiered by YEAH Philly alongside A New Voice (2025), directed by lifelong activists Mike and Debbie Davis, and Preservation (2019) a short doc about Malcolm X Park, produced by the Philadelphia Student Union through Scribe’s Precious Places Community History Project.

Camden FireWorks (1813 Broadway, Camden, NJ)

Thursday, May 21st, 6:30-8:30PM

Scribe Video Center and Camden FireWorks present four documentary shorts exploring Environmental Justice. The film program will feature Sundance ‘26 Award Winner, The Boys and The Bees (2025) directed by Arielle Knight, A Tribe Called Camden (2026) directed by Justin DeGuzman, Christian Hayden’s premiere of I Spoke to a Tomato Plant (2026), which follows gardeners in the Mantua and Belmont area of Philadelphia, and Eve’s Garden (2007), which documents the story of a lush urban garden in the middle of Camden’s urban-industrial waterfront, made collaboratively by local residents through Scribe’s Precious Places Community History Project.