FirstGlance™ Film Festivals: In the News!!
FirstGlance Summer Press Release 2010, gets picked up by PR.com and PressExposure.com
FirstGlance Film Festival announces Philly line-up Philadelphia City Paper Molly Eichel (Read More)
KOLDCAST TV TO SPONSOR CATEGORY AT FIRSTGLANCE FILM FESTS PRESS RELEASE (Read More)
Get Your Indie Film on ITunes the App Way June 29, 2010 Written by Angelo Bell (Read More)
FirstGlance Film Festivals has been named for the 3rd time in 6 years one of the "Best Film Festival Investments" by MovieMaker Magazine. (Read more)
We are proud to announce that FirstGlance™ Film Festivals has received an unprecedented amount of news coverage in the past few months.
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We are thrilled to be featured in Time Magazine as one of ten film festivals across the nation to be named "The Festivals for the Rest of Us." With over 2000 domestic film festivals in the country, FirstGlance™ was singled out, and we thank Time Magazine for this prestigious moniker.
Featured in Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News, Philadelphia Metro, Philadelphia Magazine, City Paper, and Philadelphia Weekly.
FirstGlance, in year Ten, has ties to Terror
By Steven Rea
Inquirer Movie Critic
In its 10th year, and offering a slate of 80-plus titles, the First Glance Film Festival sets up shop at the Adrienne Theater today for a 10-day run of indie fare: docs, DIY, music vids, animation and horror - yes, First Glance has linked with the Terror Film Festival to offer platters of splatter next Friday.
Among the 10 features (four of them nonfiction) are:
Liar's Pendulum, an action thriller with a military-industrial complex that comes with "a beautiful but deadly bisexual female assassin."
Midnight Clear, a crossed-paths portrait of lonely souls, one of them played by Stephen Baldwin.
Forgotten On the Bayou, a doc about Hurricane Katrina survivor Rockey Vaccarella and his campaign to bring New Orleans' continuing plight to the attention of President Bush - by having a FEMA trailer towed to D.C. and inviting the commander-in-chief over for gumbo.
Philly-made shorts include: "Alex Scott: A Stand for Hope," by TV newsman Larry Mendte; Warren Bass' mini-doc "At the Wall"; "Away Game," by Temple film student Theodore Nannicelli; Kathilynn Phillips' "Katrina's Wake"; "A.W.O.L.," with David Morse; Michael Licisyn's "Crazy Feeling"; Alidra Solday's "Granny D Goes to Washington," and "Always Greener," from Eric Grote.
Additionally, the festival will offer seminars and workshops about screenwriting, shooting, editing, and the rich history of set-in-Philly films.
Making Lemonade
by Michael Klein Philadelphia Inquirer Published October 2008
"Alex Scott: A Stand for Hope," the short film directed and written by CBS3's Larry Mendte about the Main Line girl who inspired Alex's Lemonade Stand, just won a spot in this fall's FirstGlance at the Adrienne Theater in Center City. Its world premiere was in May at the Seattle International Film Festival.
FirstGlance Film Festival Conquers New Frontiers
by Douglas Polisin | Published October 6, 2008
What began 12 years ago in the basement of a little movie theater in Center City Philadelphia with a group of indie moviemakers scrounging up every big screen TV and movie projector they could find has become one of the most revolutionary film festivals in the country. With more than 400 projects shown to date, an audience of more than 10,000 and two separate bi-coastal events (one in Philadelphia and the other in California) being held annually since then, the FirstGlance Film Festival has come a long way from its humble basement beginnings.
But don’t let the success fool you, FirstGlance was and will always be an indie moviemaker’s dream come true, providing moviemakers the thing they want most: A chance to have their movies seen. As new technologies emerge, FirstGlance is at the forefront of a new frontier in movie distribution, thinking outside the box and updating the old festival paradigm with online film contests that allow viewers to decide which shorts make it to the festival and opportunities for moviemakers to circulate their films through new mediums like the Internet and handheld technologies.(read more)
A Film Festival Moving Up
Source: Carrie Rickey INQUIRER MOVIE CRITIC
Born in a basement nine years ago, Philadelphia's edgiest film festival, FirstGlance™, has ascended to the Painted Bride, where the ninth annual event opened last night and runs through Sunday.. Of the 31 shorts and features screened, nearly half are local or world premieres. Tonight's offerings include Rent Control, about a prospective renter's mania to marry off the man living in the apartment she wants, and The Kings of Christmas, about New Yorkers from
Published on June 2, 2006, Page W09, Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA)
Movie Maker Magazine Issue #61 (Winter 2006)
Mentioned as one of the top film festivals in Philadelphia
Top 10 American Cities to be a MovieMaker
Time Magazine, June 5, 2006
Culture: Film Festivals for the Rest of Us
By Lisa McLaughlin Tuesday, May. 30, 2006
Movie Maker Issue #53 (Winter 2004)
20 Film Festivals Worth the Entrance Fee
Movie Maker Issue #03 June 2003
The Franchising of a Film Festival
Movie Maker Magazine 2001
FirstGlance 4 Back in Philadelphia for its fourth year. FirstGlance remains the only international, independent bi-coastal film and video festival.
Named as "one of the festivals to watch" by The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide
Named as one of "the ten best film festival investments" by Moviemaker Magazine.
FirstGlance Film Fests have been featured in: TIME Magazine, Philadelphia Weekly, City Paper, Philadelphia Daily News, Movie Maker Magazine, Film Festival Today Magazine, Southwest Airlines SPIRIT Magazine, Philadelphia Metro, Philadelphia Inquirer, Main Line Today Magazine, Philadelphia Style Magazine, Temple Review, Temple intercom, Springfield Press,The News of Delaware County,The Legal Intelligencer, Weekly Press
On the Web at: studentfilmmakers.com, philly.com, citypaper.net, film.org, aroundphilly.com, gophila.com, indiepix.net, foresightnews.co.uk, nbc10.com, buzzmg.com (Tina’s Top 10), withoutabox.com
FirstGlance has been heard on: 93.3 WMMR, 610 WIP, KYW Newsradio
FirstGlance has been seen on: Showbiz Rap – WYBE, WTFX 29 - Fox News