Early Film Festival Festivities

Are you as excited about the upcoming 15th Philadelphia Film Festival as Phillyist is?! We don't really see how you could be, but okay. Anyway, if you just can't wait to know this year's line-up (we mean besides the Danger After Dark program; you already know that, thanks to us), and/or you're desperate to know more about how the films were selected and which of them are going to be really good, you should show up at one of the three Evening with the Curators events this month, where the festival programmers will be talking about all that and more! Attending will be Associate Program Director and Danger After Dark Curator Travis Crawford (pictured), as well as Documentaries head honcho Jennifer Steinberg, Scott Johnston from the Citypaper Festival of Independents, and Festival Media Director Andrew Preis. There'll even be a question and answer portion, so if you've ever wondered anything about the festival or about this year's films, now's your chance! Personally, Phillyist plans on bugging Travis big time by asking him why the hell there's no Takashi Miike film in Danger After Dark this year.

An Evening with the Curators of the 15th Philadelphia Film Festival
First date:
Wed, 3/8, 7:30PM
Philadelphia Art Alliance (251 South 18th Street)
Free, 215.545.4302
Second date:
Thu, 3/16, 7:30PM
Bryn Mawr Film Institute (824 W. Lancaster Ave, Bryn Mawr)
$4 (Free for members), 610.527.9898
Third date:
Tue, 3/21, 6PM
World Cafe Live (3025 Walnut Street)
Free, 215.222.1400

Image Credit: Monsters At Play