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You're probably about ready for us to stop talking about the Philadelphia Film Festival now, and indeed that trolley has pretty much pulled out of town, but we thought we'd throw in just one more post, this time discussing the festival's final statistics and awards. You can find the complete list of award-winners on the festival home page, and detailed audience ballot results here. The stats suggest that the festival was more crowd-pleasing than ever this year, as it had a record-breaking attendance level of 66,300, and 52% of the films received audience ratings of "Very Good" or better.

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Future Screenings: None (Look for theatrical release later this summer)

Philadelphia Film Festival Associate Program Director, Travis Crawford

Last night Phillyist attended the first of the three Evenings with the Curators of the 15th Philadelphia Film Festival that we told you about here, and we have to say, it was pretty exciting. Some of the stuff we learned: the festival is running from March 30th through April 11th, which is shorter and earlier than it's been in the past; this is in order to avoid all the religious holidays, and that most non-religious of non-holidays, tax day. The theaters involved will be a lot of the usual suspects (Ritz East, Ritz 5, the Prince Music Theater, the Bridge, the International House), plus one new surprise guest: the Cinema at Penn. What's the Cinema at Penn, you ask? You may remember it as the busted up, broken down, crappy old Cinemagic 3 theater, caddy corner from the Bridge at 40th and Walnut. The film festival folks are going to tear it up inside and rebuild it, leaving us with a beautiful new refurbished theater. Hooray!

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.