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DATE: Saturday, June 26; TIME: 2:00-4:00 PM SPRING 2010

Instructor: Linda Blackaby
Workshop Location:
Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut Street
3rd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Fee: $25. $20 for Scribe and PIFVA members

A workshop for film and video programmers and curators

Film festivals and cultural film/video exhibition are not only something of an utopian enterprise, they have been called out as “one of the last hopes for [media] democracy”, by critic B. Ruby Rich. Programmers and curators have considerable responsibility – to the artists, the art, their community and audience, themselves (their vision or cause), and their colleagues, just for example. This workshop will explore ideas and best practices of the challenging work of programming film and video work for the public.

Presented in partnership with PIFVA.org

Linda Blackaby is an internationally respected media arts programmer, executive and specialist in community engagement in the media arts. She has been Director of Programming for the San Francisco Film Festival/San Francisco International Film Festival, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and Co-Director of Programming for the Hamptons International Film Festival. Blackaby moved to San Francisco from Philadelphia where she was the founder and Director of the Neighborhood Film/Video Project for 22 years. She was also the Founding Director of the very successful Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema