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June 2011
Morning Call (June 10) - A cinematic walk on the wild side - Eighth annual SouthSide Film Festival features 50 films from 15 countries and a concentration from Africa
Express-Times (June 10) - SouthSide Film Festival returns Tuesday in Bethlehem
Lehigh Valley Running Scene (June 10) - Film, “The Athlete”, Showing at Southside Film Festival
May 2011
Lehigh Valley Marketplace - Featured Article in Local Color Section - "The festival’s mission has remained twofold—the promotion of independent film and the celebration of South Bethlehem’s commercial district. The festival partners with its merchants, restaurants and pubs and, typically, 20 filmmakers attend."
June 2010
Express-Times, June 16, 2010 - SouthSide Film Festival returns Tuesday to Bethlehem
SouthSide Film Festival listed as one of the Ten Best reasons to live in the Lehigh Valley by Lehigh Valley Style Magazine! Are we number ten? Number five? No, we're Number One!!!
Article starts on page 66 of the print version, page 69 in the Ezine Lehigh Valley Style Ezine
October 2009
Filmmaker comes home for a new outdoor setting - A few months after Courtney Hope's atmospheric gem ''Sex & German Grammar'' played at the Southside Film Festival and earned the Best Cinematography prize at NYU's Fusion Film Festival, the Allentown filmmaker is preparing to take flight with her followup, ''Wild Birds.''
August 2009
Award Winning Film at SouthSide Film Festival - 'Sky People' by Workshop Instructor/Filmmaker Shanti Thaukur wins top award at LA-based Film Festival!
June 2009
A Bethlehem Tale: Steel Wills and an Orthodox Stance - As featured on secondsout.com
By Jason Pribila
Bethlehem's South Side Film Festival opens its sixth year with more than 40 films - As featured in the Express-Times, Friday, June 12, 2009
Southside Film Festival featured in June 2009 issue of Lifestyles Over 50 Magazine.
Southside Film Festival featured in June 2009 issue of Lehigh Valley Style, see page 23-24 of the Ezine.
2009 Festival Press Releases:
METROPOLIS HEADLINES 2009 SOUTHSIDE FILM FESTIVAL OPENING NIGHT
The SouthSide Film Festival will kick off this year with the classic silent film, Metropolis, at 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 16 at Packer Memorial Church, 18 University Drive, Bethlehem, Pa., on the Lehigh University campus.
Metropolis, a 1927 Fritz Lang science fiction film about class conflict, has been restored by Kino Films and is complete and uncut. Local musicians Sports for Kin created a new original score for Metropolis, which they will play live to accompany the film.
This one-of-a kind premiere event will be preceded by an Opening Night Party from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Home and Planet, 25 E. 3rd Street in Bethlehem, followed by a procession to Packer Memorial Church led by the City of Bethlehem Bagpipe Band featuring Pipe Major James B. Ruhf.
The Opening Night Party is open to the public and features the gallery opening of "The Green Side of MaGiK," by internationally known animator and illustrator Maciek Albrecht and photographer Elli Albrecht. There will also be a live DJ and catering by Events by Beth Pritch.
For more information about Metropolis, see www.kino.com.
For more information about Sports for Kin, see www.sportsforkin.com.
SONGS INSIDE THE BOX FILM BRINGS THE CIGAR BOX REVOLUTION TO THE LEHIGH VALLEY
Songs Inside the Box, a documentary about cigar box guitars by Max Shores, will be shown during the SouthSide Film Festival at 7 p.m. Friday, June 19, and 7:15 p.m. Saturday, June 20 at Victory Firehouse, 205 Webster Street, Bethlehem, Pa.
Did you know?
Jimi Hendrix learned to play on a cigar box guitar.
Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top plays a cigar box guitar.
"The King of the Cigar Box Guitar" lives in York, Pa., and is coming to play the SouthSide Film Festival on Friday, June 19.
A cigar box guitar is a handmade string instrument that uses an empty cigar box as its resonator. The resurgence in do-it-yourself guitars has been spreading throughout the world, thanks in part to sites such aswww.cigarboxnation.com. Rockabilly, blues, bluegrass, country, and rock-n-roll all sound fresh and new on the primitive cigar box guitar.
A concert and jam session featuring Shane Speal, "The King of the Cigar Box Guitar," and friends, will be held at 9 p.m. Friday, June 19 at Wildflower Café, 316 S. New Street, Bethlehem.
Local cigar box guitar enthusiast Brian Tallarico recommended this film to the festival, and will show a gallery of cigar box guitars from June 16 through June 20 in Tallarico's Chocolates, 26 E. 3rd Street, Bethlehem.
For more information about Songs Inside the Box, seewww.songsinsidethebox.com.
For more information about Shane Speal, see www.cigarboxnation.com/profile/ShaneSpeal.
ORTHODOX STANCE FILMMAKER AND SUBJECT TO APPEAR AT SOUTHSIDE FILM FESTIVAL IN BETHLEHEM
Orthodox Stance,a film about Dmitriy Salita, Russian immigrant, professional boxer, and religious Jew, will be shown during the SouthSide Film Festival at 9 p.m. Thursday, June 18, and 9 p.m. Saturday, June 20 at Victory Firehouse, 205 Webster Street, Bethlehem, Pa.
Salita and filmmaker Jason Hutt will attend the Thursday, June 18 screening. The movie takes a look at the seemingly incompatible cultures and people working together to support Salita's devotion to both Orthodox Judaism and the pursuit of a professional boxing title.
Salita strictly follows Jewish lawif he has a fight on a Saturday, it must begin after sundown, the end of the Sabbath. As he says, "Anyone who wants a good whuppin' from me is just going to have to wait until sundown."
Jason Pribila, a boxing aficionado and sportswriter for www.secondsout.com , heard about Salita and this film and brought it to the attention of the SouthSide Film Festival who were inspired enough by Orthodox Stance to include it in this year's festival.
And the movie is not just for boxing fans. New York Magazine wrote, "[This] slow-burning documentary chronicles the fascinating career of Dmitriy Salita, an endearingly humble Ukrainian-born Brooklynite who struggles to maintain his faith as an Orthodox Jew while swiftly rising to the top of the professional boxing circuit."
For more information about Orthodox Stance, see www.orthodoxstance.com.
For more information about Dmitriy Salita, see www.dsalita.com.
June 2008
SouthSide Film Festival featured on local news broadcast: Channel 69 - WFMZ
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