Local Ties

Local Ties

The SouthSide Film Festival has screen films from more than 80 countries and almost all 50 United States. However, we’re always proud to screen films that feature local talent, subjects and locations.

Here are a few of the films with local ties that we’ll be screening at this year’s festival:
44 Pages – Documentary about Highlights magazine which is published in Honesdale, PA
A Child’s Requiem – Filmed and performed at Lehigh University.
Centralia: Pennsylvania’s Lost Town – Documentary
Billboard Boys – Dramatization of a true story that took place here in the Lehigh Valley in the early 80s.
From The Earth: A Tribute to the Slate Belt Heritage and Culture (Northampton County’s slate belt region.)
Gift Horses – Documentary set in four greater-Philadelphia area farms
King of the Buskers – Directed by: Amy Unger and Jaccii Farris of WFMZ
Prep Talk – Directed by: Susan Beth Lehman, Michael Wagner of DeSales University
Stage 7 – Directed by local filmmaker, Jennifer Suwak
Unleashed – Features Nazareth native, Kate Micucci

For full details, read the complete Press Release.