The 3rd Philly TV Festival will be held from 23rd - 25th February 2024 at Venice Island Performing Arts Theatre in Manayunk between 9am-5pm daily. Attendance is free to the public. We will be screening works from all our semi-finalists and offering a presentation on story structure. For more information about the venue and directions go to their website www.veniceisland.org

The Philly TV Festival was created to help independent producers of television, internet media, and other short-form films to hone their talents, improve their program development and distribution processes, and create an environment to foster creativity and ideas. We showcase individuals and their ideas and help them to get their work recognized and share their short form films and shows on the airwaves. The inaugural Philly TV Festival was a success on the weekend of Nov. 14th and 15th, 2014 and we are going to expand and improve on our event for this upcoming Philly TV Festival 2023 after a long hiatus. Creators involved in making short form media, like projects made for television and the internet, gained benefit from our event. We had speakers and panels designed to help our media makers improve their skill set and they got what we promised them! They gained understanding of the market and were able to network with other media artists like themselves. Tune into Comcast channel 66 or Verizon 29/30 in the Philadelphia market to see episodes from our last festival.

Come see some great independent short form works of film and meet actors, actresses, directors, producers, sound people, graphics creators, and more at this amazing event.

Festival Schedule

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May 7th 2017 Event Schedule

9:00 event commencement

9:30 super short comics 6min

9:40 thats love 14min

10:00 2 self help books 21 min

10:30 road kill 22 min

10:55 dance a thin 10min

11:10 center city 11min

11:30 the new adult 30min

12:00 Lunch break

1:00 capital advice 25 min

1:40 3 trembling cities 40 min

2:30 the photographer 42min

3:20 raw footage 8min

3:40 barry baker - aspiring serial killer 24 min

4:15 winners announced

5:00 event end

Come by Sunday and see some great creative short form films.

The 2nd Philly TV Festival will be held on Sunday May 7th at the Venice Island Performing Arts Centre in Manayunk in Philadelphia from 9am-5pm. Directions on the venue can be found here http://www.veniceisland.org/ We will be screening semi-finalists and having a presentation on story structure for our attendees. The event is free to the public so come on out and see some great work from some amazing artists.

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Philly TV Festival submission episode screen shot

Philly TV Festival 2014 Semi Finalists Submissions Episode

Our first event was a great success with so many genuinely entertaining submissions.  We had such a solid group of semi-finalists for the first annual Philly TV Festival and we present them here for your enjoyment.

Thanks to all our semi-finalists for being a part of our inaugural Philly TV Festival event.  You’ve blessed us with some inspiration.  In this episode our semi-finalists were:

  • Coming to America - Everett Mason
  • Ya All in your Grill - Cedra Walton
  • Wrongful Justice - Levi Feeney
  • The Devil and Red Wine - Maurice Paramore
  • The Salima and Vicky Show - Salima Hakeem
  • The Layoff - Mike Pender
  • The Book of Nimrod - Carla P. Morales
  • Comida Cousins - Rashad Roulhac
  • Choices - Jacobi Simmons

In addition you’ll see an amazing piece from the youth artists that won our first ever Philly TV Festival future producer award.   Princesses vs. Dinosaurs written, directed and shot by two sisters 7 and 5 years old.  Thanks Rio and Rome Roulhac for your great addition to our festival semi-finalists submissions episode.

Philly TV Festival semi-finalists submissions special from Philly TV Fest on Vimeo.

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Ray

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Philly TV Festival

Congratulations to the winners of the first Philly TV Festival!

Winner's of the first Philly TV FestivalA warm round of applause to our #Official 2014 PhillyTV Winners!!!!

Wrongful Justice By Levi Feeney
The Devil and Red Wine By Maurice Paramore
The Book of Nimrod By Carla Morales
Getting to Know America By Everett Mason

VIEWERS CHOICE AWARDS WAS ALSO WRONFUL JUSTICE By Levi Feeney!!! Congratulations Levi Feeney for winning TWO awards!!

Each #Winner received beautiful trophies courtesy of City Engraving & Awards. One #FREE annual membership and one free workshop, courtesy of PhillyCAM!

Winners will also be #featured on our upcoming lineup of shows on Comcast Cable 66/966 or Verizon Fios 29/30! We will keep you all posted!!

Great finish to an amazing #festival weekend! If you took any pictures at the #event yesterday or today, please hashtag #phillytvfest.

#phillytvfestival #viewerschoice #philadelphia #philly#winners #officialartists

Philly TV Festival 2014 tickets go on sale today!

The 2-day Philadelphia Television Festival has made tickets available for the wonderful event taking place here in our great city.

To register for the Philly TV Festival visit phillytvfestival.eventbrite.com.

The festival will showcase and celebrate the medium of short form film work and web media through
panels, workshops, and presentations.  Media creators are in for a powerful experience
thanks to the Inaugural Philly TV Festival (PTVF) being held on Friday
November 14th and Saturday November 15th.

The event has received the blessing of Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. who decided to present
the Philly TV Festival with a citation in City Council. The Honorable Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. shares a vision to introduce, educate, and expose attendees to the business of multimedia.

There will be a screening of video submissions and several submissions will be chosen to receive awards and recognition for their work.

For more information see the rest of our website PhillyTVFest.com, email phillytvfest@gmail.com,  or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
and Instagram. Be sure to use the official hashtag #PhillyTVFest .

Curtis Jones Jr. gives The Philly TV Festival 2014 his support

The councilman talks about his vision of a better Philly where the foundations of the media are built with our young philadelphians leading the way.  He speaks about how the Philly TV Festival is a great event for highlighting our already rich creative culture and it’s current media makers.  We’ll have the full interview available soon on the Talk the Talk television show.  In the meantime, here’s a pick of the crew in the midst of a great conversation with a man whom we respect and admire.

Curtis Jones Jr talks with Philly Tv Festival Co-founder Charles Gregory

Our very own Charles Gregory sits down with the councilman to talk about Philly’s future as leaders in the media arts.

The first Philly TV Festival is here!

Philadelphia TV Festival is running it’s first event on November 14th and 15th at Philadelphia’s public access station, Phillycam.   The address is 699 Randstead street, or more simply the studio is on the corner of 7th and Randstead (between market st. and chestnut st.)  We are accepting submissions from media makers in all genres and styles.  The only requirement is that the submission is less than 4 minutes and that applicants upload their work to youtube or vimeo and send us a link at PhillyTVFestival@Gmail.com.  We will have 5 winners based on production quality and overall entertainment value.   Winners will be chosen by an independent group of professional media makers and awards will be handed out at the event.   We will have panel discussions and speakers that will help attendees improve their skill sets and activities that will help media makers network with others in the field.  Come join us this november in Philly!