cinéSPEAK

bringing the under-represented and eclectic to the forefront of the Philadelphia cinema scene

We are a Philadelphia-based cinema and film publication that engages diverse audiences through our globally-minded contemporary and repertory independent film programming; creating space and centering the stories of individuals and communities that are often underrepresented in mainstream cinema. We promote community togetherness and global understanding by engaging film enthusiasts while cultivat

ing the next generation of discerning moviegoers; encouraging people to demand social justice both on-screen and throughout society

cinéSPEAK is an independent charitable 501(c)(3).

09/05/2026

On October 19th, join cinéSPEAK, Dusky Projects, and Two Locals Brewing Company for a very special screening of Blood Quantum in celebration of National Native American Heritage Month! ⁠
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The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'kmaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants, who are strangely immune to the zombie plague. 🧟🎥⁠
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This scary, irreverent, and unapologetically Indigenous film follows a pre-screening conversation hosted by Wi-Moto Nyoka of Dusky Projects. ⁠
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Arrive early to grab your seat and catch happy hour specials, and catch the film at 7-8:45 PM. You'll have fun AND be home and in bed before 10! 🍺🎞️⁠
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What are you waiting for? RSVP: https://cinespeak.eventive.org/schedule/6a79d8adaf5cc17746ba01be

09/03/2026

Have you heard the word about cinéKIDZ, our new children’s program? Come experience the magic on Saturday, September 19 Cobbs Creek Library! 👶🏽📽️⁠
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cinéKIDZ invites children ages 3 to 10 and their caregivers to discover magical worlds, unforgettable characters, and stories that inspire curiosity, kindness, and wonder. Each free monthly gathering transforms Cobb’s Creek Library into a playful movie experience with films, hands-on art activities, live music, and conversations designed just for young audiences. 🥳📚⁠
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⏰ cinéKIDZ Kick Off Event Flow:⁠
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—12:00 PM: Event Start⁠
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—Throughout the event:⁠
🎶 Music by DJ Courtnee Owens ⁠
🎨 Meet the Artist: Kah Yangni ⁠
🎞️ cinéKIDZ short film program ⁠
🧃Complimentary food and cold-pressed juices by BlkBerry Juice Bar and Machos Delish Mix⁠
🍿 Movie theater popcorn by cinéSPEAK⁠
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—12:30 - 1:15 PM: Live Performance: Ants On A Log 🐜⁠
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—2:00-2:30 PM: Story time with Cobbs Creek Library‘s Ms. Christina 📚⁠
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—3:30 PM: Event Wraps ⁠
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Bring the children for a chance to celebrate imagination, diverse perspectives, and the joy of storytelling while building empathy, confidence, and meaningful connections with the community. 🎟️❤️‍🔥⁠
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Share the joy with the whole family! Register: https://cinespeak.eventive.org/schedule/6a68c45985d312b0a37a50e0

09/02/2026

🇱🇧🎞️ What happens to a country’s collective memory when there is no national archive to preserve it?⁠
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On Tuesday, September 29, we're bringing the Philadelphia Premiere of Do You Love Me to People's Cinema Club! 📽️✨⁠
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Composed entirely of archival footage, Do You Love Me travels through 70 years of Lebanese film, television, photography, and home videos to create a moving portrait of Beirut and its people. ❤️‍🔥⁠
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Through moments of joy, intimacy, destruction, and loss, the film asks us to consider who preserves our histories and how artists and everyday people can keep collective memory alive. 🎥🫶🏽⁠
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⏰ Event Flow:⁠
—6:30 PM: Doors Open 🚪⁠
—7:00 PM: Do You Love Me begins 🎬⁠
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📍 Village of Industry and Art⁠
📅 Tuesday, September 29⁠
🎟️ FREE + accessible admission⁠
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People's Cinema Club is a FREE weekly film series curated by some of Philadelphia’s beloved independent film community organizations — BlackStar, cinéSPEAK, Philadelphia Asian American Film Foundation and Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival. 🍿🌟⁠
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Come experience this beautiful love letter to Beirut on the big screen. ❤️⁠
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🔗 Register: https://cinespeak.eventive.org/schedule/6a7b609adc48ed1f53156b67

09/01/2026

🍿🎬 SEPTEMBER AT cinéSPEAK!⁠
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From movies under the stars and a night of film, art and drag to the launch of cinéKIDZ and a Philadelphia premiere, we’ve got a full month of cinema and community ahead. ❤️‍🔥✨⁠
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Here’s where you can find us this September:⁠
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❤️‍🔥 SEPT 10 — People's Media Fund presents Con Fuerza, from the Diaspora: Rituals and Reclaiming Our Stories⁠
📍 The Rotunda
⏰ 7:00 PM⁠
A special community screening featuring films by nine Greater Philadelphia filmmakers. 🎞️❤️‍🔥⁠
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🌱 SEPT 11 — Hoppers⁠
📍 The Lawn at UCity Square⁠
⏰ 7:45 PM⁠
Bring a blanket and join us for a movie under the stars! 🌙🎥⁠
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🍺 SEPT 14 — Selah & The Spades ⁠
📍 Two Locals Brewing Company⁠
⏰ 7:00 PM⁠
A stylish, sharp coming-of-age story about power, loyalty, and finding your place. Filmmaker Tayarisha Poe attending! ♠️🎞️⁠
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🏳️‍🌈 SEPT 17 — Amish Country Q***r: A Night of Film, Art & Drag⁠
📍 Asian Arts Initiative⁠
⏰ 5:00 PM + 7:00 PM⁠
An evening celebrating q***r rural stories through film, art, community, and, of course, drag! 💅🎥⁠
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👶🏽 SEPT 19 — cinéKIDZ SEASON KICK-OFF⁠
📍 Cobbs Creek Library⁠
⏰ 12:00–3:30 PM⁠
Bring the whole family for films, live music, art, story time, food, and an afternoon celebrating imagination! 📚🎶🎨⁠
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🏀 SEPT 26 — SPORTS! with Obvious Agency and Outloud Sports⁠
📍 The Lawn at UCity Square⁠
⏰ Tailgate: 3:00-5:00 PM⁠
⏰ Show: 5:00 - 7:00 PM⁠
⏰ Film: 7:30 - 9:30 PM⁠
Thirty years later, it’s still game time! Join us outside for a special anniversary screening of Space Jam, the 1996 classic. 🐰🏀✨⁠
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🇱🇧 SEPT 29 — Do You Love Me (PHILADELPHIA PREMIERE)⁠
📍 Village of Industry and Art with People's Cinema Club⁠
⏰ Doors 6:30 PM⁠
Travel through 70 years of Lebanon’s audiovisual memory with this beautiful archival love letter to Beirut. 🎞️❤️⁠
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Seven screenings. Six locations. A whole lot of movies. 🎥🍿 Whether you’re bringing the kids, grabbing a beer, celebrating q***r art, or settling in for a movie under the stars, there’s something for you this September.⁠
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🔗 RSVP: https://www.cinespeak.org/cinema

08/31/2026

Join us for the closing program of our outdoor all ages animated series at the Lawn at UCity Square! ☀️🎞️⁠
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Come check out Pixar Animation’s film Hoppers on September 11th! Scientists have discovered how to 'hop' human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing people to communicate with animals as animals. Animal lover Mabel seizes an opportunity to use the technology, uncovering mysteries within the animal world beyond anything she could have imagined.🦫🔌⁠
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Event flow:⁠
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5-7PM: Happy hour at uCity Square Beer Garden🍺 ⁠
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6:30PM: Family friendly music at the Lawn🎶 ⁠
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7:45PM: Film screening! 🎉⁠
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cinéSPEAK is proud to participate in this paid partnership with UCity Square. If you’d like to learn more about hiring cinéSPEAK to put on film screenings, including curating the screenings and managing the productions, please reach out to us!✉️⁠
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To get tickets or learn more: https://cinespeak.eventive.org/schedule/6a22ec8c2dcd8fba744a06b8

08/30/2026

🎥 Thursday, September 10: Catch the 5th annual People's Media Fund local filmmaker showcase ⁠
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When we’re adrift, rootless, cut off from our stories, how can we use ritual to help reclaim what’s ours?⁠
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Join us for a special People's Media Fund screening featuring work by nine Greater Philadelphia filmmakers whose films explore answers to those very questions. ⁠
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🌱 Come learn the rituals, traditions, relationships, and shared experiences that shape identity, belonging, and community across diasporic communities throughout Philadelphia and beyond. Many of us have been displaced from our home countries, yet con fuerza (with strength), we find ways to rebuild home, preserve traditions, care for one another, and carve new pathways in unfamiliar places.⁠
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🎞️ The evening will feature:⁠
✨ Stand Up for Madinah
✨ A Song for Nia
✨ Q***r Memoirs
✨ Broken: A Docu-Series on Black Men’s Mental Health
✨ Ulrick Jean-Pierre: Guardian of History
✨ Líneas Imaginarias: Perseguidos (Imaginary Lines: Chased)
✨ Our Center, Our Home: The Ukrainians of Philadelphia
✨ Miwa
✨ Love, Lusine
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Together, these films take us across communities, cultures, languages, and experiences while asking what we carry with us, what we reclaim, and how storytelling can help us create a sense of home. 💛🏠🌍⁠
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📅 Thursday, September 10, 2026⁠
⏰ 6:00 PM⁠
📍 The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St⁠
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Come celebrate Philly filmmakers through an evening to be rooted in community through storytelling! What are you waiting for?

Get your ticket: https://cinespeak.eventive.org/schedule/6a7ca00e8628219cdda1ae18
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cinéSPEAK is proud to participate in this paid partnership with People's Media Fund. If you’d like to learn more about hiring cinéSPEAK to put on film screenings, including curating the screenings and managing the productions, please reach out to us!✉️

08/29/2026

Join us at Philadelphia Fringe Festival! ⁠
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An award-winning documentary, a photo exhibition celebrating rural LGBTQ+ life, and a homegrown drag show converge in one unforgettable night. 🚜👸⁠
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On September 17th, join cinéSPEAK and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival for Amish Country Q***r, a one-night documentary screening showcasing Lancaster's q***r nightlife and drag culture! This is a story about what it means to be unapologetically q***r in a place the world told you wasn't built for you. This is a night of celebration of q***r bodies, q***r lives, and q***r autonomy. Q***rness has never been confined to city limits, and this night proves it.🌽🏳️‍⚧️⁠
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The screening takes place at the Asian Arts Initiative Black Box Theater, a wheelchair accessible venue, at 5:00 PM and 7:00PM. Tickets are $25 sliding scale. Join us on a celebration of glamour and sisterhood. 🎟️📽️⁠
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Register: https://phillyfringe.org/events/amish-country-q***r-a-night-of-film-art-drag/

08/28/2026

🎬🍿 Philadelphia’s September film calendar is PACKED!⁠
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Back-to-school energy is in the air, and Philly’s independent film scene is getting busy. ✨ Our September 2026 Philadelphia Monthly Cinema Arts Round-Up is here with screenings, festivals, filmmaker Q&As, community events, and new film series happening across the city.⁠
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This month includes the Philly premiere of Queen Mother: Falaka Fattah and the House of Umoja, Africa’s Cultural Landmarks at Scribe, Selah & The Spades with filmmaker Tayarisha Poe, the 5th Annual People’s Media Fund Local Filmmakers Showcase, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the launch of cinéKIDZ, People’s Cinema Club, and more! 🎥🌟⁠
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📅 Start planning your September movie calendar and support Philly’s vibrant film community.⁠
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🔗 Read the full September round-up: https://cinespeak.org/cinema/

08/27/2026

cinéKIDZ is here, so have no fear! Come see the delightful selection of children’s programming we’ve got waiting at the West Philly libraries over the course of the fall. 👶🏽📽️⁠
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cinéKIDZ invites children ages 3 to 10 and their caregivers to discover magical worlds, unforgettable characters, and stories that inspire curiosity, kindness, and wonder. Each FREE monthly gathering transforms the libraries into a playful movie experience. 🎶🎨⁠
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Enjoy complimentary lunch, stories, art-making, films, games, movie theater popcorn...and so much more! 🍿📚⁠
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Monthly offerings:⁠
-Sept. 19: Season Kick Off at Cobbs Creek Library 🎞🐜⁠
-Oct 17: Turning Red — with YES! at Kingsessing Library 🐼🔴⁠
-Nov 21: Earwig & the Witch — in partnership with Philly Childcare Collective at 52nd Street Library 🐈‍⬛🧙‍♀️ ⁠
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The kiddos won’t want to miss this! Register: https://cinespeak.org/cinema/
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cinéKIDZ is presented thanks to generous lead support from the William Penn Foundation.

08/26/2026

2 Weeks Away! Join us for a special back-to-school screening with Philly-based filmmaker Tayarisha Poe's brilliant debut, Selah & The Spades (2019)! 🍻🍂 ⁠
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Paloma, the new girl at an esteemed prep school, is drawn into the daily aggressions of warring senior class factions. She joins the Spades and becomes friends with the Spades’ leader, an enigmatic and scheming cheerleader named Selah. 🎉🏫 ⁠
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🍻 Happy Hour 5–7 PM ($9 sangria, $1 off beer & wine, $10 specialty cocktail)⁠
🎥 7:00 PM — Film Screening (arrive early to snag your seats!)⁠—Director Tayarisha Poe in person! ⁠
🍿 Free movie theater-style popcorn from cinéSPEAK⁠!⁠
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This event is FREE to attend! If you'd like to support cinéSPEAK's work bringing independent and community-centered cinema to Philadelphia, please consider a $5+ donation. ❤️⁠😉⁠
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What are you waiting for? Tell your friends and RSVP: https://cinespeak.eventive.org/schedule/6a55009312d4540340e6b0f0

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