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SPE Media Festival
Mar
20

SPE Media Festival

Don't Cry For Me All You Drag Queens screens at the 2026 SPE Media Festival from March 20-21, 2026 at the Courtland Grand Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia during the Society for Photographic Education Annual Conference.

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Storyteller Initiative Fellows Showcase
Apr
2

Storyteller Initiative Fellows Showcase

Join Voice of Witness for an afternoon celebrating the power of community-centered storytelling.

This two-hour showcase invites you to experience the work of the Storyteller Initiative Fellows, who have spent the past year deepening their craft and advancing projects rooted in justice, memory, and collective action.

Each fellow will be joined by the collaborators who made their work possible, offering a rare opportunity to witness not just the stories themselves, but the relationships and processes that made them possible.

Kristal Sotomayor will present work from their audio documentary project exploring the impact of water privatization on communities across Pennsylvania. Drawing on oral histories from residents, activists, and policymakers, the project weaves investigative journalism with intimate, community-centered storytelling to challenge corporate control over one of our most essential resources.

feini yin will share "In Our Wildest Salmon Dreams," a multimedia project bringing together oral histories and visionary fiction from Salmon Protectors and BIPOC activists working toward fisheries restoration and food sovereignty. Rooted in relationship building and collective dreaming, the project honors the vibrancy and resilience of Salmon cultures while confronting the systems threatening their survival.

Come ready to listen, reflect, and be moved by the stories that remind us why narrative matters in the fight for a more just world!

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Table Sessions: Kristal Sotomayor’s “Expanding Sanctuary”
Apr
29
to Apr 30

Table Sessions: Kristal Sotomayor’s “Expanding Sanctuary”

Journey Arts’ beloved Table Sessions returns in April, curated by award-winning filmmaker Kristal Sotomayor. Prime yourself for an ebullient evening with the boisterous sounds of the kumbia-klezmer-punk collective Mariposas Galácticas, whose music is inspired by their Ancestor’s shared roots in “radical joy.” Then sit forward for a screening of Kristal’s short film Expanding Sanctuary — the winner of the 2024 BlackStar Philadelphia Filmmaker Award — which flips the script on the current moment by telling the story of an immigrant mother’s triumphant fight for safety for Philly families. And, of course, leave filled not only with joy, but with a delicious dinner by the James Beard Award-winning Chef Cristina Martínez of South Philly Barbacoa.

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Acacia Center for Justice - Expanding Sanctuary Screening & Q&A
Feb
11

Acacia Center for Justice - Expanding Sanctuary Screening & Q&A

Join us for a special screening of Expanding Sanctuary, a powerful documentary that follows immigrant families and grassroots organizers in South Philadelphia as they fight to protect their community from detention, deportation, and displacement. Through intimate storytelling and on-the-ground advocacy, the film reveals how local organizing can create real pathways to safety and dignity.

The screening will be followed by a live conversation with the filmmaker, protagonist and Acacia Center for Justice exploring how legal advocacy, community organizing, and storytelling work together to defend immigrant rights.

Donations will be spilt between Acacia Center for Justice and Sotomayor Productions, which is fiscally sponsored by 501(c)(3) nonprofit CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia.

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Lost River Film Fest
Feb
6

Lost River Film Fest

Don’t Cry For Me All You Drag Queens screens at the Lost River Film Fest on Friday, February 6 at 5:15 PM as part of the LGBTQ Shorts block showing at The Price Center (222 W. San Antonio St).

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Black Box Presents: Voices of the Mexican Diaspora In Partnership with Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival
Dec
11

Black Box Presents: Voices of the Mexican Diaspora In Partnership with Philadelphia Latino Arts & Film Festival

Join us for an evening of contemporary cinema examining the lived experiences, histories, and community power of the Mexican diaspora. Co-curated with Erick Barragán, the program features short and feature-length works that navigate labor, memory, migration, and collective organizing across Mexico City, Puebla, and Philadelphia.

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OutReels Cincinnati
Nov
9

OutReels Cincinnati

“Don’t Cry For Me All You Drag Queens” screens at OutReels Cincinnati on Sunday, November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM at the Warsaw Federal Incline Theater (801 Matson Pl, Cincinnati Ohio 45204).

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Philadelphia Mosaic: Immigrant Film Showcase
Oct
23

Philadelphia Mosaic: Immigrant Film Showcase

The Philadelphia Mosaic: Immigrant Film Showcase screens Expanding Sanctuary and Status Pending at Esperanza in collaboration with Esperanza Immigration Legal Services. The films serve as a centerpiece in an evening of Latin food, live music, and conversation highlighting stories of resilience, activism, and the cultural richness of Philadelphia’s immigrant communities.

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Films Shaped by a City
Oct
3

Films Shaped by a City

Marian Bailey’s vibrant new mural, Films Shaped by a City, celebrates some of the key films and film-related organizations that have impacted filmmaking, film presentation, and film-related training in Philadelphia.

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Creating in our Backyard: Nonfiction Production Roundtable
Sep
27

Creating in our Backyard: Nonfiction Production Roundtable

Creating in Our Backyard: Nonfiction Production Roundtable:

This roundtable is a meeting of the minds, bringing together acclaimed nonfiction filmmakers, production studios, visual journalists, and storytellers from across the Rust Belt and Appalachian regions to share their experiences, challenges, and successes working close to home. This discussion will feature Kristal Sotomayor (Expanding Sanctuary, Sotomayor Productions), Hansen Bursic (Trans Heaven, Backyard Docs Festival Director), Colleen C Brady (Amish Country Queer), Steph Strasburg (Senior Photojournalist, PublicSource), Alexis Johnson (Senior Reporter, Axios Pittsburgh), Nick Childers (Co-Lead Organizer, Pittsburgh Video Consortium), and more. The conversation will explore how place shapes storytelling, the unique opportunities and challenges of regional production, and exchange advice on how to work in our region, as well as strategies for building sustainable creative careers outside major media hubs. Attendees will gain valuable insights, practical advice, and connections to strengthen their own work rooted in our communities.

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