26th Annual FirstGlance Film Fest Philadelphia
Join us for the 26th Annual FirstGlance Film Fest Philadelphia. Over 50 indie films from Regional, National and International filmmakers. Celebrate Indie Film with FirstGlance Film Fests, by indie filmmakers, for indie filmmakers and audiences who enjoy celebrating new up and coming filmmakers from across the globe
MENDO'S CAROUSEL
David Michael Maurer | 13 mins | English | CA
After the death of her father, a troubled young woman robs a dry-cleaning shop, but a secret from the past forces her to the precipice of truth and denial.
Cast: Edi Gathegi, Todd Grinnell and Otmara Marrero.
PEER
Marlon Wallace | 19 mins | English | MD
An aquaphobic college student on vacation falls for a lifeguard in Ocean City, Maryland, who helps him overcomehis fear of the water.
Cast: Elijah Johnson, Tommy Carlos Watson, Daniela Cruz, Jared Anthony Smith.
NO WITNESSES
Rob Watts | 15 mins | English | NJ
A hitman's night goes off the rails when a few unlucky people witness him on the job.
Cast: Drew Grant, Brian Macready, Kirk Koczanowski, Eric Rosenberg, Emma Waters
1805
Daniel H. Jacobson | 30 mins | English | PA
In the North, the last states take their first steps toward abolishing chattel slavery; though it will be generations before they will free the last of their slaves. For Basammer, an enslaved man on Mr. Jared Corey's Virginia plantation, that sounds close enough to freedom; and it's but a few days' march away, just across the Mason-Dixon line.
Cast: Nathaniel J. Ryan, Michelle Kariuki, Ross Denyer, Frank Sean Johnson, Laurence James Sargent, Brian Rock, Marian Edmiston.
AS THE COOKIE CRUMBLES
Aimiende Negbenebor Sela | 36 mins | English | NY
A young hopeful is suddenly dumped after he proposes to his on again off again girlfriend with a fledgling screenwriter by day rideshare driver by night bearing witness to the humiliation, he lands himself in a debate with a widow over whose loss is more painful.
Cast: Darian Michael Garey, Monica Quinn, Sydney Sainte, Rashedah Abdullah Hairston.