2024 Taking Up Space Film Festival

Name: 2024 Taking Up Space Film Festival
Start: 2024-10-04T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-04T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Electric City Trolley Museum in Scranton, PA

Schedule

Fri Oct 04 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Electric City Trolley Museum in Scranton, PA | Scranton, PA

Join us for the 2024 Taking Up Space Film Festival, featuring this years winning and selected short films. This year we'll be partnering with the Electric City Trolley Museum to bring you this years festival.
Taking Up Space is a film festival within Scranton Fringe Festival that showcases the works of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Persons of Color) filmmakers. The mission of Taking Up Space is to lift the voices of historically excluded racial and ethnic narratives. Documentary, narratives, animation, experimental, and all other genres of short films will be highlighted. Thanks to a generous donation from PA American Water, all 2024 screenings are presented free to the public.
This special venture is presented by Park Multimedia, Black Scranton Project, and Scranton Fringe. The artistic director of Taking Up Space is Dan Kimbrough.
The films within Taking Up Space 2024 are:
A Cup of Tea (Director - Gabriel Noble)
The HoodTrophy Bino Story: Breaking the Generational Curse
(Director - Sam "Gebar" Gebremiche)
Made by History: Commemorating the Children's Crusade
(Director - Kyle Mackenzie Sullivan)
The Road to Lilith (Director - Liz Sweeney)

Friday, October 4th at 7:00 pm (free reception prior to screening)
Saturday, October 5th at 7:00 pm
at the Lackawanna County's Electric City Trolley Museum (300 Cliff Street, Scranton PA)
90 minutes
FREE EVENT - BUT RESERVATIONS APPRECIATED!
Free shuttle service to the Trolley Museum will be available on Friday, October 4th with pick-up/drop off to other Scranton Fringe venues. Check back soon for further details!