Film Festival is splitting up

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, May, 2009 | by Carrie Rickey Inquirer Movie Critic

In a breakup that will create rival local movie extravaganzas, the cosponsors of the Philadelphia Film Festival are citing irreconcilable differences and going their own ways.

TLA and the Philadelphia Film Society are dividing community property and the calendar year. TLA president Ray Murray says his group (which has run the March movie madness since 2000) will continue to produce a festival - CineFest - in spring and QFest (formerly the Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival) in summer, both under the aegis of the Philadelphia Cinema Alliance.

The Philadelphia Film Festival (PFF) will be produced by the Philadelphia Film Society, says executive director J. Andrew Greenblatt, and will take place in fall, starting in October 2010. 

Harlan Jacobson, the...