Taking Up Space Film Festival

Taking Up Space Film Festival The purpose of the film festival is to lift the voices of historically excluded racial and ethnic narratives.

Taking Up Space Film Festival is seeking stories that are created and told by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, Persons of Color) filmmakers or focus on the voices of the BIPOC community. NEW THIS YEAR - We will be taking films of all lengths, not just shorts. All types of works are being considered for 2025 - documentary, narratives, animation, experimental - all are welcome to submit. As we are striving

to lift the voices of diverse filmmakers, all films for this curated festival will be selected by a jury of BIPOC filmmakers/creatives. Taking Up Space is a film festival within the Scranton Fringe Festival (https://scrantonfringe.org/). Selected short films will be screened during the 2025 Scranton Fringe Festival, Friday, October 3rd and Saturday, October 4th, at the Ritz Theatre in Scranton, PA. Selected longer films will be screened online for the duration of the festival. This is to accommodate the structure of the Fringe format. During Black History Month 2026, selected films will be shown in an encore screening with the Black Scranton Project during mini festival. Submissions will be accepted from March 10th, 2025 through the end of the day, July 31st, 2025. The artistic director of Taking Up Space is Dan Kimbrough. Dan Kimbrough is a content creator who works with individuals and businesses to best tell their stories through media. Dan knows the power of content and storytelling in reaching an audience and branding a business. He has 20+ years of media experience and has worked with ESPN, as a documentary filmmaker, production manager, professor, podcast producer, photographer, editor, and more. In addition to the AD of Taking Up Space, Dan serves as the tech director of Scranton Fringe. Co-presented by Park Multimedia, Black Scranton Project, Scranton Films, and Scranton Fringe.

Today, 6pmJoin us for the last screening during the festival at the .ritztheater !
10/04/2025

Today, 6pm

Join us for the last screening during the festival at the .ritztheater !

🎬 Meet our Judges! Kara Washington is an award-winning marketing professional, filmmaker, and podcast producer with a pa...
09/23/2025

🎬 Meet our Judges!

Kara Washington is an award-winning marketing professional, filmmaker, and podcast producer with a passion for storytelling and community engagement. At , she collaborates on grassroots initiatives and is producing a documentary highlighting refugee experiences in Northeastern Pennsylvania. She has earned multiple state and regional advertising awards and a Mid-Atlantic Emmy nomination, reflecting her commitment to using media for awareness and social impact.

Join us October 3 and 4 at the Ritz Theater!

09/19/2025

Our first selection in the 2025 Taking up Space Film Space is "Shadows of the Past," direted by Teairrah Nicole Green.

"In the wake of a forgotten 20th-century genocide, Shadows of the Past explores the fragments of memory, identity, and resistance left behind by the Herero and Nama peoples after German colonial forces carried out one of history’s earliest acts of racial extermination. Weaving together personal testimony, archival imagery, and experimental forms such as dance and collage, the film meditates on generational trauma and the struggle to be heard. As debates over Germany’s recent reparations deal expose deep political and emotional rifts, Shadows of the Past asks what it means to seek justice when history has tried to erase you."


It's almost time for the 2025 Taking up Space Film Festival! We have 5 great films a surprise from and !Keep a watch o...
09/18/2025

It's almost time for the 2025 Taking up Space Film Festival! We have 5 great films a surprise from and !

Keep a watch out for updates and info on this years selections!

07/17/2025
07/17/2025

Another look at one of our Official Selections from 2024 - Made by History.

Submissions are still open for the Taking Up Space Film Festival, submit your film now!!

07/14/2025

A look back at one of our official selections from 2023 - Beyond Skin Deep.

A biracial couple struggles with society and family issues around their first child.

05/22/2025

Bitter Souls Behind the scenes at The Electric City Trolley Museum!

The subject of one of last year's selected films.
05/06/2025

The subject of one of last year's selected films.

04/22/2025

On behalf of Nancy Mosser Casting:

"Time to journey back to the late 1800s/early 1900s and bring a famous story to life! MOSSER CASTING IS LOOKING FOR TONS OF BACKGROUND OF ALL AGES!!

HERSHEY, a major motion picture of chocolate pioneer Milton Hershey and his beloved wife Catherine, ‘Kitty’, is officially set for production beginning in May 2025 in Pittsburgh, PA and the surrounding areas!

DIRECTED BY MARK WATERS (Mean Girls, Spiderwick Chronicles, Mr. Popper's Penguins) and STARRING FINN WITTROCK (The Big Short, Don’t Move, American Horror Story) and ALEXANDRA DADDARIO (The White Lotus, True Detective, San Andreas)

HERSHEY is a must-see movie for chocolate-lovers and fans alike. This movie reveals how a man who failed in business multiple times before creating an iconic chocolate empire chose to channel his success into a legacy of education and community that continues to transform lives today.

The HERSHEY movie is set to release in 2026, aligning with America's 250th anniversary. A Dandelion Media production in partnership with the Hershey Entities and in association with Aloe Entertainment, with UTA Independent Film Group representing worldwide rights.

CASTING WILL BE LOOKING FOR BACKGROUND OF ALL AGES to portray an array of characters from the late 1800s-early 1900s for filming between May 12-June 27(No filming on Saturdays or Sundays)!"

LINK TO APPLY!

https://pghfilm.org/listing/hershey-pittsburgh-feature-film-background-casting/

Please direct all questions and concerns to Nancy Mosser Casting.

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