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Philadelphia Film Festival welcomes two new programmers

POSTED: Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 7:17 PM

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Give Tom Quinn, of Magnolia Pictures and Magnet Releasing, and Ryan Werner, of IFC, a warm Philly welcome. They've just been added to the ranks as programmers of the Philadelphia Film Festival. They'll join former director of programming, current artistic director Michael Lerman at this year's 19th annual fest, which runs Oct. 14-24. Quinn and Werner previously programmed the Woodstock Film Festival together. Reports indieWire:

"We're thrilled to have Tom and Ryan come aboard as our programmers for the Philadelphia Film Festival," said Andrew Greenblatt, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Film Society. "Both Tom and Ryan have years of experience curating for other great festivals and have built a fantastic reputation through the quality of their programming."

Last year, the Philadelphia Film Society, who puts on the Philadelphia Film Fest, programmed a mini-fest after their break-up with TLA (whose nonprofit arm, the Cinema Alliance, starts up its QFest tomorrow), and a Spring Preview this year to compensate for the cancellation of this year's CineFest (also a Cinema Alliance production). We're pleased with the pedigree. Cheers, dudes, now go put on something awesome.

John V.

Posted 2010-07-07 15:28:26

Nice! But this is a different guy than Tom Quinn *of* Philadelphia, who directed The New Year Parade, yes?

Molly Eichel

Posted 2010-07-07 15:32:47

Hey John V., You're right, they have the same name but they are different film-y folks. Thanks for the clarification.

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