World Meeting Of Families Philadelphia Staging Family Film Festival
By Mark Abrams
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A family film festival with a heavy emphasis on titles with a Philadelphia connection will be held during the World Meeting of Families before the visit of Pope Francis the last week of September.
The festival will be curated by the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, where executive director Sharon Pinkenson has been hard at work putting together the line-up.
"Wide Awake, which is M. Night Shyamalan's very first film he shot in the United States in Philadelphia," Pinkenson says. "And he's going to be here to introduce it. We're going to show Invincible and we expect to have special guests for that, as well."
Other movies include The Mighty Macs.
"The Mighty Macs (is) about the Immaculata girls basketball championship team that had barely a basketball when they got started," Pinkenson says, "which is a great Philadelphia story."
And, a release from 2001, featuring a young, Philadelphia-born actor...
"Diary of a City Priest," Pinkenson says, "which stars David Morse as Father McNamee."
The film festival is a ticketed event with most movies being shown in the Perelman Theater at the Kimmel Center.
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