Arts & Entertainment

Norristown Hosts 'Movies From the Hill' Tonight!

Project Twenty1 is launching their free "Movies From the Hill" series tonight with 21 short animation films. Bring your blankets and chairs and enjoy the show!

Project Twenty1 is turning Norristown into an outdoor movie theater! The nonprofit that wants to help artists and filmmakers turn their passion into a career will take over the parking lot next to the old Montgomery County Prison and use the prison wall to screen a series of 21 short animated films.

The entire community is invited to come enjoy this free event. Bring blankets and chairs to make yourself comfortable. See the films and even meet the filmmakers.

Films screening tonight include:

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  • Un Duelo by Felipe Esquivel & Carpio Iglesias (Priscila, Mexico)
  • Halfway by Gustav Karlson (Henryville, PA)
  • Another Bad Idea by Rusty Eveland (Philadelphia)
  • Gypsies by Joe Torres (Philadelphia)
  • How the Coyote Got His Cunning by Claire Nielbergall (Philadelphia)
  • Sandwich Sam by Jamison Conti (Philadelphia)
  • Shadowplay by Jeff Hatcher (Philadelphia)
  • Trees by Adam Cusack (Philadelphia)
  • Little Dudes by Chris Barley & Timothy Fuller (Yardley, PA)
  • The House That Hate Built:The Midas Touch by Gardner Watts (Galloway, NJ)
  • Desperate Crossing by MinSeok Jeon (Jersey City, NJ)
  • Schijnwerper by Liesje Kraai (New York, NY)
  • Masks by Patrick Smith (New York, NY)
  • Spare Time by Edmond Hawkins (Brooklyn, NY)
  • The Man Who Moved Manhattan by Rob Ludacer (New York, NY)
  • Bait by Michael Moore (Orange, CA)
  • The Wanna-Be Oddie by Jun Bin Lam (San Francisco, CA)
  • Bad Blood by Jon Etkins (Blue Bell)
  • The Lighthouse by Po Chou Chi (Taiwan)
  • Craft by Mari Jaye Blanchardl (Brooklyn, NY)
  • Noches de Tungsteno by MarÌa Torres (Mexico)

Find more information here. Rain date for the event is June 24.

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