In The News 2025
Centre Film Festival Announces 2025 Award Winners, Celebrating Global Filmmakers, Student Engagement, and Seven Years of Community Partnerships
November 19, 2025
The Centre Film Festival concluded its seventh edition with a dynamic Closing Night Awards Ceremony at the historic Rowland Theatre, honoring multigenerational filmmakers across 13 categories and highlighting the powerful collaborations between the global creative community and the region’s arts and cultural organizations.
State College native returns to Centre Film Festival with locally-shot short film
November 15, 2025
Staying true to its mission to honor Pennsylvania talent, Centre Film Festival will begin Sunday’s festivities in the Rowland Theatre with the screening of homegrown films, including a short film shot in Centre County.
IST student hosts film festival’s first virtual-reality immersive experience
November 14, 2025
For her second internship with Centre Film Festival, Penn State student Diane Akpovwa introduced a different way for festival attendees to watch films: via virtual reality (VR). The Virtual Reality Immersive Experience debuted on Nov. 13 at the Palmer Museum of Art.
Centre Film Festival hosts immersive virtual reality experience
November 14, 2025
The annual Centre Film Festival is in full swing, and held a new virtual reality movie experience in the Palmer Art Museum on Thursday that allowed the audience to dive headfirst into the world built around them in the headset.
Student films celebrated with annual Tailgate Screening
November 13, 2025
To kick off a week filled with motion pictures and meaningful discussion, the Centre Film Festival partnered with Penn State’s Student Film Organization and Centre Film Festival Club to host the third annual Tailgate Screening event in Carnegie Cinema on Sunday, showcasing short films made by Penn State students.
Centre Film Festival continues to grow in 7th year but stays true to its mission
November 7, 2025
The Centre Film Festival returns next week for its seventh annual “celebration of film and conversation.” Stretching across five venues, the festival will showcase about 300 films, facilitate conversations with viewers and filmmakers, host award ceremonies and more.
Faculty member drives Centre Film Festival as educator, filmmaker and matchmaker
November 7, 2025
Along with the high-quality films, dozens of them, and standout stories, hundreds of them, the Centre Film Festival annually finds success because of the many connections it makes in the community and far beyond.
Centre Film Festival marks seventh year with biggest lineup yet
November 6, 2025
The 2025 Centre Film Festival will begin in State College on Nov. 9
with a search for a lost slice of pizza and end on the Nov. 16 at Philipsburg’s Rowland Theater on a journey with a Palestinian boy in an Oscar nominated foreign feature film.
In between, moviegoers can experience almost every type of film, including narrative and
documentary features, shorts, experimental, arthouse, kid-friendly, horror and thrills, comedy and world cinema.
Centre Film Festival Back for 7th Year
November 6, 2025
The 7th annual Centre Film Festival is here, with the weeklong event kicking off Nov. 10. Reporter Andrew Matz takes a look at what to expect.
98.7 the FOX News Article
November 6, 2025
Listen here for an insightful conversation with Scott Geesey and Jeff “Ironhead” Byers about film, the region, our local talent here, and how the festival can make a difference… oh, and a little Sports on Screen too… on 98.7 the FOX!
Centre Film Festival 2025 comes to Centre County Nov. 10-16
November 5, 2025
The Centre Film Festival celebrates its 7th year this fall, uniting filmmakers, students, and film lovers for a weeklong showcase across six venues in Central Pennsylvania.
This year’s lineup features films from over 60 countries and 27 made right here in Pennsylvania, exploring themes of heritage, resilience, and creativity through powerful stories that connect us all.
Three Students To Have Work Featured In Centre Film Festival
November 5, 2025
Sydney Stewart, Will Bond, and Leah Bahamonde, three film production students at Penn State University, will have their self-produced films represented at the Centre Film Festival.
Penn State faculty, student and alumni films to screen at Centre Film Festival
November 4, 2025
Two films from a Penn State faculty member will be making their Pennsylvania premieres during the seventh annual Centre Film Festival, scheduled Nov. 10-16.
In addition, the festival will include 14 films from Penn State students and five from alumni.
PSN News: November 3 Interview with Pearl Gluck
November 3, 2025
Interview anchor, Cameron Ricciardi , sits down with Pearl Gluck, Co-Founder & Artistic Director of the Centre Film Festival. Gluck speaks on the upcoming festival as well as her experiences as an associate professor of film and video at The Pennsylvania State University.
Centre Film Festival To Begin November 10
October 29, 2025
The 2025 Centre Film Festival is returning to State College for its seventh year.
This year’s edition is set for November 10 to 16 across multiple beloved Happy Valley theaters, including UEC Theatres, The State Theatre, The Rowland Theatre, the Carnegie Cinema, and the Foster Auditorium.
Centre Film Festival returns as destination event for filmmakers and film fans
October 16, 2025
A celebration of community and impact, thanks to the power of filmmaking, runs throughout much of the first half of November with the seventh annual Centre Film Festival — which offers hundreds of viewing options along with question-and-answer sessions with filmmakers, special themes and much more.
Centre Film Festival Returns for 7th Season: Celebrating Stories that Connect Us
October 1, 2025
The magic of cinema returns to Central Pennsylvania this fall as the Centre Film Festival celebrates its seventh season, running November 10–16, 2025. Audiences can look forward to a week of screenings, panels, and special events across beloved venues including The State Theatre, UEC Theatre 12, The Rowland Theatre, and a new partner space: the Palmer Museum of Art, which will debut an immersive VR program.