Entries tagged with “Carl Kurlander” from In The News

Carl Kurlander is the writer, director, and producer of My Tale of Two Cities, a personal documentary about the effort to turn around the fortunes of his hometown - Pittsburgh. Kurlander’s movie was just featured in Milwaukee during the meeting of the International Downtown Association. He is featured on Milwaukee Public Radio station, WUWM: Lake Effect. Listening to the podcast is available at http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lakeeffect/viewle.php?articleid=808.

This Sunday I will be heading to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where our film, “My Tale of Two Cities” will be shown at a keynote session of the 55th Annual Convention of the International Downtown Association, representing over 650 downtown organizations from around the world.

ABC is developing a TV series based on the 1985 movie “St. Elmo’s Fire,” written by Pittsburgher Carl Kurlander, who said he won’t be involved in the reboot.

Women In Film and Media’s Opal Awards will honor Shirley Jones on Octoper 12, 2009.

There was a change in the schedule for Script to Screen. Episodes began airing last week so the schedule is a week off.

Short films will have top billing at the fourth annual Johnstown Film and Wine Festival.

The festival will be held at 6:30 p.m. July 8-10 at the Johnstown Flood Museum, 304 Washington St. in downtown Johnstown, and at 7:30 p.m. July 11 at the Heritage Discovery Center, 201 Sixth Ave. in the Cambria City section of Johnstown.

Shelley Johansson, director of communications and marketing at Johnstown Area Heritage Association, which sponsors the festival, is seeing more entries every year.

From The Tribune-Review

Carl Kurlander is a Hollywood screenwriter (“St. Elmo’s Fire”), a TV writer-producer (“Saved By the Bell”) and a visiting senior lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh. He recently produced and directed “My Tale of Two Cities,” a funny and heartfelt comeback story starring the City of Pittsburgh that sold out the Byham Theater in November at its Pittsburgh premiere.

Kurlander currently is working on a documentary about how Dr. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh conquered the most feared disease of the last century, polio. For more information about “My Tale of Two Cities,” check out www.mytaleoftwocities.com.

The theme of Pittsburgher's coming together played a prominent role during the events surrounding the premiere of Carl Kurlander's documentary "My Tale of Two Cities" at last week's Sonoma Valley Film Festival.

Director Carl Kurlander recently appeared on the KDKA-TV program, 'Pittsburgh Today Live' to discuss his documentary 'My Tale of Two Cities'

This year's Sonoma Valley Film Festival, which runs from April 9-13, will have a distinctly Pittsburgh feel n'at as native son's Michael Keaton and Carl Kurlander will be featured prominently in festival festivities.

Originally published in the Blog, Burgh Diaspora
Wednesday, February 20, 2008

I'm blogging from a hospital in Boulder, Colorado. Yesterday at 3pm local time, my wife gave birth to a healthy baby girl. Pittsburgh's global extended family is now one member stronger. The Front Range may be my place of current residence, but it will never be home. The demands of economic globalization does scatter the members of a community, but these forces also have the ironic effect of strengthening our ties to one location.

Associated Press, By Ramesh Santanam

PITTSBURGH - When actress Mary Stuart Masterson wanted to direct her first feature film, she chose a family drama that was set in western Pennsylvania. But when it came time to film it, producers chose upstate New York.

The main reason: Pennsylvania didn't have an enticing enough tax incentive program to lure production of the $3 million independent film. New York did, said Jesse Scolaro, who produced Masterson's film, "The Cake Eaters," through his company, The 7th Floor.

That was last year.

Today, producers are seeking out Pennsylvania to shoot movies, thanks to $75 million in annual tax incentives approved by state lawmakers in July.

By Jean Horne, FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Cult filmmaker George Romero was the toast of the town at Wednesday's red-carpet premiere of his fabulously spooky zombie feature, "Land of the Dead."