January 2008 Archives
&
Steeltown Entertainment Project
in cooperation with
The University of Pittsburgh Film Studies Department
PRESENT
January 26, 2008
10:00 am to NOON
University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning - Room G13
Steeltown's own Board Chair, Stephanie Dangel!
This event is free and open to the public.
Dawn Keezer, director of the Pittsburgh Film Office, shares her experiences with daily updates from the Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah. The festival runs through Jan. 27.
Postmarked Wednesday, Jan. 23
Cannot believe it is already my last day at the festival. Tuesday was spent catching a few screenings, having a couple of meetings and beginning the long tortured process of packing to leave.
I spent some time at the Slamdance Film Festival, which started over a decade ago and was considered the "anti-Sundance." In the beginning, for a film to be accepted into Slamdance, a rejection letter from Sundance was required. That is no longer true today. Slamdance has grown into its own and has been very successful in attracting an audience and buyers to its screenings.
My headline from Slamdance: Pittsburgh native stars in documentary!
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh CLO's Richard Rodgers Award, previously adorned by such musical theater stars as Mary Martin, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Julie Andrews and Stephen Sondheim, will go in 2008 to Pittsburgh natives Rob and Kathleen Marshall.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
By Barbara Vancheri, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Apocalypse, here we come.
Pittsburgh has landed "The Road," a big-screen adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy best-seller of the same name that will star Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce and a young Australian actor named Kodi Smit-McPhee.
2929 Entertainment, which is producing the movie, and the Pittsburgh Film Office yesterday confirmed rumors "The Road" will shoot in Southwestern Pennsylvania for eight weeks starting in late February to take advantage of the cold and snow. The film also will spend a week in Louisiana and a week in Oregon.
