June 2009 Archives
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.
A new TV show called “Script to Screen,” available on the city’s PCTV-21 and eventually to Web users everywhere, will debut at 8 p.m. next Monday.
Bob Scott will host and co-produce, along with the Carnegie Screenwriters. The first episode will feature writer Robert Skwaryk and independent producer Bud Adams.
Dormont’s Hollywood Theater made its second major announcement this month. Earlier in June, the Hollywood announced it would reopen to screen classic films on weekends with the assistance of the Bradley Center, a team of volunteers, and Dormont Borough Council President John Maggio. However, Maggio is now reporting the Hollywood will reopen fulltime under new management in August, thanks to interest from Motion Picture Heritage (MPH).
PBS’ 22nd season of its acclaimed documentary series “P.O.V.” starts tonight with a Pittsburgh-set story called “New Muslim Cool.”
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.
According to the latest surveys conducted by the National Endowment for the Arts, the arts audience is on the decline. However, some of Pittsburgh’s major arts groups are bucking that trend. Even though NEA numbers are reporting a down year for 2008, the same cannot be said for the arts interests of PIttsburgh.
