Recently in Articles About Steeltown Category

Click here to see more behind the scenes pictures!

Click Here to Visit the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Article:’Filming here, the next ‘Oprah’?: WQED/Steeltown joint venture goes before cameras in January’The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s Website. ](http://www.steeltownfilmfactory.org/press/2012/01/two-a-half-men-director-working-on-new-pilot-in-pittsburgh-behind-the-scenes-with-the-anea-show.php)

Film Factory adviser and “Two & A Half Men” Director, Jamie Widdoes is working on a new pilot in Pittsburgh as part of Steeltown/WQED incubator. The pilot was tested in early december and focuses on the empowerment of young girls and women. The show will be produced as a collaboration of Pittsburgh and LA talent!

The Producers, Jamie Widdoes, Peter Isacksen, and the host Anea Bogue were featured on Pittsburgh Today Live! Check out the Pittsburgh Live Video

Click here to submit your short film!

The Steeltown Film Factory is a great opportunity for students, faculty, and creative individuals in our community to become part of Southwestern PA’s emerging film industry!

12 pages… That’s all it takes for the chance could win up to $30,000 to gain access to some of Hollywood’s top players, including: -300 producer Bernie Goldmann -Good Will Hunting producer Chris Moore -Lionsgate’s John Dellaverson -Two and a Half Men director Jamie Widdoes

Steeltown’s Film Factory is a nationally recognized filmmaking competition, which has become a driving force connecting Pittsburgh and Hollywood and gives participants the unique opportunity to learn from professionals in the entertainment industry while offering the prize of up to $30,000 to see the winning submission(s) produced in Southwestern PA. This prize is amongst the highest awarded for short filmmaking competitions nationwide!

The Film Factory is looking for the next great creative voice… that could that be you!

The Film Factory is now accepting submissions! Click here to submit your short film! Regular Deadline: 12/31/11 Standard Fee: $55.00 Student Fee: $25.00

Late Deadline: 1/7/12 Standard Fee: $60.00 Student Fee: $30.00

(Entrants receive free admission to a Film Factory event: Call: 412-622-1325 or email info@steeltown.org to reserve your seat.)

We appreciate you spreading the word about the Film Factory competition to others who might be interested! If have any questions please feel free to visit our website or contact us through email at info@steeltown.org. For the latest Film Factory news find us on Facebook!

“The Pittsburgh Innovative Media Incubator” brings in executives from LA to shoot a talk show the local WQED studio! She show is about empowering girls and women. Read More!

This event is free and open to the public.

What is Mercury Men? It is a new online series that will appear on the Syfy Channel with new episodes occuring every day for 2 weeks. It was filmed and set in our very own city in 1975 with an old black and white show appeal. Edward Borman, a lowly government worker, find himself inside a dangerous plot created by the men of Mercury. After his office building is seized, he must pair up with Jack Yaegar, an aerospace engineer from a mysterious organization called "The League," and stop these diabolical men before it's too late.

RSVP by emailing us at Steeltownentertainmentproject@gmail.com. Include your name, phone number and amount of guests you will have in the body of the email.

The Steeltown Film Factory introduced its ten quarter-finalists for the 2010-2011 season to a full house at “The Hollywood Pitch” on Saturday February 19th at the Frick Fine Arts Building on the University of Pittsburgh’s campus in Oakland.

The panel, which featured “Two and a Half Men” Director Jamie Widdoes, Bob Kusbit, producer of MTV’s “Made” and an executive at MTV and Country Music Television, Lauren Elmer, a University of Pittsburgh graduate who works for Sony Classics, and Asher Garfinkel, president of Readers Unlimited and author of “Screenplay Story Analysis,” heard pitches from local screenwriters on Pittsburgh subjects, among which parking chairs were a crowd favorite.

Be sure to catch the next installment of the Film Factory at “The Producer’s Pitch - Saturday, March 26th” at Point Park University, details to be announced.

See for yourself what it takes to create a production plan and who will move on to the final round of this year’s Film Factory contest. The top 5 semi-finalists will pitch rewritten screenplays along with a proposed production budget and schedule. Panelists will critique the submissions and ultimately decide which 3 move on to our final round April 30 at CMU.

Scheduled Panelists include: John Dellaverson - Lionsgate Producer,Executive Producer, “Diary of a Mad Black Woman”, Vice Chairman, Film Finances Inc. Bernie Goldman - Producer, “Snow White”, “300”, “Land of the Dead” Chris Moore - Executive Producer, “The People Speak”; Producer, “The Adjustment Bureau”; Co-Producer, “Good Will Hunting”

Read the CBS Pittsburgh article on Jamie Widdoes.

Visit Steeltown Film Factory for more information.

Buy tickets here to see Steeltown's FILM FACTORY winning films, "Anywhere But Here" and "Roll The Dice" on November 6, 2010 at the Three Rivers Film Festival.

Buy your tickets here!

Pittsburghers everywhere are invited to come home this Thanksgiving weekend for a special red-carpet screening of the film “My Tale of Two Cities,” November 28th at The Byham Theater, Downtown Pittsburgh, as part of the city’s Homecoming Weekend and 250th birthday celebration. The evening will benefit Steeltown Entertainment Project’s “Youth & Media Initiative” in partnership with the Holy Family Institute.

On November 28th at The Byham Theater, as part of “Pittsburgh’s Homecoming Weekend” celebrating the city’s 250th birthday, there will be a special red-carpet screening of “My Tale of Two Cities”, a film about coming home and the city of Pittsburgh reinventing itself. The city of Pittsburgh stars in this often funny and sometimes moving “comeback story” where “St. Elmo’s Fire” screenwriter (and Steeltown co-founder) Carl Kurlander tosses a football with Franco Harris and his son Dok, goes shopping in the Strip with Teresa Heinz Kerry, has breakfast at Ritter’s diner with Paul O’ Neill, asking them and others how their hometown can once again become “The City of Champions.” Pittsburghers everywhere are invited to come home for this special Thanksgiving weekend event and then join Mr. McFeely and the cast in singing “Won’t You Be My Neighhbor?”. Go to www.mytaleoftwocities.com to see clips from the movie and email homecoming@steeltown.org for information on tickets to the event.

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.

Join Steeltown co-founder Carl Kurlander as he speaks about Shining a Light on Pittsburgh Through Film.

Carl will be speaking as part of the 2007-2008 Lunch & Learn Series sponsered by the UJF Young Adult Division and Shalom Pittsburgh.

Come here Carl talk about his experiences during a career as a Hollywood writer/producer. Carl will also talk about his work helping to bring film and television projects to Pittsburgh as part of the Steeltown Entertainment Project.

Wednesday, February 6, 2008 @ noon

Location: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC

One Oxford Center, 20th Floor

Pittsburgh, PA 15219

For more information on this event, please contact Suzanne Green at (412) 992-5222 or by email; sgreen@UJFpittsburgh.org