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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
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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
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“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!
The Steeltown Entertainment Project is proud to announce that the feature documentary “The Shot Felt ‘Round the World” about Dr. Jonas Salk and Pittsburgh’s role in one of the most important medical discoveries of the 20th century is one of ten documentaries chosen to compete at the Napa Valley Film Festival November 9-13. Steeltown executive producer Carl Kurlander will be in attendance as will producer Laura Davis and director-writer-editor Tjardus Greidanus. The film, which is being distributed by London-based Mercury Media, is currently featured in Virgin America’s in-flight entertainment.
Steeltown advisor Jamie Widdoes, director of CBS’ number one-rated sitcom “Two and a Half Men” and co-star of “Animal House”, will return to Pittsburgh this December to produce a talk show about women and girls at the Fred Rogers Studio. The project is the first for the Pittsburgh Innovative Media Incubator, a co-venture between Steeltown Entertainment Project and WQED funded by the R.K. Mellon Foundation, a new model for doing television which could be transformative for the region and the industry.
In 2003, Jamie, along with director Rob Marshall (“Chicago”, “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”), manager Eric Gold (Jim Carrey), producer Bernie Goldmann (“300”) and writer Peter Ackerman (“Ice Age”) and other Pittsburgh expatriates came home for the “Steeltown Entertainment Summit”, where they were part of a film “Pittsburgh: Hollywood’s Best Kept Secret” that talked about this city’s potential to be a player in the entertainment industry. With “Dark Knight Rises” and the new Tom Cruise movie shooting here and talent like Jamie returning to use their talents, thanks to the efforts of many in this city, the “secret” is definitely out.
To read more about the Steeltown/WQED Incubator, check out the links below:
http://currentpublicmedia.blogspot.com/2011/09/two-and-half-men-director-to-produce.html
