Tag Archives: Documentary

Bringing Bicycles to the Big Screen

Image by lemonad via Flickr On Monday, December 20 – you can catch the Pittsburgh premier of Life Cycles – a feature length documentary about bicycles.  I will admit that I am not an avid cyclist – but I am in full support of bicycling in Pittsburgh.  While I have become a pro at pedaling a bike to nowhere (thanks to spinning class) I haven’t more

Advanced Screening of Forks Over Knives – Sept. 16

Cover via Amazon Since there has been alot of talk and a lot of good things happening in Pittsburgh around local food – we thought this screening would be of interest to some of the food lovers in Pittsburgh. There will be an advanced screening of the upcoming documentary Forks Over Knives at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater on September 16, 2010.  more

Links Worth a Look – March 10th

Here are some links/articles/blog posts that are worth a look: From Glamour Magazine – "These Sisters Rescued 54 Orphans" – Katie Couric interviews Ali and Jamie McMutrie for Glamour magazine about their work in Haiti Another "Tale of Two Cities": Ontario city finds parallels in Pittsburgh revitalization – Carl Kurlander is taking more

This SUNDAY – Be Part of the Steeler Fan Movie!

Thanks to you, the readers of IheartPGH and your entusiasm for the nation of  Steeler’s fans I have had the opportunity to meet and watch the Steeler Game with the folks who are traveling the country to make a documentary about Steelers Fans. They have already been to Steelers bars in Tennesse, Brooklyn and Chicago.  This weekend they are bring their more

Documentaries, Storytelling and Pittsburgh – My Tale of "My Tale of Two Cities"

We have been patiently waiting for the premier of this movie – My Tale of Two Cities, a documentary about Pittsburgh which has been in the works for a few years now. Back in 2006 we posted the invite to come join in a neighborhood sing along of “Its a beautiful day in the neighborhood.” The film is complete and the screening is November 28, 2008 at more

Pittsburgh is about the Neighborhoods – A documentary about East Liberty

Chris Ivey is a Pittsburgh based filmmaker who has traveled around the world working on documentary films. Over the past 2 years he has been working on a film about East Liberty called East of Liberty. I had a chance to see some of the raw footage when Chris started working on this and in the past year he even shown the film in London. East of Liberty more

East of Liberty Part 2

Chris Ivey is an film maker who works on documentarys around the world, but calls Pittsburgh home.  Chris has been working on capturing the story of East Liberty for a few years now.  I was luck enough to catch a glimpse of some of the raw footage a year or so ago when Chris happened to bring his laptop into the Shadow Lounge.  There has been a lot more