Film In Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Film Organizations

• Pittsburgh Film Office

  The Pittsburgh Film Office was founded in 1990 to promote the greater southwestern Pennsylvania region as a great location for movie, television and commercial productions. Since its inception, the PFO has brought more than 100 motion pictures and television productions to southwestern Pennsylvania to generate millions of dollars in economic impact to the region. Some of the more notable movies and TV shows filmed in Pittsburgh include: Silence of the Lambs, Flash Dance, Inspector Gadget, Wonder Boys, The Mothman Prophecies, The West Wing, THe Gurdian, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Smart People, The Next Three Days, Love and Other Drugs, Unstoppable and Abduction. View an extensive list of films shot in Pittsburgh over the last four decades.

• Pittsburgh Filmmakers

  Pittsburgh Filmmakers is one of the largest and oldest independent media arts centers in the country. Founded in 1971 to provide media-making tools to artists, Pittsburgh Filmmakers serves everyone from emerging artists to established artists to fellow non-profit organizations and students. Their Three Rivers Film Festival is the region's largest annual film event. Filmmakers offers a curriculum of courses in film, video, and photography to university and independent students in the Pittsburgh region.

  Pittsburgh Filmmakers owns and operates three theaters in the City of Pittsburgh: the 300-seat Regent Square Theater in the East End, the Harris Theater in Pittsburgh's downtown cultural district, and the Melwood Screening Room in North Oakland. All theaters exhibit a wide variety of first-run foreign and independent American films as well as classics and documentaries.

  • Harris Theater

    809 Liberty Avenue
    Pittsburgh, PA 15222
    412.682.4111

    Located in the nationally and locally registered Penn-Liberty Historic District, the Harris Theater was the first theater in Pittsburgh to commercially show "art movies" The theater seats 200, and is open to the public 7 days a week.

  • Regent Square Theater

    1035 South Braddock Ave
    Edgewood, PA 15218
    412.682.4111

    The Regent Square Theater seats 300 and was purchased by Pittsburgh Filmmakers in 1998. It is one of the few large, single-screen theaters remaining in the county, and screens movies 7 days a week. In addition to our usual selection of eclectic American and foreign independent film, the Regent Square Theater also hosts a Sunday-night series of classic films.

  • Melwood Screening Room

    477 Melwood Ave
    Pittsburgh, PA 15213
    412.681.5449

Annual Film Festivals

• Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival

  May

  Founded in 2006, Silk Screen showcases contemporary Asian and Asian-American films. This multi-day Festival celebrates the vast diversity of the Asian creative spirit, and features a Red Carpet Gala, Asian music concerts and discussion sessions with prominent filmmakers and actors. Silk Screen has been lauded by everyone from The Wall Street Journal to the Indian Consul General for the quality and diversity of its award-winning film offerings.

• Pittsburgh International Lesbian + Gay Film Festival

  October

  The Pittsburgh Lesbian and Gay Film Society presents, a celebration of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered writers, directors, actors and their work. Each year in October hundreds of movie-goers are treated to ten days of high quality entertainment, including feature films, shorts, and videos from the hottest national and international LGBT filmmakers of our time. PLGFS also sponsors social events throughout the October film festival at some of Pittsburgh's most popular gay and gay-friendly nightspots.

• Three Rivers Film Festival

  November

  One of the most eagerly awaited annual events in Pittsburgh, this exciting 2-week long celebration features over 40 films—films made in Pittsburgh, documentaries, independent American cinema, shorts, restored classics with live music, and cutting-edge international films. There are parties throughout the city, a photo auction, visiting filmmakers, informal post-screening discussions and more. The Three Rivers Film Festival remains the oldest —now in its 26th year—and largest annual film festival in the Pittsburgh area.