I began the Pittsburgh Transferring Image Competition again in 2022 to rejoice the artwork and custom of cinema.
Pittsburgh has been historically thought-about the house of the Nickelodeon theater from the very early 1900s. The competition identify is derived from a commerce periodical from that point known as the “Pittsburgh Transferring Image Bulletin.”
The Bulletin began in 1914 (on the peak of the Nickelodeon period) as a method for distributors to relay data to exhibitors about what movies can be within the space at sure instances, data that the exhibitors may use in making their schedules.
We’ve carried on that spirit as a strategy to carry impartial movie to audiences in a theatrical expertise.
“The Pittsburgh Transferring Image Competition” (PMPF) isn’t a single competition, however the model identify for a number of movie-related occasions.
The Pittsburgh Transferring Image Competition: Thriller Image Present (TPS) is our “Wrestlemania” occasion. It was the primary one, and it dovetails into our background with horror and style movies. It’s a aggressive competition for each shorts and have movies and has a separate class for pupil movies.
This yr marks the fourth TPS occasion.
In 2023, we launched our second PMPF competition: Trailer Bash and Raging Pages (TB/RP). That is our Double Function competition devoted to trailers and screenplays.
Romero Lives!
Along with screening official choices and naming award winners, TPS has a convention as a Romero Lives occasion commemorating the life and profession of Pittsburgh’s godfather of cinema, George A. Romero:
- 2022: Romero’s “misplaced” movies: THE AMUSEMENT PARK, JACARANDA JOE, and IRON CITY ASSKICKERS
- 2023: “the state of nature”: THE CRAZIES and DAY OF THE DEAD
- 2024 (at Trailer Bash): forty fifth anniversary screening of DAWN OF THE DEAD
- 2024: MONKEY SHINES.
This yr, because of IFC and Shudder, we will likely be screening Tina Romero’s “Queens of the Lifeless” Oct. 3 (she is the horror maestro’s daughter). We’ll additionally display screen director Kurtis David More durable’s “Influencers,” the follow-up to his 2022 hit “Influencer.” The previous will shut out the primary weekend with an Oct. 5 screening.
This weekend’s competition additionally will display screen Lamberto Bava’s “Demons” on Oct. 4 – 40 years to the day that it first premiered in Italy.
For the third yr, the Lindsay Theater and Convention Heart in Sewickley, Penn. is the house for TPS.
The gala technically begins tonight with the screening of Mark Cantù’s “Grind.” Cantù is a neighborhood filmmaker, and that is his finest so far.
On Saturday night time, the 2025 Thriller Image Present Awards Ceremony will happen at 7 p.m., preceded by a VIP reception.
Arthur Brooks is the Competition Director of the Pittsburgh Transferring Image Competition. You possibly can comply with the competition on Instagram @pittsburghpicturemovingfest.