FILM FACTORY Winner Selected:
Congratulations to
Yulin Kuang: 1st Place Winner of the "Ellen Weis Kander Award"
Christopher Preksta: 2nd Place Winner
Scott Peters & Anthony Poremski: 3rd Place Winners
Read Pittsburgh Post Gazette Article
Watch our Film Factory Finalists on "Pittsburgh Today Live" on CBS!
Read the Finalists' Scripts
Read the Semi-Finalists' Scripts
What is the Steeltown Film Factory?
The Steeltown Film Factory (SFF) is a yearlong filmmaking competition, powered by the Steeltown Entertainment Project, supported by a series of public workshops, panel discussions and staged readings, designed to engage aspiring filmmakers to create projects with Pittsburgh-inspired content. The competition will provide emerging talent with an opportunity to learn from top producers, directors, writers, actors, and executives in the entertainment industry. Among this year's judges and panelists are "300" producer Bernie Goldmann, "Two and a Half Men" and "Animal House" co-star Jamie Widdoes, Lionsgate producer John Dellaverson, Jim Carrey and Ellen DeGeneres' manager Eric Gold, "Ghost Whisperer" co-star David Conrad and executive producer Kim Moses, along with many others. Click here for the full list and find out more about the Steeltown Film Factory by signing up on our Mailing List.
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Steeltown Spotlight
"The Film Factory has brought the universities together, the local artists, the local technicians, and they're bringing mentors from Los Angeles and New York as well to inspire and collaborate with everybody and I think they're going great places."
-Asher Garfinkel
President of Readers Unlimited & Author
