Purchase your tickets now for the 10th annual "Lights! Glamour! Action!" fundraiser for the Pittsburgh Film Office on Sunday, March 7, 2010 at the August Wilson Center for African American Culture. Click here for more information or to purchase your tickets today! The Pittsburgh Film Office started 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 assisted more than 95 feature films and television productions to southwestern Pennsylvania to generate an economic impact of more than $377 million for the region. To facilitate filming in the Pittsburgh area, the PFO provides information on the region, locations, vendors and crew; and coordinates government and business offices in support of a production. It also serves as a conduit for information, providing assistance to local filmmakers and the local film industry throughout the region.
Throughout the PFO website, you’ll find useful information about filming in southwestern Pennsylvania―whether you’re a filmmaker, producer, actor, technician or a resident of the region. Some of the recent productions include: The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Smart People, The Bridge to Nowhere, the Spike TV series The Kill Point, Adventureland, Homecoming, Trapped, Zack & Miri Make a Porno, The Road, She's Out of My League, Shelter, Hollywood and Wine, My Bloody Valentine 3-D, Shannon's Rainbow, In NorthWood, Sorority Row, Warrior, Three Rivers (pilot), Law Man (previously "Fire in the Hole" ) (pilot), Unstoppable, Love and Other Drugs and The Next Three Days. FILM TAX CREDIT INFORMATION: Thank you for all of your many letters, emails and phone calls in support of the Pennsylvania Film Tax Credit program. We are thrilled to announce that because of the great support for this valuable program, the Film Tax Credit Act of 2007 will continue! The Governor and the Pennsylvania Legislature can see the economic benefits and jobs the film production industry produces for the Commonwealth. That said, in this very difficult budget year, the cap has been set at $42 million. Next fiscal year the cap will increase to $60 million, continuing the tremendous expansion of the film industry in Pennsylvania! The Pennsylvania Film Office is accepting Film Tax Credit applications NOW for this fiscal year (ending June 30, 2010)! All current commitments to films currently in production in the Commonwealth will be honored. View the Support the Pennsylvania Film Tax Credit video here on YouTube. To view a video from the Film Tax Credit Public Hearing - Friday, June 5, 2009 - please click here. To watch Mogul Mind Studios video GET THE PICTURE about the benefits of the Pennsylvania Film Tax Credit please click here. To watch Entertainment Partners Reel Deal Production Incentives panel at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival please click here. To watch Dawn Keezer and Rep. Paul Costa talk about how the new Pennsylvania budget is affecting the Pittsburgh Film Office click here. NEWS ON FILMS THAT SHOT IN SOUTHWESTERN PA: View the new trailer for The Road - opening nationwide November 25th! ABOUT THE FILM INDUSTRY IN SWPA AND PFO: Watch the Sunday Business Page on KDKA-TV. Dawn Keezer talks about the local film industry and the tax credit program in Pennsylvania. Watch WTAE-TV Channel 4's Editorial about the film industry growing in southwestern Pennsylvania. Visit the Pittsburgh Film Office's MySpace page! Visit the Pittsburgh Film Office's Facebook fan page! Follow the Pittsburgh Film Office on Twitter! |
