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DOC SHORTS: Community Power

Join us as we continue the 2024 Backyard Docs Film Festival with our special Community Power screening, sponsored by The Video Consortium!

This event takes place in an exciting DIY screening space among steel factory artifacts, sculptures, and paintings in the Patterns of Meaning gallery in the old gymnasium of the Energy Innovation Center.

You can purchase tickets here.

Your ticket purchase includes a special conversation following the screening with visiting filmmakers hosted by PublicSource's Senior Photojournalist, Stephanie Strasburg, plus complimentary dinner and drinks. Join us for a special after-party nearby!

Come early 5-6 pm for happy hour networking, sponsored by The Video Consortium!

Wild Hogs and Saffron

Iranian-American filmmaker Andy Sarjahani and his childhood friend Bubba Samuels grew up together in Pope County, Arkansas. Over the years, they bonded over their love for dogs and adventuring in the hills, woods and creeks of their native Ozarks.

Georgie

An ex mobster reflects on love and loss after spending 32 years in prison.

From Gaza to Ohio

Not Just Coastal Elites: Here’s How Three Rust Belt Colleges Protested Israel’s War in Gaza

Calls from Home

A documentary on WMMT-FM’s longstanding radio show that sends messages over the public airwaves to reach those incarcerated in Central Appalachia.

Trash & Burn

The film, "Trash & Burn," showcases Chester, Pennsylvania, where Zulene Mayfield leads a 30-year fight against the US's largest trash incinerator, impacting the majority-black community. The plant, processing waste from as far as Canada and Puerto Rico, exemplifies severe environmental racism. The film highlights Chester's resilience and battle against systemic injustice.

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1435 Bedford Avenue, Crawford-Roberts,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219 United States