Pittsburgh Film Office Announces 2023 Annual Fundraising Gala

PITTSBURGH, PA, Jan 30, 2023 (PittsburghNewsWire.com) — The Pittsburgh Film Office will host its annual fundraising gala, Lights! Glamour! Action ® sponsored by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield on Saturday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m. at The Pennsylvanian’s historic Grand Hall in Downtown Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Film Office celebrates the success of the local film industry and generating more revenue and jobs for local crew and vendors in the Pittsburgh region.

 

Lights! Glamour! Action! ® sponsored by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield returns this year to an in-person event, rolling out the red carpet in celebration of the economic impact of the entertainment industry in southwestern Pennsylvania. The fundraising gala will entertain attendees with live musical acts, interactive experiences and dancing while enjoying decadent foods and specialty cocktails throughout the evening. The fundraising gala will include a Silent Auction to benefit the Pittsburgh Film Office. Auction items are being accepted and will be announced leading up to the event. All proceeds benefit the Pittsburgh Film Office. Ticket sales begin Tuesday, February 1st.

 

To learn more about the event and purchase tickets, visit: https://www.pghfilm.org/lights-glamour-action/

 

 

2022 was a great year with six projects, an increased Film Tax Credit Program, and the PFO started Pittsburgh Film Works! a workforce development program to train residents in the entertainment industry.

 

The Pittsburgh Film Office works diligently to create opportunities for family-sustaining jobs and to consistently increase the economic impact to the region. Please support the Pittsburgh Film Office as we look ahead to place southwestern Pennsylvania at the forefront of the film, television, and streaming industry,” said Dawn Keezer, Director of the Pittsburgh Film Office.

 

Lights! Glamour! Action! ® sponsored by Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is the signature fundraising event benefitting the Pittsburgh Film Office’s operations and mission to market and promote the southwestern Pennsylvania region as a great place to produce television, featured films, commercials, documentaries, and digital content.

 

 

 

The Pittsburgh Film Office (PFO) www.pghfilm.org is a non-profit economic development agency dedicated to the mission of marketing the southwestern Pennsylvania region to the film industry. The PFO works with film industry projects, coordinating government offices and businesses in support of productions throughout Allegheny County and the designated 10-county region. Since 1990, the PFO has assisted over 200 feature film and television productions and generated an economic impact of more than $2 billion into the region. For every $1 invested in the PFO, the organization generates more than $218 in new spending. The southwestern Pennsylvania region has benefited from tremendous growth in the entertainment industry and ancillary fields since the establishment of the Pennsylvania Film Tax Credit Program in 2007, with 129 productions making use of the program. Recent productions include the television series ‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Season 2 and feature film productions include Netflix’s ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ and ‘The Deliverance’, the Focus Features ‘Untitled Ethan Coen Project’, and ‘A Man Called Otto’ from Sony Pictures.  Currently filming in the Pittsburgh region is the Season 2 return of ‘American Rust’ from Amazon Freevee.