Pittsburgh Film Office movie tour and reception
Donor Event: Lights, Camera, Pittsburgh! The Official Pittsburgh Film Office Movie Tour and Reception
When: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 from 4-7 p.m.
Where: Station Square, 100 W. Station Square Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
By invitation only
Go on Location with The Pittsburgh Foundation...
Pittsburgh has been the setting of some of the most exciting, scary, funny and "flashy" movies in Hollywood. And more than a few A-list stars have walked our neighborhood streets and enjoyed the beauty of our city. Now we invite you to join us for "Lights, Camera, Pittsburgh! The Official Pittsburgh Film Office Movie Tour." You will get a red-carpet ride to locations from 30+ film and television shows that are part of Pittsburgh's film history. The guided tour will feature locations from popular movies including The Dark Knight Rises, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Flashdance, The Silence of the Lambs, Inspector Gadget and Jack Reacher to name a few. You'll learn about the film industry and the economic driver it has become in our region and get the inside track on films that will be coming here soon. You'll enjoy it so much you may want to get yourself an agent.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Maxwell King, President and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation
Maxwell King joined The Pittsburgh Foundation in September 2014 as its 5th President and CEO. Mr. King's career has spanned more than four decades. He served as the editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer and the president of The Heinz Endowments. He was on the board of the National Council on Foundations, including two years as chair. He was also on the board of The Pittsburgh Foundation.
Mr. King received his Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Harvard University, and attended the Stanford Executive Program at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
Dawn Keezer, Director of The Pittsburgh Film Office
As Director of The Pittsburgh Film Office, Dawn Keezer has put the southwestern Pennsylvania region on the map for film and television production. Since 1994, Keezer has successfully attracted 128 feature film and television projects to the region, in the process helping to infuse more than $800 million dollars into the southwestern Pennsylvania economy.
Keezer works alongside local and state government officials to create valuable film incentives for the Commonwealth to lure additional production. Her knowledge of the film industry is vital to the creation of a new entertainment industry in the region. This has resulted in not only hundreds of millions of dollars in economic impact but national and international acclaim.
In 2006, the Pittsburgh Film Office opened a satellite office in Los Angeles. Since that time Keezer serves the Pittsburgh Film Office by marketing southwestern Pennsylvania to studios and production companies from her office in Los Angeles.
During her tenure, she was instrumental in the passage of the Pennsylvania Film Production Tax Credit program that continues to be one of the best incentive programs in the industry.