![]() ![]() Amazon Prime Video confirmed Wednesday what I’d previously reported – that filmed-in-Pittsburgh’s “A League of Their Own” will return for a four-episode, second and final season – although there’s still no definitive word about whether the production will be back in Pittsburgh.“We’re going to continue to work toward increasing the diversity of our crew and increasing the film tax credit program so hopefully we can welcome them back once again in the near future.” “Show business - it is a business,” Keezer said. A group that’s training in how to style hair among a diverse population of performers will graduate from the program in mid-May. Keezer said the Pittsburgh Film Works program is unique as a partnership with the local union that’s focused on training people for jobs behind the scenes in film/TV/streaming production. “The Pittsburgh Film Office, in partnership with IATSE Local 489, has worked to address this issue and started a workforce training program with our program partner Reel Works, (a youth media and workforce readiness organization) based in New York.” “The Pittsburgh film industry, much like the rest of the country, has not done a great job with diversifying our local crew base,” Keezer continued. “We had understood that all 10 of the plays in August Wilson’s cycle that (executive producer) Denzel Washington is turning into feature films would be filmed here in the Pittsburgh area. “We were disappointed to learn that ‘Piano Lesson’ went to Atlanta,” Pittsburgh Film Office director Dawn Keezer said. (The most recent Wilson adaptation, Netflix’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” which did film in Pittsburgh, was a Wilson play set in Chicago.) The first adaptation of “The Piano Lesson” was filmed in Pittsburgh starring Alfre Woodard and Charles Dutton and aired as a “Hallmark Hall of Fame” presentation in 1995. Despite being set in Pittsburgh, the next filmed version of an August Wilson play, “The Piano Lesson” for Netflix, will shoot this spring in Atlanta, a nasty slap in the face to Wilson’s hometown.In other news about local productions for streaming: The first season premiered on premium cable channel Showtime in September 2021, and Showtime canceled the series in January 2022.Īmazon Freevee, which announced it picked up season two in June 2022 and also will stream the show’s first season, has not announced a premiere date for season two my guess is it will be late summer or fall of this year. police chief who covers up a crime for the benefit of the woman he loves, Grace Poe (Maura Tierney). The first season of “American Rust,” based on the 2009 novel by author Philipp Meyer, chronicled the exploits of Del Harris (Jeff Daniels), the Southwestern Pa. Then its light was aimed at the window, where the scene was being filmed, presumably to create a sense of more sunlight outdoors. ![]() ![]() Eventually, a cherry picker-like lighting rig called The Condor was raised skyward. More than two dozen crew members, many clad in Iron City Grips T-shirts, worked on a scene filming on the second floor of an apartment building. The familiar sounds of Hollywood on the Mon echoed up the grassy slope of Grant Avenue Park: “Last looks,” “Rolling! Quiet please!,” “Cut!,” “Going again right away” and the occasional, “Bus coming through!” (Though South Second Street was closed to cars, bus routes were not disrupted by the production.) Production will wrap next week on season two of Amazon Freevee’s “American Rust,” which was filming Tuesday at South Second Street and Grant Avenue in Duquesne. ![]()
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