Pittsburgh Filmmakers through the years

Village Theater Company is a few months old while its strategic partner, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, is a granddad to many in the nonprofit theater world.  It was founded in 1971 to serve non-commercial filmmakers and photographers in the Pittsburgh area by providing low-cost access to the expensive tools of their art forms. They established an education program to compliment the equipment sharing program for aspiring artists.

Starting in 1972, Filmmakers established formal relationships with the various universities and colleges in Pittsburgh.  First was the University of Pittsburgh, followed by Point Park College, Duquesne University, LaRoche College, Robert Morris College, Seton Hill College, Carlow College and Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Fine Arts.

As technologies evolved over the past decades, Pittsburgh Filmmakers repeatedly redesigned majors and curricula, incorporating video at first and then all aspects of digital photography and digital media while maintaining many aspects of traditional filmmaking and photography.  The location of Pittsburgh Filmmakers has changed repeatedly as it has grown with its current home at 477 Melwood Avenue occupying 40,000 square feet of space.  Adults have always been welcomed at the site and now The Pittsburgh Filmmakers Youth Media Program focuses on film, video and photography classes for young people.

Checkout what is happening at their website http://pfm.pittsburgharts.org/artist-services-overview