On November 28th at The Byham Theater, as part of "Pittsburgh's Homecoming Weekend" celebrating the city's 250th birthday, there will be a special red-carpet screening of "My Tale of Two Cities." Pittsburghers everywhere are invited to come home for this special Thanksgiving weekend event and join Mr. McFeely and the cast in singing "Won't You Be My Neighhbor?". Email homecoming@steeltown.org for information on tickets to the event.
Clips from "My Tale of Two Cities" were shown on "News Hour with Jim Lehrer" as part of a story on the "Greening of Pittsburgh." The film's theme of a city coming back and reinventing itself feels very timely in an election year in which the whole country seems to be asking itself how America is going to reinvent itself for a new age. For more info, go to www.newshour.org
It might sound crazy to try to lure folks to Wine Country with Iron City Beer, Isaly's Chipped Ham, and a movie about Pittsburgh, but "My Tale of Two Cities" got some serious festival buzz to the point that the Sonoma Index Tribune wrote: "Although it is the Sonoma Valley Film Festival, Pittsburgh garnered a lot of attention this weekend. Filmmaker Carl Kurlander's documentary, "My Tale of Two Cities," looks at the metamorphosis Pittsburgh underwent from the city he remembered as a boy to the city he returned to 30 years later..." For more information, please go to our "Discuss" section...
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