SEPTEMBER 2025 at the SALON

 

Backyard Docs Film Festival is back with a 4-day lineup of three features, two shorts programs, workshops, and parties.  Take your pick from the BYD website.  Doc Salon members get 20% off with discount code 412DOCS.

A quick guide to the fest:
  • Will Christian nationalists can take control of a PA school board?  An American Pastoral*
  • Among the many journalists killed in the war in Ukraine was one American:  Armed with Only a Camera: The Life of Brent Renauld
  • Mail art, Photography, Trans Opera singers, Surviving flood in WV, and Talking Walls:  Shorts:  Telling Our Stories
  • Workshop:  Animating the Documentary
  • Resisting ICE, a Boxing immigrant, Queer in Amish Country, Surviving Catholic sexual abuse, and a death-obsessed Pittsburgh artist:  Shorts:  Made in PA
  • Close Encounters with UFO's, for real:  They're Here*
  • An ancient city in Lebanon does not easily embrace all of its own, including the filmmaker:  Tripoli / A Tale of Three Cities
* Includes food and drink

WHEN:  Thurs 9/25 thru Sun 9/28
WHERE:  Various, including Melwood Screening Room (North Oakland), Point Park University (Downtown), Parkway Theater (McKees Rocks), Field Day (Lawrenceville), and McConomy Auditorium (CMU campus)
DISCOUNT:  20% with code 412DOCS, not including Tripoli, which is $11 admission


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