More filming coming to Pittsburgh in early March!
A new film titled Progression, inspired by the Lawrenceville Urban Pioneers Society Dinner, will be filmed in the neighborhood beginning in March.
Written and directed by Gab Cody and Sam Turich, the narrative film takes place over the course of an evening, and will focus on three different couples as they wander through the homes and streets of Lawrenceville.
Cody says the film will be driven by conversations and the behavior of people, not by special effects or action sequences. “Rather a world of people at dinner tables having funny conversations,” she says.
Which is how Cody perceives the LUPS Progressive Dinner. That event is in its 27th year and has grown from 12 participants to 150.
Cody and Turich moved to Lawrenceville from New York City four years ago. Three months after moving in they participated in the progressive dinner, and were able to meet “so many great, quirky, weird, strange, funny, hilarious, smart people that we were delighted that we'd chosen to live in Lawrenceville,” Cody says.
“It’s a really magical night in which you are thrust into situations with strangers but often times in their homes,” Cody says. That type of encounter can be unusual, she says, but is always filled with interesting social interactions and conversations, where friendships develop, and even romance can bloom.
Which is why Cody decided it would be a great setting for a movie of this kind.
Cody and Turich's previous short film, Mombies, was also set in Lawrenceville. Pageboy Salon & Boutique owner Rachel Vallozzi, who starred in Mombies, will design costumes for Progression, and Cody is reaching out to restaurants and chefs in the Pittsburgh area to design the film's food.
Filming is scheduled to take place between March and July, and Cody hopes to have a local premier as early as next fall.
Fat Beckett, a play written by Cody and directed by Turich, is currently in production by the Quantum Theatre, and runs through December 18th at the Old School House in Lawrenceville.
And a Kickstarter campaign has launched to help finance the film. Visit that site here.
Read more at Pop City Media. Picture from FilmInPA’s Facebook page
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