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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Local Filmmakers to Premiere Short Film at the Three Rivers Film Festival

'Blast Off,' a short film by Grey Fox Pictures' Jonathan Gribbin and Jonathan Blackwell, will be shown Nov. 15 at Melwood Screening Room in Oakland and features a young actor from Upper St. Clair.

Two local filmmakers, Jonathan Gribbin and Jonathan Blackwell, are launching their film career with "Blast Off," a short film that will screen at the Three Rivers Film Festival. Gribbin, who graduated from Woodland Hills High School in 2007, won his first award, the Abstract Award in the Bayer C.A.U.S.E. Challenge High School Film Festival (2007) for his film "Flow." The young filmmaker from Churchill is a graduate of The Los Angeles Film School. In 2010, he entered a short, "A Less than Lucky Day to Kill Yourself," in the annual Pittsburgh Film Kitchen Contest. His film took second place. "Growing up I wanted to be a doctor, an archeologist and even a pharoah. I realized with film I can be all these things," Gribbin joked. After …

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3:29 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Upper St. Clair Short Film Set to Premiere Wednesday

Two Upper St. Clair High School graduates made a short film with Upper St. Clair actors this summer.

After a months of writing and preparing, and a summer of filming, Bad Kids will premiere at Upper St. Clair's Community and Recreation Center on Wednesday night. Bad Kids is a short film created by two Upper St. Clair High School graduates, Peter Rosati, a 2010 graduate and student at Emerson College, and Dominic Rodriguez, a 2009 graduate and student at Point Park University. Nearly 10 months ago, with the help of many Skype meetings, Rosati and Rodriguez wrote a story about seven kids—and a ferret—who run away and must try to find their way home by throwing a knife in a map. According to Rosati, the first part of the film is pure action adventure. The second part of the film explores a particular sadness the main character has and …

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