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The University of Pittsburgh is celebrating the 66th anniversary of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine being declared “safe and effective” with a new documentary about the covid-19 pandemic.
It was April 12, 1955, that Salk’s breakthrough was confirmed. To mark the date on Monday, Pitt is holding the world premiere screening of the film “Chasing Covid” at 7 p.m.
The half-hour movie takes viewers inside the lab of Paul Duprex, director of Pitt’s Center for Vaccine Research, where he and his team are engaged in a global collaboration on vaccine research.
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University of Pittsburgh graduate Sam Orlowski put her heart into her short film, “Thanks to Her,” a Pittsburgh-set coming-of-age tale about being comfortable with your sexuality.
“I am part of the LGBT community, and I have dealt with homophobia,” said Orlowski, who lives in Canonsburg. “I wanted to start a conversation about sexuality. I wanted to get people talking.”
They are talking. Posted on YouTube in September, the 23-minute work has over 630,000 views, 14,000 likes and nearly 800 comments.
Courtesy Nick Danko
Courtesy Nick Danko
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For his directorial feature film debut, Western Pennsylvania’s Nick Danko looked no further than his own backyard.
Danko’s “Red Woods” is a found footage film in the vein of “The Blair Witch Project” (minus the shaky-camera effect) that follows an urban explorer group as they tromp through abandoned houses in the woods. Much of it was filmed on Danko’s property in Lawrence County that borders McConnell’s Mill State Park.
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The University of Pittsburgh will have a virtual premiere of a student-made documentary about George Romero, whose film “Night of the Living Dead” became a cult classic.
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Zombies are as much a part of Pittsburgh’s cultural cachet as the Steelers and Primanti’s sandwiches.
And we have George Romero to thank for that.
The father of the modern zombie film, who began creating his horror classics in the Steel City in the late 1960s, is the subject of a University of Pittsburgh student-produced documentary, “George Romero & Pittsburgh: The Early Years.” It debuts as part of a virtual event at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4, which was Romero’s birthday. He died of cancer in 2017 at the age of 77.
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Dustin Diamond in 2011. He died Monday after a three-week fight with carcinoma at the age of 44.
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This 1994 photo shows Dustin Diamond, in character as Screech from “Saved by the Bell,” with Carl Kurlander, who was a writer for the show.
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This image released by NBC shows actor Dustin Diamond as Samuel Powers, better known as Screech” from the 1990’s series “Saved by the Bell.” Diamond died Monday after a three-week fight with carcinoma, according to his representative.
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This 1992 image released by NBC shows actor Dustin Diamond as Samuel Powers, better known as Screech” from the series “Saved by the Bell.” Diamond died Monday after a three-week fight with carcinoma, according to his representative.