Upcoming events.
Granite Rapids Moon Screening
After receiving a cryptic card on the date of his daughter's ninth birthday, a happily married man sets off on a solo backpacking trip through the Grand Canyon in an attempt to find peace with a decision from his past before it unravels his future.
Created with permission and oversight from the National Park Service, using only the equipment that a cast and crew of eight could carry on two 41-mile hikes (one in 20-degree December and the other in 95-degree June), this family-friendly romantic drama is the first narrative feature to shoot the majority of its footage inside the rim of the Grand Canyon.
ALLEGHENY SPORT & OUTDOOR FILM FESTIVAL
Started in October 2023 and entering Year 3, Allegheny Sport & Outdoor Film Festival is a four-day festival celebrating sport, outdoor culture and adventure documentary films with special emphasis on stories from Western Pennsylvania, Northern Appalachia and the Mid-Atlantic region
Filmmakers can submit their film here until September 1st. 2025.
ASO Summit 2025
The Allegheny Sport & Outdoor Summit is an annual gathering of brands, athletes, teams, creators and industry leaders across Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio and the broader Mid-Atlantic and Midwest region.
Held in Pittsburgh, PA; ASO Summit will offer industry talks, workshops, outdoor activities, and a product marketplace. Pittsburgh’s unique geographic position in southwestern Pennsylvania will serve as a strategic meeting place for individual athletes, race directors, conservation groups and outdoor recreation businesses in Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, Northern West Virginia, Western New York and Western Maryland to connect, learn and collaborate in fostering healthier communities and more robust outdoor economies.
Day 1 will be a closed door, industry day and Day 2 will be open to the public with a product marketplace and trade show set-up.
Vendor applications will open on June 15th, 2025 and close October 1st, 2025.
Local Legends Screening
The Allegheny Sport & Outdoor Film Festival will hold a “Local Legends” screening at the Sewickley nonprofit theater on Sunday, Jan. 26, at 1 p.m. ASOFF is a Pittsburgh-based project celebrating sport, outdoor culture and adventure documentary films with a special emphasis on stories from Western Pennsylvania, Northern Appalachia and the mid-Atlantic region.
Five documentaries will be shown, most of them spotlighting a Western Pennsylvania-based athlete or organization. This event will also include Q&As with a director or subject from each film. Tickets, including admission to all films, are available for $11.
“The goal is to highlight this region’s outdoor spirit and bring it up to par with festivals and outdoor recreation on the national and international level,” says Rishi Sethi, CEO of locally based malhari.media and ASOFF’s communications and operations director. “This ‘Local Legends’ screening should be an exciting way for folks to see what’s going on in their own backyard.”
The five “Local Legends” films are:
• We Ride (65 minutes), which follows three cyclists from Pittsburgh Youth Leadership endeavoring to cycle across America in just 18 days.
• To Be The Man (3 minutes), which focuses on Michael “Gagz” Gagliardi’s battle for a fifth consecutive win at the Loopy Looper 12-hour Endurance Race.
• First Waves Beaver County (5 minutes), a Sethi-directed documentary chronicling the expansion of the Watersmith Guild’s groundbreaking youth environmental education program into the Beaver and Ohio River valleys following the ethylene cracker plant’s pollution penalties.
• Richard Hamilton (4 minutes), which profiles a wood-cutter and professional chainsaw carver.
• Heaven on Earth (15 minutes), which follows the Highland Park Tennis Club as its members prepare for the start of the 2023 season.
ASOFF’s last engagement was at Downtown’s Harris Theater in November 2024. Festival director Chas Wagner chose The Lindsay for “Local Legends” because “there aren’t a lot of theaters that are welcoming to this kind of community programming.”
“Part of our mission is to get outside of just the city,” says Wagner. “The Lindsay is a great venue.”