Pittsburgh premiere and director Kenneth Love in attendance!
From 1890 to 1950 Pittsburgh’s Hill District was an ethnically diverse neighborhood populated with immigrants who were starting a new life in America. This documentary focuses on the Jewish residents who lived and worked there. Through historical photographs, original paintings, and personal memories from those who grew up there, Jewish Memories Of Pittsburgh’s Hill District presents a vivid picture of the sights, sounds, joys and struggles of a vibrant community at a time in this country when immigrants were welcomed and neighbors helped each other regardless of their differences.
Kenneth Love is a film director, producer, and still photographer who has worked on more than 30 award-winning National Geographic Television & Film Specials. He has won Emmy Awards and received Emmy nominations for more. Native of Pittsburgh, who started his career as a documentary filmmaker in 1971, while he was a senior at the University of Pittsburgh. He later received a B.A. in economics from the University of Pittsburgh and an M.F.A. in film and television from Carnegie Mellon.
Love created and founded Pittsburgh Voyager, an outreach program for elementary and high school students that links science and technology education with real world application. Voyager is currently the U.S. Navy's largest outreach program in the country. Love’s independent film, Fallingwater: A Conversation with Edgar Kaufmann Jr., premiered in 1994 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and was shown at the Louvre in Paris. His other films include The Second Front: Montgomery Alabama 1965 in 3D (2018), The LetterPress in 3D (2016), Margo Lovelace and the Magic of Puppetry (2013), Maxo Vanka's Masterpiece: The Murals at St. Nicholas Church (2012) Fallingwater: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Masterwork (2011), Newspaper of Record: The Pittsburgh Courier (2009), Samuel Rosenberg: Pittsburgh’s Painter Laureate (2008), Clyde Hare’s Pittsburgh (2005), Brilliant Fever: W. Eugene Smith and Pittsburgh (2001), and One Shot: The Life and Work of Teenie Harris (2001).