A CITY IN THE FOREST- Appalachia Premiere

Please join us for the Appalachia premiere of , screening at Spirit Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! This highly anticipated feature documentary follows the “Stop Cop City” movement, a decentralized resistance in Atlanta that rallied to defend an urban forest from the construction of a mock city campus for militarized training, the United States’ largest police training facility.

After the screening, please join us for Q&A with co-director Lev Omelchenko, sponsored by The Video Consortium. This Q&A will also discuss the proposed City of Pittsburgh public safety training campus on a 168-acre site at the former Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital property along Highland Drive in the Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar neighborhood. If built, it would be even larger than the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center “Cop City” (85 acres).

Come early to meet local community organizations doing mutual aid and government accountability work who will be tabling, and local documentary filmmakers and visual journalists.

Doors + Tabling + Networking - 6:30 pm
Screening - 7:00 pm

Suggested donation: $15
Sponsors:
The Video Consortium
Backyard Docs
folkLAB
Food and drinks are available for purchase on-site. The event is 18+; ID is required at the door to purchase alcohol for ages 21+. This is an ADA accessible building. Masks are not mandatory but encouraged. Please contact [email protected] with any questions or special requests.