Backyard Docs Film Festival

Backyard Docs Film Festival returns this fall with VC sponsoring several programs; the listing is dated September 25, 2025, at 6:30 PM and labeled Mixer. September 27 programs at Melwood Screening Room include Animating the Documentary at 10 AM EDT, exploring nonfiction animation with Hansen Bursic, Imogen Pranger and Mallory Brangan; Creating in our Backyard: Nonfiction Production Roundtable at 2 PM EDT, discussing Rust Belt and Appalachian storytelling and sustainable regional careers with Kristal Sotomayor, Bursic, Colleen C Brady, Steph Strasburg, Alexis Johnson, Nick Childers and more; and Made in PA shorts at 3:30 PM EDT, featuring TWO RIVERS, Amish Country Queer, Expanding Sanctuary, Fox Chase Boy and Death: The Life of Mike Egan. At Field Day on September 27, a rooftop screening of They're Here begins at 7 PM EDT, preceded by a 6 PM networking cocktail hour with the filmmakers and film stars.

Hosted with: Psychedelic Writers Guild