Allegheny Sport & Outdoor Film Festival
Five exciting documentaries celebrating this region’s athletic spirit—all for $11!
January 26 @ 1:00 pm
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.”
