‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Introduction w/ Steadicam Operator Buzz Moyer
Hear from a Sewickley resident who worked on this long-awaited Looney Tunes comedy!
August 28 @ 7:30 pm
John “Buzz” Moyer will return to The Lindsay for the third time this year to discuss his work on a particularly loony comedy.
The Sewickley native is a longtime Hollywood veteran who recently served as a steadicam operator on Coyote vs. Acme, a highly anticipated new Looney Tunes adventure bursting into The Lindsay on Friday, Aug. 28.
Moyer will introduce The Lindsay’s 8 p.m. Coyote vs. Acme screening on Friday, Aug. 28. This talk will begin at 7:30 p.m., and the showing will start promptly at 8 p.m. He’ll discuss his career, job description and the process of shooting a live action/animation hybrid.
Coyote vs Acme is famous for being shelved by Warner Bros. before finding theatrical distribution three years later. Wile E. Coyote finally sues Acme Inc. after years of their products literally blowing up in his face. He enlists accident lawyer Kevin Avery (Will Forte) to go up against slick Acme attorney Buddy Crane (John Cena).
Moyer is a Sewickley Academy and Ithaca College graduate who has been working in the camera departments of major film and television productions since the late 1980s. His long list of credits includes 1995’s Sudden Death, 1999’s Dogma, 2006’s Rocky Balboa, the HBO drama Boardwalk Empire, 2012’s The Avengers, 2017’s The Post, 2021’s In the Heights and 2025’s The Housemaid.
He has previously regaled Lindsay audiences with stories from his time on the sets of 2021’s West Side Story remake, 2023’s Pittsburgh-shot dramedy A Man Called Otto, and this year’s The Devil Wears Prada 2 and Disclosure Day. Moyer also worked on How to Rob a Bank, a Pittsburgh-filmed heist thriller hitting theaters on Nov. 13.
A member of the Society of Camera Operators, Moyer proudly serves on the board of governors, nominating committee and education committee. Also a member of the Steadicam Operators Association, he instructs and mentors young and newly invested steadicam operators.
“The mentoring part is very important,” Moyer told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2021. “I have to give back. If someone gets inspired and wants to continue or do a career in the business, I’m happy to be a part of that to open their eyes to it.”
