Three Films Shot in Pittsburgh Featured at Three Rivers Film Festival

Writer-director Charlotte Glynn’s fiction drama The Gymnast—which centers on an elite-level gymnast in early-’90s Homestead struggling to recover from an injury—had been germinating for more than a decade. The Friday, Nov. 6, screening at The Lindsay is its Pittsburgh premiere.

Doree Simon Hatfield’s Gentle By Birth traces to 2016, when her beloved younger brother, Kevin Simon, died of a drug overdose at 23. The intimate documentary explores the devastating impact on her family—but also the role played by our culture’s framing of drug abuse as a personality flaw or moral weakness, rather than a medical issue.

Gentle By Birth screens on Saturday, Nov. 7, at The Lindsay.