Dear Friends,
Next week I’ll be the featured presenter at Pittsburgh’s Documentary Salon, where I plan to pre-screen some Inversion Documentary clips and talk about my climate activism. I’d love to see you there. Details below, courtesy of the post at the Doc Salon website: https://pghdocsalon.blogspot.com/2025/04/april-2025-at-salon.html
The Doc Salon is a film society founded in Pittsburgh in 2006. We meet monthly to view and discuss nonfiction films that are screening at local venues, and view members’ work at a lovely space at WQED-TV.
PUSHBACK: Mark Dixon’s Air Pollution and Climate Advocacy
“We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion…”
– EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, March 12, 2025
Nearly lost among the tumult of the second Trump presidency is a building assault on the environment. But most Americans are concerned about climate change and the earth.* And some are actively defending it, like Mark Dixon.
Mark is a filmmaker and activist using documentary to explore environmental problems and solutions at the local and global levels. At this month’s Salon, he’ll provide a deep dive into the events surrounding the 2018 fire at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works. The talk will include a discussion of his process and excepts from his upcoming film Inversion: The Unfinished Business of Pittsburgh’s Air. After a catastrophic fire at the Clairton plant pushed the region’s air quality from bad to worse, decades of grassroots organizing come to fruition as the community rallies to assert its right to clean air.
Wednesday, April 30
6:30p Food & Social
7:00p Film & Discussion
WQED Conference Room
4802 Fifth Ave. Pittsburgh
INVERSION 