Tony Buba

Sweet Sal

Tony Buba

Sal Carullo, Tony Buba

A portrait of a wiry, engaging street hustler, Sal Carulli, whose cocky patter breaks down at the end of the film, when he visits his father’s grave.

The Mill Hunk Herald

Tony Buba

Tony Buba, Stephen Pellegrino

A trip inside a Steel Valley workers’ magazine, which looks like raw material for a Bruce Springsteen song.

Dawn of the Dead

George A. Romero

David Emge, Ken Foree

During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

Lightning Over Braddock: A Rustbowl Fantasy

Tony Buba

Tony Buba, Stephen Pellegrino

Tony Buba, a film maker from Braddock, Pennsylvania, tells the story of his hometown's decline (along with the rest of the steel mill towns along the Monongahela River) while he dreams of making higher budget films. The picture documents, in a lighthearted way, the community anxiety and activism that accompanied the failure of the steel industry around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Betty's Corner Cafe

Tony Buba

This short tells the story of a cafe where steel workers come to eat.

J. Roy: New and Used Furniture

Tony Buba

Jimmy Roy, Tony Buba

Buba introduces us to a Braddock entrepreneur who has failed at twelve businesses and is busy teaching would-be entrepreneurs self-confidence.

Cinetracts '20

Želimir Žilnik, Sheilah ReStack

A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the zeitgeist in their own backyard, the artists' short films are the culmination of a year-long residency project.

Washing Walls With Mrs. G

Tony Buba

Tony Buba

Tony Buba trains his documentary lens on the washing of his 87-year-old grandmother’s kitchen walls, an annual ritual. While the filmmaker works diligently and mostly out of sight of the camera, his grandmother anchors the piece, recounting stories of her immigration from Italy in the 1940s, her first impressions of the United States, and her endearing love of Braddock.

Shutdown

Tony Buba

An account of a 1975 independent truckers strike.

Home Movies

Tony Buba

A compilation of Tony Buba's home movies

To My Family

Tony Buba

A short film featuring images of his grandfather’s just-demolished shoe-repair shop in 1972

Voices from a Steeltown

Tony Buba

Filmmaker Tony Buba charts the history and present of his hometown, Braddock, Pennsylvania

Birthday Party

Tony Buba

Tony Buba

A film which uses the device of developing Polaroid camera shots to present the highlights of a family celebration during the birthday of filmmaker Tony Buba.

Peabody & Friends

Tony Buba

Tony Buba

The film follows a neighborhood guy who has never been quite the same since somersaulting out of the faulty sixth-story window of some shoddy subsidized housing.

Struggles in Steel: A History of African-American Steelworkers

Tony Buba, Raymond Henderson

Raymond Henderson, Dennis C. Dickerson

This documentary focuses on the Civil Rights Movement in the heavily segregated steel industry and its equally segregated union, The United Steelworkers of America (USWA), at the time when this industry—devastated by mismanagement and global competition—began to crumble. It is a powerful picture of black working-class life in the latter part of the 20th century, told in a combination of interviews and documentary footage. Through live testimonials and revelatory archival materials, Struggles shows the contributions of African Americans to the steel industry and to the labor movement more generally. (via cinema.indiana.edu)

Braddock Food Bank

Tony Buba

In this film, Buba struggles over whether he should make a film about a food bank, or just use the money to donate food to the bank. In the end, he leaves it up to the viewer.