Our mission is to provide the University of Pittsburgh and Point Park University students, faculty, staff, in addition to the surrounding community, with
an opportunity to participate in the student film and video making process at every level - theory, conception,
scripting, fundraising, production, postproduction, marketing, distribution, and exhibition.
The Sprocket Guild is a student-run production organization that facilitates creative, critical, and production
work in the area of film and video at the student level. While primarily an undergraduate organization, since
the year 2000, The Sprocket Guild has enabled graduates, alumni and the surrounding community, as well, to enhance
both their cinematic appreciation and experience in terms of film and video. In fact, because of the hands-on
experience provided through membership in The Sprocket Guild, some undergraduates have already been afforded
internships in the commercial world of media production.
Dick Montana is a loaded gun ready to fire! Often referred to as “THE LAW” Dick has been protecting freedom for thirty years as a detective. Recently while taking his first sick day ever his partner Booker died. It only took one day for Dick to find the killer’s name: “Reginald X Painstone”. Sources say that Reginald is not only a master of disguise but no one has ever seen his real face. Dick has been on the hunt for 3 months when the Chief assigns him a new partner (The Rookie). When the Rookie arrives Dick takes it upon himself to teach him the real side of the law, his side. Will the two of them find Reginald? Will Rookie’s raw talent and mastery of throwing knives come in handy or will his lack of experience get people hurt? Check out the season premiere to experience this man-crunching tale of vengeance.
The Steal Phantom is the name of a trick/gadget/offensive play we created in hopes that the Pittsburgh Steelers will incorporate it into their playbook this season. We feel that the fans don't reciprocate the ways the players do. Sure, Steelers can make public appearances at shelters and proms, but we want to give back. This play signifies our appreciation for the team. By accepting this play, the Steelers are acknowledging the significant, game impacting force that is Steeler Nation. Trying to do all of the above while only being a regular Joe is proving to be very taxing. We are documenting our efforts to show the trials and tribulations of how any one person can or cannot actually affect a professional sporting event. Do you pay people off? Do you obtain your own fans and street cred? Do you make a film about it? How would you do it?
Tired, alone, and with writer's block, a young writer finds herself going to great lengths to become inspired with her writing. Unable to write, she finds pleasure in the most mundane of things until she comes across a stranger whom she uses as nothing more than a catalyst for her writing at the expense of something far greater then she could have imagined being pushed to.
Intensely focused on basketball, Kellel Haughton (Alex Mosby) finds himself living his dream in college. To Kellel, basketball is everything. Coming off a dream season, this phenomenal athlete finds himself victimized by violence and forced to deal with a career ending injury. A technical breakthrough, “I Ball” is The Sprocket Guild's first movie shot in 24P.
Luke Skywalker found his father the night Olley Granger lost his. This fact has haunted Olley (Frank Falotico) since he was four years old. Now a film student in Pittsburgh, three thousand miles away from the Los Angeles theater where he last saw his parents, whose lives were claimed by a tragic car accident, Olley has decided to begin a journey back to California that will take him, his best friend Pete Steppencloud (Chris Cattell), and Khaki Reese (Michael Dixon), the ultimate Star Wars geek that everybody in town loves to hate – or hates to love – on a fun-filled quest for redemption, self-awareness, and love. Their antics take them across country on a fun-filled adventure, that ultimately teaches them that “Star Wars” isn’t everything – it’s the only thing. Shot on location across the country in Allen’s trademark guerilla-style that fuses the formalistic stylistics of the French New Wave with the realism of cinema verite, this film is just as much a film about student filmmaking, as it is a student film. Also starring Mia Lamonica as Amy Dao, and Dan Vollmayer as Rick Hanson, “The Fandom Meant Us” is The Sprocket Guild’s second project shot in 24p, and marks the debut of the group’s first official web series.
Actors of the new era (Nick Oleson, Alyssa Roehrenbeck) lead a powerful young cast of up and coming writer/director Michael Dickson’s new romantic comedy. A compulsive liar named James (OLESON) learns that life will end in six days unless he can make amends for one of his sins: telling lies. With the help of his friends, he sets out to make his lies come true. However, he discovers that truth comes from within the heart when he falls in love with a Pharmacist named Melena (ROEHRENBECK).
In this 5-part digital video series, there's no second chance for Giuseppe Jones (Harry Frazee), a loyal "ferret"
committed to a mysterious organization known only as "The Business". When he begins to develop a conscience and
regret his former misdeeds, this "digger" - an investigator with strange abilities that seemingly warp time - finds
himself on a collision course with his own destiny when his next mission pits him against an eerie self-help guru,
Emmeric Sage (Kemo Crawford), whose provocative insights enable Giuseppe to unlock a vital key to his past and
ultimately confront his corrupt uncle, Anthony Turrentine (Dave Case), a self-seeking ferret bent on using his secret
abilities to manipulate any and everyone who stands in his way.
In a deserted outpost, two travelers (Jake and Libra) must find a way to stay alive while being hunted by the
presumed dead brother (Ace) of one of the travelers (Jake) long enough to reach Liberty City, a metropolis of
the future, so they can unlock the mystery of the scrolls they had in their possession.
Low on gas, a traveling stranger pulls into a tiny town tucked away in the groves of New England. The town is
virtually deserted and barren, its inhabitants unaccounted for. Unbeknownst to the stranger, he has entered hell
itself. When darkness falls, he is confronted with an army of the undead. The remaining townspeople, led by a
priest, beg for help and salvation from the lone stranger. Armed with a Tommy gun and cross, he challenges the
vampires in a 30's era showdown with evil.
Based on the critically acclaimed stage play, Gregory Allen, one of Pittsburgh Filmmakers' emerging artists of
1994, brings you TRACES. Taking its cues from the non-linear, asynchronous leanings of the French New Wave,
TRACES marks the Guild's debut film and is a heartfelt and poignant story of two best friends, Matt and Sterling,
and their desperate battle for the love and custody of a single little boy named Trace. TRACES stars Lamman
Rucker of AS THE WORLD TURNS as Matt, the successful attorney whose relationship with his 10-year-old stepson,
Trace, played by Darrell Cleveland (The Temptations, 1998), becomes inconveniently interrupted by the arrival
of his former best friend, Sterling (Leo Beatty), an ex-convict with a checkered past. Both inspiring and
tragic, TRACES will move you from beginning to end and is a must see for aspiring student filmmakers everywhere.
Dick Montana is a loaded gun ready to fire! Often referred to as “THE LAW” Dick has been protecting freedom for thirty years as a detective. Recently while taking his first sick day ever his partner Booker died. It only took one day for Dick to find the killer’s name: “Reginald X Painstone”. Sources say that Reginald is not only a master of disguise but no one has ever seen his real face. Dick has been on the hunt for 3 months when the Chief assigns him a new partner (The Rookie). When the Rookie arrives Dick takes it upon himself to teach him the real side of the law, his side. Will the two of them find Reginald? Will Rookie’s raw talent and mastery of throwing knives come in handy or will his lack of experience get people hurt? Check out the season premiere to experience this man-crunching tale of vengeance. 
Tired, alone, and with writer's block, a young writer finds herself going to great lengths to become inspired with her writing. Unable to write, she finds pleasure in the most mundane of things until she comes across a stranger whom she uses as nothing more than a catalyst for her writing at the expense of something far greater then she could have imagined being pushed to.
Intensely focused on basketball, Kellel Haughton (Alex Mosby) finds himself living his dream in college. To Kellel, basketball is everything. Coming off a dream season, this phenomenal athlete finds himself victimized by violence and forced to deal with a career ending injury. A technical breakthrough, “I Ball” is The Sprocket Guild's first movie shot in 24P.
Luke Skywalker found his father the night Olley Granger lost his. This fact has haunted Olley (Frank Falotico) since he was four years old. Now a film student in Pittsburgh, three thousand miles away from the Los Angeles theater where he last saw his parents, whose lives were claimed by a tragic car accident, Olley has decided to begin a journey back to California that will take him, his best friend Pete Steppencloud (Chris Cattell), and Khaki Reese (Michael Dixon), the ultimate Star Wars geek that everybody in town loves to hate – or hates to love – on a fun-filled quest for redemption, self-awareness, and love. Their antics take them across country on a fun-filled adventure, that ultimately teaches them that “Star Wars” isn’t everything – it’s the only thing. Shot on location across the country in Allen’s trademark guerilla-style that fuses the formalistic stylistics of the French New Wave with the realism of cinema verite, this film is just as much a film about student filmmaking, as it is a student film. Also starring Mia Lamonica as Amy Dao, and Dan Vollmayer as Rick Hanson, “The Fandom Meant Us” is The Sprocket Guild’s second project shot in 24p, and marks the debut of the group’s first official web series.
Actors of the new era (Nick Oleson, Alyssa Roehrenbeck) lead a powerful young cast of up and coming writer/director Michael Dickson’s new romantic comedy. A compulsive liar named James (OLESON) learns that life will end in six days unless he can make amends for one of his sins: telling lies. With the help of his friends, he sets out to make his lies come true. However, he discovers that truth comes from within the heart when he falls in love with a Pharmacist named Melena (ROEHRENBECK).
In this 5-part digital video series, there's no second chance for Giuseppe Jones (Harry Frazee), a loyal "ferret"
committed to a mysterious organization known only as "The Business". When he begins to develop a conscience and
regret his former misdeeds, this "digger" - an investigator with strange abilities that seemingly warp time - finds
himself on a collision course with his own destiny when his next mission pits him against an eerie self-help guru,
Emmeric Sage (Kemo Crawford), whose provocative insights enable Giuseppe to unlock a vital key to his past and
ultimately confront his corrupt uncle, Anthony Turrentine (Dave Case), a self-seeking ferret bent on using his secret
abilities to manipulate any and everyone who stands in his way.
In a deserted outpost, two travelers (Jake and Libra) must find a way to stay alive while being hunted by the
presumed dead brother (Ace) of one of the travelers (Jake) long enough to reach Liberty City, a metropolis of
the future, so they can unlock the mystery of the scrolls they had in their possession.
Low on gas, a traveling stranger pulls into a tiny town tucked away in the groves of New England. The town is
virtually deserted and barren, its inhabitants unaccounted for. Unbeknownst to the stranger, he has entered hell
itself. When darkness falls, he is confronted with an army of the undead. The remaining townspeople, led by a
priest, beg for help and salvation from the lone stranger. Armed with a Tommy gun and cross, he challenges the
vampires in a 30's era showdown with evil.