Braddock Films Movies

Ghosts of Amistad by Tony Buba is based on Marcus Rediker's The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). It chro...

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

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

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 dilig...

An account of a 1975 independent truckers strike.

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 le...

A compilation of Tony Buba's home movies

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

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 subsidiz...

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

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.

A short documentary about Braddock

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