PIEOWA is now showing beyond Iowa. More dates and locations are being added so keep checking back for updates. If you would like to host a community screening (church, school, senior center, civic organization, or for a fundraiser), please get in touch. If you’d like your local theater to show PIEOWA, ask them to contact me or send me their contact info.
2026
January 11 (4 PM) – The Lido Theater, Newport Beach, California. (A KCRW Presents event.) Followed by Q&A with Beth. Pie served after the film next door at Woody’s Diner.
January 23 (7 PM) – The Lyric Cinema, Fort Collins, Colorado JAN. 23 IS NATIONAL PIE DAY!
January 24 (1 PM) – Dairy Arts Center, The Boedecker Theater, Boulder, Colorado, Q&A with Beth. Pie will be served. ***SOLD OUT***
February 7 (6 PM) – Lyric Cinema, Fort Collins, Colorado. Back by popular demand!
February 8 (2:15 and 4 PM) – Lyric Cinema, Fort Collins, Colorado. Back by popular demand!
February 21 (10:30 AM) – Gladbrook Theater, Gladbrook, Iowa
March 5 – Oneota Film Festival, Opening Night, Hotel Winneshiek, Decorah, Iowa. Free event. Beth will do a Q&A and pie will be served
March 8 (2 PM) – Oneota Film Festival, Decorah, Iowa. T-Bocks Sports Bar & Grill (upstairs). Free event.
March 10 – Modern Woodmen of America, Private screening, Davenport, Iowa
March 11 to 14 (5 showings added!) – Dairy Arts Center, Boedecker Theater, Boulder, Colorado.
March 11 & 12 (7:30 PM) – Lumiere Cinema at the Music Hall, Beverly Hills, California. Followed by Q&A with Beth and pie.
March 14 – PI DAY (12 to 5 PM) – KCRW Pie Fest, Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA. I’ll be judging pies alongside Will Ferrell, Roy Choi, and “a who’s who of the LA bakerati.”
March 14 (10:14 AM and 3:14 PM) – Bolan Schoolhouse and Cultural Center, Bolan, Iowa.
April 9 – American Pie Council’s National Pie Championships, Orlando, Florida. I’ll be showing PIEOWA and giving a talk. To volunteer, be a pie judge, or enter the contest, sign up here.
April 12 (2 PM) – First Presbyterian Church, PEO Fundraiser, Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Open to the public. Pie will be served. Tickets $10, available at Brown’s Shoe Fit.
April 15 – Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois. Event limited to students.
April 19 (12:45 PM) – Farm to Film Fest, Washington, Iowa. Washington Public Library.
April 26 (2 PM) – Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Q&A with Beth. Pie will be served. FREE EVENT open to the public. Suggested goodwill donation to fund local youth programs.
May 2 – Des Moines Book Festival. Details to come.
May 9 – Epworth United Methodist Church, Des Moines, Iowa. FREE EVENT, open to the public.
May 14 (7PM) – Riverview Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Q&A with Beth. Pie will be served. Tickets now on sale.
May 30 (2 PM) – Bettendorf Public Library, Bettendorf, Iowa, Q&A with Beth. There will be pie! FREE EVENT.
June 5 and 6 – Aledo Rhubarb Festival, Aledo, Illinois (Details to come.)
June 20 (7 PM) – This American Pie: An Evening of Film, Storytelling, and Pie, Jered’s Pottery, Emeryville, California. With novelist Grant Faulkner and poet laureate Sarah Kobrinsky. Tickets $75. (Link to come.)
July 22 (3:30 PM & 6:30 PM) – Plaza Theater, Marshalltown, Iowa. Special screenings for RAGBRAI (bike ride across Iowa) overnight stop. Tickets now on sale.
Other locations in the works: Tucson, Seattle, Portland, Nashville, Kansas City, New York, Washington DC, Connecticut, Chicago….the list keeps growing!
