the same script. The production process of both films will be chronicled in the 10-week series that Moore hopes will air this fall on a still-to-be-determined pay cable TV movie channel.

"I think it would be really cool, and it's fascinating to me, this idea of what happens when two different directors set out to make the same movie," Moore said Monday.

"The Chair" is being shot in Pittsburgh because Moore and the "Before the Door" production company owned by Quinto and Moosa have developed a relationship with the local film industry — especially Steeltown Entertainment, which facilitates Pittsburgh-area movie projects, and Point Park University. The private liberal arts school will place several of its students in production internships with "The Chair" or one of the movies being filmed simultaneouslyas part of the project.

"This project is bringing in, in essence, two film crews and one television crew," said Nelson Chipman, chairman of Point Park's film department. "So it's like the equivalent of bringing in three shooting crews at the same time."

Although production begins this month, much of where and how "The Chair" ends up remains to be seen.

The producers are still negotiating a deal to have the show air, ideally in one-hour weekly episodes from about Labor Day through Thanksgiving. That timing is key because, though the movies don't have working titles, both will be based on the same coming-of-age script — about a group of Pittsburgh high school graduates, some of whom go off to college, and their first Thanksgiving break returning home.

The movies are being