Are you a member of New York Women in Film & Television? Interested in becoming one? Join us for our next NYWIFT Night Out!
The NYWIFT Night Out is a safe space to ask entertainment related questions, seek advice, employment and other industry opportunities. Bring your business cards and get ready to make connections!
As always, all NYWIFT members are welcome and encouraged to attend and mix, mingle and get to know our dynamic and talented members and staff in an informal setting.
Event Details:
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Time: 6:30 PM ET
Location: Stuart Cinema & Cafe, 79 West St, Brooklyn, NY 11222
Cash bar. Light bites will be served.
Free to attend. RSVP required.
Plus, join us for a special screening!
Toward the end of the evening – at 8 PM – we will have brief remarks followed by a NYWIFT Member Screening of A. Lauren Lee’s short comedy, Halmoni’s Pot, which we showed at the 2023 Women Calling the Shots Short Film Showcase at the Hamptons Film Festival.
Seating for the screening quite limited. If you would like to guarantee your seat for the screening, please RSVP below. Seating priority will be given to those who RSVP’d for the screening specifically. We appreciate your understanding!
HALMONI’S POT (GRANDMA’S POT)
Director: A. Lauren Lee (NYWIFT Member)
Producer: Ise White (NYWIFT Member)
10 minutes | Narrative Short | 2023 | English/Korean | USA
A loving grandma (halmoni) reluctantly agrees to buy pot for her grandson. But pay full price? Never!
A. L. Lee, (Lauren), is a New York-based filmmaker. Born in New Jersey, she’s lived in (alphabetical order) Boston, Houston, Paris, Philadelphia, Rochester, and Seoul before she realized she was really a New Yorker. She has a BA in violin performance from Eastman School of Music. She has an MFA from Columbia University in screenwriting. Her thesis feature adaptation of “The Legend of Pig-Eye”, a short story about underground boxing in Mississippi, by Rick Bass, won the Best Screenplay award from Columbia. Lauren has made four short films. Won multiple Best Film, Best Foreign Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay awards. “Halmoni’s Pot” (Grandma’s Pot) 2023, a proof-of-concept film for “Hot Pot”, premiered at Palm Springs ShortFest 2023. It also screened at Hamptons Int’l FF, San Diego Int’l FF, Cinequest FF, DisOrient FF, and 14 other film festivals. “Halmoni’s Pot” (Grandma’s Pot) has won two Audience award (DisOrient FF and Vero Beach FF), and the Best Comedy, Best Actor, and Best Original Music awards from NYWIFT Online FF! Lauren and her husband have raised two mischievous boys, and they live with their big boned— not overweight—black cats, Louis and Philippe.
Ise White is a veteran 20 year producer who cut her teeth at Vogue Italy and Bazaar China as a cover editor and producer, casting iconic and recognizable international covers and developing new media projects in conjunction with Hollywood studios. She founded Lost and Found Production to serve the commercial and advertising clientele in NY and abroad. In 2019 Lost and Found partnered with Scheimpflug including their VFX department and produced the cutting edge NBA Oculus project. Lost and Found continues to focus on production for the independent film community while Scheimpflug serves the major motion picture studios as well as upcoming film makers. Ise White is a member of NYWIFT, PANO, and GOLDHOUSE.
Thanks to NYWIFT Board Member Emelyn Stuart and our friends at
Stuart Cinema & Cafe
79 West St, Brooklyn, NY 11222
membership@nywift.org
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NYWIFT programs, screenings and events are supported, in part, by grants from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
