Terry’s Picks: A ‘Toolkit’ to Prove Women-Led Projects Make Money, ‘Dear White People’ & Salke Is Honored
Dear White People. Cheering on: NYWIFT member Lydia Dean Pilcher. She’s working with the Producers Guild of America to create a “toolkit” of stats to prove that women-led projects are lucrative business both here and abroad. Recommending: Dear White People, a film produced by Lena Waithe and Ann Le. I was especially impressed by Tessa Thompson’s performance....
READ MOREWeekly Roundup: Cristela Alonzo, Tyra Banks & Leslie Jones Have People Talking This Week
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READ MORELee Grant: From Blacklisted Actress to Hollywood Trailblazer
Lee Grant with Sidney Poitier in In the Heat of the Night. I have been a huge fan of Academy Award winner Lee Grant for years. I’ve always enjoyed seeing her perform as an actress—her choices always seemed intelligent, interesting and different. Grant’s off-camera story of being Hollywood blacklisted for 12 years and her struggle to return to the industry is...
READ MORE#TBT Flix Not to Miss: ‘Vagabond’
When I first saw Vagabond (1985) by French New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda, it was a revelation. Varda’s story begins with finding a woman’s frozen body lying in a ditch, and the movie pieces together the last weeks of the young woman’s life through interviews with people who met her on her travels. Sandrine Bonnaire gives...
READ MORENotes from a Screenreader: Well, Obviously
Photo via Go Into the Story. The post “Writing Advice So Obvious It Gets Overlooked” covers the most fundamental of all story fundamentals (thanks to the marvelous writerlyn at Musings from a Young Hollywood Professional for reblogging this brilliance). It is advice that deserves a thorough looking over. Whose story is it? Very obvious, but...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: Tangerine Entertainment Juice Award, Patricia Highsmith & Glass Ceilings
Still image of Caryn Waechter’s The Sisterhood of Night. Congratulations: to director Caryn Waechter for receiving the Tangerine Entertainment Juice Award for The Sisterhood of the Night, produced by NYWIFT member Lydia Dean Pilcher, at the Woodstock International Film Festival. Happy: to see that another Patricia Highsmith novel has been made into a movie. The Two Faces of January is...
READ MOREWeekly Roundup: NYWIFT Exec Director on Lack of Women in Hollywood
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READ MOREVintAge: Celebrating Older Women Artists
On October 18, 2014 (1 pm-5:30 pm), Women in the Arts & Media Coalition will hold one of its best-loved events, VintAge, at MIST Harlem. The event—co-sponsored by New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), The Dramatists Guild, The League of Professional Theatre Women, SAG-AFTRA and MIST Harlem—celebrates the achievements of women in the arts and media as they age....
READ MORENotes from a Screenreader: Bad Contractors Build Great Characters
Photo via Go Into the Story. Like badly built houses, when your characters suffer from faults in their very foundation they can get by just fine with good weather. But when conditions turn ugly, their weaknesses begin to show and the drama starts to happen. To make a really great character, think like a bad...
READ MOREWomen’s Film Preservation Fund & Alice Guy-Blaché
Still from Alice Guy-Blaché’s Mixed Pets (1911). New York Women in Film & Television and Alice Guy-Blaché make a perfect pair. The organization’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) helped to preserve two of her shorts, Matrimony’s Speed Limit (1913) and A House Divided (1913), as part of its inaugural project. Mixed Pets (1911), Guy-Blaché’s earliest extant film from her studio Solax, was preserved through a WFPF grant...
READ MOREWeekly Roundup: Barbara Walters Dishes, Film Pioneer Gets Recognition
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READ MORE#ThrowbackThursday: Zip Your Creative Career Forward
Joanne Zippel teaching a workshop in the NYWIFT Board Room. Photo courtesy of Joanne Zippel. Joanne Zippel, a creative life coach and NYWIFT member, has an upcoming in-depth eight-part career support workshop beginning October 14 and running every other Tuesday through January 20. This is the fifth time Zippel is running the workshop. In spring 2012, NYWIFT...
READ MORETerry’s Picks: Gloria Steinem on ‘The Good Wife,’ DGA Report on Diversity & ‘She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry’
http://can.cbs.com/thunder/player/chrome/canplayer.swf?pid=y_5KPwXjuz2Z&partner=cbs&gen=1 Loved: Gloria Steinem’s turn on The Good Wife last Sunday. Check it out if you didn’t see it. She continues to inspire. Enough already! The DGA reports that there has been no progress for inclusion of women and people of color in episodic television. Can’t wait to see: She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, a film...
READ MORESign Up for NYWIFT’s October Events: HIFF, Pitch Fest, VintAge & More
Reaching the “Right” People in Your Creative Career with Joanne Zippel Thursday, October 9, 6:30 pm It can be hard to find and connect with the “right” people to move your career forward. At this hands-on seminar, career coach Joanne Zippel will share powerful techniques that will connect you to the people who are right...
READ MOREWeekly Roundup: Fast-Talk, Facebook & an All-Female Sports Show
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READ MOREWorld Premiere: Gender Equality PSA ‘Little Leading Ladies’
Hashtag created for Little Leading Ladies campaign. For the past week New York Women in Film & Television and Adorama Rentals have been sharing behind-the-scenes, interviews and insights into the making of the Little Leading Ladies PSA. Director and NYWIFT member Aubrey Smyth was quoted in the first post on her inspiration to make the short: “I have been...
READ MOREMaking of a PSA: Interviews with Editor Oscar Luna and Colorist Tim Ziegler
(Left to right) Director Aubrey Smyth, DP Bryant Fisher, and Colorist Tim Ziegler work on Little Leading Ladies in the editing studio. Image courtesy of Adorama Rentals. This is part one of the fifth installment of a five-part series co-presented by New York Women in Film & Television and Adorama Rentals. Part two will post at 1pm EST today,...
READ MOREMaking of a PSA: Interviews with Production & Costume Designer Deborah Zawol Smyth and Makeup Artist Jennifer Snowdon
Taliyah Whitaker as the 1980s talk show host getting last-minute touchups from Makeup Artist Jennifer Snowdon on the set of Little Leading Ladies. Photo courtesy of Amanda Lin Costa/Instagram. This is the fourth installment of a five-part series co-presented by New York Women in Film & Television and Adorama Rentals. NYWIFT member Susan Modaress interviews...
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