1989-90: Mirra Bank Brockman, Board President
- Membership outreach to craftspeople and minorities
- Master class series, created by Mirra Bank Brockman, inaugurated with a master class in directing with Barry Levinson
- Inauguration of seminar series in conjunction with MoMA, created by Beth Dembitzer: a 6-week series on screenwriting in the fall, and a 3-week series on the documentary the following winter
- Director’s roundtable held in conjunction with the American Museum of the Moving Image
- Corporate contributors group created, according to the brilliant design of Lois Bianchi and Marjorie Kalins. First CCG campaign launched — enrolling 16 founding companies and bringing in $20,750
- Glenn Close is honored guest speaker at the 1989 Annual Christmas Luncheon, at the Hotel Pierre. The board inaugurates the NYWIF Muse Award for Outstanding Vision and Achievement. Our first recipients are directors Susan Seidelman and Joan Micklin Silver. 750 guests attend
- Once again, Governor Mario Cuomo proclaims December 11-17, 1989, New York Women in Film Week, in recognition of 12 years of creative achievements and standards of excellence
- First actors and men accepted into the membership
- Women directors exchange with India, coordinated by member Muriel Peters, of the Indo-US Sub-commission on Education and Culture, which sponsored the exchange
- In January 1990, Joan Micklin Silver, Joan Tewksbury and Terri McLuhan were sent to participate in events in Bombay and Calcutta. The following fall three Indian women directors reciprocated in NY and LA, appearing at our November open meeting at Asia Society
- NYWIF board restructured and enlarged to 15 members
- Spring event: celebrity softball in the park
