Entries Tagged as 'New York Women in Film and Television'
The documentary Side By Side (2012), now at theaters, on VOD and on iTunes is an interesting exploration of photo-chemical filmmaking versus digital moving image making at a moment in time where the two co-exist. That is not to say they won’t continue to co-exist, but it’s not to say they will either. It depends [...]
Tags: film vs digital · Keenu Reeves · Lawrence of Arabia 4K DCP · Martin Scorsese · New York Film Festival 2012 · New York Women in Film and Television · NYWIFT · Side By Side
Last night at The Standard Hotel in the village, filmmakers, archivists, preservationists, film enthusiasts and other wonderful eccentrics gathered in the Highline Room and Terrace for Anthology Film Archives Film Preservation Honors and Benefit. I must say they know how to throw a party from performances by Angela McCluskey with Kraig Jarret Johnson, Paul Cantelon and [...]
Tags: Anthology Film Archives · Anthology Film Archives Film Preservation Honors & Benefit · Cinetech · New York Women in Film and Television · Richard Peña · Sara Driver · Terry Lawler · The Women's Film Preservation Fund · Vivian Moss
This year, New York Women In Film and Television brought the annual cocktail party to the new Bowlmor Lanes location in Times Square. It did create a more lively atmosphere than the annuals I’ve been to in the past. There were also great speeches from NYWIFT committee chairs, as this is the time of year, [...]
Tags: Bev Grant · Geri Ashur · Growing Up Female · Janie's Jane · Jim Klein · Julia Reichert · Make Out · Marilyn Fulford · New York Women in Film and Television · NYWIFT · NYWIFT Annual Cocktail Party · WFPF · Women's Film Preservation Fund
It’s overwhelming for me to think about cross-platform storytelling and all it may entail. When I get busy with an editing job it tends to be all encompassing. My site, my blog, and the rest of my life gets put on hold until the project is finished and then I come up for air. If [...]
Tags: 51 Birch Street · Barbara Rick · Brandon Litman · Caitlin Burns · Doug Block · Envy the documentary · Home Page · Ingrid Kopp · New York Women in Film and Television · Next Generation Docs: Social Media and Cross-Platform Storytelling · NYWIFT · One Day on Earth · Out of the Blue Films · Shooting People · Starlight Runner Entertainment · The Kids Grow Up · Transmedia
The New York Women in Film and Television’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund has been offering terrific screenings this fall, from Will at the Walter Reade, to MoMA’s To Save and Project where two programs of films preserved by grants from WFPF were shown to a full house. It’s not over yet either. Don’t miss out [...]
Tags: Betty Tells Her Story · Desire Pie · Elizabeth Barret · Jane Alexander · Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo · Liane Brandon · Linda Yellen · Lisa Crafts · Lourdes Portillo · MoMA To Save and Project · New York Women in Film and Television · NYWIFT · Paley Center for Media · Playing for Time · Quilting Women · Susana Munoz · Vanessa Redgrave · WFPF · Will Jessie Maple · Women's Film Preservation Fund
Last night at the Walter Reade Theater, filmmaker Jessie Maple joined an audience to watch a screening of her recently preserved 1981 film, Will. Shot in 80′s Harlem, the film is an interesting exploration of drug addiction but I have to admit that what I found most fascinating was seeing this neighborhood from this time [...]
Tags: Jessie Maple · Loretta Devine · New York Women in Film and Television · Night Catches Us · Tanya Hamilton · The Film Society of Lincoln Center · Walter Reade Theater · WFPF · Will · Women's Film Preservation Fund
Yesterday evening I attended NYWIFT’s Digi-Dynamics: Changemakers – Documentaries That Spur Social Movement. A panel discussion made up of a variety of filmmakers whose focus is, as the event’s title implies, to inspire social change through social issue documentary films. Moderated by Michelle Byrd (former distinguished IFP Executive Director), the filmmaker panelists included Laura Castañeda, Jesse [...]
Tags: Bitta Mostofi · Changemakers - Documentaries That Spur Social Movement · Chicken and Egg Pictures · Digi-Dynamics · Gucci Tribeca · IFP · Jesse Erica Epstein · Laura Castañeda · Made in India · Michelle Byrd · Nancy Kennedy · New Day Films · New York Women in Film and Television · NYWFT · PBS · POV · The Fledgling Fund · Vaishali Sinha · Where is My Vote · Who Does She Think She Is? · Working Films
With the recent big Oscar win for Kathryn Bigelow, the first female director to win in the Best Director category, I got to thinking about women’s role in film history. It’s not the first time I’ve thought about it. I remember back when someone first introduced me to Maya Deren. Ms. Deren’s contributions to creative expression [...]
Tags: Anne Bauchens · Benchmarking Women's Leadership · Blanche Sewell · Bombshell · Cecil B. DeMille · Cleopatra · D.W. Griffith · Golden Age of Cinema · Jean Harlow · Margaret Booth · MoMA · Mutiny on the Bounty · New York Women in Film and Television · NYWIFT · Solex · The Way We Were · The White House Project · The Wizard of Oz · To Save and Project · Whitney Museum of American Art · William Randolph Hearst · Women's Film Preservation Fund
