Women in Film and Video

Program & Events Calendar

SUMMER 2009

WIFV/NE and MFO WELECOME NAMAC!

FILM INDUSTRY PARTY!

August 28th, 2009

PARK PLAZA HOTEL, 50 PARK PLAZA at ARLINGTON STREET, BOSTON, MA 02116

MEMBERS ONLY!

WIFV/NE and The Massachusetts Film Office, in collaboration with the local film and television community, will host an Entertainment Industry Reception at Intercontinental Hotel on Boston's waterfront on Friday evening, August 28th. This will be a fun event celebrating our growing local film and television industry and welcoming the NAMAC 2009 conference to Massachusetts.

RSVP coming soon. Please mark your calendars and save the date now!

NAMAC's 2009 Conference Commonwealth will be held from Wednesday, August 26 - Saturday, August 29, 2009 in the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston.

Women in Film & Video/New England, in collaboration with other local film and television industry organizations, will host this event.

Please look for more details coming soon!

For more information about how to register and attend the NAMAC conference please visit the NAMAC website: www.namac.org.

Submit to New England Film.com Online Film Festival

Women in Film & Video/New England is pleased to announce its partnership with New England Film.com to present the "New England Women Above the Line" category of the First Annual Online New England Film Festival. Films produced, directed, or written by a woman or women based in New England and less than 30 minutes in duration may be submitted for consideration in this special category.

The Online New England Film Festival also accepts films and videos under 30 minutes long in the following categories: animation, children/family, comedy, documentary, and drama. All selected films will be featured on NewEnglandFilm.com from September 1 - October 15, 2009, with an awards ceremony and selected screening in mid-October 2009.

Extended Deadline: July 1, 2009

For more information go to

http://www.newenglandfilm.com/festival/entry

Company/Organization: www.NewEnglandFilm.com

Posted Email: festival@newenglandfilm.com

SPRING 2009

WIFV/NE CELEBRATES HARVARD MAYFAIR

AT THE BRATTLE THEATRE

SUNDAY, MAY 3rd, 12-3PM

BRATTLE THEATRE , 40 BRATTLE STREET, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138

FREE ADMISSION!

Join us on Sunday May 3rd as WIFV/NE returns as curator for the first of three collections of shorts to be presented at the Mayfair Short Film Showcase at the Brattle Theatre. Films by current members will featured. For more information on the program visit the Brattle Theatre website at www.brattlefilm.org.

WIFV/NE & LEF FOUNDATION PRESENT IFFB 2009

FILMMAKER RECEPTION

FRIDAY, APRIL 24th, 3-5PM

ORLEANS RESTAURANT, 65 HOLLAND STREET, SOMERVILLE

Light fare and cash bar for WIFV/NE members and IFFB filmmakers

At this members-only reception, WIFV/NE members will be able to mingle with IFFB filmmakers, connect with other members, and make those important industry connections.

If you are a member, and are interested in attending please RSVP by Wednesday, April 22nd by emailing us here: wifvne.events@gmail.com

For more information on the festival and the films, please visit www.iffboston.org.

Submit to New England Film.com Online Film Festival

Regular Deadline: May 15, 2009

For more information go to

http://www.newenglandfilm.com/festival/entry

Company/Organization: www.NewEnglandFilm.com

Posted Email: festival@newenglandfilm.com

PAST EVENTS

WIFTI SHOWCASE 2009

SUNDAY, MARCH 8TH, 2PM

AT THE BRATTLE THEATER

TICKETS ARE $10, go to www.brattle.org to purchase tickets.

Beginning in 2006, the WIFTI Showcase has celebrated the strength of the WIF community worldwide and Women's achievements in Film, Television and New Media, by bringing together our members and the public at large, to enjoy an inspired selection of International Short films by women about women in honor of International Women's Day.

The 2009 Showcase will feature six outstanding short films by women filmmakers compiled from juried Festivals around the world as well as participating chapters. The Showcase package will be seventy-five (75) minutes in length, with selections chosen from short films from our outstanding 2008 Partners Festivals. In addition, a short film by a local filmmaker will be screened after the showcase reel.

75 MINUTES

TAKE 3

12 minutes, New Zealand
Owen Hughes~ producer,Roseanne Liang~ director
The audition room is a minefield for three Asian actresses who are expected to be Asian in ways they are not completely comfortable with. When the humiliations mount, they transcend their rivalry in one gleeful act of solidarity, empowering themselves with the very stereotype that they’ve been subjected to.

MONTREAL 1971

24 minutes, Montreal, Canada
Vanya Rose ~ director/writer/producer
Three part poetic portraits taking place throughout the 20th century in Montreal Canada. A story told with few words and great cinematography,Montreal1971 follows a young woman on her journey through love, loss and loneliness.Each moment in her life and her memories unfolds in a serious of precious decisions similar to what many women face.

LOVE LETTERS

8 minutes, Australia
Peggy Yabevula - producer/cinematographer, Nick Khoo - director
Drama -Premiered at WOW Festival 2008
Steve, an 8 year old corresponds with 8 year old Theresa, in Africa, through a sponsorship organization which only allow communication until she is 18. Before the contact is cut off, he has to tell her how he really feels.

COLORS OF THE VEIL

5.5 minutes, Washington DC, USA
Jehan Harney – director/producer, Documentary
A formerU.S.soldier ultimately found her identity in the veil, and became a vanguard of the growing American-Muslim community. Share in her struggles to find a job that accepts her and how her trials have inspired others like her.

LULLABY

11 minutes, Australia
Kate Breen - producer, Katie O'Neill - director
Fiction -Premiered at WOW Festival 2008
Sisters Poppy and Bella struggle to bring themselves up in a rundown warehouse above a burlesque club where there Mother is a singer.

QUARTER TO NOON

14 minutes, Austin, Texas, USA
Kat Candler~ director/writer/producer, Greg Omelchuck~ producer, Ray Pena~ producer, Aman Satterwhite~ producer
Drama/Comedy/Fantasy
Enclosed in a stale office with a single door and a single window and several framed “Best Worker” Awards A worker works. She is good at her job. Consistent, dedicated, and high performing. However, when she discovers a new world outside her office window… she escapes to it.

Chicks Make Flicks
February 26, 2009

"WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS?"
A Documentary directed by Pamela Tanner Boll

MIT Room 6-120, located at 77 Mass. Ave in Cambridge @ 7:00pm

Director Pamela Tanner Boll, co-executive producer of the Academy Award-winning Best Documentary Feature "Born Into Brothels," will be present for a question and answer session after the screening. The film examines the mothering-versus-working choice faced by American women, and women artists in particular.

Who Does She Think She Is? focuses on five particularly bold
women artists, each radically different in background, race,
religious creed and choice of artistic field. But they all share
the common challenge of making careers in various art worlds.
Simultaneous to their creative existence, they are pulled in different
directions as they try to answer the competing demands of artistic
fulfillment, marriage, motherhood and economic survival.

Who Does She Think She Is? shows that it is not acclaim or
approval these mother-artists seek. Rather, their quest is the
radical opportunity to live whole.

WIFV/NE's Annual Member Meeting
January 21, 2009

January 21st WIFVNE Annual Member Meeting with special guest
Rae Ann Del Pozzo from Plymouth Rock Studios

The WIFVNE Board of Directors would like to thank all of our members who attended the Annual Member Meeting. A special note of thanks to our sponsor NEIA, Pine Manor College and our special guest speaker Rae Ann Del Pozzo from Plymouth Rock Studios.

Plymouth Rock Studios will bring a unique film and television studio environment to the east coast in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The studio's focus is on creating a user-friendly atmosphere outside the noise and clutter of the city. Set in a village, the earth friendly studio will offer state-of-the-art facilities and access to all the tools and services needed for pre-production through post-production. Building on the state's tax incentives, Plymouth Rock Studios will also bring opportunities to those in New England through educational programs and of course, the numerous jobs related to production. For more information, please visit www.plymouthrockstudios.com

FALL 2008

Magners Irish Film Festival & WIFV/NE Present:

AT HOME WITH THE CLEARYS

Director: Alison Millar

Winner, Best Documentary

NOVEMBER 15th, 2008
Harvard Film Archive, 5:00pm

ABOUT THE FILM

Buried under concrete and controversy on the outskirts
of Dublin lie the remains of Ireland's 'pop star priest' -
Father Michael Cleary, a beloved public figure who
posthumously revealed to have fathered a child with his
live-in housemaid. In 1991 student filmmaker Alison Millar
moved into his house and started filming him. Fifteen years
on, using her unseen archive, Millar revisits the secret life
of a man who fooled her, his family and the entire nation.

AT HOME WITH THE CLEARYS paints a compelling picture
of Father Cleary, his lover Phyllis Hamilton, and their son
Ross who continues to grapple with the scandal's
devastating fallout. But the film's concerns run deeper,
probing the wider ramifications of the event and its impact
on the character and reputation of the Irish Catholic Church.

Tickets: $8

For more information, visit: http://www.irishfilmfestival.com/BIFFhome.html
NOTE: The Magners Irish Film Festival is giving away FREE
PASSES to the first 10 WIFV/NE members who RSVP to
info@womeninfilmvideo.org.

Boston Jewish Film Festival & WIFV/NE Present:

PHYLLIS AND HAROLD

Director: Cindy Kleine

NOVEMBER 16th, 2008
Museum of Fine Art, Boston @ 3:00pm

Boston Premier!

Director will be present for Q&A

ABOUT THE FILM

Filmmaker Ken Burns (“Jazz”) calls Cindy Kleine’s frank and fearless chronicle of her parents’ disastrous 59 year marriage "a masterpiece.” Drawing on a lifetime of family home movies and 12 years’ worth of interviews, Kleine uncovers family secrets and tells a story that could not be shown publicly when her father was still alive. The film reflects years of work on Kleine’s part, beginning with her short film, ‘Til Death Do Us Part, shown in our 2001 Festival.

For more information, visit: http://www.bjff.org/upcoming_list_details.php?series_id=534

WIFV/NE & MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies presents

CHICKS MAKE FLICKS FIFTH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING:

THE AXE IN THE ATTIC

OCTOBER 30TH, 2008
MIT Room 120, located at 77 Mass. Ave in Cambridge @ 7:00pm

ABOUT THE FILM

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, two filmmakers, drawn together by outrage, take a sixty-day road trip from New England to New Orleans. Along the way they meet evacuees and witness the loss, dignity, perseverance and humor of people who have become exiles in their own country. The breakdown of trust between a government and its citizens, the influence of race, class, and gender - as well as the ethics of documentary filmmaking itself - form the backdrop for this universal story of the search for home.

For more information, visit http://www.theaxeintheattic.com.

ABOUT THE SCREENING

In 2003, Women in Film and Video/New England established a monthly screening series featuring acclaimed regional female directors, writers, cinematographers, and editors presenting and discussing their work. The screening series is hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, through the support of its Women's and Gender Studies Program.

Chicks Make Flicks premiered on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2003, with Lucia Small screening her provocative and award-winning documentary, MY FATHER, THE GENIUS.

This event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to info@womeninfilmvideo.org.

WIFV/NE's FALL KICK OFF PARTY

OCTOBER 6TH, 2008
E-ROOM, located on 567 Mass. Ave in Cambridge from 5-9pm

Our Annual Fall Kick Off Party is a networking event for WIFV/NE members,
prospective members, and anyone interested in learning more about us.
Join us for some music, food, drinks and a chance to network with the film
and media community. Suggested donation is $10.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT : The Woman Behind Little Women
Film Screening and Discussion co-sponsored by WIFVNE
Sept. 17 to Oct. 18

September 26, 2008 at 5pm (MFA) - Panel Discussion with Women In Film and Video New England, Filmmakers Collaborative and Center for Independent Documentary.
Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women will screen at the Museum of Fine Arts. Filmmakers Nancy Porter and Harriet Reisen will be present at the screenings.Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women is a 90-minute documentary about one of New England's most notable literary figures, the author of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott.
www.louisamayalcott.net

THE WAY WE GET BY: A rough-cut screening
October 2nd, 2008 at the Coolidge Corner Theater
The Way We Get By follows three troop greeters as they struggle with issues common to the nation's ever-growing population of seniors including health problems, loneliness, and the loss of meaning in their lives. The Maine Troop Greeters, made up almost entirely of senior citizens, is a microcosm of the aging population across the country. This group serves as a portal to peer into the lives of the elderly in America. As the story progresses, we learn the airport is where they find the strength to confront their issues, and it is through troop greeting that they learn to say goodbye to what they love the most.The Way We Get By is currently in post-production at the WGBH studios in Boston, MA.
For more information, visit www.thewaywegetbymovie.com

PAST EVENTS

SUMMER 2008
JULY 31ST- 2008 Screenwriting Awards Event was held at Lesley University's Hall theater where the three finalists of our 2008 Screenwriting Competition were recognized with awards.
Time: 7-9pm
Location: Lesley University Hall Theater

AUGUST 3RD-ROXBURY FILM FESTIVAL. WIFVNE Sponsored the closing night film, STEAM, at the Roxbury Film Festival which screened at the MFA.
Sunday, August 3rd at 5:30pm
Actresses Ruby Dee and Ally Sheedy were present for the Q&A

WINTER/ SPRING 2008

JANUARY 30th-MEMBER MEETING @ MIT, Cambridge, MA. Wed, Jan. 30 @ 7pm. Join the WIFVNE board and other interested members in discussing 2007 and setting goals for 2008. MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA ROOM 3-133. MIT campus map. Parking is free in MIT lots after 3pm.

FEBRUARY 13th--Chicks Make FLicks @ MIT, Cambridge, MA. Women in Film and Video New England is thrilled to present animator, educator, and mentor Yvonne Andersen and her former student Amy Kravitz for an evening showcasing both of their award winning animated films including "We Will Live Forever" and "Roost." Click here for more info.

MARCH 8th-- Mark your calendar: WIFTI's Short Film Showcase Celebrating International Women's Day 2008 featuring nine outstanding short films by some of today's best female directors, culled from five of the world's top Festivals, will be screened in seventeen WIF Chapters around the globe! Screening at the Brattle Theatre, Harvard Square, Cambridge. Click here for more info.

March 12th--Chicks Make Flicks @ MIT, Cambridge, MA. Women in Film and Video New England is thrilled to present Irene Luszig and her film, The Samantha Smith Project. Click here for more info.

MARCH 29th--SAVE THE DATE. WIFVNE Image Awards! Featuring Susi Walsh, Natatcha Estebanes (posthumous recognition), Jocelyn Glatzer, and Joyce Kulhawik. All day event with film viewings at the Brattle Theater. VIP after party at Noir. Click here for more information. Tickets available @ www.brattlefilm.org

APRIL 9th--Chicks Make Flicks @ MIT, Cambridge, MA. Women in Film and Video New England is thrilled to present experimental filmmaker Abigail Child and her films, "The Party" and "On the Downlow." Click here for more info.

April 19th--WIFVNE brunch with Filmmaker Jennifer Fox of "Flying.." Produced by Sue Dorfman in conjunction with Fletcher Women's Group. Click here for more info.

May 4th--Female Film Artists: a screening of short shorts at the Brattle Theater for May Fair in Harvard Square. Clicks here for more info.

May 14th--Chicks Make Flicks @ MIT Cambridge, MA. Women in Film & Video is thrilled to present filmmaker Jane Gillooly and her award winning film "Today the Hawk Takes One Chick". Click here for more info.

FALL 2007

OCTOBER 7th--Internet Distribution Workshop @ Marriott Boston. Sun., Oct.7, 2pm. WIFVNE member Anna Callahan will teach. Sponsored by the New England Film & Video Festival. www.nefvf.org

OCTOBER 13TH--LATINA, IDENTITY & MEDIA PANEL @ Harvard Film Archives. Sat, Oct 13, 1:30-2:45pm. Part of the Boston Latino International Film Festival. Free. Followed by the gender exploring documentary, "Companeras", which focuses on an all female mariachi band.

OCTOBER 17th--CHICKS MAKE FLICKS @ MIT. Wed.,Oct. 17, 7pm. Free. Valerie Weiss's films, TRANSGRESSIONS, I LOVE YOU, and DANCE BY DESIGN. Q&A with Filmmaker.

OCTOBER 30TH--LEGAL LUNCH W/ Sandy Forman. RSVP to register. Free for members; $15.00 for all others.

NOVEMBER 17TH--HANDS ON WEB WORKSHOP @ MIT. Sat, Nov 17, 10-12noon. Free for members; $15.00 for all others. RSVP to register. Workshop will focus on cross-promotion, including tagging your work, hosting video and using aggregate communities to your work seen.

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SUMMER SERIES!

GARDEN SHORTS: Female filmmakers in the Somerville Growing Center July 12th & Aug 16th. Free & at Dusk

GARDEN SHORTS will feature local female filmmakers' work that is under 20 minutes long. Whenever possible, filmmakers will be present. The movies will start when it gets dark. Please join us in the neighborhood & bring a picnic! Free ice cream provided by Ben & Jerry's and JP Licks.

THURSDAY JULY 12 (raindates July 19)

THURSDAY AUG 16 (raindates Aug 23)

THE GROWING CENTER 22 Vinal Avenue Somerville, MA 02143 617.666.2969

SCAT & WIFVNE SUMMER DOCUMENTARY SERIES
www.access-scat.org
Thursdays in June & July @ 7:00pm
Somerville Community Access Television will present a Summer Documentary Screening Series in conjunction with local film organizations: Documentary Educational Resources, Women in Film New England, and Color of Film. The series showcases short and feature-length films from nine local filmmakers, who will be on-hand to lead a discussion about their work following the screenings. The films are a diverse collection of socially conscious and thoroughly enlightening work. 90 Union Square, Somerville, 7:00pm, $5, all ages

June 21st
TWISTED: A Balloonamentary by Naomi Greenfield and Sara Taksler
www.eliotlives.com

June 28th
Prison Pups by Alice Bouvrie

July 12th
Movin' Up by Rudy Hypolite

July 19th

Everything Good By Caren Block
Last Season: Portrait of a Trawler By Oren Bendavid-Val

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SPRING 2007

CHAMPAGNE BRUNCH WITH WIFVNE, GM & IFF BOSTON @ THE BURREN

Free for Members, IFF filmmakers, Invited Guests. RSVP REQUIRED

Saturday, April 28, 2007

10:00am-12:00pm, The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Davis Square

WIFV/NVE and GM will cohost a Champagne Brunch on April 28th at The Burren to celebrate the IFFBoston. Nick Paleologos, the new Executive Director of the Masssachusetts Film Office, and Adam Roffman, Executive Director of IFFB, will join Women in Film Board President Barb Seidl in toasting the exciting opportunities for Massachusetts filmmakers today. Join us for the networking brunch, then head to the Somerville Theater for a day of film festival screenings and panels. For more information on screening schedules, visit www.iffboston.org. RSVP to info@womeninfilmvideo.org.

SCREENWRITING AWARDS WITH DIANE LAKE

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

7:00-9:00 PM

AMC/LOEWS Boston Common Theatre 175 Tremont Street Boston, Massachusetts

Women in Film/General Motors (WIF/GM) Accelerating the Creative Alliance, together with Women in Film & Video/New England (WIFV/NE) and the Emerson College Student Screenwriting Group Spec will host a screenwriting awards celebration on Wednesday April 25th at the AMC/Loews Boston Common Theatre. Awards will be presented to the finalists of the WIFV/NE Screenwriting Contest and the Emerson Spec Screenwriting Competition. Special guest screenwriter Diane Lake will speak about writing for film and her screenplay Frida. The event, the first of the WIF/GM Alliance's national college lectures to be held here in Boston, will include a Q&A session with Ms. Lake and an informal reception with refreshments. RSVP to info@womeninfilmvideo.org

ACCELERATING THE CREATIVE BREAKFAST @ WGBH

Free for Members/$10 general public

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

7:45am-9:00am, Cahners Conference Room, 125 Western Ave

WIFV/NE will host a networking breakfast on March 20th at WGBH studios in Boston. Filmmaker Lorna Lowe Streeter, this year's winner of the Accelerating the Creative Scholarship, will be presented with the $1,500 award and invited to share her success stories with the local film community.

RSVP required. info@womeninfilmvideo.org

TAX SEMINAR for MEDIA ARTISTS

Sunday, March 4, 2007
10 AM-12 PM
National Boston
115 Dummer Street
Between St. Paul and Pleasant, in Brookline

WOMEN IN FILM & VIDEO/NEW ENGLAND invites you to join Beryl Denker, owner of A B R Associates since 1990, which offers tax preparation and accounting services to self-employed individuals, especially those in the entertainment industry, for this informative workshop in tax preparation.

Click here for more information and to pre-register.

CHICKS MAKE FLICKS Winter/Spring 2007

On the MIT campus
77 Mass. Ave.
Room 6-120
Free and open to the public.

February 8
Short Documentaries by Carmen Oquendo Villar
Carmen Oquendo Villar is a visual artist and curator of Puerto Rican and Spanish descent whose work has been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. Screening will include the films MIZERY and BOQUITA, from a series of film portraits about members of the Boston Latino transgender community.

March 15
DON'T TELL ME YOU LOVE ME by Thato Rantao Mwosa
A film which chronicles the demise of a marriage and the inevitable break down of communication, followed sadly by a wave of violence. Thabo and Masedi are African immigrants that have been residing in America for a year. Thabo has just lost his job and is on the path of self-destruction as he resorts to violence towards Masedi. Masedi confronts her fears and emotions through poetry. When Thabo discovers the poem, life imitates art imitating life. Can Masedi reconcile the contradictions between her consciousness as a writer, a woman, and a wife?

April 12
HEY MONIE episodes by Dorothea Gillim
An animated comedy that explores the life and longings of Simone ("Monie"), a single, African-American, professional woman in big city America with her best friend, Yvette, by her side. Hey Monie originally aired on Black Entertainment Television.

May 10
Selections from the IMA PLUME TRILOGY by Nancy Andrews
Nancy Andrews uses animation, live action and puppetry in her homage to film noir. It explores Ima Plume’s investigation of her own death. Ima, Public Illustrator, grapples with trying to express things that might not be seen or drawn including: spirits, electronic voice phenomena and studies of animal locomotion.