FIRST WEEKENDERS GROUP WEEKLY UPDATE

June 13th, 2008 by liz

www.moviesbywomen.com
FEATURES DIRECTED by WOMEN

>> HIGHLIGHTS

++ Tina Mascara’s critically acclaimed
Chris & Don: A Love Story opens in N.Y.

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>> PREMIERING week of June 13, 2008

Buy opening weekend tickets for films directed by women.

++ Chris & Don: A Love Story
directed by Tina Mascara & Guido Santi

++ Kicking It directed by Susan Koch

++ Meet Bill directed by Melisa Wallack & Bernie Goldmann

Current but check your local listings.

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>> SPONSORSHIP

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>>MOVIES BY WOMEN NEWS

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Join in the conversation! Visit blog.moviesbywomen.com
for news from the front lines on women working in Hollywood.

Check out our three new podcast episodes, including
our video podcast with director Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary),
who discusses the making of 14 Women (her documentary on
the 14 women of the U.S. Senate). Plus, tune into Dr. Martha
Lauzen’s audio podcast on the statistics of women working in Hollywood.

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This e-mail compiled and edited by: Elizabeth Barker &
Katie Lanegran. If you have information on new releases, please
email us (simply hit reply).

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>>MOVIE OF THE MONTH

++ Operation Filmmaker directed by Nina Davenport
Opens in N.Y. this week
Info: http://www.operationfilmmaker.com/

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>>Special Event Screenings, NEW YORK

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>>Special Event Screenings, LOS ANGELES

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++ Seven Billiard Tables directed by Gracia Querejeta
When: June 15 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Egyptian Theatre
Info: http://www.americancinematheque.com/indexegyptian.html

++ Bi the Way directed by Brittany Blockman & Josephine Decker
When: June 19 at 9:15 p.m., June 21 at 11:45 p.m.
++ Forbidden Lie$ directed by Anna Broinowski
When: June 20 at 10 p.m., June 21 at 8:45 p.m.
++ American Teen directed by Nanette Burnstein
When: June 21 at 9:45 p.m.
Where: Silverdocs
Info: other women-directed films screening;
http://www.silverdocs.com/

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>>CO-SPONSORSHIP

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>>IN THEATERS NOW week of June 13, 2008

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We can only make a change if we affect box
office sales! YOU can buy a ticket over the
phone in NYC or LA without actually being there.
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++ American Zombie directed by Grace Lee

++ Beyond Belief directed by Beth Murphy

++ Blindsight directed by Lucy Walker

++ Caramel directed by Nadine Labaki

++ The Cool School directed by Kristine McKenna & Morgan Neville

++ Dhamma Brothers directed by Jenny Phillips

++ Extra Ordinary Barry directed by Vivi Stafford

++ Flow directed by Irena Salina

++ Forever directed by Heddy Honigmann

++ Hats Off directed by Jyll Johnstone

++ How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer
directed by Georgina Garcia Reidel

++ I for India directed by Sandhya Suri

++ Jellyfish directed by Shira Geffen & Etgar Keret

++ Never Forever directed by Gina Kim

++ Nim’s Island directed by Jennifer Flackett & Mark Levin

++ Operation Filmmaker directed by Nina Davenport

++ Paraguayan Hammock directed by Paz Encina

++ A Plumm Summer directed by Caroline Zelder

++ A Previous Engagement directed by Joan Carr-Wiggin

++ Refusenik directed by Laura Bialis

++ Stop-Loss directed by Kimberly Peirce

++ Take Out directed by Shih-Ching Tsou & Sean Baker
Opens in N.Y.

++ Then She Found Me directed by Helen Hunt

++ Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon
directed by Penny Peyser and Doug McIntyre

++ Viva directed by Anna Biller

++ Vivere directed by Angelina Maccarone

++ A Walk into the Sea directed by Esther Robinson

++ War Made Easy directed by Loretta Alper & Jeremy Earp

++ Water directed by Saida Medvedeva

++ Water Lilies directed by Celine Sciamma

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>> REVIEWS OF THE WEEK: WRITTEN BY YOU

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Written by you - simply reply to this email.
(Please be brief when responding)
Anonymous if not otherwise requested.
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++ Persepolis directed by Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis is a funny and heartbreaking animated memoir
of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In
Persepolis, Satrapi shows audiences that the images of
Iran that the United States has seen for so long in the
media do not make up the whole story of one country. In
Persepolis, the smallest details of growing up female
are mixed in with a very intense political situation and
the filmmakers do an excellent job of showing that the
most minute details of every day life do not stop because
of political turmoil. Persepolis is both magical and stunning.

++ Vivere directed by Angelina Maccarone
Vivere is a film I won’t soon forget. It is the kind of
road movie that goes against every characteristic of the
genre. Maccarone is making films that no one else has. In
Vivere, Maccarone tells three very different women’s stories
and she tells them with a unique sincerity. The filmmaker
cites Wong Kar Wai, Lars von Trier, and Billy Wilder as three
of her top filmmaker influences and it shows. Vivere is at once
stylishly heartbreaking, masochistic, and Maccarone is
versatile in the films she chooses to make. I loved Maccarone’s
Unveiled and look forward to her next film. Vivere illustrates
the loneliness of a working-class lesbian, a queer retiree,
and a pregnant teenager. No one is having an easy time in
this film, but the film is never bleak.

-Reviews by Cathy de la Cruz, www.showmeyourtitles.com / San Diego, CA

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Make your voice heard by sending us your reviews
of new women-directed films - simply hit reply to this email!

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>> COOL SITES/ARTICLES/HAPPENINGS

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New Yorkers, join in the CineWomen NY Soiree June 18
at Via Delle Zoccolette (6 to 9 p.m.)
Info: http://www.cinewomenny.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=61814

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Power Up (Professional Organization of Women in Entertainment Reaching Up)
presents a new class on Producing Independent Women’s Film
When: Tuesdays, July 22 to August 26, 7 to 10 p.m.
Where: WGA in West Hollywood
Info: http://www.power-up.net/whatsnext.html

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MoviesByWomen.com has added a message board!
To start sounding off about all that’s happening in
the world of female filmmakers, check it out now:

http://forum.moviesbywomen.com/

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>> Get inspired: Organize a home screening party!
We love the website www.filmstoseebeforeyouvote.com
so much that we’ve decided to start up our own home-screening
series. To throw your own home screening, invite over your
friends and colleagues to watch a film directed by a woman
(check our weekly DVD release section for ideas). Hold a
lively discussion or debate afterwards, just like you would
with a book group. Each month we’ll recommend a
DVD to view at your screening party.

This June we recommend Persepolis directed by Marjane Satrapi
& Vincent Payrounnaud (to be released on June 24)

Send us your feedback and let’s get rocking!
news@moviesbywomen.com

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>>COMING SOON

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++ Brick Lane directed by Sarah Gavron
Opens June 20

++ Elegy directed by Isabel Coixet
Opens June 27

++ The Last Mistress directed by Catherine Breillat
Opens June 27 in N.Y., July 4 in L.A.

++ Kit Kittredge: An American Girl directed by Patricia Rozema
Opens July 2
Info: http://www.kitkittredge.com/

++ Holding Trevor directed by Rosser Goodman
Opens July 4 in N.Y. & L.A.
Info: http://www.holdingtrevor.com/

++ American Teen directed by Nanette Burnstein
Opens July 25
Info: http://www.americanteenthemovie.com/

++ Frozen River directed by Courtney Hunt
Opens in August
Info: http://frozenriverthemovie.com/

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>>DVD RELEASES

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++ Under the Same Moon directed by Patricia Riggen

++ The Business of Being Born directed by Abby Epstein

++ Single directed by Jane Scandurra & Richard Atkinson
Info: http://www.singlefilm.com/

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>>TELEVISION/CABLE/MISC.:

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++ Editor’s Note: Please visit www.withoutabox.com
for extended festival listings.
We do accept sponsorship listings.
Email us for inquiries - news@moviesbywomen.com

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>>Hey, directors! Send us your TV or cable releases.

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>>SCREENINGS IN OTHER CITIES

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++ Falling for Grace directed by Fay Ann Lee
Now playing at the Camelview 5 in Phoenix, Arizona
Info: www.fallingforgrace.com

++ XXY directed by Lucia Puenzo
Opens June 13 in Vancouver
Info: http://www.filmmovement.com/filmcatalog/index.asp?MerchandiseID=139

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>>SUBLETS IN N.Y. & L.A.

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>>MISC.

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on MoviesByWomen.com, please e-mail us at news@moviesbywomen.com

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The First Weekenders Group supports features directed
by women the first weekend they arrive at the box office.
The service goes to over 3,000 people who are helping
raise the box office numbers for women directed features.
Buying tickets to women directed features is how we
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We attend features directed by women the first weekend
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tickets and go to the movies. Please purchase a ticket
even if you cannot attend the movie that week. The
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