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>> PREMIERING week of November 14, 2008

Buy opening weekend tickets for films directed by women.

++ Dinner with the President: A Nation’s Journey
directed by Sabiha Sumar and Sachithanandam Sathananthan
Opens in N.Y.

++ Pray the Devil Back to Hell directed by Gini Reticker
Opens in L.A.

++ Faded Memories directed by Annie-Sophie Dutoit

Current but check your local listings.

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++ URGENT: Movies By Women MUST receive $25-donations
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2009. We know times are tough, but please help us support women
directors by keeping up the First Weekenders Group Weekly Update,
MoviesByWomen.com, our podcasts, and all other content/programming.

PayPal donations are the fastest and easiest way to help –
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We are also able to offer a tax-deductible contribution
via check or credit card, through the generosity of New York
Women in Film & Television. Write checks out to: NYWIFT
(New York Women In Film and Television).
Mail to: Tara Veneruso, 419 N. Larchmont Blvd. #90
Los Angeles, CA 90004.

Thanks so much to those who’ve already donated!

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You are all going to FREAK over this show — it really is stellar….!  The MoviesByWomen audio podcast #17: Director Joe Dante & Producer/Manager Elizabeth Stanley on Trailers from Hell is out and ready to be enjoyed!

Podcast #17: Podcast 17 features world-famous Director Joe Dante (GREMLINS, LOONEY TUNES BACK IN ACTION and THE BURBS) and Producer & Manager  Elizabeth Stanley as they discuss their rockin’ brainchild TRAILERS FROM HELL. Find out what’s it all about!  Director Joe Dante also gives us an exclusive inside look at how to succeed in the industry and directing Hollywood’s leading ladies.  It’s all here in this weeks MBW Podcast!!

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Interview Podcast with MoviesByWomen.com on location at the AFI Film Festival 2008.  This piece originally “aired” the day of the film’s screening November 8, 2008 and took place in the Tropicana Poolside Bar at the infamous Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, CA.

Podcast #17: Join us poolside at AFI Film Festival 2008 with the award-winning film A Quiet Little Marriage and director Mo Perkins, actors Cy Carter and Mary Elizabeth Ellis for their West Coast premiere.  Listen to this first time feature filmmaker chat with Host Tara Veneruso about her unique techniques she used in the writing process, the importance of building a community,
and the awful truth about Alzheimers.

This Audience Award winning film (NARRATIVE FEATURE COMPETITION, AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL 2008) is the debut feature film for writer/director Mo Perkins.  The film includes a remarkable group of actors from the acclaimed new TV show IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA, Cy Carter (Dax) and Mary Elizabeth Ellis (Olive), play the young married couple enduring  A QUIET LITTLE MARRIAGE.  (Link to filmmaker’s website).

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2nd Annual Adrienne Shelly Foundation Fundraising Gala
November 17 @ Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts NYU 566 La Guardia Place

The Second Annual Fundraising Gala promises to be an exciting, star-studded celebration of our accomplishments in support of women filmmakers. The Gala will introduce you to extremely talented filmmakers who have been awarded scholarships and grants this past year including Cynthia Wade, whose documentary, Freeheld, won an Academy Award in February. The mission of the Adrienne Shelly Foundation is a very important one. We cannot achieve this mission without the continued support and generosity of friends like you. Our goal for the coming year and beyond is to expand our grants and partnerships to broaden our impact among women filmmakers, and help give the voices of these talented artists the means to be heard. Tickets start at $25.To order: The Adrienne Shelly Foundation.

Celebrate ASIAN CINEMA WEEK: The MoviesByWomen hosts catch up with the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival now in its 24th year!  Our featured filmmaker D. Lee Inosanto is not only the actress, writer, director, producer and stunt woman of her debut feature - she’s also the niece of infamous action hero Bruce Lee.

Podcast #16: Celebrate ASIAN CINEMA WEEK with MBW PODCAST 16: MBW takes a look back at the 24th annual LA Asian Pacific Film Festival and women directors of Asian cinema.   Also an in-depth interview with writer, director, producer, and actor AND stuntwoman D. Lee Inosanto.  We learn about her feature debut THE SENSEI about a bullied gay teen during the dawn of the AIDS epidemic.  The hosts also discuss Inosanto’s Uncle Bruce who is the infamous Bruce Lee.

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>> HIGHLIGHTS

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months – please see SPONSORSHIP section
for more info!

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>> PREMIERING week of November 7, 2008

Buy opening weekend tickets for films directed by women.

++ Pray the Devil Back to Hell directed by Gini Reticker

++ World Unseen directed by Shamim Sarif

++ The Guitar directed by Amy Redford
Opens in N.Y.

Current but check your local listings.

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>> SPONSORSHIP

++ URGENT: Movies By Women MUST receive $25-donations
from at least 12 First Weekenders Group members to continue into
2009. We know times are tough, but please help us support women
directors by keeping up the First Weekenders Group Weekly Update,
MoviesByWomen.com, our podcasts, and all other content/programming.

PayPal donations are the fastest and easiest way to help –
please visit http://moviesbywomen.com/donate.php now.

We are also able to offer a tax-deductible contribution
via check or credit card, through the generosity of New York
Women in Film & Television. Write checks out to: NYWIFT
(New York Women In Film and Television).
Mail to: Tara Veneruso, 419 N. Larchmont Blvd. #90
Los Angeles, CA 90004.

Thanks so much to those who’ve already donated!
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www.moviesbywomen.com
FEATURES DIRECTED by WOMEN

>> HIGHLIGHTS

++ Movies By Women needs your help in
raising $300 more to keep running for the next six
months – please see SPONSORSHIP section
for more info!

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>> PREMIERING week of October 31, 2008

Buy opening weekend tickets for films directed by women.

++ Matador directed by Nina Gilden Seavey

++ Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback
directed by Lucía Palacios & Dietmar Post
Opens in N.Y.

++ The Other End of the Line directed by Tracey Jackson
Opens in L.A.

++ Filth and Wisdom directed by Madonna
Opens in L.A.

++ Fear(s) of the Dark directed by Marie Caillou & Romain Slocombe,
Etienne Robial, Charles Burns, Richard McGuire & Michel Pirus, Blutch,
Lorenzo Mattotti & Jerry Kramsky, and Pierre Di Sciullo
Opens in L.A.

++ Universe of Keith Haring directed by Christina Clausen
Opens in L.A.

Current but check your local listings.

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>> SPONSORSHIP

++ URGENT: Movies By Women MUST receive $25-donations
from at least 12 First Weekenders Group members to continue into
2009. We know times are tough, but please help us support women
directors by keeping up the First Weekenders Group Weekly Update,
MoviesByWomen.com, our podcasts, and all other content/programming.

PayPal donations are the fastest and easiest way to help –
please visit http://moviesbywomen.com/donate.php now.

We are also able to offer a tax-deductible contribution
via check or credit card, through the generosity of New York
Women in Film & Television. Write checks out to: NYWIFT
(New York Women In Film and Television).
Mail to: Tara Veneruso, 419 N. Larchmont Blvd. #90
Los Angeles, CA 90004.

Thanks so much to those who’ve already donated!
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www.moviesbywomen.com
FEATURES DIRECTED by WOMEN

>> HIGHLIGHTS

++ Movies By Women needs your help in
raising $300 more to keep running for the next six
months – please see SPONSORSHIP section
for more info!

————————————————
>> PREMIERING week of October 24, 2008

Buy opening weekend tickets for films directed by women.

++ Universe of Keith Haring directed by Christina Clausen
Opens in N.Y.

++ God and Gays: Bridging the Gap directed by Luane Beck
Opens in L.A.

++ Tree of Life directed by Hava Volterra
Opens in L.A.

++ Fear(s) of the Dark directed by Marie Caillou & Romain Slocombe,
Etienne Robial, Charles Burns, Richard McGuire & Michel Pirus, Blutch,
Lorenzo Mattotti & Jerry Kramsky, and Pierre Di Sciullo
Opens in N.Y.

++ Memsahib directed by Kruti Majmudar
Opens October 27

Current but check your local listings.

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>> SPONSORSHIP

++ URGENT: Movies By Women MUST receive $25-donations
from at least 12 First Weekenders Group members to continue into
2009. We know times are tough, but please help us support women
directors by keeping up the First Weekenders Group Weekly Update,
MoviesByWomen.com, our podcasts, and all other content/programming.

PayPal donations are the fastest and easiest way to help –
please visit http://moviesbywomen.com/donate.php now.

We are also able to offer a tax-deductible contribution
via check or credit card, through the generosity of New York
Women in Film & Television. Write checks out to: NYWIFT
(New York Women In Film and Television).
Mail to: Tara Veneruso, 419 N. Larchmont Blvd. #90
Los Angeles, CA 90004.

Thanks so much to those who’ve already donated!

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Women Make Movies wrote to us and we felt we needed to share this with you:
According to a recent Amnesty International Report STOLEN SISTERS:
DISCRIMINATION AND VIOLENCE AGAINST INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN CANADA, more than 500
Indigenous women in the past 20 years have been murdered or gone missing in
circumstances suggesting violence.  And no one has taken notice.
(http://citoyen.onf.ca/extraits/media/stolen-sisters-report.pdf)

As part of Women Make Movies’ Violence Against Women Awareness Month this
October, we’re releasing the powerful FINDING DAWN
http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c725.shtml, the first documentary of its
kind to shed light on this forgotten, overlooked, too-often unknown epidemic of
immunity and violence against Indigenous women along our northern border.
Through testimonies from survivor-activists, victims’ families, and members
of Aboriginal communities, Mètis filmmaker Christine Welsh breaks the silence
around this issue. View clips here: http://citizen.nfb.ca/finding-dawn-clip-1.

“Going way beyond stereotypes of native women as victims, it presents the real
stories of native women who are actively engaged in making changes on and off
reserve.” - Kevin Griffin/ The Vancouver Sun

WATCH CLIP of FINDING DAWN–> HERE

CONTEST!  One of our sponsors has given us a few more STOP LOSS DVDs to giveaway.  We’d love to send you a copy.  Simply do the following for your chance to win.

1.  Suggest a topic for an upcoming podcast episode.

2. Sign-up on Facebook to our NEW group for MoviesByWomen.

3. a) Tell us the directors name of STOP LOSS and b) one other woman director that you love.

4. Email your name, mailing address, and do the above 3 actions.  Then you’ll be entered to win!  Good Luck.
Send emails to info@moviesbywomen.com

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Did you know we’re on Twitter?  Get Box Office updates right to your mobile phone!  Cool!

Sometimes you might find the myspace account out of date … but it is simply because our team is run by volunteers and we’ve all ben shooting our films this year.  We keep a hectic schedule!  That is why we are looking for a few great volunteers in the Los Angeles area or willing to help with some web work.  Can you help us get out from under the stacks?  Thanks so much.  Simply drop us an email.

- Your fearless leader (in post production on her feature) Tara Veneruso