September 19th, 2008 by liz
www.moviesbywomen.com
FEATURES DIRECTED by WOMEN
>> HIGHLIGHTS
++ Movies By Women needs your help in
raising $600 to keep running for the next six
months – please see SPONSORSHIP section
for more info!
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>> PREMIERING week of September 19, 2008
Buy opening weekend tickets for films directed by women.
++ Fraulein directed by Andrea Staka
Opens in N.Y.
++ All of Us directed by Emily Abt
++ Breakfast with Scot directed by Laurie Lynd
++ Hounddog directed by Deborah Kampmeier
++ Take Out directed by Shih-Ching Tsou & Sean Baker
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 25 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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September 16th, 2008 by Tara Veneruso
Vote for us on this site Divine Caroline. There’s a cash prize of $4500 which we could really use to make new podcasts. We’re going to be bringing you a new round of audio podcasts starting this week. We’re really looking forward to it!! Watch for the upcoming episode on Director Joe Dante. He talks candidly about his career and gives some great tips for up and coming filmmakers.
Also, we have a few more Stop Loss DVDs to giveaway from our Kimberly Pierce Interview/Giveaway Contest. Simply email us at info@moviesbywomen.com and (1) sign up for the First Weekenders Group (if you are not already a subscriber), and (2) write one movie review (short is fine) of a female directed feature in theaters now. It’s that easy!
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September 12th, 2008 by liz
www.moviesbywomen.com
FEATURES DIRECTED by WOMEN
>> HIGHLIGHTS
++ Movies By Women needs your help NOW
to survive – please see SPONSORSHIP
section for more info!
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>> PREMIERING week of September 12, 2008
Buy opening weekend tickets for films directed by women.
++ Flow: For the Love of Water directed by Irena Salina
Opens in N.Y.
++ Ping Pong Playa directed by Jessica Yu
Opens in L.A.
++ Tree of Life directed by Hava Volterra
++ The Women directed by Diane English
Current but check your local listings.
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>> SPONSORSHIP
++ URGENT: Movies By Women MUST receive $25-donations
from at least 30 First Weekenders Group members to continue into
2009. 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.
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September 5th, 2008 by liz
www.moviesbywomen.com
FEATURES DIRECTED by WOMEN
>> HIGHLIGHTS
++ Movies By Women needs your help NOW
to survive – please see SPONSORSHIP
section for more info!
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>> PREMIERING week of September 5, 2008
Buy opening weekend tickets for films directed by women.
++ Ping Pong Playa directed by Jessica Yu
Current but check your local listings.
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>> SPONSORSHIP
++ URGENT: Movies By Women MUST receive $25-donations
from at least 30 First Weekenders Group members to continue into
2009. 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.
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August 30th, 2008 by liz
www.moviesbywomen.com
FEATURES DIRECTED by WOMEN
>> HIGHLIGHTS
++ Movies By Women needs your help NOW
to survive – please see SPONSORSHIP
section for more info!
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>> PREMIERING week of August 29, 2008
Buy opening weekend tickets for films directed by women.
++ Ballet Shoes directed by Sandra Goldbacher
++ College directed by Deb Hagan
Current but check your local listings.
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>> SPONSORSHIP
++ URGENT: Movies By Women MUST receive $25-donations
from at least 30 First Weekenders Group members to continue into
2009. 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.
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August 22nd, 2008 by liz
www.moviesbywomen.com
FEATURES DIRECTED by WOMEN
>> HIGHLIGHTS
++ Movies By Women needs your help NOW
to survive – please see SPONSORSHIP
section for more info!
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>> PREMIERING week of August 22, 2008
Buy opening weekend tickets for films directed by women.
++ Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet
directed by Maria Anna Tappeiner
++ Trouble the Water directed by Tia Lessin & Carl Deal
++ Ballet Shoes directed by Sandra Goldbacher
Opens August 26
Current but check your local listings.
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>> SPONSORSHIP
++ URGENT: Movies By Women MUST receive $25-donations
from at least 30 First Weekenders Group members to continue into
2009. 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.
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August 14th, 2008 by jane
Hello! My name is Jane Scandurra and I’m a filmmaker. Hmm, that sounds an awful lot like an intro at an AA meeting, doesn’t it? Well, let’s be honest. Once you get into it, it’s very easy to get totally hooked on filmmaking. So yes, I admit I’m hooked. And I am not here to change that.
I’m new to moviesbywomen.com…..and I’m also brand spankin’ new to the world of filmmaking. I was very pleased to stumble upon this site devoted to movies made by women and I want to thank Tara and team for offering me the opportunity to share the experience I had in making my very first (but hopefully not last!) feature documentary film “Single,” which I co-produced with Richard Atkinson (it’s a film by Dick & Jane - get it??). :)
[ Side note of shameless self-promotion: Check out the nice film review we got last month at Tin Ape. ]
I’m sure most of you women moviemakers out there actually know what you’re doing — you’ve been trained in the process — from initial concept development through post production, marketing and distribution. Not me. What am I doing here? I’ve been a corporate marketing chick in the technology industry for over 20 years. In fact, before embarking on my filmmaking adventure, I had been working at IBM for 11 years. That’s about as corporate as you can get. During that time, if anyone had told me I’d be producing a feature film, I would have said they were crazy. Go figure. Some people take up knitting on the side. Me? I make a movie. Ahh, life’s little twists.
Everyone has their story about how their film career got started. Mine got started at a marina where Richard and I both keep our boats (his boat is much nicer than mine). Richard too was a corporate guy and decided to take some classes in filmmaking, which had been a passion of his from when he was a teenager. He has since been credited in the production of two documentary shorts — “Pluck” and “Divine Light.” One day chatting at the dock over a beer, I casually told Richard I had a great idea for a documentary film: the issues surrounding the huge growth of the single population (yes, I’m single…and very tired of always being asked why). Happily married for almost almost 25 years at the time, Richard thought about it for a nanosecond and said, “Nah, I don’t think so.” After emailing him articles about singles and a few more discussions about it, he came around to the idea.
Being a traditional corporate capitalist all my life as well as completely clueless about the film business, I naively asked Richard, “so how much money can we make from a documentary??” His reply: ”Assume zero or less.”
Hmmm, ok….I thought about it for a minute and then putting aside any rational judgement I said, “I’m in anyway. Let’s do it.”
And that’s how this amazing adventure began…
More to follow…
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August 8th, 2008 by liz
www.moviesbywomen.com
FEATURES DIRECTED by WOMEN
>> HIGHLIGHTS
++ Elegy directed by Isabel Coixet
opens nationwide this weekend
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>> PREMIERING week of August 8, 2008
Buy opening weekend tickets for films directed by women.
++ Elegy directed by Isabel Coixet
++ Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 directed by Sanaa Hamri
++ Order of Myths directed by Margaret Brown
Opens in L.A.
Current but check your local listings.
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August 1st, 2008 by liz
www.moviesbywomen.com
FEATURES DIRECTED by WOMEN
>> HIGHLIGHTS
++ Frozen River directed by Courtney Hunt, our Movie
of the Month, opens this weekend in N.Y.
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>> PREMIERING week of August 1, 2008
Buy opening weekend tickets for films directed by women.
++ Frozen River directed by Courtney Hunt
Opens in N.Y.
++ Stealing America: Vote by Vote directed by Dorothy Fadiman
Opens in N.Y.
Current but check your local listings.
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July 25th, 2008 by liz
www.moviesbywomen.com
FEATURES DIRECTED by WOMEN
>> HIGHLIGHTS
++ Allison & Tiffany Anders’s Don’t Knock The Rock
Film And Music Festival continues this week in L.A. -
see below for more info!
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>> PREMIERING week of July 25, 2008
Buy opening weekend tickets for films directed by women.
++ American Teen directed by Nanette Burnstein
++ Order of Myths directed by Margaret Brown
Current but check your local listings.
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