May 23, 2024 National Museum of Women in the Arts Join us for a very special evening honoring trailblazing women of vision: Documentary Filmmaker E. Samantha Cheng (Asian Pacific American Members of Congress History Project: Norman Mineta; Honor and Duty: The Mississippi Delta Chinese) and Sylvia Bugg, Chief Programming Executive and General Manager of General Audience Programming for PBS. The panel discussion will be moderated by Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post’s Chief Film Critic and author of Talking Pictures: How to Watch Movies. Info on the third ..read more

The Offset Podcast is a twice a month podcast hosted by postproduction industry veterns Robbie Carman & Joey D’Anna. They’re professional colorists, educators, and polymaths in video postproduction and color. Each episode features detailed, informative, and easy-to-follow explanations of even the most technical subjects and aims to help people at all levels to improve their workflows, tackle their technical/creative problems, and even improve their approaches to business and client communication. Geared towards postproduction industry professionals, each episode feels like catching up with ..read more

Susan Metz and the team at BC Voices is excited about their latest project, Stand UP, Speak OUT, an online docuseries that chronicles and celebrates the radical transformations in women’s lives over the past fifty years. Find more information here. Here is a snapshot of the first three episodes: Episode 1: Equal Pay for Equal Work delves into the women’s fight for fair compensation, tracing the journey from unrecognized labor to the landmark Equal Pay Act of 1963 and touching upon contemporary issues like the World Cup pay controversy. Episode 2: Voting Rights explores the women’s su ..read more

WIFV Programming Coordinator, Sofia Sandoval will be portraying Hermia in this production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Silver Spring Stage, running from April 12 to April 28th. This marks the first Shakespeare adaptation at the Silver Spring Stage in more than 10 years. Adapted and directed by Emma Hooks, this production examines the relationship of contemporary audiences with Shakespeare’s classics by contrasting the rigid social norms of the Renaissance with modern-day attitudes about love and friendship. Read more here. The post Sandoval on Stage! appeared first on Women in Film & ..read more

Composer, singer, songwriter Suzanne Brindamour appeared recently on the WUSA9 series “Great Day Washington.” She performed a song from her album “Shaded by Trees,” which is a finalist for a WAMMIE (Washington Area Music Awards). The WAMMIE awards takes place April 20 at Capital One Hall, hosted by WUSA9’s Lorenzo Hall, Allison Seymour and Wisdom Martin. “I’m thankful to The Musicanship” for keeping the WAMMIES going and for the great honor of being asked to perform on “Great Day Washington.” Brindamour has also been busy working on an original score for the SACRED PIECE OF HOME ..read more

  On the show floor, the group kicked off the show with a packed Tech Talk on Innovations in Virtual Production, with leaders from Fox Sports, Amazon Web Services and Quarter Twenty. These women shared their wins, challenges and strategies for building film and broadcast content in new remote and virtual workflows. Across several halls and at the Chyron booth, a 10-member #GALSNGEAR student-mentor team produced multiple hours of programming. They interviewed top leaders across every industry sector and built shows using new all-in-the-cloud software. These diverse students from Arizona St ..read more

Filmmaker Cintia Cabib was recently at Henninger Media working with colorist Lauren Meschter on her film BIRD WALK. It focuses on the birds and birders at RedGate Park in Rockville, MD as well as the grassroots effort to transform the defunct golf course into a public park. Look for this film to premiere in 2024! Watch the trailer here. BIRD WALK received a 2022 WIFV Seed Fund for Documentary Filmmakers Grant. You can support new doc projects by donating to the Seed Fund here. Join Cintia at the premiere of BIRD WALK at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Maryland on Saturday, May 4 a ..read more

  Talaya Grimes produced STUDIO WITH A VIEW, an experimental short doc directed by NYWIFT member Mara Wollong. It will be screened under the film bloc  “Blame it on the Pandemic: 2 Films that Remind Us of What We Just Survived” at the Queens World Festival at the Museum of The Moving Image and Kaufman Astoria Studios, which also includes the feature FILMMAKERS ON HOLD by Christine Jezior. The screening will be on April 18th in Long Island City, New York. The filmmakers will attend and do Q&A The post Grimes at Queens World Festiva ..read more

Up-and-coming television comedy writer, Julia Lindon sits down with Media & Monuments host Candice Bloch in this episode to chat about her journey in writing. You’ll learn more about the dynamics of the writers’ room, hear stories about leveraging connections to get in the door, and get a glimpse into the process of honing her comedy chops and bringing stories to the screen. Julia began by working at NBC’s Saturday Night Live and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, and has gone on to work on such hit series as Netflix/A24’s Survival of the Thickest and Apple TV’s Ted Lasso. She is currently w ..read more

Ariel Baska won the ReelAbilities Crip Script Pitch, a competitive pitching event that was held in New York City last week. Their project, MONSTROUS ME, received a special prize from Sunny Side of the Doc that includes participation in that festival’s pitch market in La Rochelle, France. MONSTROUS ME has also just been awarded a grant from Virginia Humanities to support a series of exhibits, workshops, and the documentary film that explore the lack of disabilities representation in media. The post Baska Wins Pitch & Grant! appeared first on Women in Film & Video DC ..read more