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NYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: 'LFG'

NYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: 'LFG'

20 Sep 2021 @ 02:00pm

Join us for a screening of LFG, followed by a conversation with director/producers Andrea Nix Fine and Sean Fine.

LFG is a no-holds-barred, inside account of the U.S. women’s soccer team’s ongoing fight for equal pay as told by Megan Rapinoe, Jessica McDonald, Becky Sauerbrunn, Kelley O’Hara, Sam Mewis and others. In 2019, the players filed a class-action, gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, three months before the FIFA Women’s World Cup, which sets the stage for LFG.

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Latest news

The Writers Lab for women screenwriters over 40 expanded to welcome 16 participants this year, who will bring pilot scripts for the first time in addition to feature length screenplays. 

Meet this year’s writers and mentors.

NYWIFT mourns the loss of longtime member and past Board President Linda Kahn, whose decades-long career shaped the trajectory of so many beloved brands and characters in children’s media.

Read more about her legacy.

The 2021 NYWIFT Summit: The Creative Industry Radically Reimagined highlighted best practices of how indies and media companies are restructuring their objectives, staffing, and community response to produce creative projects.

Watch the full Summit online now.

Congratulations to all of the NYWIFT members whose films screened at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival!

Read more about their projects

The NYWIFT Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) is nominating two WFPF-preserved films for inclusion on this year’s National Film Registry: Betty Tells Her Story and The Wobblies. Both films explore a diverse range of issues and innovative approaches to filmmaking practiced by women makers.

You can help us by nominating them too!

Learn more and make a nomination today. 

Letter from the Executive Director – May 2021

NYWIFT Executive Director Cynthia Lopez previews Spring, pays tribute to those in our community who we have lost, and celebrates Ann Roth’s Oscar win with a look back at NYWIFT Archive Project interviews. 

Read more.

Congratulations to 2015 NYWIFT Designing Women Honoree Ann Roth, who won an Oscar for Costume Design for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom!

Learn more about Ann.

Dear Producer has released the results of their first Producers Sustainability Survey. The in-depth report seeks to answer one main question: Is film producing a sustainable career, as it exists today? 

Read the full report.

The Writers Lab US launches in the UK & Ireland, bringing the only virtual script development program for Women Over 40 across the pond. Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films announces their support for the UK & I venture, joining US Lab supporters Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Oprah Winfrey.

Read more.

NYWIFT has partnered with Women in Film LA and Women in Film & Television Atlanta on the Hire Her Back Fund, which provides micro-grants to women in our industry impacted professionally and financially by COVID-19.

Grants are distributed by The Actors Fund.

Learn more and apply now.

NYWIFT is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Ravenal Foundation Feature Film Grant, Sarah Knight and Signe Baumane, as well as our scholarship recipients.

Congratulations to the winners!

NYWIFT has compiled a list of resources – financial, personal, and professional – for those struggling during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. 

Check out the NYWIFT Emergency Resource Directory.

  • "As always and even more so today, women in our business are taking up the mantle of courage and truth-telling and consciousness, and they move and inspire me. We are awake now in a way we have never been before."

    - Actor Judith Light, accepting her 2017 NYWIFT Muse Award

  • "My faith is renewed by the way I experience this vanguard moving through the world with such grace at such a complex time. Speaking truth to power and creating a legacy for the women and the men who follow."

    - Actor Judith Light, accepting her 2017 NYWIFT Muse Award

upcoming events

  • NYWIFT Industry Screening + Q&A: 'LFG'

    02:00pm

  • NYWIFT Virtual Hangout: Owning It Networking at Gotham Week 2021

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  • NYWIFT Member Screening: When We Grow Up and No Crystal Stair

    03:00pm

  • NYWIFT Talks with "Impeachment: American Crime Story" Showrunner Sarah Burgess

    04:00pm

 

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