NYWIFT Blog

Terry’s Picks: Dog Fight, Contest & Firelight Media

Still image from Dog Fight, with River Pheonix and Lili Tayler Check Out: this chance to direct a 5–10 minute short based on the Twilight saga, with a $50,000 budget. It is part of a contest co-sponsored by Women in Film/LA. There is also a chance to win a Volvo! Looking Forward: to seeing Dog Fight on...

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Terry’s Picks: October 8

Congratulations To: NYWIFT member Laurens Grant on winning an Emmy for Outstanding Research for Jesse Owens, This American Experience. Disappointed To Read: in the Director’s Guild’s study on prime-time episodic directors that women are still directing only 14% of TV shows. Please Join Me: if you are in the Hamptons this weekend at the NYWIFT Women...

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Tweet of the Week

Muckraking Journalist Filmmaker Laura Poitras: Ahead of Surveillance Scandal, Making War on Terror Doc with Assange: bit.ly/109X6fh — Laurens Grant (@LaurensGrant) June 11, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js From the @NYWIFT list Women-Driven Films –@annelabarba

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