#SummerHours Throwback Thursday (#Pride Edition): The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
NYWIFT #SummerHours offers its first Throwback Thursday - #Pride Edition! - with this sweet '90s teen rom-com.
READ MORE#SummerHours TV Episodes to Watch (#Pride Edition): Master of None: “Thanksgiving”
Goodbye, winter caps—hello, summer hats! It’s that glorious time of year where many of us can switch from content creators to content consumers. NYWIFT members Mellini Kantayya and Kathryn O’Kane have put together #SummerHours, a series of fun summer books, movies, and TV shows by or about women. We kick off this series with a special #Pride Edition, focusing on Master of None's coming-out story "Thankgiving" as the first of #SummerHours' TV episodes to watch.
READ MOREHeather Taylor on Crowdfunding for Pay to Stay and the Importance of Onscreen Diversity
"I want to have representation across different sexualities and different races in my films because that is the world I see when I walk down the streets of New York," says NYWIFT member Heather Taylor. Katrina Medoff sat down with Taylor to talk diversity in filmmaking (both onscreen and off) as her crowdfunding campaign for her horror short Pay to Stay draws to a close.
READ MORETerry’s Picks: A Discrimination Primer, New Faces, Freeheld
Discrimination 101: Check out this informative primer on the ACLU investigation into Hollywood’s gender discrimination to learn about the cycle – and how to break it. Kudos: Filmmaker Magazine named its 25 New Faces of Independent Film – and 11 of them are women. #LoveIsLove: Looking forward to the timely film Freeheld, starring Julianne Moore...
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