NYWIFT Blog

Women’s Film Preservation Fund & Alice Guy-Blaché

Still from Alice Guy-Blaché’s Mixed Pets (1911). New York Women in Film & Television and Alice Guy-Blaché make a perfect pair. The organization’s Women’s Film Preservation Fund (WFPF) helped to preserve two of her shorts, Matrimony’s Speed Limit (1913) and A House Divided (1913), as part of its inaugural project. Mixed Pets (1911), Guy-Blaché’s earliest extant film from her studio Solax, was preserved through a WFPF grant...

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Sign Up for NYWIFT’s October Events: HIFF, Pitch Fest, VintAge & More

Reaching the “Right” People in Your Creative Career with Joanne Zippel Thursday, October 9, 6:30 pm It can be hard to find and connect with the “right” people to move your career forward. At this hands-on seminar, career coach Joanne Zippel will share powerful techniques that will connect you to the people who are right...

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NYWIFT’s May Events: Reality TV, Crowdfunding, and More

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Sign Up for NYWIFT’s April Events

Photo courtesy of NASA.   New York Women in Film & Television’s events for April 2014: Power Player Breakfast: Jana Bennett, President, A+E Networks’ FYI & LMN Thursday, April 3, 8:30 am  Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, 488 Madison Avenue, 10th Floor A+E Networks executive Jana Bennett, who manages two of the company’s fastest growing...

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AVOID THE TRAP: ADVICE FROM LIFE COACH JIM ARNOFF

Life Coach Jim Arnoff interviewed by the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching  A Jim Arnoff workshop attendee asked how she could hide on her resume the several years she spent caring for her ill father. This is indicative of what Arnoff calls “a trap”-  a way that female professionals unintentionally cut themselves off from...

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