Weekly Roundup: #HireTheseWomen, Diane Sawyer & Comedy Central Prez Michele Ganeless
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READ MOREActing Up: Revamp Your Online Bio
Every six months or so, I always find myself looking over my website, Actors Access account and IMDB page to see if everything is up to date and current. This time around, as I read my bio, I could feel a heaviness. I just didn’t connect with what I was reading. So, I decided on...
READ MORELaughs, Glam & Inspiration at NYWIFT’s Designing Women 2014
Michelle Williams, Denis Leary, Jessica Alba and Rose Byrne at NYWIFT’s Designing Women 2014. (Photo via NY Post’s PageSix.com.) They may have come for glam moments and the chance to rub shoulders with celebs like Michelle Williams, Denis Leary, Jessica Alba and Rose Byrne. But attendees of New York Women in Film and Television’s Designing...
READ MOREWeekly Roundup: Designing Women, Chelsea Handler & Comedy Actress Roundtable
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READ MORERoad to Designing Women: Goodie Madness in the Gift Bags
Goodie bag items at the NYWIFT office waiting to be packed up. One of the fun things about New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) awards shows is the gift bags, and this year’s Designing Women is no exception to the rule. This year’s bag will overflow with goodies from Ricky’s and Sephora. Taste buds...
READ MORERoad to Designing Women: ’70s Glam Makes a Comeback
Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams in American Hustle. Seventies retro is in. Along with the comeback of flared jeans, maxi dresses, and floppy hats are the faces that mirror the fashion. Women on runways, red carpets, and city streets are sporting heavy eyeliner, false eyelashes, and bronzed cheekbones à la American Hustle. American Hustle makeup department...
READ MOREWeekly Roundup: Tonys Recap & Shonda’s Life Advice
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READ MORENYWIFT Fund for Women Filmmakers Extends Deadline
It Felt Like Love, winner of the Nancy Malone Marketing and Promotion Grant and a 2013 Sundance Film Festival Official Selection. New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) provides grants to women filmmakers to complete and promote their film projects. This year, those grants include a new addition: the Ravenal Foundation Grant, supporting a woman second-time feature film...
READ MOREWeekly Roundup: Being Maleficent & New Comedy ‘Obvious Child’
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READ MORENotes from a Screenreader: To Genre or Not to Genre
Photo via Go Into the Story. A drama screenplay is fine, but it’s sort of like prose in that it is defined by what it isn’t. It’s not funny, scary, sci-fi or action. In competitions, that’s not such a handicap, because you are paying to be read, but neither are you giving yourself all the...
READ MOREWeekly Roundup: Aging & Opportunities in Hollywood
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READ MORENew Member Spotlight: Erica Fae
Photo by Alexander Berg. A prolific and acclaimed artist, Erica Fae joins New York Women in Film & Television as an actor, director, writer, producer and teacher of movement at Yale School of Drama and The New School. She was encouraged to join NYWIFT by her producing partner Jane Applegate, whom she met while...
READ MOREWeekly Roundup: Gia Coppola, ‘Murphy Brown’ & a Media Internship
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READ MOREWeekly Roundup: Gabourey Sidibe, Director Kimberly Pierce & Oxygen Media
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READ MOREWeekly Roundup: Disney’s Call for Writers & Broadway’s Gender Problem
Disney Channel launches a new screenwriting program. Hey, Broadway! Why weren’t any woman-written Broadway plays produced this season? Interview with Belle director Amma Asante (video) and Q&A with star GuGu Mbatha-Raw. Women (literally) rule at this year’s Cannes film festival. Fifteen of Time magazine’s “Top 100” are women in the arts. Happy 10th Anniversary, Mean Girls. #StopTryingToMakeFetchHappen
READ MORENYWIFT’s May Events: Reality TV, Crowdfunding, and More
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READ MOREFiscal Sponsorship & NYWIFT for Indie Filmmakers
Musician Clarice Magalhães and producer-director Irene Walsh in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Walsh’s documentary LAPA: The Heart of Samba chronicles a community of musicians and composers as their music resurrects a Rio de Janeiro neighborhood. My first feature-length documentary, LAPA: The Heart of Samba, is a project that I have largely funded myself, with a third of...
READ MOREMember Spotlight: Kelly Glover
Kelly Glover during the production of The Contradictions of Fair Hope. You may recognize Kelly Glover’s name from her roundup posts right here on our blog, where she manages to find a compelling mix of TV, film and digital news every week. I was lucky enough to catch up with Glover to learn about her...
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