Are you a member of New York Women in Film & Television? Interested in becoming one? Join us for our next NYWIFT Night Out!
The NYWIFT Night Out is a safe space to ask entertainment related questions, seek advice, employment and other industry opportunities. Bring your business cards and get ready to make connections!
As always, all NYWIFT members are welcome and encouraged to attend and mix, mingle and get to know our dynamic and talented members and staff in an informal setting.
Event Details:
Date: Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Time: 6:30 PM ET
Location: BRIC House (647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Light bites will be served.
Free to attend. RSVP required.
Plus, join us for a special screening/Q&A with NYWIFT Member Jasia Ka and conversation and book signing with NYWIFT Board Member Gretchen McGowan!
“Flying In” – Unpacking Ways To Navigate A Career in Media
NYWIFT Board Member Gretchen McGowan’s memoir, Flying In: My Adventures in Filmmaking, is now available to purchase on Amazon! It’s the grit and glam of 1990s New York City—a heyday for independent movies. Wall Street throws money at indie films and big stars flock to them for prestige. Everyone wants to be a producer. Eyewitness to it all is Gretchen McGowan, a budding producer, here to relay her often humorous and absurd stories from the inside out.
The evening will feature a conversation with Gretchen about her memoir!
And a screening from NYWIFT Member Jasia Ka:
Yazmany Arboleda Left the Gallery World to Create Art With the Public in Public
Documentary, 2020, 9 min.
Directed by Jasia Ka
Yazmany Arboleda is an artist who believes that the most impactful work is art made in a group, utilizing unique individuals’ perspectives and histories. Currently he is working with the Future Historical Society as well as IntegrateNYC in order to shed light on issues in New York City’s future and past.
Jasia Ka is an Emmy and Telly award-winning film/commercial writer and director. Jasia created the original drama comedy series GIRLS AREN’T FUNNY, which is executive produced by BRIC-TV and was an official recipient of the NYC Women’s Fund for Media Grant from the New York Foundation of the Arts. Jasia also created the supernatural mockumentary series BUSHWITCHES, which premiered at NewFest: The New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival and SeriesFest. Jasia is best known for weaving comedy through an atmospheric, dynamic and slightly surreal lens and focusing on stories about rebels and dreamers. Jasia has directed over 50 documentaries and digital videos and has worked as a Creative Director and Video Director at Condé Nast Entertainment as well as Fast Company and Inc. Magazine, where she won a Silver Telly Award for her documentary series WOMEN WHO LEAD. Her BRIC-TV documentary GHOST won an Emmy in New York Entertainment Program Special, and another of her BRIC-TV documentaries, DOCUMENTACIÓN was nominated for an Emmy in New York Arts Program Special. Jasia is represented by Eric Williams and Elissa Friedman at Zero Gravity Management.
Thanks to NYWIFT Board Member Kuye Youngblood and our friends at
BRIC House
647 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY 11217
programs@nywift.org
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NYWIFT programs, screenings and events are supported, in part, by grants from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.
