| Date & Time: | Thursday, May 22, 2008
- Monday, May 26, 2008
6:00 PM |
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Austin Woman's Film, Music & Literary Festival
From May 22, 2008 at 6:00 PM through May 25, 2008 7:00 PM
Info Line: 512.963.2747
Website: www.blowinupaspot.com
Contact: Media Arts & literacy Institute
operations@malisite.org
Description:
================================================
TICKETS ON SALE NOW: 1-800-838-3006
www.BrownPaperTickets.com/event/35198
For film listing: www.blowinupaspot.com
=================================================
Austin, TX The Austin Woman's Film, Music & Literary Festival/Blowin' Up A Spot! will highlight the art of 23 female musicians, 25 independent national and international women filmmakers and 3 industry workshop presenters. The theme this year is Spirited.
This four-day festival will be held at the newly renovated Ruta Maya, Hot Mama Espresso, Cafe' Mundi and the Victory Grill.
Part media literacy conference, part film/television and literary marketplace, the purpose of this event is to increase the awareness of women's films and literature by showcasing women of various ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Austin Woman's Film, Music & Literary Festival/Blowin Up A Spot! is sponsored and funded in part by the Media Arts & Literacy Institute and the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division by a grant made possible from the Texas Commission on the Arts.
All four nights will feature shorts, feature-length films and performances by women directors, musicians, literary artist and new media makers. Some of the films and performers are:
Girls Room, Drive, Your Mama & Two Meals, Shikeikee, The Art Of The Tease, Lisa Rogers, DJ P.O.W., Miz T, Eden Smith, Meg Tubbs, Gabriella Ballard, Erica Gutierrez, Aly Tadros, Kim Bold, Alexis Krasilovsky and many more!! Come and party with us at the Victory Grill on Sunday and pick the winners for the "Best Of The Fest".
COST:
$12 online pre sale - $15 at door,
for Tickets or Workshop Classes
$50 - All Access Weekend Pass
For Tickets: www.BrownPaperTickets.com/event/35198
or at the door of the venue. Film Listings: www.blowinupaspot.com
WHEN:
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
-Saturday, May 24, 2008
-Sunday, May 25, 2008
WHERE:
Registration Music, Film, Silent Auction Mixer =
Thurs, May 22nd from 6 to 10pm @ Ruta Maya
Meet & Greet Brunch = Friday, May 23rd
10am to 1pm @ Hot Mama Espresso, FREE
Opening Film & Performance Night = Friday, May 23rd
from 6 to 10pm @ Ruta Maya,
M.A.L.I's Poetry & Music brunch/workshops = Saturday, May 24th from 10am to 1pm @ Hot Mama Espresso,
Austin Woman's Film & Performance Night = Saturday, May 24th from 6pm to 10pm @ Ruta Maya,
M.A.L.I's Music brunch = Sunday, May 25th
from 10am to 1pm @ Caf Mundi, FREE
Closing Film, Music, Awards After Party = (two showings)
Sunday, May 25th from 3pm- 6pm MAT & 7pm to 10pm EVE.
@ The Victory Grill.
--Closing after party hosted by = T.W.A.T with DJ P.O.W.
Sunday, May 25th @ The Victory Grill. 11pm to 1am.
Proceeds will go towards the Media Arts & Literary Institute after school media training programs for at risk kids.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW:
www.BrownPaperTickets.com/event/35198 or buy at the door of venue. For film listing: www.blowinupaspot.com
*******************************************
Filmmakers
Thursday, May 22th, 2008 6-10pm
¬Director: Jamie Teer – Austin, Texas
Is a frist time director. Jamie Teer is an actress making her filmmaking debut. She is a Native American activist learning to balance her love for Spirit and her love for acting.
Film: “SHIKEIKEE" – 7 min Experimental, Short
ShiKeiKee is an experimental love ballad featuring the duality of one woman revealing her outer and inner self. The viewer goes on a psychedelic journey through a seductive reality to a sensual dream of truth. In her own language, Little Black Bird speaks a poem of ShiKeiKee (Eternal Love).
darkteer@gmail.com
¬Director: Hazel Meek– United Kingdom
Hazel started her training in Fine Art with the emphasis on painting and sculpting. In the autumn of 2000, the study of Photography became her passion, which ultimately lead to a career in moving images.
Film: "The Art Of Tease"- 11 min Short
The Art of the Tease follows the story of Sadie Powell a sultry burlesque dancer. On the night she has to deliver the performance of her lifetime she finds herself drawn to a handsome stranger.
hazelmeeks@ucla.edu
¬Director: Maria Gigante- Chicago, IL
As a storyteller, I am interested in exploring how personal relationships form and change over time. Girls Room is definitely a story about how they begin. Our main character, Sammy, is very private, but it isn't until she lets her guard down that she finds companionship and loses her fear. Whether it's through similar anxieties, shared pain, or the same bizarre sense of humor, it's that ability to share what is real within two people that leads to meaningful connections, which in turn can help people overcome obstacles that they may struggle with on their own..
Film: “Girls Room” – 10 min, Short Drama
Girls Room is a dark comedy that tells the tale of a young girl who must confront the much-feared school bathroom, where she is sure to encounter terror, humiliation, and isolation. But, when she finally takes matters into her own hands, she discovers that maybe she isn't so alone in this big, bad world..
gigantemaria@yahoo.com
¬Director: Meg Weidner- Anniston, AL
Meg Weidner is a homegrown, Southern woman with a strong passion for the arts. Meg's primary background is in acting, but recently she took the bull by the horns and wrote her own screen play, "You're Too," which she also directed and starred in.
Film: “Your’re Too” – 12 min Drama
Whether auditioning for the role of a life time or playing her part in everyday life, Mandy is always too something...
You're Too' explores the common theme of judgment and how everyone faces being judged on some level. Through strong female friendships and her own inner strength and confidence, Mandy realizes that she's everything of exactly what she needs to be, regardless of external judgments.
meg@howardcore.com
¬Director: Corky Pumilia – Austin, Texas
Corky Pumilia is a first time director making many short films about the life around her. She is a spiritual meadiaist and travels the world studying the Spiritual prayer rituals of women, the love of Mothers for their families and women’s beliefs of the higher consciousness.
Film: “Your Mama and Two Meals” – 11 min Doc
You’re Mama and Two Meals is a travel documentary shot in Fes, Morocco. It documents the oral history of, Saidia Douni, a Muslim Mother and her secret recipes to life.
Corky2p@aol.com
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008 6-10pm
¬Director: Yelena Demikovsky, New York, NY
Has directed two full-length documentaries, and Unity, and the award-winning The Story of Fenist. Demikovsky is in post- production on a feature documentary, This is Our Mission..., and I am Vera... and in production of And Then Comes The Glory... In addition, she has written five short scripts, two feature scripts and a two-act play.
Film: “Shell” – 17 min Experimental
Sea. Sand. Sun. Two children meet on a beach. The boy is black, the girl white. Life appears beautiful and simple when you're eight. But it's not the same for their parents, who had had a liaison in the past. They relive their compromised commitments.
yelena@redpalettepictures.com
¬Director: - Bonnie Blake, Oakland, NJ, World Premiere
Bonnie Blake is a new media artist, animator, filmmaker, author,
and Associate Professor of Design and Interactive Media at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Her work has been screened at national and international venues, most recently at New Media New Work in Cambridge MA and the International New Media Festival in Chiangmai, Thailand. Bonnie is currently working on the animated short based on a homeless woman, Behind the Purple Coat.
Film: “To Lost To Find” – 13 min documentary
Too Lost to Find explores the fears, losses, sorrows, laughter, and the cost of living on the streets for a group of homeless people as they struggle to survive and stay invisible in a city in the United States (Hackensack, New Jersey) that doesn’t want them there in the first place.
bblake@ramapo.edu
¬Director: Elena TaJo- Albuquerque, NM
Elena TaJo is a psychologist filmmaker whose mission is to trigger shifts in perspective through art and conversation. The films are an amalgam of performance art and documentary forms, and examine life dilemmas in a playful way..
Film: “Duet with Doubt” – 3 min Experimental
A woman confronts her shadow. Reading her mother's poem, On Doubt,' the woman engages with the unsavory presence and discovers how to start working.
tajopro@gmail.com
¬Director: Joanne Hershfield,- Chapel Hill, NC
Joanne Hershfield has worked in film and video for over twenty years producing and directing award-winning social and cultural documentaries.
Recent documentaries include The Gillian Film (2006), Women in Japan: Memories of the Past, Dreams for the Future (2001); Nuestra Comunidad: Latinos in North Carolina (2002); Leading Women, 1998; and Between Two Worlds: A Japanese Pilgrimage, 1992.
Film: “Men Are Human & Woman Are Buffalo” –30 min Documentary
A country that is promoted to western tourists as a fairy tale land of beautiful beaches, pristine countryside, cheap vacations, and a thriving sex trade industry, Thailand is also one of the developing countries with the highest incidence of violence against women.
hershfld@email.unc.edu
¬Director: Molly Vernon/ Bryce Galbraith- Houston, Texas
Molly is a theater and film professor in Houston, Texas and an award-winning filmmaker and writer. Her narrative feature screenplay “Trashman” based on the real local serial killings along I-45 is in development. She recently worked on Jesse Salmeron’s film, “This Is America” as Unit Production Manager and will be working with Mel House on his film “Walking Distance” shooting this summer in Houston, Texas.
Film: “Predator” –7 min Short
One young girl gets singled out in the park to be the next victim of a child molester and we share the shocking results.
mollyvern@aol.com
*******************************************
Saturday, May 24th, 2008 6-10pm
¬Director: Hazel Gurland- High Falls, NY
Hazel Gurland, after receiving her Masters degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, began working on long -form TV documentaries at ABC News Productions in New York. These programs aired on A&E, National Geographic, and the Travel Channel. Gurland also worked as an Associate Producer at the History Channel on the quarterly series, Save Our History..
Film: “First” – 39 min
The women in First come from a variety of geographic backgrounds: urban, suburban and rural, a variety of racial/ethnic backgrounds, and a variety of socio-economic backgrounds. In addition, the women in First span four generations revealing the change in sexual attitudes from the 1920's through today.
walterme@newpaltz.edu
¬Director: Reina Solunaya , Seattle, WA
Film: “Foreign Language”, 19 min short
Set in Los Angeles, “Foreign Language” is the story of Delphine, a French artist, and Sebastián, an Argentinean student, whose passionate love affair begins one unexpected evening in a local tango club. But they are ultimately torn apart by their individual fears and desires. All that remains are memories.
rsolu@yahoo.com
¬Director: Alpha, Passion Fruit Studio, Austin, Texas
Film: Drive, 30 min short/Drama
Drive is a wild ride-along with two lovers through a surrealistic landscape of past and present. Called an " artful masterpiece" and "a lesbian Scanner darkly" by reviewers, Drive is director Alpha's latest work that explores power and complicity in relationships -- all through the metaphor of a ride through the desert of the heart. Drive stars the lovely Native American/Syrian actress Lynne Kirby, " Sid" Everett and co-stars Holly Lorka.
¬Director: Kasumi Hiraoka, Japan
Film: RAKUGAKIIROMACHI, 30 min New Media/Experimental
Japanese prostitutes have turned their backs to conventional society!!!!! They are vulnerable yet fearless and maintain their innocence regardless of their profession.
mybrassierefilm@hotmail.co.jp
*******************************************
Sunday MAT, May 25th, 3pm to 6pm
¬Director: Suzanne Guacci, Sayville, NY
Cycles is the first film from writer/director/producer Suzanne Guacci. Cycles is a slice-of-life drama shot entirely in one location, taking place over the course of one day. Characters come and go on this day, sharing time and traveling on in anonymity allowing us just a glimpse on this seemingly ordinary yet extraordinary day..
Film: Cycles, 74min Feature
Set exclusively in a Laundromat, Cycles, is simply one day in the life of this Laundromat from its opening to its closing. Characters come and go throughout this day, sharing time and then heading back to their lives, traveling on in anonymity. Cycles is a character driven piece with a 'sweat sock' at the center. The handling and mishandling of this sock is our invitation into the lives of the characters who enter, allowing us just a glimpse on this seemingly ordinary yet quite extraordinary day.
aspire2inc@optonline.net
¬Director: Alexis Krasilovsky
In the 1980’s . she founded the Street agency, which published poetry by women and minorities. She is now creenwriting professor at California State University Northridge, and recently wrote and directed the award winning documentary,“Women Behind the Camera”
Film: Some Women Writers Kill Themselves, And Other Poems
Alexis krasilovsky, in her poetry videos, works expertly with contradiction. Her poem speak of disaster and despair yet produce feels of hope—G. Murry Thomas, Next
¬Director: Robin Hayes, Santa Clara, CA,
Robin J. Hayes is a scholar and filmmaker who completed a combined doctorate in African American Studies and Political Science at Yale University.
Film: “Beautiful (me) Finding Our Revolutionary Selves In Black Cuba” – 45 min Doc
Beautiful Me(s) is the true story of a diverse group of underdog students who travel from the elite cloistered environment of Yale University to the rebel state of Cuba. In the streets of Havana and Santiago, they witness extraordinary hip hop, reggae and rumba performances, strike up conversations with Cubans from all walks of life. robinhayes@aya.yale.edu
*******************************************
Sunday, May 25th, 7pm to 10pm
¬Director: Jamie Teer – Austin, Texas
Film: “SHIKEIKEE" – 7 min Experimental, Short
ShiKeiKee is an experimental love ballad featuring the duality of one woman revealing her outer and inner self. The viewer goes on a psychedelic journey through a seductive reality to a sensual dream of truth. In her own language, Little Black Bird speaks a poem of ShiKeiKee (Eternal Love).
darkteer@gmail.com
¬Director: Maria Gigante- Chicago, IL
Film: “Girls Room” – 10 min, Short Drama
Girls Room is a dark comedy that tells the tale of a young girl who must confront the much-feared school bathroom, where she is sure to encounter terror, humiliation, and isolation. But, when she finally takes matters into her own hands, she discovers that maybe she isn't so alone in this big, bad world..
gigantemaria@yahoo.com
¬Director: Annetta Marion – New York, NY
Her body of work as a filmmaker and director includes over ten short documentary and narrative films, as well as broadcast commercials, public service announcements and episodes for a web series. For her work, Marion has received a directing fellowship at AFI’s prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, and has been nominated for the Working Woman Entrepreneurial Excellence Award and the Northern Ohio Live Awards of Achievement in Film/Radio/TV.
Film: “Donut Heaven” – 14:14 min Short Drama
Phoebe, a chain-smoking daughter who is thoroughly fed up with her obese mother's penchant for Jesus and overeating, comes up with an ingenious way to help her mother and herself. Her idea is a simple bet; for every ten pounds that mom drops, Phoebe will give up one day of the week smoking.
annetta@annettamarion.com
¬Director: Corky Pumilia – Austin, Texas
Film: “Your Mama and Two Meals” – 11 min Doc
You’re Mama and Two Meals is a travel documentary shot i n Fes, Morocco. It documents the oral history of,Sadia Douni, a Muslim Mother and her secret recipes to life.
Corky2p@aol.com
¬Director: Kasumi Hiraoka, Japan
Film: RAKUGAKIIROMACHI, 30 min New Media/Experimental
Japanese prostitutes have turned their backs to conventional society!!!!! They are vulnerable yet fearless and maintain their innocence regardless of their profession.
mybrassierefilm@hotmail.co.jp
¬Director: Alpha, Passion Fruit Studio, Austin, Texas
Film: Drive, 30 min short/Drama
Drive is a wild ride-along with two lovers through
a surrealistic landscape of past and present. Called an " artful masterpiece" and " a lesbian Scanner darkly" by reviewers, Drive is director Alpha's latest work that explores power and complicity in relationships -- all through the metaphor of a ride through the desert of the heart. Drive stars the lovely Native American/Syrian actress Lynne Kirby , " Sid" Everett and co-stars Holly Lorka.
¬Director: Hazel Meek– United Kingdom
Film: "The Art Of Tease"- 11 min Short
The Art of the Tease follows the story of Sadie Powell a sultry burlesque dancer. On the night she has to deliver the performance of her lifetime she finds herself drawn to a handsome stranger.
hazelmeeks@ucla.edu
From May 22, 2008 at 6:00 PM through May 25, 2008 7:00 PM
Info Line: 512.963.2747
Website: www.blowinupaspot.com
Contact: Media Arts & literacy Institute
operations@malisite.org
Description:
================================================
TICKETS ON SALE NOW: 1-800-838-3006
www.BrownPaperTickets.com/event/35198
For film listing: www.blowinupaspot.com
=================================================
Austin, TX The Austin Woman's Film, Music & Literary Festival/Blowin' Up A Spot! will highlight the art of 23 female musicians, 25 independent national and international women filmmakers and 3 industry workshop presenters. The theme this year is Spirited.
This four-day festival will be held at the newly renovated Ruta Maya, Hot Mama Espresso, Cafe' Mundi and the Victory Grill.
Part media literacy conference, part film/television and literary marketplace, the purpose of this event is to increase the awareness of women's films and literature by showcasing women of various ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Austin Woman's Film, Music & Literary Festival/Blowin Up A Spot! is sponsored and funded in part by the Media Arts & Literacy Institute and the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division by a grant made possible from the Texas Commission on the Arts.
All four nights will feature shorts, feature-length films and performances by women directors, musicians, literary artist and new media makers. Some of the films and performers are:
Girls Room, Drive, Your Mama & Two Meals, Shikeikee, The Art Of The Tease, Lisa Rogers, DJ P.O.W., Miz T, Eden Smith, Meg Tubbs, Gabriella Ballard, Erica Gutierrez, Aly Tadros, Kim Bold, Alexis Krasilovsky and many more!! Come and party with us at the Victory Grill on Sunday and pick the winners for the "Best Of The Fest".
COST:
$12 online pre sale - $15 at door,
for Tickets or Workshop Classes
$50 - All Access Weekend Pass
For Tickets: www.BrownPaperTickets.com/event/35198
or at the door of the venue. Film Listings: www.blowinupaspot.com
WHEN:
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Friday, May 23, 2008
-Saturday, May 24, 2008
-Sunday, May 25, 2008
WHERE:
Registration Music, Film, Silent Auction Mixer =
Thurs, May 22nd from 6 to 10pm @ Ruta Maya
Meet & Greet Brunch = Friday, May 23rd
10am to 1pm @ Hot Mama Espresso, FREE
Opening Film & Performance Night = Friday, May 23rd
from 6 to 10pm @ Ruta Maya,
M.A.L.I's Poetry & Music brunch/workshops = Saturday, May 24th from 10am to 1pm @ Hot Mama Espresso,
Austin Woman's Film & Performance Night = Saturday, May 24th from 6pm to 10pm @ Ruta Maya,
M.A.L.I's Music brunch = Sunday, May 25th
from 10am to 1pm @ Caf Mundi, FREE
Closing Film, Music, Awards After Party = (two showings)
Sunday, May 25th from 3pm- 6pm MAT & 7pm to 10pm EVE.
@ The Victory Grill.
--Closing after party hosted by = T.W.A.T with DJ P.O.W.
Sunday, May 25th @ The Victory Grill. 11pm to 1am.
Proceeds will go towards the Media Arts & Literary Institute after school media training programs for at risk kids.
TICKETS ON SALE NOW:
www.BrownPaperTickets.com/event/35198 or buy at the door of venue. For film listing: www.blowinupaspot.com
*******************************************
Filmmakers
Thursday, May 22th, 2008 6-10pm
¬Director: Jamie Teer – Austin, Texas
Is a frist time director. Jamie Teer is an actress making her filmmaking debut. She is a Native American activist learning to balance her love for Spirit and her love for acting.
Film: “SHIKEIKEE" – 7 min Experimental, Short
ShiKeiKee is an experimental love ballad featuring the duality of one woman revealing her outer and inner self. The viewer goes on a psychedelic journey through a seductive reality to a sensual dream of truth. In her own language, Little Black Bird speaks a poem of ShiKeiKee (Eternal Love).
darkteer@gmail.com
¬Director: Hazel Meek– United Kingdom
Hazel started her training in Fine Art with the emphasis on painting and sculpting. In the autumn of 2000, the study of Photography became her passion, which ultimately lead to a career in moving images.
Film: "The Art Of Tease"- 11 min Short
The Art of the Tease follows the story of Sadie Powell a sultry burlesque dancer. On the night she has to deliver the performance of her lifetime she finds herself drawn to a handsome stranger.
hazelmeeks@ucla.edu
¬Director: Maria Gigante- Chicago, IL
As a storyteller, I am interested in exploring how personal relationships form and change over time. Girls Room is definitely a story about how they begin. Our main character, Sammy, is very private, but it isn't until she lets her guard down that she finds companionship and loses her fear. Whether it's through similar anxieties, shared pain, or the same bizarre sense of humor, it's that ability to share what is real within two people that leads to meaningful connections, which in turn can help people overcome obstacles that they may struggle with on their own..
Film: “Girls Room” – 10 min, Short Drama
Girls Room is a dark comedy that tells the tale of a young girl who must confront the much-feared school bathroom, where she is sure to encounter terror, humiliation, and isolation. But, when she finally takes matters into her own hands, she discovers that maybe she isn't so alone in this big, bad world..
gigantemaria@yahoo.com
¬Director: Meg Weidner- Anniston, AL
Meg Weidner is a homegrown, Southern woman with a strong passion for the arts. Meg's primary background is in acting, but recently she took the bull by the horns and wrote her own screen play, "You're Too," which she also directed and starred in.
Film: “Your’re Too” – 12 min Drama
Whether auditioning for the role of a life time or playing her part in everyday life, Mandy is always too something...
You're Too' explores the common theme of judgment and how everyone faces being judged on some level. Through strong female friendships and her own inner strength and confidence, Mandy realizes that she's everything of exactly what she needs to be, regardless of external judgments.
meg@howardcore.com
¬Director: Corky Pumilia – Austin, Texas
Corky Pumilia is a first time director making many short films about the life around her. She is a spiritual meadiaist and travels the world studying the Spiritual prayer rituals of women, the love of Mothers for their families and women’s beliefs of the higher consciousness.
Film: “Your Mama and Two Meals” – 11 min Doc
You’re Mama and Two Meals is a travel documentary shot in Fes, Morocco. It documents the oral history of, Saidia Douni, a Muslim Mother and her secret recipes to life.
Corky2p@aol.com
*******************************************
Friday, May 23rd, 2008 6-10pm
¬Director: Yelena Demikovsky, New York, NY
Has directed two full-length documentaries, and Unity, and the award-winning The Story of Fenist. Demikovsky is in post- production on a feature documentary, This is Our Mission..., and I am Vera... and in production of And Then Comes The Glory... In addition, she has written five short scripts, two feature scripts and a two-act play.
Film: “Shell” – 17 min Experimental
Sea. Sand. Sun. Two children meet on a beach. The boy is black, the girl white. Life appears beautiful and simple when you're eight. But it's not the same for their parents, who had had a liaison in the past. They relive their compromised commitments.
yelena@redpalettepictures.com
¬Director: - Bonnie Blake, Oakland, NJ, World Premiere
Bonnie Blake is a new media artist, animator, filmmaker, author,
and Associate Professor of Design and Interactive Media at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Her work has been screened at national and international venues, most recently at New Media New Work in Cambridge MA and the International New Media Festival in Chiangmai, Thailand. Bonnie is currently working on the animated short based on a homeless woman, Behind the Purple Coat.
Film: “To Lost To Find” – 13 min documentary
Too Lost to Find explores the fears, losses, sorrows, laughter, and the cost of living on the streets for a group of homeless people as they struggle to survive and stay invisible in a city in the United States (Hackensack, New Jersey) that doesn’t want them there in the first place.
bblake@ramapo.edu
¬Director: Elena TaJo- Albuquerque, NM
Elena TaJo is a psychologist filmmaker whose mission is to trigger shifts in perspective through art and conversation. The films are an amalgam of performance art and documentary forms, and examine life dilemmas in a playful way..
Film: “Duet with Doubt” – 3 min Experimental
A woman confronts her shadow. Reading her mother's poem, On Doubt,' the woman engages with the unsavory presence and discovers how to start working.
tajopro@gmail.com
¬Director: Joanne Hershfield,- Chapel Hill, NC
Joanne Hershfield has worked in film and video for over twenty years producing and directing award-winning social and cultural documentaries.
Recent documentaries include The Gillian Film (2006), Women in Japan: Memories of the Past, Dreams for the Future (2001); Nuestra Comunidad: Latinos in North Carolina (2002); Leading Women, 1998; and Between Two Worlds: A Japanese Pilgrimage, 1992.
Film: “Men Are Human & Woman Are Buffalo” –30 min Documentary
A country that is promoted to western tourists as a fairy tale land of beautiful beaches, pristine countryside, cheap vacations, and a thriving sex trade industry, Thailand is also one of the developing countries with the highest incidence of violence against women.
hershfld@email.unc.edu
¬Director: Molly Vernon/ Bryce Galbraith- Houston, Texas
Molly is a theater and film professor in Houston, Texas and an award-winning filmmaker and writer. Her narrative feature screenplay “Trashman” based on the real local serial killings along I-45 is in development. She recently worked on Jesse Salmeron’s film, “This Is America” as Unit Production Manager and will be working with Mel House on his film “Walking Distance” shooting this summer in Houston, Texas.
Film: “Predator” –7 min Short
One young girl gets singled out in the park to be the next victim of a child molester and we share the shocking results.
mollyvern@aol.com
*******************************************
Saturday, May 24th, 2008 6-10pm
¬Director: Hazel Gurland- High Falls, NY
Hazel Gurland, after receiving her Masters degree from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, began working on long -form TV documentaries at ABC News Productions in New York. These programs aired on A&E, National Geographic, and the Travel Channel. Gurland also worked as an Associate Producer at the History Channel on the quarterly series, Save Our History..
Film: “First” – 39 min
The women in First come from a variety of geographic backgrounds: urban, suburban and rural, a variety of racial/ethnic backgrounds, and a variety of socio-economic backgrounds. In addition, the women in First span four generations revealing the change in sexual attitudes from the 1920's through today.
walterme@newpaltz.edu
¬Director: Reina Solunaya , Seattle, WA
Film: “Foreign Language”, 19 min short
Set in Los Angeles, “Foreign Language” is the story of Delphine, a French artist, and Sebastián, an Argentinean student, whose passionate love affair begins one unexpected evening in a local tango club. But they are ultimately torn apart by their individual fears and desires. All that remains are memories.
rsolu@yahoo.com
¬Director: Alpha, Passion Fruit Studio, Austin, Texas
Film: Drive, 30 min short/Drama
Drive is a wild ride-along with two lovers through a surrealistic landscape of past and present. Called an " artful masterpiece" and "a lesbian Scanner darkly" by reviewers, Drive is director Alpha's latest work that explores power and complicity in relationships -- all through the metaphor of a ride through the desert of the heart. Drive stars the lovely Native American/Syrian actress Lynne Kirby, " Sid" Everett and co-stars Holly Lorka.
¬Director: Kasumi Hiraoka, Japan
Film: RAKUGAKIIROMACHI, 30 min New Media/Experimental
Japanese prostitutes have turned their backs to conventional society!!!!! They are vulnerable yet fearless and maintain their innocence regardless of their profession.
mybrassierefilm@hotmail.co.jp
*******************************************
Sunday MAT, May 25th, 3pm to 6pm
¬Director: Suzanne Guacci, Sayville, NY
Cycles is the first film from writer/director/producer Suzanne Guacci. Cycles is a slice-of-life drama shot entirely in one location, taking place over the course of one day. Characters come and go on this day, sharing time and traveling on in anonymity allowing us just a glimpse on this seemingly ordinary yet extraordinary day..
Film: Cycles, 74min Feature
Set exclusively in a Laundromat, Cycles, is simply one day in the life of this Laundromat from its opening to its closing. Characters come and go throughout this day, sharing time and then heading back to their lives, traveling on in anonymity. Cycles is a character driven piece with a 'sweat sock' at the center. The handling and mishandling of this sock is our invitation into the lives of the characters who enter, allowing us just a glimpse on this seemingly ordinary yet quite extraordinary day.
aspire2inc@optonline.net
¬Director: Alexis Krasilovsky
In the 1980’s . she founded the Street agency, which published poetry by women and minorities. She is now creenwriting professor at California State University Northridge, and recently wrote and directed the award winning documentary,“Women Behind the Camera”
Film: Some Women Writers Kill Themselves, And Other Poems
Alexis krasilovsky, in her poetry videos, works expertly with contradiction. Her poem speak of disaster and despair yet produce feels of hope—G. Murry Thomas, Next
¬Director: Robin Hayes, Santa Clara, CA,
Robin J. Hayes is a scholar and filmmaker who completed a combined doctorate in African American Studies and Political Science at Yale University.
Film: “Beautiful (me) Finding Our Revolutionary Selves In Black Cuba” – 45 min Doc
Beautiful Me(s) is the true story of a diverse group of underdog students who travel from the elite cloistered environment of Yale University to the rebel state of Cuba. In the streets of Havana and Santiago, they witness extraordinary hip hop, reggae and rumba performances, strike up conversations with Cubans from all walks of life. robinhayes@aya.yale.edu
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Sunday, May 25th, 7pm to 10pm
¬Director: Jamie Teer – Austin, Texas
Film: “SHIKEIKEE" – 7 min Experimental, Short
ShiKeiKee is an experimental love ballad featuring the duality of one woman revealing her outer and inner self. The viewer goes on a psychedelic journey through a seductive reality to a sensual dream of truth. In her own language, Little Black Bird speaks a poem of ShiKeiKee (Eternal Love).
darkteer@gmail.com
¬Director: Maria Gigante- Chicago, IL
Film: “Girls Room” – 10 min, Short Drama
Girls Room is a dark comedy that tells the tale of a young girl who must confront the much-feared school bathroom, where she is sure to encounter terror, humiliation, and isolation. But, when she finally takes matters into her own hands, she discovers that maybe she isn't so alone in this big, bad world..
gigantemaria@yahoo.com
¬Director: Annetta Marion – New York, NY
Her body of work as a filmmaker and director includes over ten short documentary and narrative films, as well as broadcast commercials, public service announcements and episodes for a web series. For her work, Marion has received a directing fellowship at AFI’s prestigious Directing Workshop for Women, and has been nominated for the Working Woman Entrepreneurial Excellence Award and the Northern Ohio Live Awards of Achievement in Film/Radio/TV.
Film: “Donut Heaven” – 14:14 min Short Drama
Phoebe, a chain-smoking daughter who is thoroughly fed up with her obese mother's penchant for Jesus and overeating, comes up with an ingenious way to help her mother and herself. Her idea is a simple bet; for every ten pounds that mom drops, Phoebe will give up one day of the week smoking.
annetta@annettamarion.com
¬Director: Corky Pumilia – Austin, Texas
Film: “Your Mama and Two Meals” – 11 min Doc
You’re Mama and Two Meals is a travel documentary shot i n Fes, Morocco. It documents the oral history of,Sadia Douni, a Muslim Mother and her secret recipes to life.
Corky2p@aol.com
¬Director: Kasumi Hiraoka, Japan
Film: RAKUGAKIIROMACHI, 30 min New Media/Experimental
Japanese prostitutes have turned their backs to conventional society!!!!! They are vulnerable yet fearless and maintain their innocence regardless of their profession.
mybrassierefilm@hotmail.co.jp
¬Director: Alpha, Passion Fruit Studio, Austin, Texas
Film: Drive, 30 min short/Drama
Drive is a wild ride-along with two lovers through
a surrealistic landscape of past and present. Called an " artful masterpiece" and " a lesbian Scanner darkly" by reviewers, Drive is director Alpha's latest work that explores power and complicity in relationships -- all through the metaphor of a ride through the desert of the heart. Drive stars the lovely Native American/Syrian actress Lynne Kirby , " Sid" Everett and co-stars Holly Lorka.
¬Director: Hazel Meek– United Kingdom
Film: "The Art Of Tease"- 11 min Short
The Art of the Tease follows the story of Sadie Powell a sultry burlesque dancer. On the night she has to deliver the performance of her lifetime she finds herself drawn to a handsome stranger.
hazelmeeks@ucla.edu
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