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WELCOME LAST MONTH JOINING MEMBERS!
New Members:
Maggie Stenson - Professional
Cindy Sangster - Professional - Editor
Jacquelyn Leslie - Friend
Renewed Members:
Diane Broussalian - Professional
Amanda Bontecou - Friend
New Members since January 2008
New Members:
Margheret Pherson - professional
Sarah Monroe - Associate-Professor
Marie Verschueren - Associate - AD, Talent
Chris Deboer - Writer, Director, Producer
Anne Paxton - Associate - Director
Anna Lund - Student
Friends:
Chris Gorley
Andrea Rohr
Coleen Curley
James Keblas
Christopher Swensen
Jeffry McIlvan-Friend
Steve Colgrove-Friend
Nathalie Molina-Friend
Renewed Members:
Dorothy J Sekabira
Ann Coppel
Melinda Simon
Suzanne Hensler
Diane L. Wilson-Simon
Lisa Farnham
Cathy Faulkner
Laurie Gabriel
Julia Mays
Valerie Marie Leslie
Carrie Lanza (upgraded to Professional)
Grace Stahre
Denise Gargano
Michi Murayama
Kay D. Ray
Shannon Hart-Reed
Nan Avant
Pilar Binyon
Ilona Rossman Ho
Lois Greenberg
Cornelia Moore
Michelle Westmorland
New Members since November 2007
Annie Grosshans: Script Super, Prof. New member
Peggy Case: Producer, Director, Prof. New member
Elayne Wylie: Producer, Prof. New member
Wendy Ashford: Actor, Prof. Renewing member
Caroline Mays: Set Design, props, Assoc.
Amelya Hepner: Writer, Director, Producer, Prof.
Kiya Bodding: Director/Producer, Prof.
Amanda Peterson: Makeup/ Hair, Assoc.
Sharon O'Mahony: Writer, Actor, Producer, Prof.
Alicia Dara: Composer, Prof. New member
Vanessa Eng: Production coordinator, Prof. New member
Hallie Shepard: Writer, Actor, Producer, Prof.
Eric Colley: Producer, Friend
Annie Fergerson: Producer, Prof.
Liz Russell: Producer, Prof.
Elliat Graney-Saucke: Director/Producer, Prof.
Fon Chen: Production Coordinator, Prof. New member
Vincent Gates: Sound/Music, Friend, New member
Karen Hunt Mason: Prof.
Lance S. Rosen: Entertainment Attorney, New member
Anna Lund: Student, New member
Margaret M. Cronshaw: Prof.
Debra Haller: Prof.
Leslie vanWinkle: Prof. Renewing member
Lorraine Montez: Prof. New member
Jane Winslow: Prof. Renewing Member
Carol Sparer: Actor, Prof. Renewing member
Ann Mendenhall: Editor, Prof. Renewing member
John Zimmerman: Friend, Renewing member
Heather Murphy: Producer, Prod Manager Prof. New member
Rachel White: Mayor’s Office Corp. New member
James Keblas: Mayor’s Office Corp. New member
Zita Mazzola: Producer, Prod. Manager, Prof. New member
Zoe Saurs: Nell scholarship winner, Student
Sherril Johnson - Stunts/FX coordinator
Victoria Drake
Kimberly Diehl
Shasta Simmons - Student
Nan Avant - Composer
Sarena Schumaker - Student
Allison Hoag - Student
Kelly Kingm- Producer/Actress
Haneefah R. Mahmood-Williams - Producer
Alessandra Malanga - Student
Misoo Kyung - Student
Ward Serrill – Writer/Director/Producer
Ashley O' Neal
Amy Sedgwick - Producer/Actress
Kathleen Kasinger - Art Director/ Prop Master
Mimi Pettibone - Hair & Make up Stylist
Patricia Colley, Production Manager
Heather Renee Ayers, Writer/Director
Kris Keppla, Talent
Barbara Terzieff, Coordinator
Danielle Villegas, Director
Corrie Moore’s feature film The Dark Horse is playing at SIFF Cinema, June 4 at 6:30pm.
Barbara Brown, Vice President WIF/S worked on Procerin with Cesari Direct; a T-Mobile job with Loaded Pictures; and Providence Everett Medical Center with Superfad. Barbara also is in pre-pro on her video project with Art with Heart, which she is directing.
Virginia Bogert, WIF/S President just won a Telly Award - first place - for her documentary short, Fields of Plenty.
After 3 years in the making, “The Corporal’s Diary” directed by Patricia Boiko and WIF member Laurel Spellman Smith is complete and will screen at this year’s Seattle True Independent Film Festival. The Corporals Diary “Most Powerful Documentary Award” Seattle True Independent Film Festival. thecorporalsdiary.com
Tuesday, June 10th 4 PM Jewel Box Theatre, Rendezvous, 2322 2nd Ave Seattle, WA 98121 (206) 441-5823 and Sunday, June 15th at 7PM Capitol Hill Arts Center 12th Ave. and E. Pine St. 1621 - 12th Ave., Seattle, WA 98122
Jane Winslow, FireDancer Productions is leaving her position at Shoreline Community College for an assistant professorship at State University of New York Oswego. She will teach Broadcast TV and Filmmaking (including screenwriting). It is a wonderful opportunity but will miss the great community of media and filmmakers here in Seattle who she’s had the pleasure to work/play with for the last 12 years. Jane will keep her whidbey.com email
(cause who back there has that!) so she will still be easy to find in cyberspace.
Ruth Gregory’s team won at the 2008 International Documentary Challenge. April 26th, team Reel Grrls, 10 Seattle-area female filmmakers, accepted the award for Best Film of the 2008 International Documentary Challenge at the Hot Docs International Documentary Festival in Toronto. The documentary challenge is a timed filmmaking event where teams had five days to make a documentary after being given a theme and choice between two genres. Team Reel Grrls chose to make a documentary about Polaroid's decision to stop producing film and its effects on artists and ordinary citizens. Their film, Click Whoosh, along with other finalists, will screen at the Northwest Film Forum on July 10 at 8pm.
Women in Film member Lorraine Montez, producer, actor, writer for film and video, co-stars in Book Club bookclubtheshow.com an original TV-to-Web show filmed in Seattle for women 30, and older, and those interested in book clubs. See feature article
Annie Mendenhall and her son Brett are biking again from San Francisco to LA (545 mi/7 days) June 1-8. They each need to raise $2500 with your help. Last year all participants raised $11M to help in the fight against AIDS and HIV. Annie is proud of her son who continues at USC taking Masters courses in the Public Health program in Health Communication with emphasis on AIDS and HIV prevention and research. For donations:
Donations for Annie
Donations for Brett
Melanie Melanie worked on “Shut Eye,” a SIFF Fly Film, a multi-day shoot for Univera with Pravda Studios, and a multi-day PSA commercial for KBTC on domestic violence -- a good and rewarding experience. She and a crew of 7 girls then did hair and makeup for a charity function for “Little Bit” riding establishment which offers riding lessons to children with physical and mental disabilities. Then Melanie and husband went to Amsterdam! Ya ya!
Producer Liz Russell just completed the
Seeds of Compassion project that brought the Dalai Lama to Seattle for five days in mid-April. Liz was in charge of organizing 1,200 volunteers for the event itself, creating job descriptions, reporting structures and training. “Crazy! But one of the best projects I’ve ever worked on!”
Email Liz
Hair & Make-up artist Mimi Pettibone received a great compliment from HGTV with whom she has done several jobs. After traveling all over the country, using local crew for hair & makeup for the on camera host, the new program director is distributing a still photo of the host as the gold standard for what this host should look like: Mimi’s styling! The show’s segment producer wrote: “We love working with Mimi. Not only is she fun and friendly, she’s also the epitome of professionalism. We always look forward to having her on our shoots because we know our people will look GREAT! In fact, Mimi is so good, we use her work as an example of how we want other hair and make-up artists to style for our show.” StellarStyle.com
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PREMIERE
Corrie Moore’s feature drama “The Dark Horse” will have its world premiere at SIFF 2008. Screening times TBA.
Tal rears with Dana
“Talk about the dream being fulfilled: getting to premiere at home with an all-local crew and cast - pretty darn sweet.” – Corrie Moore
After wrapping the Universal feature “Traveling” in March as POC, Zita Mazzola went right into Production Managing a Credit Union of Washington commercial for Bridge Productions. The entire crew was from Washington as was the client, agency and production company. Zita also Production Supervised a WA State Lottery Commercial shot in Seattle at PGL for Sticks+Stones, an LA production company; and Production Managed again for Bridge Productions for the Puyallup Fall Fair. This too, an all Washington project.
Zita is now prepping another WA State Lottery job for Sticks+Stones that shoots here in May.
Vice-President, Barbara Brown recently finished a month of second unit filming on the feature film, “Twilight,” being shot in and around Portland. She also worked on spots for the Washington State Lottery, Cesari Direct, Blue Plate Digital and Kiro. Barbara is Producing and Directing a video for Art with Heart, an organization that publishes books and creates materials for professionals working with children in distress.
Sue Corcoran directed a commercial for Credit Unions of Washington for Bridge Productions and Big Bang Electrical.
Cheryl Slean is finishing writing and directing her new Fly Film documentary for Seattle International Film Festival 2008, “Creativity in Context” which will premiere at SIFF on or around May 25.
Amanda Bontecou graduated from the Art Institute in Video Production and is headed to Africa for four weeks to shoot a documentary on pediatric healthcare in rural Uganda and Rwanda as well as paint a picture of what life is like there. She and crew hope for other exciting side projects they’ve been actively researching: one having to do with animal and nature conservation in Tanzania, and the other about Kenyan refugees. Amada is actively fundraising for these projects.
Carbon Arc Productions website
www.tymigota.com
Mischa Jakupcak is still in the process of fundraising for The Off Hours, Megan Griffith's film (theoffhoursfilm.com). In the meantime, she accepted a full time position at North By Northwest as Line Producer and isrelocating to Spokane. She just wrapped a Christian Slater/Cuba Gooding, Jr action film and is gearing up for a high school comedy called Norman. Mischa is very excited about working for NXNW, but sad to say goodbye to Seattle.
And speaking of goodbyes, Alesia Glidewell is off to Hollywood. Bon chance talented girl!
Melanie Melanie’s recent creations:
Illusions by Melanie
www.ibmel.com
Kelly King has been busy for the past three months Producing the short film, “Image Mind Light” written and directed by Bogdan Darev. Kelly did double duty as Producer & 2nd AD. After 5 days of shooting in historic Pioneer Square, filming wrapped on 4/22.
Click here for more information and updates on the film.
kelly@studiotrifusion.com
Chris DeBoer had a reading of her short film Tom Ka Gai in Hood River Oregon on April 24th. After which it will be submitted to short film contests.
Ellait Graney-Sauke marched May 1st in solidarity with LGBT/Queer and immigrant rights
Ron Leamon and friends, “The Joe Leamon Team,” walked in the “2008 MS LifeLines Walk MS.” April 13th, Seattle and raised over $4000.00!
Sue Corcoran on the MS Vista set
Sue Corcoran directed the Puyallup Spring Fair commercials to be aired on Komo, Fox, Kiro and King. She also directed a music video comedy for Microsoft Vista as well as the Microsoft Standards of Business Conduct. Sue will be directing a commercial spot for Bridge Productions and the Washington Credit Union the last week in March. Her music video “Alibi” for Seattle Artist Andrea Wittgens played at the Vancouver Women in Film Festival and was featured on Zoom-in.com.
Director Virginia Bogert’s short film, The Delivery, about an isolated hermit writer and a sweetly shy delivery girl who communicate via notes and the promise of chocolate, received a 2008 Accolade Award.
“Never underestimate the power of the written word, nor a little bit of chocolate, because some notes, a mouse, and a leap of faith work their magic, and two misfits find love.” The Delivery was a SIFF Fly Film written by WIF member Heather Renee Ayres and Ixaac Paul Ackley.
Director of Photography: Tim Tyler
Executive Producers: Carl Spence/Deborah Person
Producer: Amy Lillard Dee
Co-Producer: Gregory Wylie
Editor: Cindy Sangster
Composer: Rebecca Wolf-Nail
Casting: Stephen Salamunovich
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Starring Shawn Telford and Natasha Sims who got nominated for best actress in “November” in a recent LA film festival.
Richard Sanders and Natasha Sims
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WIF Board officer and intellectual property, entertainment, and sports law professional, Heather Morado, announces she has joined Invicta Law Group, PLLC.
More about Heather on the firm's website.
The Dove Cream Oil competition may be over and the winner selected, but WIFS member Shannon Hart-Reed's submission entitled “Feel Beautiful Everyday” will be featured in Microsoft's View My World site which contains video, pictures, copy, web links, blogs, showing how Microsoft Employees affect the way people work with technology and how the Microsoft technology impacts and changes the world. The women appearing in the ad are all Microsoft employees from various corners of the world.
Michele Mansfield’s ART of AGING hosted by Ron Reagan aired
On KCTS March 30, 2008 - Leaping Media Productions
WIFS member Shannon Hart-Reed won this year's SPFF poster design competition and her graphic artwork will be representing this year's festival. The 16th Annual Seattle Polish Film Festival is scheduled to begin April 18th through April 27th at the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall at McCaw's Hall.
Wendy Ashford is Assistant Stage Manager and Make-Up Artist working on ‘Waiting for Godot’ at the Balagan Theatre 1117 E. Pike Thursday - Saturday at 8pm. Get there at 7:30pm to make sure you can get a seat. The show runs until April 20th.
Seattle Women Filmmakers will screen at Northwest Film Center
Portland, OR: The Film Center will be screening a selection from the filmmaker compilation
on Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 7pm. More info on Northwest Film Center website
SEATTLE WOMEN IN FILM DVD
New York Magazine plugs the “Seattle Women in Film, One City, Twenty-one Amazing Filmmakers” DVD.
NY, NY: The popular New York Magazine chose “I Am Ann” to stream on their website. Congratulations to WIF member, former prez, filmmaker Ann Coppel!
SEATTLE WOMEN IN FILM DVD IS A 911 MEDIA ARTS PRODUCED COMPILATION and is available at 911 Media Arts Center.
Check out this quarter's edition of OnScreen magazine containing guest editor Virginia Bogert's article and other mind-expanding stories about women in the film community. Available at 911 Media Arts, Scarecrow, and other film friendly locations around town.
April 3, 2008
Women in Film/Seattle and SIFF FutureWave:
Expanding Cinema through Education,
with Antioch University hosted a unique panel discussion focused on the extraordinary documentary,
FLYING: Confessions Of A Free Woman.
Director Jennifer Fox will explore the topic, “What is a Free Woman?” with other remarkable women from the Seattle community. Using clips from FLYING as a catalyst for discussion, this promises to be an outstanding interactive event!
Moderated by B. J. Bullert, Ph.D. communication scholar, documentary filmmaker, oral historian. B.J. is a senior research fellow at the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement at the University of Washington and an Adjunct Professor in the University of Washington's Masters in Digital Media program.
With intros by Virginia Bogert and Sue Corcoran, the panelists included:
- Jennifer Fox, Director, FLYING: Confessions Of A Free Woman
- Dr. Pepper Schwartz, Professor of Sociology, University of Washington, Chief Relationship Expert, Founding Group Member of Perfectmatch.com
- Barbara Spraker, Associate Faculty, Center For Creative Change, Antioch University
- Vivian Philips, Arts and Communications specialist, Director: Langston Hughes Performing Art Center, co-director ACT Theatre's Hansberry Project.
- Cathy Allen, President/Owner of The Connections Group, Ltd. and Board Member of The Center For Women and Democracy
April 4&5, 2008
FLYING: Confessions of a Free Woman screens at
SIFF Cinema – McCaw Hall, Seattle Center
321 Mercer Street at 3rd Ave
“A vibrantly sexy, politically savvy, and personally revealing look at what it means to be a woman in the early 21st century.”
Pound Studios Invites You!
Saturday April 19, 6pm-11pm
1216 10th Avenue Seattle 98122
For info call 206 323-0557
www.poundpictures.com
painting, photography, tattoo art, film, video, music, jewelry, fashion,
food, and drink!
…and LJ Cronin just returned from a shoot in Jamaica.
Vice-President Barbara Brown script supervised a Qwest commercial with Superfad, a Windows Server 2008 video with John Moffitt Productions, and an infomercial for Grout Star with Envision Response.
Carrie Lanza, WIF member, doctoral student at the University of Washington School of Social Work and former WIF and curatorial intern for American Sabor at EMP, returned to Experience Music Project Museum as the instructional designer for the American Sabor distance learning course, implementing content distribution with Tony Gomez, Community Outreach Coordinator for KCTS
Carrie has experience working with distance education for the UW School of Medicine and is also currently working at UW as a contractor and leading their video project revolving around family attachment.
Virginia Bogert directed a three-camera shoot documenting a presentation by El Vez at EMP museum for the museum's Oral History program. El Vez was accompanied by the lovely Thelma Houston, best known for her 1977 smash hit, “Don't Leave Me this Way.” Both Houston and El Vez are performing at Teatro ZinZanni in Seattle. El Vez and the Elvettes
AWARD-WINNING SEATTLE FILMMAKERS TO COMPETE IN INTERNATIONAL
DOCUMENTARY CHALLENGE
Husband-wife team Rustin Thompson and Ann Hedreen will make a short nonfiction film in FIVE DAYS:
MARCH 6-10, 2008
The International Documentary Challenge is a timed filmmaking competition in which filmmaking teams from around the world have five days to make a 4-7 minute nonfiction film. The competition begins 8 a.m. Thursday, March 6 and ends Monday, March 10. Filmmakers are given two choices from a list that includes 1st person, historical, music, sports, social issues, first-person, biography and art. All writing, shooting and editing must be completed during the five-day period.
With their roots in broadcast journalism and more than two decades of experience producing documentary and advocacy films, Thompson and Hedreen couldn't resist the unpredictability and excitement of the International Doc Challenge. They intend to shoot in the Seattle area and will edit at their home-based studio.
Winners of the competition will be premiered at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto in April 2008.
Thompson and Hedreen own White Noise Productions and are known for both long and short-form filmmaking. Films include “The Church on Dauphine Street,” “Quick Brown Fox: an Alzheimer's Story,” and “30 Frames a Second: the WTO in Seattle.”
More information on White Noise Productions' website and at docchallenge.org.
Photo by Sean Porter
WIF/S filmmaker Heather Renee Ayres and co-writer Ixaac Paul Ackley won the IFP/Seattle Spotlight Award for their short script My Time with Betty.
They are producing the film with long-time NYWIFT member, Indie producer Annie Flocco (Super Troopers, Acts of Worship). My Time with Betty is an intense, character-driven exploration of captivity, the chase for freedom, and truth vs illusion. The Spotlight award gives one filmmaking team a comprehensive production and services package to shoot on 16mm or 35mm.
Our WIF/S Interns are working!
About two years ago I decided to make a career change - to find a career that suited me better and to put my Fine Arts degree to some use. I enrolled at Bellevue Community College in their Animation and Graphics degree program. One of the graduation requirements was to complete an Internship. In my research for fulfilling this requirement, I kept seeing the name Women in Film/Seattle. I quickly became a student member and went to the annual meeting in February 2007. My hope was to meet some fascinating women and hopefully some of those women might be able to help point me in the right direction. I found what I was looking for and so much more. Each woman I met offered to help me and by the end of the evening I had been introduced to Rachel Nussbaum, the Education Chair for WIF/Seattle. Rachel had connections with Victory Studios and by the end of that week I had an interview with their graphics department. I could not have made the transition from school to Internship so smoothly without the help of the women I met through WIF/Seattle. My Internship was completed at the end of June and I was offered a full-time position with the Victory Studios Graphics Department as a 3D artist/animator. ~Dawn McLellan
Rachel Nussbaum, WIF/S Education and Outreach Chair leaves the board of WIF.
Rachel is now working with Russell Investment Group in Tacoma creating presentations for their many events and helping implement new print and on-line media branding for their London, Japan, and Australia offices. The exigencies of her job and travel prevent her from serving on the board and handling our scholarship and internship programs, but she will still remain an active member of WIF. Among her many talents, Rachel is also an audio engineer and is on the coveted Bad Animal's contract audio engineer list and credits her former position at Victory Studios for helping her hone her skills. Rachel plans a trip to Korea soon to visit family and plans to strike up a relationship with WIF-Korea, something she always hoped to accomplish.
Bon Voyage and cheers to you, Rachel, and thank you for your contributions to the workings of WIF. You will be sorely missed.
Cheryl Slean, Barbara Brown, Heather Griffiths, and Virginia Bogert’s speaking engagement on January 17, for the Center for Women and Democracy was a super success. The topic: women in the film industry. The panel enlightened a dynamic group of interested women, creating more solidarity and support for women filmmakers that evening.
Along with all her other work and talent, Alesia Glidewell is the model for the face and body of Chell, the only human character in Valve Software's acclaimed Portal, a single-player first-person action/puzzle video game developed by Valve. The game was released in a bundle package known as The Orange Box for PC and Xbox 360.
Melanie Melanie, make-up diva, just finished a shoot for People Magazine.
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Michele Mansfield and Leaping Media just finished two more programs in the Art of Aging series.
The Art of Aging, hosted by Ron Reagan is an informative program about issues we face as we age. Leaping Media’s goal is to provide information that we can apply to our lives in order to age well. Animation of glucose in the bloodstream, and prostate anatomy, created by Karen Lewis help illustrate the interviews.
The programs were filmed in and around Seattle. Along with researchers and experts, the shows feature some very engaging seniors, Rainier Pickle Ball players, strollers at Seward park, swimmers and families who share their experience with Alzheimer's.
www.artofaging.org
More info
Kelly S. King’s company Studio Trifusion is busy finishing post-production on their latest short film, “Trust Issues”. Keep an eye out for the film in 2008/09 festivals. Kelly also recently was hired by Snappy Productions as Talent Coordinator on two new commercials for BECU (Boeing Employee Credit Union).
Kelly is also very active musically, still rehearsing with the Blues bands and sang a lot of jazz over the holidays, at the Crepe de Paris and at KCC in Kirkland.
Kay D. Ray finished edit and audio post of her documentary, LADY BE GOOD: Instrumental Women In Jazz. With the help of editor Cathy Wadley, Red Jet Films edit suite (thank you to Sue Feil Erwin), Clatter and Din audio guru Eric Johnson and his fabulous ear, and the creative talents of Flying Spot graphic designer Lucy Woodworth; the film is complete and seeking music clearances and distribution.
Kay also recently completed a shoot for Cisco Systems, on Blu-ray disc in San Francisco and Seattle, a shoot for Business.com, and is creating employee profiles for T-Mobile across the US from Atlanta to Honolulu.
Donna Andrews, teamed up with Ken Slusher to produce the documentary, The Seike Garden: An American Story. The film recounts the five-year community effort to relocate the Seike Japanese Garden, which had to be moved and sold off because of the SeaTac airport runway expansion. The documentary chronicles the history of the garden, the cooperative efforts by local governments, nonprofits, and citizens to save it, and the physical challenge of relocating and replicating a 45 year-old living work of art. It also highlights the important role that immigrant families played in building the Highline community.
The Highline Botanical Garden Foundation and the Highline Historical Society are co-hosted the premiere showing of the film on February 2, at SeaTac City Hall. Donna’s past work has included educational programs for Iowa Public Television, instructional videos for Iowa State University, and corporate videos, including a recent promotional video for Boeing where she works as a writer.
Barbara Brown, script supervisor and our vice president, recently worked on a FX/20th Century Fox Television pilot with Ryan Murphy, the writer, executive producer and creator of NipTuck.
Barbara and NipTuck camera dept
Pretty Handsome, is co-executive produced with Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner of Plan B. It is an unusual and ambitious drama about the metamorphosis of a man who realizes he is a transsexual. The protagonist is a gynecologist who shares a medical practice with his father. Shot entirely on location in Los Angeles.
Barbara mentoring a future script supervisor
WIF/S filmmakers Shannon Hart-Reed, Ali Ormiston, and Rachel Nussbaum won first place in the 911/On Screen Magazine's Music in Film Shorts Contest. Their film, My, My, Hey, Hey; A Let's Talkumentary, met the challenges of the competition: communication breakdown, an original song, and a musician as a character. Telling the true story of a father and son relationship broken apart by rock music, the film was screened at SIFF in 2008. The filmmakers send a special thanks to Jeremy Miller, Eric Miller, Tim Nussbaum and Kevin Christiansen for their critical contributions to the project.
Annie Mendenhall has been 2nd Unit Director for four weeks of principal photography with John Sinno's (Iraq in Fragments) new feature, a political satire, “ZMD” - Zombies of Mass Destruction and directed the “Behind the Scenes.” Anne also assisted Michael Wohl, author of Final Cut Pro, Beyond the Basics teaching the Advanced Final Cut Pro Certification Course. She still teaches at the Art Institute, “Intermediate Editing,” and “Producing & Directing,” and works on a variety of projects, most recently with the Suquamish Tribe. Anne attended the DVExpo for HD workshops taking the Motion Certification Course at Moviola in Hollywood taking advantage of the WIF discount.
Support Annie riding her bike from San Francisco to LA from June 1-7, 2008, for AIDS/LifeCycle 7!
More Information at: www.aidslifecycle.org
Email Annie at: ann@redwavemedia.com
Wendy Ashford just completed a series of ads for an Oregon based casino’s Porsche Give-away. Lana Veenker Casting Agency of Portland sent out a call for little people for a Christmas elf theme. Wendy was one of four Seattle actors selected.
Kelly S. King and her company, Studio Trifusion, have completed principal photography on their latest short film, “Trust Issues.” Kelly played a lead role and produced the film. The team is now busy with post-production and prepping for 2008 festival submissions.
studiotrifusion.com
www.ksking.com
Von Piglet news:
Director Sue Corcoran's Von Piglet Productions along with Producer Susan LaSalle and Propmaster Kat Kasinger created :30 second spots for Dove Cream Oil Body Wash.
Edited by Cindy Sangster, the spots air on the web for Dove's ongoing Real Beauty Campaign which challenges real women to create a TV spot that will be seen on the night of the Academy Awards.
(For more contest info go to the website.)
Von Piglet has completed videos for PepsiCo, Dove and Microsoft's Windows CE Launch for 2007.
Virginia Bogert directed the interview shoot with the mesmerizing Mr. Clive Barker for EMP/Science Fiction Museum. Best known for his Hellraiser film series, Clive Barker is one of the leading authors of contemporary horror and fantasy fiction. (PinHead!!!) Virginia also directed interviews with five fantasy/horror authors at the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs, NY for an upcoming EMP/SFM exhibit. She also directed a case study for Microsoft for Worktank, Seattle, and judged the 911 Short Film Contest. Virginia is the guest editor for the next edition of On Screen Magazine.
Cheryl Slean’s DIGGERS (now in 35mm) has been bopping about the festival circuit, from L.A. to Canada, and will soon be seen in India, Wisconsin, and cyberspace. It was also selected as this week’s semifinalist for the NOW film festival you'll be able to download DIGGERS. Digital Diggers will also be featured on myspace starting FRIDAY, at film.myspace.com, myspaceTV, and myspace.com/ nowfilmfest.
Lisa Hardmeyer Gray just completed her most ambitious, most exciting, and biggest production ever. Welcome to this world Antonia and Aiden Gray!The babies were born on Thursday, October 18. Aiden Sherrard at 3:30pm (weighing 6.7) and Antonia Susanna at 4:30 weighing 5.6.
“You done good sister!”
Sue Feil-Erwin of Redjet just finished video production at the International Malaria Forum held at the Sheraton, Seattle. Jeff Erwin is in India with BMGF ( Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) and headed to Amman in November to cover Muslim women being elected to office with NDI (National Democratic Institute – Chairman Madeleine K. Albright). Redjet videos currently in production: T-Mobile, Microsoft, Pandemic Flu (King County), Energy Star.
Sue is also attending the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam; the world’s largest documentary festival. Nov. 22 – Dec. 02, 2007. Since 1988, more than 250 international documentaries are screened at the festival, an exciting meeting place for directors, producers, buyers, financiers and audiences alike. IDFA is unique for its international film programme, the variety of genres, its politically committed programme, and the many European and world premieres featured each year. Add to that the presence of filmmakers, sizeable audiences, all the discussions and debates, workshops, master classes and the experienced staff, IDFA is established as the pre-eminent festival for creative documentaries.
Here’s what Von Piglet is doing. Sue Corcoran with Susan LaSalle…
- in development of Sci Fi Feminist High Adventure Feature Film Produced the “PepsiCo Need 2 Know Show,” with distribution of 61,000 DVDs
- in production for the Windows Mobile Japanese Launch Webcast
- in production for comedic launch video for Visual Studio 2008
- in pre-production for the London Stock Exchange
www.vonpiglet.com
And Virginia Bogert has created four films for American Sabor, the newest Experience Music Project Museum exhibit. The short docs she wrote and produced: The Palladium, They Call it Salsa! (David Wulzen: editor) Dance Dance Dance; (editors: V. Bogert and Traci Dethlefs) and Latino Artists and Performances will run continuously throughout the 10 months.
“American Sabor, which opened last week at EMP and will run until Sept. 7, 2008, is a joyful, colorful, interactive study and celebration of the long-overlooked contribution of Latino music and rhythms to American pop music since World War II.” – University Week
You can learn more about the exhibit at www.empsfm.org
Bogert directed a three camera shoot for EMP of Santana Rhythms: a performance with commentary by Michael Carabello and Michael Shrieve, original percussionists of Santana, joined by Abraxas bassist, Alphonso Johnson, and Chepito Areas's son, Adrian Areas, on the timbales. In between songs the musicians discussed how they created arrangements for Oye Como Va, Soul Sacrifice, and Black Magic Woman, to name a few. Virginia Bogert/Laughing Dog Pictures also directed a case study for Worktank and Microsoft.
Carrie Lanza, fabulous WIF intern, coordinated and researched footage for the EMP American Sabor films and will continue research at the Science Fiction Museum for the next EMP exhibit.
Recent projects for Barbara Brown, script super include: Acura of Bellevue with Destination Marketing, “Brainetics” with Cesari Direct, Cadillac with the L.A. company Supply & Demand, and Barbara is soon to begin work on a pilot for 20th Century Fox Television Productions: “Pretty Handsome,” with creator/writer/director Ryan Murphy (who is also the creator/writer of NipTuck on FX).
Laura Jean Cronin’s “Free Parking” (poundpictures.com) will be screening at the Vine Entertainment Short Film Festival November 1 at the Promenade Playhouse, 1408 3rd Street Promenade. Two filmmakers will be awarded a feature film production deal with Vine Entertainment at the closing night gala.
The Vine Shorts Fest (VSF) is a new annual Short Film Festival dedicated to discovering Who’s Next. It is an explosion of media technology joining forces with great creative minds to expand consciousness by sharing stories in the dark. Who’s Next, a quest to find tomorrow’s filmmakers, showcases original fresh voices, from around the world, whether an actor, a writer, financier, distributor, director, composer, editor, or company. The Vine, is always asking, “Who’s Next?”
Other fab WIF intern, JJ. Frees is AD-ing a local 3 day video shoot and producing an indy feature.
Three Chicks Media, Inc. launches All Terrain Brain
The project includes twenty-five one-minute mixed media episodes for web and television, an interactive web site, and an educational outreach program for after school groups. With topics like motivation, passion, perseverance, leadership, goal setting and more, ATB is designed to help kids discover they have the power to do whatever they want in life.
Funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, All Terrain Brain is created and produced by Seattle’s Three Chicks Media. The web site was produced with Weatherhead Experience Design Group in Seattle, with animation by Global Mechanic in Vancouver, B.C., and the educational outreach activity guide was produced in conjunction with WGBH-TV, Boston.
For more information contact: Deb Haller at dhaller@threechicksmedia.com
Wyatt Bardouille, producer, director, editor of Bardouille Productions, www.bardouille.com, launched a web-based TV talk show called WhitneyandWyatt.com. The magazine-style show is a mix of “serious stuff and girly fluff” for women on the web with a new episode posting each Wednesday. All episodes are under five minutes long and range from how to redesign your home to whether or not we will have a woman president in our lifetime. Bardouille co-produces and co-hosts the show with Whitney Keyes. For more information, to be on the weekly newsletter mailing list, or to pitch new show ideas, please visit www.WhitneyandWyatt.com or email info@WhitneyandWyatt.com.
Studio Trifusion, led by WIF-Seattle member, Kelly S. King is preparing to shoot their next short film “Trust Issues.” The film was written by Sacha Kenton and will be directed by Zach Paul. Kelly will produce and star in the film. Shooting will take place over two weekends in September. www.studiotrifusion.com
Susan LaSalle, producer, and Sue Corcoran, director of Von Piglet Productions completed:
15 webisode series for Pedigree Dog Food’s Adopt a dog program featuring Andrea Arden, Dog Trainer; 3 spots for .NET; 2 image spots for Microsoft’s MGX Launch., 4 Documentary case studies for Microsoft: Virgin Megastores, Xerox, Emerson Insikerator, British Petroleum .
Barbara Brown, script supervisor, recently worked on Toyota (regional & national commercial) for Strader Films, a UC Communication Scenario for Integrated Talent, a Mervyn's Back to School spot for Digital Kitchen, and a Mogul Training Video for Worktank, Seattle.
Melanie Melanie, make-up artist, worked on a video for Casey Foundation who help foster kids at every level including legislative; a 5 day shoot for Zenobia Agency, working with three famous photographers, one local, one European, and one from NY. Melanie Melanie also reviewed and helped edit a new makeup book which will surely become the new industry standard text book, all encompassing for the beginner and a wonderful reference guide for the seasoned professional.
Kat Kasinger, Art Director/Prop Mistress is now in Boston working on a Kate Hudson movie after working on Stephen Frears’ “The Queen” pilot this spring, as well as several Sue Corcoran projects including Teched 200, the Back to the Future spoof, and a Pedigree webisode.
WIF member, Rosa Tyabji with Michel Tyabji, were sound recordists and audio post for the feature Apart From That, a Nell Shipman best feature award winner 2006. Apart… premiered at SIFF 2006 and had its NY Premiere July 25, 2007 at Cinema Village as part of the IndieWire: Undiscovered Gems Series, sponsored by the New York Times and Emerging Pictures in association with the California Film Institute and the Sundance Channel.
Apart from That was Rosa and Michel’s first feature production with theatrical distribution. It will be in cinemas across the country.
www.emergingpictures.com/gems07_films.htm.
For more info: www.foreignamericanpictures.com and www.myspace.com/apartfromthat/
Kelly S. King recently completed filming as PM/AD on a training video for Salon Dewi on Capitol Hill. Her company, Studio Trifusion, is in post-production on three commercials for National Shipbuilding Research Program and in pre-pro for 2 more commercials for Alabama Technology Network. The shoot is scheduled for August/September.
Kelly also just completed the voiceover for the highly anticipated online video game, “Pirates of the Burning Sea.”
WIF@SIFF
Congrats to WIF filmmakers screening at SIFF!
WIF/S congratulates members director Cheryl Slean for her film Diggers with producer
Susan LaSalle. Diggers premiered Monday, June 4, 7:00 PM in the shorts program: Northwest Ties at the Egyptian Theater on Capitol Hill.
Diggers
USA, 2006, 16 Minute Running Time
World Premiere
What do you talk about while digging a grave?
DIRECTOR: Cheryl Slean
Producer: Mark Titus, Susan LaSalle
Editor: Jeff Erwin
Screenwriter: Cheryl Slean
Cinematographer: Sean Kirby
Music: Paul Benoit
Principal Cast: Phil Davis, Marie Matiko, Jimmi Parker, Austin Farwell
*****
Lisa Hardmeyer, 2007 Fly Filmmaker, and Alesia Glidewell, producer, for The Bridge,
The 2007 Fly Filmmaking Challenge, Monday, May 28, 7:00 PM and Wednesday, June 13, 4:30 PM at the Egyptian Theatre
The Bridge
USA, 2007, 10 Minute Running Time
World Premiere
Jeremy and Julia are imperfect strangers. Facing her mortality, Julia, an aspiring artist, seeks spiritual answers wherever they may lurk. Dying on stage, Jeremy, a perspiring comic, seeks resolution on his own terms. When the two cross paths on a bridge, will either end up on the other side?
DIRECTOR: Lisa Hardmeyer
Producer: Lisa Hardmeyer, Amy Lillard Dee, Jannat Gargi
Editor: Tracy Dethlefs
Screenwriter: Lisa Hardmeyer
Cinematographer: Heath Ward
Principal Cast: Carol De Salles, Nathan Vetterlien, Chloe Bacik, Tony Curry, Suzi Jacobs-Higgins , John Keister
Make-up: Melanie Melanie WIF member
*****
Celebration of WIF filmmakers screening at SIFF!!
Filmmakers convened at VonPiglet’s enjoying fabulous music by Carrie Clark, and singer, songwriter Andrea Wittgens (www.andreawittgens.com) with amazing guitar by Vincent Gates - great food too courtesy of Vincent and Sue Corcoran. Partygoers enjoyed a fun raffle and member movies. Among the screenings were Alesia Glidewell’s On the Lot challenge film, Sue Corcoran’s recent Back to the Future spoof starring Christopher Lloyd, and Virginia Bogert’s Fly Film, The Delivery.
WIF hosted director Cecilia Miniucchi (and her producers, Jeffrey Coulter and Antoni Stutz,) whose bent comedy, EXPIRED, branded by Women in Film Seattle as part of WIF/S support of women filmmakers and our international festival -- screened at SIFF 2007.
“Smart writing, excellent performances... A meter maid and a parking officer...comedy and pathos...Expired offers searing insight into the complex mechanisms that obstruct human intimacy.”
The performances are at times astounding. Jason Patric is superb and “borderline.” Samantha Morton - tender, painful and arresting …and it’s always a treat to see Teri Garr and Illeana Douglas, neither of whom could ever deliver a middling performance.
Miniucchi’s direction is bold and unflinching, the characters layered; the film at times “indy uneven” and not elegant but neither are her characters. Look for this movie! This lady can write dialogue. -vbb
Congratulations Cecilia, Brave story, script, and casting! For more information about Expired and Cecilia go to:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488535/
*****
Seattle PI Article on SIFF Opening Night Gala.
By ATHIMA CHANSANCHAI
P-I REPORTER
…Besides reps from the catalog-size list of sponsors, some familiar faces poured into VIP: James Keblas, director of the Mayor's Office of Film + Music; Winfield Ezell Jr., one-third of 3films 3visions; councilman Nick Licata, and lots of Women in Film, a local non-profit that supports women film professionals.
“This is extra gala, gala, gala,” said Cathy Wadley, a member of Seattle Women in Film. Like a lot of local filmmakers, her bread and butter is corporate work, but she also has something going on the side: a documentary on female jazz instrumentalists.
Deserving of stalkerazzi: up-and-coming creative types like Sean Pecknold, a filmmaker whose Milk team put together “Manquer,” which won the Best Film of 2006 in the Seattle 48 Hour Film Project. Or Alesia Glidewell, a producer/director who tried out for Fox TV's new reality show “On the Lot” and made it to the top 200 -- out of 12,000.
Full story on Seattle PI Website
Sue Corcoran directs Christopher Lloyd (Delorian in BG) |
Susan LaSalle produces
and Sue Corcoran Von Piglet Productions directs Christopher Lloyd in Microsoft Tech Ed 2007 launch video.
Christopher Lloyd in Seattle on a two-day shoot with Producer Susan LaSalle and Director Sue Corcoran from Von Piglet. Lloyd played his iconic character Doc Emmett Brown from the 1985 smash hit Back to the Future. Playing opposite Lloyd was Microsoft Vice President Bob Muglia. The video aired on June 4th at the Microsoft Tech Ed 2007 launch in Orlando, FL.
Other Women in Film members on the project: Amy Vanderbeck (Executive Producer), Kat Kasinger (Art Director), Annie Grosshans (Script Supervisor) and Mimi Pettibone (Hair/Makeup) and Women in Film “honorary members”: Ron Leamon and Gerard Parr (Costumes).
To view Press regarding the video and event,
click here
To view the video go to:
www.vonpiglet.com
click on “view our reel”
click on “commercials”
Watch the video!
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Christopher Lloyd (Doc Emmett Brown) and Director Sue Corcoran from Von Piglet Productions, LLC.
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From L to R: Kat Kassinger (Art Director) and Susan LaSalle (Producer)
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Check out Crosswinds Productions projects “Go Where Your Booster Takes You”, an educational program by member Linda Regan writer, director and co-producer for Mary Bridge Hospital. Linda received a grant from 4Culture to support post-production of her informational arts documentary, “Journey to Creativity.”
World Premier at New York's Tribeca Film Festival 2007.
Seattle Composer, Nan Avant, composed original music for the documentary feature, Postcards from Tora Bora, by New York directors Wazhmah Osman and Kelly Dolak, editing by Stephen Jablonsky. www.postcardsfromtorabora.com
Postcards documents the personal journey by co-director Osman as she travels back to Afghanistan to find her father and search for her past. After the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Osmon‚s family took flight from Afghanistan to America taking with them only a handful of photos and movies as reminders of the lives they left behind. Now she returns home to search for her
past and her father, who never left the country. Her quest reveals the history of this war-torn country in a very layered, personal film. In English and Farsi. Original music composed by Nan Avant, Seattle composer and musician.
Women in Film members Shannon Hart-Reed, Rachel Nussbaum (WIF Education Chair), Rebecca Van Pelt, (WIF Production Chair) and Dawn McLellan share an exciting and moving documentary in the making, Ladies Who Lunch. www.youtube.com/profile?user=victorystudiosreel
Virginia Bogert, WIF President is new Producer/director of Film and Video at Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum. Bogert was also recently nominated for a NW Emmy for her short documentary, Fields of Plenty.
WIF and SIFF
Members Alesia Glidewell, Cheryl Slean, Rachel Nussbaum, Lisa Hardmeyer, Melanie Melanie, Susan LaSalle, Barbara Brown all worked on films screening at SIFF. Alesia Glidewell produced Lisa Hardmeyer’s Fly Film, The Bridge. Joy Saez Line-Produced and Rebecca Van Pelt AC’ed. Alesia also was the Production Designer for Elliot’s Wake (a short film by Mark Price). Rachel Nussbaum was the Sound Engineer and Rebecca Van Pelt also crewed. Melanie Melanie provided make-up expertise on two Fly Films at SIFF: The Bridge and Numb and for Joe’s Acton’s film “Courage Doesn’t Ask”, which not only went to Cannes but it also 19 or 20 other festivals..
“Go Where Your Booster Takes You”, an educational program that member Linda Regan wrote, directed and co-produced for Mary Bridge Hospital, has received two 2007 Telly awards. It is part of a campaign on the new 2007 Washington State booster seat laws and is being well received in K-1st grade classrooms in King, Pierce and Kitsap counties and televised in Pierce County.
Linda also received a grant from 4Culture to help support post-production of her informational arts documentary, “Journey to Creativity.” This program features Seattle artists, their creative processes, and their experiences at an innovative, Portugal residency. Northwest Film Forum is the non-profit fiscal sponsor of “Journey to Creativity” and enables the you (or someone you know who supports the Arts) to make a tax-deductible donation to help support the completion of this program. Donors receive a special thank-you in the credits. You can make a check payable to Northwest Film Forum and mail to: 1515 12th Avenue Seattle, WA 98122. There is a $50 minimum which helps the sponsor keep administrative costs low. Important: Please write in the memo line of your check “Journey to Creativity”. If you would like to learn more about the program, contact Linda at crosswind@att.net.
Reel Member News/Updates
Makeup Artist, Melanie Melanie, will be doing two of the four SIFF Fly Films this go round! Make sure to show your support & check them out when they are completed.
Virginia Bogert’s short documentary, Fields of Plenty, a visit with a sustainable farmer lovingly known as The Potato Man, aired on KCTS All About Us series October 19, 2006. KCTS Public Television will continue airing the show throughout the year.
Nation Son Holmes, WIF-Seattle member, will be having screenings of her feature-length film, "W.O.E. (Walking On Eggshells)"
Friday August 18th 2006: Wild Palms 901 1st Avenue in Pioneer Square. 6:30- 9:30pm
Saturday August 19th 2006: Henry Art Gallery (UW) 15th Ave and 41st Avenue 1:30- 5:00pm
Sunday August 20th 2006: Henry Art Gallery (UW) 15th Ave and 41st Avenue 1:30- 5:00pm
Come early for free appetizers
Contact Nation Son Holmes for more information (206)850-2721 or (206)324-3435
Written, Directed and Produced by Nation Son Holmes
WIF- Seattle member and Events Chair Alesia Glidewell just wrapped production of her third short film, "Hang on St. Christopher". Way to go, Alesia!
Cassandra Chamberlain, Chair of the Women In Film - Seattle Fundraising Committee, has an on-going offer to
anyone who is looking for property or wishes to list their property. For sales generated from a WIF/Seattle referral to
Cassandra that results in a sale, she will donate a generous portion of her commission to WIF/Seattle.
If you or anyone you know needs a Realtor, please contact Cassandra at:
Windermere Real Estate/ Mercer Island
Cell: 206-276-1947
www.mymercerislandrealestate.com
Member Sue Corcoran is shooting humor/dialogue spots for Microsoft's Tech Ed in house and just finished 88
(count ‘em) internet spots for VISA www.lifetakesvisa.com. Sue is
also writing a feature script she plans to shoot later this year or early next.
Member Susan LaSalle just completed production of a series of political spots for Cross Films shot in
California.
Susan is also producer for member Cheryl Slean's new film Diggers, an IFP
Spotlight Award Grant winner. She also produced Douglas Horn's short, Full Disclosure, Official
Selection of Palm Springs Film Festival 2005.
Make-up queen Melanie Melanie is presently working a new product commercial Microsoft shoot. M. M. recently
worked with Victory Studios, the “Home Team” show with Troy McClain, a music video for
Lucid Spiral, and a shoot for Getty.
WIF VP Virginia Bogert just completed shooting her Fly Film The Delivery, a
romantic comedy short for Seattle International Film Festival. Bogert was one of four Seattle directors
chosen. The Flys will be screened Memorial Day weekend at SIFF.
Bogert also just completed a project for Eyeplay for Children's Hospital at Providence, in Alaska.
Bogert screened at Hazel Wolf Festival
Documentary filmmaker Virginia Bogert’s short film “Fields of Plenty” screened at the matriarch of environmental festivals: Hazel Wolf Environmental Film Festival in Leavenworth, WA. March 23rd-26th.
“The film was judged on its environmental message, effectiveness to inspire and inform, and production values
...outstanding work.” - The HazelWolf Environmental Film Network
Bogert is just back from recent screenings of two documentaries “Fields of Plenty” and “Pike Place Market:
Soul of a City” at Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival, the largest environmental film festival on the west
coast, in Nevada City, California.
Fields of Plenty is a profile of farmer Gene Thiele of Joseph, Oregon, a gentle practitioner of the art of sustainable
agriculture - known from Seattle to Portland as the Potato Man. Excerpts from “Fields of Plenty” can also be seen
on special features in Deborah Garcia’s 2006 DVD release of the documentary “The Future of Food”
“Pike Place Market: Soul of a City,” is a passionate portrayal of Seattle’s beloved, soon to be century-old,
public marketplace and the people who inhabit it and give it life, produced by KCTS-TV and Bogert’s company Laughing Dog
Pictures, LLC.
Sue Corcoran was named “One to Watch” in The Stranger's Third
Annual Genius Awards (Film). The Genius Award bash was Saturday,
October 15th at the Seattle Art Museum, 9pm.
Film: Ones to Watch
Director, writer, and one half of the production team Von Piglet Sisters,
Sue Corcoran specializes in cartoonishly garish melodramas. Her first short
explored desire through a clown-on-clown love triangle. Her first feature,
2003's Gory Gory Hallelujah, skewered religion through the collision of an
Elvis-impersonating motorcycle gang and a town of nefarious Christians.
Corcoran's 2005 short, Circus of Infinity, cowritten with fellow Von Piglet
Sister Angie Louise and created as part of SIFF 2005's Fly Filmmaking
Challenge, compressed the whole of a woman's life-from birth to death and
beyond-into 10 minutes, presenting human existence as a vast, colorful
practical joke ending with a glamorous splat. Corcoran is now at work on a
second feature. “It's a sci-fi gothic horror movie, somewhere between The
Silence of the Lambs, Frankenstein, and The Twilight Zone,” says Corcoran.
“It's gonna be pretty... something.” DAVID SCHMADER
More Info
Independent Film Premiere
by Women in Film-Seattle Member Nation Holmes
Synopsis:
W.O.E. (Walking On Eggshells) is the story of newlyweds Paris & Darnell Franklin, who discover they each have skeletons
in their closets that must be dealt with in order to move forward with their marriage. W.O.E. is a story about
relationships, choices, and domestic violence – physical, verbal and psychological – and how we are responsible for our own
choices, right or wrong.
Premiere was held at The Wonder Bar in Seattle on October 6, 2005.
FifthavenwFilms@yahoo.com
Snow Day Bloody Snow Day
Tangent Productions in association with Gadzook Films have completed
post-production on Snow Day, Bloody Snow Day, the short zombie comedy
written and directed by WIF-S members Jessica Baxter and Faye Hoerauf. They have already
begun submitting the film to festivals and genre conventions around the country and the world.
The trailer is posted on www.tangentproductions.net, and will
also soon be
available on www.gadzookfilms.com and www.storypipe.com (home of many other short films and music videos by
Seattle filmmakers including Tangent Productions past work Love and 145 Watts and Terry).
Please visit the Tangent Productions site, www.tangentproductions.net, for information on upcoming
opportunities to see Snow Day, Bloody Snow Day.
Wild Porcupine Designs
by Multi-talented WIF-S Member
Sarah Cook!
Unique Holiday Gifts
Sarah has been mastering the art of jewelry design since 1995 and enjoys
using a variety of materials and techniques in her work. One of her favorite
and most accomplished jewelry techniques is the cold connection process
which is displayed in many of her pieces. In some of her work the pieces
take on an industrial look while others offer a bit of whimsy and playfulness.
Order Online at www.wildporcupine.com
Cornelia Moore of Leap of Faith Productions is getting close to finishing up her short film, “Dancing
With You”. She reports that she'll do the online edit next week, with final sound to follow. www.CorriesLeapofFaith.siteblast.com
Joy Saez, a casting assistant for the Oxygen Network and Gonzo Productions, has been casting, scouting
locations and writing concepts and spec commercials for Fluid Nine. From August through November she will be producing an
independent feature film for Akina Films - and recruiting as many industry women into WIF-S as she can!
Mary Jane Gasdick has kept busy this summer working as the executive producer on the latest series of
Seahawks commercials and most recently as the project manager for Maverick Productions on the Microsoft MGB Conference.
Donna Westfall of Cobblestone Pictures reports from Southern California that she is a bit preoccupied with
her real estate projects to spend time on screenwriting - but she has the bug and knows she'll soon be back to
producing/writing more films in the future.
Natalie Wallace has completed the rewrite of her original comedy script “The Finkles” which will
be marketed to the major studios later this month by her management team, Class 3 Entertainment in Los Angeles. She has
started work on her 14th feature length screenplay, “Vinnie & Joey,” another original high-concept comedy.
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