May 2012
3 posts
Getting Our Stories Told
I’m already excited for the completion of MAKERS: Women Who Make America, airing in 2013. This documentary, an initiative by AOL and PBS, tells the stories of hundreds of women that have shaped our world. The video initiative is produced by filmmakers Dyllan McGee, Betsy West, and Peter Kunhardt, and features “exclusive access to trailblazing women – both known and unknown.” Some well known women...
Why Women’s Film Fests?
WAM!mer Melissa Silverstein recently attended the International Frauen Film Festival to discuss the status of women’s film festivals (WFFs). Skadi Loist, a researcher from the Media and Communications Studies Department at the University of Hamburg, started the discussion with a presentation: Social Change?! The status of Women’s Film Festivals today. She let Silverstein publish it at Women and...
