Q: What do you currently do within the media industry? I am a Producer/Director at Studio Kate, a video production company I founded in 2010. As you can see from the business name, the branding process was very extensive. Q. What first inspired you to work in media? In 2010, my family and I were…
Upon completion of Dryland, a feature documentary by WIF Portland member Sue Arbuthnot, with partner Richard Wilhelm, was called “The Best Movie About Coming of Age and Crashing Combines You’ll Ever See” and “a bittersweet and beautiful new film” by Modern Farmer magazine. Sue and Richard premiered the film at the 2014 Big Sky Documentary…
Women in Film is pleased to announce a long awaited benefit concert to raise funds to make The Pearl – Short Film! The Pearl is a narrative short film about a brave and handsome PRINCE who is faced with a cruel decision. The EVIL ONE (Jonathan Hicks) has trapped the soul of the beautiful PRINCESS (Jasmin…
The Documentary Summit is pleased to announce that Portlandia producer David Cress will be moderating the Distribution of Your Story panel at 9:30am on May 9th. The panel will feature Collective Eye Films and WIF-PDX member Amanda Elder. Don’t miss the opportunity to network with other top pros in the Portland film scene. Go to http://www.documentarysummit.com/portland-documentary-summit/ for tickets.…
Next month, the Women in Film and Television International Summit is taking place in Pittsburgh, PA. It’s a weekend long event featuring lots of great speakers, that you can read about here. The organization just sent us some exciting news that we wanted to pass along to you. Catherine Hardwicke, director of such films as…
What is the genesis, or backstory, of why you present documentary summits? I am the author of a series of books called The Guerilla Film Makers Handbooks – one of which is The Documentary Filmmakers Handbook. The series is Q&A style that asks industry professionals the top questions one would need to know about that…
Variety magazine recently called Director Beth Harrington’s newest music documentary, The Winding Stream, “an impressively researched and deftly crafted feature that will find an appreciative audience through exposure in home screen platforms and regional fest screenings.” In addition, the film received a Best of the Rock Fest’s Music Movie Pictures mention from Rolling Stone magazine. The honor came in shortly after…
Award winning director and producer, Janet McIntyre premiered a new project, Ebb and Flow, which successfully helped sell out a showcase event this past January at BodyVox Dance Center on 17th Avenue in Portland. Selections were also performed recently at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. The dance and film collaboration brought together…
Join many of Portland’s top non-fiction professionals as they discuss the important issues surrounding the industry. Topics include: storytelling to help raise money, storytelling in production, transmedia storytelling, branded and advocacy storytelling and new distribution models. Come network and get inspired! Presenters (more to be added): Irene Taylor Brodsky: Vermillion Pictures Jon Betz: Collective Eye…
This class will establish a common vocabulary between directors/producers/project managers and editors/animators. Producer/editor Tracy Dethlefs and editor/animator Goldie Jones discuss basic post-production terminology and asset needs, as well as how to streamline communication about creative concepts, providing detailed and specific feedback, working with small budgets, and meeting tight deadlines. Rather than focusing on the technical,…
Earlier this year, the WIF board conducted a survey to see what our members really wanted from the WIF membership. One activity that came up often was “Connection with other local organizations.” Well, this summer WIF members have and opportunity to do just that! Every summer, local nonprofit Media Institute for Social Change holds a…