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• SFIWFF and BAWIFM co-present: A Mentoring Panel

  • When
    12 Apr 2012
  • 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    San Francisco Art Institure
  • Spaces left
    31

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  San Francisco international Womens film festival and BAWifm co-present:

  Free! Free! Free!

  Think you need to move to Los Angeles or New York City to jumpstart your career in film? Think again!
  

  : This panel is free and open to the public, so register now!

  
  

  http://www.brownpapertickets. com/event/231636

  
  

  The Bay Area landscape is ripe with many thrilling opportunities for women to make it big in the movies. In this special panel, co-presented by the Bay Area Women in Film & Media, you will meet 6 female movers and shakers in the film/media industry, whose success stories are living proof that there's no need to be in L.A. or NYC to make a career in film or media happen.

  
  

  Speaking as your mentors in this panel are: Lynn Hershman Leeson (Filmmaker/Historian), Martha Gorzycki (Associate Professor of Cinema at SFSU), Ryan Lynch (Story Manager at Pixar), Iris Malang (Art Director at Vector), Ami Zins (Creative Consultant & Film Commissioner), and Joanne Parsont (Director of Education at SFFS).

  
  

  Featured Mentors:

  Filmmaker and Historian: Lynn Hershman Leeson

  An award-winning pioneer in new media, Lynn Hershman Leeson now teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute.

  Associate Professor of Cinema, San Francisco State University: Martha Gorzycki

  Since the mid 1980's, Martha Gorzycki has worked as an animator/animation photographer for award winning independent filmmakers in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is an award winning animator/filmmaker and media artist. Her works explores aspects of visual culture and dreams and is exhibited nationally and internationally in festivals, galleries, LCD billboards and the web. She coordinates the animation program at San Francisco State University.

  Pixar Story Manager: Ryan Lynch

  Vector Art Director: Iris Malang

  Iris is an artist from San Francisco, California who grew up on the beautiful islands of Hawai'i. Trained as an animator for 4 years and finding a home in the Game industry and strives to create beautiful works of art for mobile and social
  gaming platforms. Aside from gaming Iris finds excitement in other activities such as hiking, running, painting, and
  exploring a variety of other mediums.

  Creative Consultant & Film Comissioner: Ami Zins
  

  Director of Education, San Francisco Film Society: Joanne Parsont

  Joanne has worked in the Bay Area film community for 15 years as a film programmer, writer, editor, consultant, project manager and media educator, specializing in outreach, education, youth media, children's and documentary programming.

  
  

  Date & Time: Thu, April 12, 2012 from 7 to 9pm
  
  Location: San Francisco Art Institute,

  800 Chestnut Street San Francisco, CA 94133

  
  This is a coed event but the focus will be on women in film and media!
  
  

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