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Celebrating Five Years in the Bay Area!
BAWIFT has three core values -
* Furthering women's creative achievement in film, video and related media arts.
* Maintaining a supportive and collaborative community of women in the Bay Area.
* A continuing dedication to the highest standards of professionalism and integrity.
BAWIFT began as Cinema Chicks in February 2001 and is now a
community of over 850 women mediamakers from all over Northern
California.
In May 2003 we became Bay Area Women in Film and Television
(BAWIFT), a chapter of the Women in Film and Television International
network.
In May 2008 we turned 5 -
Welcome to BAWIFT!
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SOCIAL NETWORKING FOR THE BAWIFT COMMUNITY -
JOIN
CHICKS-CHAT -
BAWIFT's hugely popular and loved List Serve/User Group.
CHICKS-CHAT
serves over 850 women in media and connects them to each other, to
resources, opportunities, events, screenings, distribution and funding
and more....
CLICK HERE
to join CHICKS-CHAT today!
JOIN THE BAWIFT GROUPS
on
Facebook
&
Linkedin
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Click
the links above to visit the BAWIFT Facebook and Linkedin Groups and
find out how to join...another great way to connect with the BAWIFT
Community!
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Welcome to BAWIFT's
new Board Members!
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BAWIFT recently welcomed 4 outstanding, newly elected Board Members:
Rachel Caplan
- Festival Director, The Ocean Film Festival Festival
Sonia El-Feki
- Artistic Director, The Arab Film Festival
Ahlam Hassan
- Media, Film, Theater & Fashion, Agency Public Relations Professional
Caroline Ocampo
- Principle, Studio CSO - Communication Arts Studio
For a list of the current BAWIFT Board of Directors
Click Here
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TRACTION - on-line Magazine for women in "The Industry"
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Check
out Women in Film's new on-line Magazine TRACTION - it's the on-line
Magazine for and by women in the film, television and media "industry"
CLICK HERE TO VISIT TRACTION
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BAWIFT serves as major Film Festival Co-Presenter
In
the last few months, BAWIFT has served as a co-presenter for many
beloved and famed Bay Area film festivals including: The San Francisco
International Film Festival, Frameline and The San Francisco Jewish
Film Fe
stival.
This past July also gave BAWIFT a first-time opportunity to serve as a Co-Presenter for The San Francisco Silent Film Festival.
BAWIFT was honored to co-present
THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED
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the earliest surviving
feature-length animated film, and the first ever made by a woman (Lotte
Reiniger). Simone Nelson, BAWIFT Board President served as a Special
Guest at the screening and introduced the film along with film critic
Leonard Maltin.
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MANY THANKS TO OUR MONTHLY MEETING HOST -
THE SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF DIGITAL FILMMAKING
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BAWIFT's
Monthly Meeting events are always (except when listed) the second
Wednesday of every month and always at the San Francisco School of
Digital Filmmaking (SFSDF)
BAWIFT is grateful to SDSDF for their gracious hosting of our monthly events.
Check out their extensive list of classes and all their programs by
clicking here
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September 4th SF PGA/BAWIFT MIXER -
THIRSTY THURSDAY!
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BAWIFT's SEPTEMBER MONTHLY
MEETING EVENT:
NEW DIGITAL MEDIA INITIATIVES,
TOOLS AND TACTICS FOR DIWO
("Do-It-With-Others") FILMMAKERS
Panelists currently scheduled to appear:
Danae Ringlemann
, Founder and CFO,
Indiegogo
Sara Pollack
, Global Product Marketing Manager,
Film & Animation,
YouTube
This
timely panel discussion features two women leaders in the digital
film/marketplace from IndieGoGo and You Tube's new Screening Room and
will focus on the new tools and tactics DIWO
filmmakers are using
for fundraising, audience building, and distribution. Come hear from
two experts on how their companies are helping film and mediamakers
navigate the shifting film distribution systems with new tools to
harness the power of the internet and audiences to help fund, create
and distribute media.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT!
IndieGoGo
is an online social marketplace connecting
filmmakers
and fans to make independent film happen. The platform provides
filmmakers the tools for project funding, recruiting, and promotion,
while enabling the audience to discover and connect directly with
filmmakers and the causes they support. Founded on the principles of
opportunity, transparency, choice, and action, IndieGoGo launched in
2008 to address the fundraising challenges and market inefficiencies
affecting independent filmmaking today. IndieGoGo enables this
"filmocracy" by providing filmmakers an open platform to pitch their
projects to the
world, and giving the fans a vehicle to experience and
influence the once inaccessible world of filmmaking.
Filmmakers
get new resources to build and engage a loyal fan base to assist in
making their projects happen. Filmmakers can raise money and
awareness, find cast and crew, and gain credibility through the help of
their number one resource: their fans.
The
YouTube Screening Room
is
an exciting, new initiative from YouTube connecting films and audiences
in the world's largest theater and is also a platform for top films
from around the world to find the audiences they deserve. Every other
Friday, four new films are featured in the YouTube Screening Room.
DATE: Wednesday, September 10, 2008
TIME:
7:00 p.m. Networking and light refreshments
7:20 - 9:00 p.m. Panel
9:00 - 9:30 Networking
LOCATION:
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking,
2565 Third St.,
Suite #337, between 22nd & 23rd Streets,
San Francisco, CA.
Street parking is usually available.
ADMISSION:
FREE for current Members,
$5 general, $3 students with ID
**** Reminder: Unlike our special events,
this month's meeting is for women only. ****
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT!
Please refer to the information on location and
directions to the School provided on our website.
There are two campus locations for SF School of Digital
Filmmaking if you look on their website.
We provide the correct location for this event
at www.bawift.org
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Scenes from BAWIFT's Successful
August Co-Ed Mixer
Filmmaker Sheila Ganz with Ami Zins, Director of
the Oakland Film Office at August Mixer
Mixer Event-goers enjoying the evening
All photos by Don Schwartz
BAWIFT's first co-ed Mixer, held at
Kelly's Mission Rock Cafe in San Francisco
on a warm August summer evening
(really it was warm!) by the water was a huge
success.
Thanks to all who came out for a relaxing
and fun evening of food, drink, great views,
new and old friends & acquaintances and a
great shmooze-athon!
Dozens of local men and women in media
and their friends and significant others stopped by
to enjoy the sunset on the water and meet the
ever growing and always supportive BAWIFT
Community.
BAWIFT Board Members at August Mixer - from Left to Right:
Rachel Caplan, Sonia El-Feki, Simone Nelson, Michele Turnure-Salleo
and Ondine Kilker
Amy Jacobson Kurokawa, head of the SF PGA Chapter with
BAWIFT Board President, Simone Nelson
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BAWIFT is a non-profit membership organization that is run by a dedicated group
of
women volunteers. We need your continuing support, feedback, and
assistance to continue our growth and provide the best resources,
programming and networking for our members and the community as we
build our Chapter of Women in Film & Television International.
Let us know if you have any thoughts about what we are doing and if you are interested in volunteering.
Click here
to learn more about volunteer opportunities.
Also,
feel free to forward this newsletter and info to anyone you think maybe
interested and we hope to see many of you at our upcoming events.
Supporting
BAWIFT means supporting your local community of women mediamakers and
leaders in film, television, digital media in the Bay Area.
Happy Labor Day Weekend to all!
Sincerely,
The Board of Directors
Bay Area Women in Film and Television
www.bawift.org
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