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BAWIFM MONTHLY MEETING EVENTS

Our monthly meeting events are held the 2nd Wednesday of every month at our venue host: The San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking in the Dogpatch area of San Francisco. Events feature an evening of guest speakers, show and tell, tips and tricks and whatever else we can fit into two and a half hours. However, sometimes due to venue or speaker availability, a National Holiday, special event or other reasons, we meet on a different day in a different location.

Access renowned professionals in the industry. Previous panels have included independent theater owners, entertainment law attorneys, film festival programming directors, film distributors, and fundraising directors as well as Award winning and renowned filmmakers, artists, editors and media pioneers including:

  • filmmaker Judy Irving ( The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill ),
  • filmmakers Emiko Omori & Wendy Slick ( Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm )
  • editor Vivien Hillgrove ( Heart of the Sea , Senorita Extraviada )
  • producer Debbie Brubaker ( Swing , Dopamine )
  • screenwriter Janet Peoples ( 12 Monkeys , Nico )
  • filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards, Tiffany Shlain ( The Tribe )
  • Emmy award winning producer/director Dorothy Fadiman
  • filmmaker Deborah Koons Garcia ( The Future of Food )
  • filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine ( Ballets Russes )
  • filmmaker/artist Lynn Hershman Leeson ( Conceiving Ada , Teknolust , Strange Culture )
  • Justine Shapiro ( Promises )
  • filmmakers Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Dawn Valadez ( Going on 13 )
  • Brooke Wentz, Founder of The Rights Workshop
  • Leading film festival programmers and film curators including: Zoe Elton and Janis Plotkin (Mill Valley Film Festival), Nancy Fishman (San Francisco International Jewish Film Festival), Anita Monga (Seattle International Film Festival) and Lois Vossen (ITVS)
  • New digital media distribution leaders including: Sara Pollack from YouTube's Screening Room, Danae Ringelmann founder of IndieGoGo.com, Vanessa Arteaga from Jaman.com, Tom Hicks from Caachi.com, Saskia Wilson-Brown and Andrew Fitzgerald from Current TV.
  • Heads of the Bay Area Film Commissions and film and media production houses as well as leading media funding organizations

Monthly event admission is free for current BAWIFM Members . We admit non-Members and the general public for an admission fee of $5 for or $3 for students. Most of our events are for women only, unless otherwise listed as a co-ed Mixer, Screening, Holiday Party or Special Event.

Please visit our EVENTS page and Calendar to see the most up-to-date information on our upcoming events.

November 2008 Event
REEL SUCCESS STORIES: The Art & Films of Lynn Hershman Leeson

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Lynn Hershman Leeson at the The audience at the event at the Q & A Moderator Karil Daniels asks Lynn about her work
November 12th BAWIFT event

October 2008 Event
MEET THE FILMMAKERS EVENT: The Making of The Documentary Film Going on 13 Amy Jacobson Kurokawa and Simone Nelson at BAWIFT August Mixer
BAWIFM was proud to present, in association with the National Association of Latino Filmmakers (NALIP), an in-depth conversation with filmmakers Dawn Valadez and Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and their Editor Corey Ohama on Wednesday, October 8th at the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking.

The packed room heard the inside scoop and challenges and triumphs over the years it took to make this extraordinary documentary which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. The film follows 4 young girls over 4 years as they let go of childhood and negotiate the precarious moments between being a little girl and becoming a woman.

BAWIFT had been host of one of several work-in-progress screenings of GOING ON 13 a few years ago. According to filmmaker Dawn Valadez: "We found the insight and comments from our work-in-progress screenings, including the one we had with BAWIFT extremeley helpful in the process,"

The Bay Area Premiere of GOING ON 13 was at the San Francisco International Documentary Festival this month.

For more information about the film or screenings visit: www.goingon13.com

Amy Jacobson Kurokawa and Simone Nelson at BAWIFT August Mixer A packed room listens intently to the Fillmmakers and Editor of GOING ON 13 discuss the making of their film.

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