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| | | THE EDITOR'S BLOGApril 1, 2009. Don't let anyone make you think there's a lot of money to make movies and you just don't know where it is. Don't let anyone tell you that they know who can get a series/cable movie/reality show made and you don't. It seems the harder the times, the nastier it gets. What is that? The old I'll-make-you-feel-awful-so-I-can- feel-superior? Get over it. The times aren't good. The times aren't what they used to be. The formulas aren't working (formulas as in this one in the indie film world: get a good cast with some sales juice, get a good sales agent, make some presales, get a reliable bank/gap, adjust budget, get bond, go). New ones may emerge - I'd be hard put to say the 'old' formulas will return, but new ones may emerge. And if you are an absolute beginner with guts, you may be able to find your way through these times while the rest of us who feel we've earned the right to an adequate budget, recognizable stepping stones and safe legal advice, wait. More > |
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| | | THE SHOW YOUR WORK ISSUEWe've got a new section - SHOW YOUR WORK. And the new articles today are actually reflections on the need for a place to do so. Being able to show your ability to create. More > |
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| | | ISSUE #6Two sides of our story today... getting in and getting out.
"I am Not....A Piece of Ass" by Elizabeth Finch asking just how valuable is invaluable when you are an assistant. And Susan Baerwald's experience of leaving it all behind while applying all you learned - "Mid-Life Makeover".
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| | | ISSUE #5Two subjects today: why you may not know about the terrific, glorious Women In Film Foundation’s Film Finishing Fund, and THERE WILL BE BLOOD.
Note please that this week’s feature interview, PROCESS: CYNTHIA WADE, is with the director of a wonderful film finished with a grant from the WIF Foundation’s Film Finishing Fund.
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| | | Issue #4Traction...as in: we loose it as often as we get it. Maybe we give it up - maybe we're too busy. There has to be a better explanation than that MEN take it away from us...for DW Griffith to be famous and Lois Webber not.
Whatever it is (what do you think?), we must say things out loud so that we aren't being described by people content with their own version of us...More > |
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| | | Issue #3First off – apologies for the late posting of issue #3. Women In Film being women in film, we’ve been attending and ‘doing’ the American Film Market in Santa Monica, California. An article on same will appear in a future issue.
The featured article in this issue as well as one of the reviews are on documentaries about the genocide in Sudan, a time-sensitive and urgent issue. The featured article is on DARFUR NOW, a Call-To-Action documentary (capitols intended) and is the transcribed panel discussion that went on at the Los Angeles chapter’s Forum on October 6th and 7th, this year, 2007. The picture has opened November 2nd, on 3 screens (excellent average per screen at $7,739) and it is now rolling out to great effect – we hope - for the cause.More > |
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| | | "Issue" Number 2I’d like to say welcome to our second “issue”, but I can’t. The online publishing world doesn’t recognize “issues”. In the hard copy world, issues arrive on the same day each week or month and new material is their point. But online? Everything that has already run remains, articles are as long as they need be- there’s endless space online – and so is the magazine...More > |
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| | | Welcome to TRACTIONWelcome to the first issue of TRACTION, an inter-active, online magazine by and for women in "the industry", and proudly spawned by the Women In Film/General Motors Alliance.
The ambition of TRACTION is to provoke robust discussion and fresh thinking about women and the media. We hope the present and future articles and the access to real information will get our readers to think out loud and to dialogue with the magazine, and through the magazine....More > |
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