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Author:
Mollie Gregory
Mollie Gregory is a writer - of scripts for non-fiction film producers, screenplays and novels and books, one quite notable here - Women Who Run The Show. She also produces, teaches and has held various offices with P.E.N. West, Women in Film and the WIF Foundation.
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For Women Who Run the Show, How A Brilliant and Creative New Generation Stormed Hollywood (St. Martin?s Press), Mollie Gregory interviewed 125 women in almost every level of film and television, from trainees to studio heads. ?We are indebted to Gregory for committing to history those who would underestimate their own gains . . . how a band of sisters crashed the all-boys party that was Hollywood.? Los Angeles Times Book Review.
She began her career as a documentary film writer--Songs from the Fourth World, Off The Edge, India Speaks, Discovering the Art of Korea--and as a writer-producer--Cities are for People, E. R. A. and the American Way, Welfare: Exploding the Myths, and many others.
Gregory was a past president of Women in Film, a past president of P. E. N. West, the international writers? organization, and a U.S. Vice President of the International Quorum of Motion Picture Producers. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America and a trustee of the Women in Film Foundation where she helped originate its Film Finishing Fund competition and the WIF History Preservation Plan.
She is the author of seven published novels, among them Equal to Princes, Triplets, Birthstone, Privileged Lies. She?s been interviewed for or appeared on E! Entertainment, EXTRA, Bloomberg Radio, CNN, The Washington Post, and PBS?s To the Contrary. She?s a frequent speaker at book and film festivals, for universities and organizations on aspects of the entertainment industry ("Hollywood, Sex Discrimination and the Law," "Writers and the Blacklist," "Pioneers in Film," "The Global Conversation of Film and Television").
A graduate of the Cinema School of New York University (BA, MA), she has taught in the film schools of University of Southern California, San Francisco State University, California State University Northridge--screenwriting, documentary film writing and production, and the course she created for San Francisco State, "Movies as Role Models.? She also taught ?Film Financing and Distribution,? a course that drew on her extensive documentary experience, as did her first book, Making Films Your Business. The Los Angeles Times dubbed it "a cogent and impressively thorough book [which] may become as indispensable as your film, tape or talent."
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POWER PLAYS: A New Look at Sexual Harassment
In 2004, when a television producer told me, “Sexual harassment is still going on,” I believed her even though by then the chorus of public opinion, not known for its track record, had pronounced harassment all but gone. Bald eagles were ‘all but gone’ but they’re still here. I’m glad about the eagles.
Is harassment gone or not? I began researching. On a call to the Screen Actors Guild, imagine my surprise when I heard on the telephone menu, "If this is an emergency regarding personal on-the-set safety or sexual harassment, press one."
Bingo. I began to interview people working in film and television. Is sexual harassment still here? Is it different? What can women and men do about it? I learned a lot.
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