Yes, I’m a self-proclaimed film geek. As you’ve been reading in other posts, this field is extremely hard work. We wouldn’t do it if we didn’t love it, and love it in a crazy, goofy way that can only be described as geekiness.
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Geekiness: Dispatches from Wisconsin Women in Media
February 6th, 2012 | by Frances Perkins | published in EngageWI, Women and Girls Lead
Pulling Your Weight II: Dispatches from Wisconsin Women in Media
December 23rd, 2011 | by Nicole Docta | published in EngageWI, Women and Girls Lead
Documentary filmmaking is mostly about relationships. You build a rapport with the people you want to film so they will show you a window into their lives. Being a woman in the industry definitely has its benefits but just being a woman won’t cut it.
Responsibility: Dispatches from Wisconsin Women in Media
December 21st, 2011 | by Frances Perkins | published in EngageWI, Women and Girls Lead
The producer is the one who has to say yes as often as possible, no as rarely as possible, and has to keep the production rolling forward at all costs, whether there is a blizzard or not.
Pulling your Weight in the Film Industry: Dispatches from Wisconsin Women in Media
December 5th, 2011 | by Nicole Docta | published in EngageWI, Women and Girls Lead
I felt and was treated like a respected colleague among friends that varied from first-film-struggling-artists to seasoned veterans making a living off their personal work. It was fun and inspiring to hear how other people got started in the industry and to realize that most are going through the same struggles.
To Film a Chicken: Dispatches from Wisconsin Women in Media
November 30th, 2011 | by Tashai Lovington | published in EngageWI, Women and Girls Lead
A group calling themselves the Chicken Underground were banding together to get the local ordinances changed to allow for the legalization of backyard poultry. My chicken book idea came back into focus, but I began to think of it in a more dynamic way–as a film.
Pursuing the Twists and Turns: Dispatches from Wisconsin Women in Media
November 9th, 2011 | by Frances Perkins | published in EngageWI, Women and Girls Lead, Your Stories
Innumerable times I have repeated the same phrase to my many students. What do you love? What are your passions, your goals? And, even more importantly, I tell them that it’s okay not to know.
Remembering Wangari Maathai
September 27th, 2011 | by Engage Wisconsin | published in Updates, Women and Girls Lead
Today we remember Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Prize – she passed away Sunday. In 2009, Independent Lens aired her story in the documentary “Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai“. As Jennifer Buffett wrote in her Huffington Post article today, “She understood that women, working as powerful actors in [...]
