Reel Jersey Girls: A Century of Women Filmmakers
Reel Jersey Girls: A Century of Women Filmmakers symposium reflects on Alice Guy Blache's innovations and achievements as it fits in with the present day potential and opportunity for women filmmakers. Emerging at the end of the nineteenth century, it wasn’t
Backstage Pass
Listen in on the exposition and experience the denouement as Backstage Pass hosts Christina Kotlar, film festival maven & visual media geek and Yuri Turchyn, jazz musician & sound sculptor, travel to music events and festivals, checking out the music scene as it
Alice Guy Blache
Alice Guy Blache was the first woman film director and a film director for twenty-eight years. She accomplished things no one was doing at the time– special effects, super imposition, synchronized sound, colorization, cut mattes on film, developing fiction films as a narrative at a time when it did not exist. In 1912, women didn’t
From My Blog
Tough Cookie Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies
Fasten your seatbelts, Bette Davis Ain’t For Sissies is an entertaining mindbender. A one-woman stage show, written and performed by Jessica Sherr who transforms into her character, the legendary Hollywood icon, Bette Davis on the night of the 1939 Oscars. Davis arrives home after leaving the banquet hall in the Coconut Grove at the Ambassador [...]
The Girls in the Band a Jazz Legacy
Facing racism, sexism, exclusion and just plain dismissal from a male dominant music establishment, The Girls in the Band, a documentary directed by Judy Chaikin, is about female big band and jazz instrumentalists whose stories and experiences as women overcame social and gender repressive obstacles to just wanting to play their music– in bands, in [...]
Integrated Workflow in Real Time
