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
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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 [...]
Tribeca herFlix Picks in Overload Mode
Tribeca Film Festival started Thursday, April 18, 2013 with a slew of films in overload mode until a screening schedule is in place. Along with current films, programs highlighting the anniversary of beloved films can be fun – it’s 30 years ago since the King of Comedy with the star of Tribeca, Robert DeNiro, as [...]
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