The second week in December usually means holiday season visitors and gridlock alerts in New York City, but the New York Women in Film & Television (NYWiFT) chapter welcomed a thousand+ members and friends in from a deep freezing cold at the 2013 Muse Awards luncheon honoring women for their vision and achievement including Frances Berwick, Connie Britton, Sonia Manzano, Robin Wright, Ellen Barkein and Nancy Malone. The doors opened for the...
Ellen Houlihan's breakout short film Joan’s Day Out, stars Oscar-nominated actor Sally Kellerman (M*A*S*H), Tara Lynne Barr (God Bless America) and Betsy Franco. Reminiscent of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the story centers on three generations of women with grandma (Sally Kellerman) escaping from an assisted living home for a day to help her granddaughter out of a jam. Set in a fictional setting evocative of Ellen's hometown Allendale, New...
We were in the throes of upcoming home ownership, I was in writer's block muck and Yuri worried about everything. On his website bio I wrote: Yuri is currently writing his memoirs in a monastery on top of an Etruscan walled city. Welcome to Orvieto on the Rock. It began with Michelangelo. On the vestiges of winter still dark and cold, I discovered Michelangelo Screenwriting, I discovered their mission: To provide creative people with exceptional...
