An article in Sunday’s New York Times January 13, 2013 announced that 9 percent of the top 250 movies at the domestic box office last year were directed by women, “a substantially higher number” than the 2011 figure of 5 percent. Funny, the 2012 report is not out yet. The NYT attributes this to San Diego State University (SDSU) professor Martha Lauzen whose annual “Celluloid Ceiling” report is usually announced the week of the Sundance...
Fort Lee Film Commission presented the eighth annual Jersey Filmmakers of Tomorrow (JFOT), a Bergen County High School student film festival, with a finalists screening and awards ceremony on Saturday, November 10, 2012, at Media Mix Studio in Allendale, New Jersey. I have been involved with JFOT for several years and it’s great to see home grown talent in the Garden State. Keep an eye out for Shannen Siramarco, 17, of Paramus High School,...
Du Mont is a pioneer in the television industry, with the first American TV sets on the market in 1938. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Du Mont was America’s fourth television network before Channel Five (Fox) proved that a fourth network was viable. Du Mont competed with CBS, NBC and ABC for a television audience. DuMont was second to enter the network TV business, establishing a link between its New York City and Washington, D.C....
