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Here is the November submission for Group 312 Films. The theme for the month was "Secret Cretures"
I know that I've already posted this photo... but goodstory films posted all the position of the women who worked on this commercial.
Now here is where I'll talk about women filmmakers. There isn't a shortage of us - and the amount of women filmmakers does not reflect the industry. Here are some statistics:
- Women accounted for 16% of all directors, executive producers, producers, writers, cinematographers, and editors. - Celluloid Ceiling 2013 Report
- Women accounted for 10% of writers, 15% of executive producers, 17% of editors, 3% of cinematographers, and 25% of producers working on the top 250 domestic grossing films of 2013. - Celluloid Ceiling 2013 Report
- Women comprised 6% of all directors working on the top 250 films of 2013. This represents a decrease of 3 percentage points from 2012 and 1998. - Celluloid Ceiling 2013 Report
- A historical comparison of women’s employment on the top 250 films in 2013 and 2012 reveals that the percentages of women directors, writers, executive producers, and editors have declined. The percentage of women producers has remained the same. Celluloid Ceiling 2013 Report
- In Academy Award history, four female filmmakers have been nominated for best director (Lina Wertmuller-1977, Jane Campion-1994, and Sofia Coppola-2004, Kathryn Bigelow - 2010), but only Kathryn has won.
- Women's E-News
- Women support women. Films directed by women feature more women in all roles. There is a 21% increase in women working on a narrative film when there is a female director and a 24% of women working on documentaries. - Indiewire
- Females direct more documentaries than narrative films – 34.5% vs 16.9%.
Its some interesting statistics on their own. But here is the commercial that we all gathered together to create:
I did a quick little video on the Bonsai Garden at the Chicago Botanical Gardens. I love bonsais and they seem like tiny giants and the fact that they take years and years to grow slowly. There were some bonsais that were past down generations to be taken care of.
Please enjoy!
I was given the pleasure to attend the Women in Film Focus Awards where they honored Shira Piven (Director), Susan Credle (CCO, Leo Burnett), Erin Sarofsky (Owner of Sarofsky), and Christina Varotsis (Producer).
Attending with me is (from left to right)
Joanna Woods (Producer, Another Country)
Cindy Duffy (Post Production Coordinator, Cutters)
Kathryn Hempel (Editor/Partner, Cutters)
Megan Kirkpatrick (Director of Business Development, Cutters Studios)
Alison Ho (Audio Assistant, Another Country)
Me!
Joy Holbrook (Producer, Cutters)
Phil Barton (CFO, Cutters Studios)
Jay Patton (Director, Dictionary Films)
Carrie Hunter (Client Services)
For the October theme for Group 312 Films was "Threshold". I dealt with the five senses and each limit that we put them through. There is a moment of zen that people can push their limit further with pain. With the blocks I wanted to isolate each part of the body and what is being affected.
Please enjoy!
The Applachian Tale has been selected to run for awards at the Greenfest Film Festival. It's in Serbia... so it might be hard to go see :)
Here is the list of other film contenders!
Here is a crew photo from a shoot that I'm working on in NYC. It was fabulous because the amount of women on the crew! (there are men, we just had to do an all girl crew photo!)
Traveling for work... going to work at NYC and on the trip there created a fun little gif...
And here is a little experimenting... Working on the new experimental video under the theme of "Threshold". This month is a little looser with how it relates to the theme.
Tim & Adrianna McKinney celebrating their five year anniversary at the Chicago Botanical Gardens. They are stunning couple and very easy to take pictures of <3
Created for Group 312 Films this months theme was "It Can't Be Worse". All footage came from the Prelinger Library. Using the footage to either compliment or criticize each other. The spoken word, read by Charles Bukowski, is from his own poem called, "Genius of the Crowd".
Please enjoy!
Always a little bittersweet at the last day of set <3
