by Juanita Peters
What an incredible first year it has been for WIFT-AT. With the help of many hands, minds and bodies we have been able to keep an active front throughout the region.
WIFT-AT: Our First Year in Review
February 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Learning How to Walk in These New Platform Shoes
February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
by Cheryl Wagner
Multiplatform Multi-success! was held in Halifax January 13, 14, and 15 for a select group of content creators and producers from all four Atlantic provinces.
In this age of diverse content platforms- ‘from cinema to cell phones’ – Telefilm Canada must be applauded for taking the ‘new’ digital media challenge by the horns and commissioning the L’Institut national de l’image et du son to create this remarkable seminar.
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Following A Poet
February 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
by Linda Rae Dornan
In 2008, Suzie LeBlanc and I retraced a walking journey of the Pulitzer prize-winning poet, Elizabeth Bishop. We followed the journal she wrote while walking across the Avalon Peninsula in 1932, from St. John’s to Norman’s Bay. She spent three weeks in Newfoundland with her friend, Eva, and though the journal was sparsely written, we were able to track down some of the descendants of people mentioned in it, and visit most of the places they visited. We waded across rivers, walked through marshes, climbed mountains, swam in the ocean, and met wonderful people, all the while placing one foot in front of the other, and helping each other along the way.
Grassroots Productions
February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
by Skana Gee
Halifax animator Heather Harkins has a colourful way of describing her work as a grassroots filmmaker. “I scavenge filmmaking opportunities like Bruno Gerussi’s character collected stray logs on The Beachcombers,” she says. It’s a common theme for today’s filmmakers, many of whom take on a variety of projects – their own and others’ – out of both desire and necessity. “I find it very stimulating to go back and forth between projects, and you never know which one’s going to get funding, if it’s going to get funding at all,” says Halifax’s Andrea Dorfman.
Angle On: Juanita Peters
February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Blessed with an eye for truth and an ear for a good story, Juanita Peters is forging her mark along the Canadian cultural landscape. Writer, director, producer, actor, author and mom, Juanita has the whole world in her hands. “It came to me,” she admits modestly. “I started out as a performer, doing a one-woman show with seven characters. I was having fun.”
Boxed In: Employment of Behind-the-Scenes Women in the 2008-09 Prime-time Television Season
February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
by Martha M. Lauzen, Ph.D.
Women in Television and Film, San Diego State University
The percentage of women working in powerful behind-the-scenes roles in prime-time programming airing on the five broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, NBC) remained relatively stable in the 2008-09 season when compared with prior seasons. Overall, women comprised 25% of all creators, executive producers, producers, directors, writers, editors, and directors of photography working on situation comedies, dramas, and reality programs. This represents a decline of one percentage point from 26% in 2007-08 but an increase of four percentage points from 21% in 1997-98.
WIFT International Update
February 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
by Sherry Richardson
President of WIFT International
In 2010, Women in Film and Television International (WIFTI) has sharpened our vision! We are an international network that facilitates the connection between our member chapters to help them obtain resources, support, inspiration and information. We do this through providing avenues such as:
-Bi-monthly President’s Calls
-Signature WIFTI Showcase
-Bi-annual World Summit
-Membership Directory
-Quarterly Newsletter
-Interactive Web site, (which we are in the process of revamping)
Connect with us