SFWFF Podcast Episode 10:

Feature Interview with Melissa Silverstein. Melissa Silverstein is a writer, blogger and marketing consultant. She is an expert in the area of social media regarding women and Hollywood. She is the founder and editor of Women & Hollywood one of the most respected sites for issues related to women and film as well as other areas of pop culture. She is currently producing and creating the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College in NYC which will celebrate women’s leadership. The Festival will launch in February 2011. Through feature films, documentaries, and shorts, the Festival will explore what makes a leader. Is it the ability to inspire people to fight injustice or stand up for the rights of those who are powerless? The festival will examine the values women leaders share—vision, courage, resilience—and explore leadership across race, class, and culture. The Festival will highlight the wide diversity of women’s leadership in both real life and the fictional world, illuminating the sometimes passionate, sometimes agonizing stories of women from across the globe who have made a difference in their countries and communities.

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SFWFF Podcast Episode 09:

Joan Braderman traces the influence of the Women’s Movement’s Second Wave on art and life, The Heretics is the exhilarating inside story of the New York feminist art collective that produced “Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics”. In this feature-length documentary, cutting-edge video artist/writer/director Joan Braderman, who joined the group in 1971 as an aspiring filmmaker, charts the collective’s challenges to terms of gender and power and its history as a microcosm of the period’s broader transformations. On the road with her camera crew from New Mexico to Italy, Braderman reconnects with 28 other group members. Still funny, smart and sexy, the geographically dispersed participants revisit how and why they came together and the extraordinary times they shared—supporting and exploring women’s art and demanding the right to be heard.

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SFWFF Podcast Episode 08:

In 1992 Carole Dean created the Roy W. Dean Grant Foundation in honor of her late father. To date Carole’s grant and mentorship programs have provided filmmakers with millions of dollars in goods and services and have played an instrumental role in establishing the careers of some of the industry’s most promising filmmakers.

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SFWFF Podcast Episode 07:

Women's Magazine looks at women and homelessness. We talk to local film director Kerri Gawryn about her ground breaking film "Exposing Homelessness" a new documentary that features 3 former homeless women and depicts their experiences of being homeless through their own photography. And we talk to local spiritual healer Cheryl Dawson about her work with incarcerated women helping women in prison to heal from the scars of incarceration and poverty. December 28th at 1pm on KPFA radio 94.1 FM and www.kpfa.org/womensmagazine

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SFWFF Podcast Episode 06:

A Panel on Women In Media hosted by Simone Nelson from Bay Area Women in Film and Media and Berkeley Community Media. Panelists: Windie Borman, Crescent Diamond, Julia Robertson, Danae Ringlemann and Scarlett Shepard.

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SFWFF Podcast Episode 05:

KPFA Women's Magazine with Scarlett Shepard, Scarlett Shepard interviews Sheila Ganz, director of documentary 'Moms Living Clean'. We also speak with Lisa R. about her process of recovery and being a part of the documentary.

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