BAWIFT - Women in Film & Television
Celebrating Five Years in the Bay Area!
BAWIFT has three core values -
· Furthering women's creative achievement
in film, video and related media arts.
· Maintaining a supportive and collaborative community
of women in the Bay Area.
· A continuing dedication to the highest standards
of professionalism and integrity.
BAWIFT began as Cinema Chicks in February 2001 and is now a community of over 850 women mediamakers from all over Northern California. In May 2003 we became Bay Area Women in Film and Television (BAWIFT), a chapter of the Women in Film and Television International network. In May 2008 we turned 5 - Welcome to BAWIFT!
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BAWIFT's General Meeting Event: Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 Presents…
NEW DIGITAL MEDIA INITIATIVES, TOOLS AND TACTICS FOR DIWO ("Do-It-With-Others") FILMMAKERS
RSVP: Please signup online; Click here to register!
DATE: Wednesday, September 10, 2008
TIME:
7:00 p.m. Networking and light refreshments
7:20 - 9:00 p.m. Panel
9:00 - 9:30 Networking
LOCATION:
The San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking , 2565 Third St., Suite #337, between 22nd & 23rd Streets, San Francisco, CA. Street parking is usually available.
ADMISSION: FREE for Current Members, $5 general, $3 students with ID
Please refer to the information on location and directions to the School provided on our website. There are two campus locations for SF School of Digital Filmmaking if you look on their website. We provide the correct location for this event at www.bawift.org
NOTE: **** Reminder: Unlike our special events, this month's meeting is for women only. **** .
Panelists currently scheduled to appear:
Danae Ringelmann, Founder and CFO, Indiegogo
Sara Pollack, Global Product Marketing Manager, Film & Animation, YouTube,
This timely panel discussion features two women leaders in the digital film/marketplace from IndieGoGo and You Tube's new Screening Room and will focus on the new tools and tactics DIWO filmmakers are using for fundraising, audience building, and distribution. Come hear from two experts on how their companies are helping film and mediamakers navigate the shifting film distribution systems with new tools to harness the power of the internet and audiences to help fund, create and distribute media.
IndieGoGo is an online social marketplace connecting filmmakers and fans to make independent film happen. The platform provides filmmakers the tools for project funding, recruiting, and promotion, while enabling the audience to discover and connect directly with filmmakers and the causes they support. Founded on the principles of opportunity, transparency, choice, and action, IndieGoGo launched in 2008 to address the fundraising challenges and market inefficiencies affecting independent filmmaking today. IndieGoGo enables this "filmocracy" by providing filmmakers an open platform to pitch their projects to the world, and giving the fans a vehicle to experience and influence the once inaccessible world of filmmaking.Filmmakers get new resources to build and engage a loyal fan base to assist in making their projects happen. Filmmakers can raise money and awareness, find cast and crew, and gain credibility through the help of their number one resource: their fans. IndieGoGo
The You Tube Screening Room is an exciting, new initiative from YouTube connecting films and audiences in the world's largest theater and is also a platform for top films from around the world to find the audiences they deserve. Every other Friday, four new films are featured in the The You Tube Screening Room
PANELIST BIOS:
Danae Ringelmann is a founder and the Chief of Finance and Customer Development for IndieGoGo. Danae founded IndieGoGo to democratize the film funding process. Passionate about helping filmmakers embrace new opportunities online, Danae often speaks at conferences and in classrooms on Film 2.0. Recent speaking engagements include Los Angeles Film Festival, Hollywood Black Film Festival, International Documentary Association, California Lawyers for the Arts, IFP Labs, and various university film programs.
Danae brings entertainment industry and film finance expertise. Prior to IndieGoGo, Danae was a securities analyst at Cowen & Co. where she covered entertainment and video game companies including Pixar, Lions Gate, Disney, and Electronic Arts. Danae also focused on cable network, NFL, newspaper and hedge fund clientele while at JPMorgan's Investment Bank and Private Bank. In the wake of 9/11, Danae co-produced a concert reading of Incident at Vichy, an Arthur Miller play addressing the politically charged topic of racial profiling.
Danae is a CFA charterholder and holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Danae was also a Morehead Scholar and Varsity Rower at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sara Pollack is the Global Product Marketing Manager, Film & Animation at YouTube. She is responsible for building and executing You Tube's business strategy for film across the marketing, Product, Business Development, PR, Sales and Editorial Teams, in order to ensure that YouTube remains at the cutting-edge of digital entertainment.
Prior to joining YouTube, Sara was a Production Executive at Big Beach, an independent film production and finance company, where she worked on both feature and documentary films including Little Miss Sunshine, Everything is Illuminated and Sherrybaby. Before Big Beach, Sara worked at Miramax Films, directly reporting to the President of Production during the studio's release of such award-winning films as Finding Neverland, The Aviator, and Cold Mountain. Sara received her B.A. in English from Brown University.
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DATE: Wednesday, September 10, 2008
TIME:
6:00 - 9:00 p.m. Networking!
LOCATION:
The San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking , 2565 Third St., Suite #337, between 22nd & 23rd Streets, San Francisco, CA. Street parking is usually available.
ADMISSION: FREE for Current Members, $5 general, $3 students with ID
WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOU JOINING US ON SEPTEMBER 10th!
SAVE THE DATES
...upcoming 2008 BAWIFT EVENTS AND MONTHLY MEETINGS
Please note, the following are subject to change
Wednesday, October 8, 2008 BAWIFT GENERAL MEETING
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 BAWIFT GENERAL MEETING
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and hear all the BAWIFT news between meetings.
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TRACTION is an inter-active, online magazine by and for women in "the industry", and proudly spawned by the Women In Film/General Motors Alliance. When you join Bay Area Women in Film and Television you become part of WIF nationally, with regional branches in New York, Washington, D.C. as well as a member of WIFTI: Women in Film and Television International, a Group of Women Mediamakers that are in your network!
Traction is only one of many member benefits, won't you join today?
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