- Type: Panels and Workshops
- Year: 2015
Both an introduction to the Film Fatales, a collective of female filmmakers who have directed at least one feature narrative or documentary film and a lessons-learned discussion, panelists will discuss how they make films while making ends meet and how a community or group like Film Fatales can help women in the industry.
Panelists (extended bios below):
Lynn True, NY-based documentary filmmaker (iThemba|Hope; LUMO; Summer Pasture)
Deborah Goodwin, writer/director/producer (Vampires in Venice; The Pastor, release in March 2015)
Lina Plioplyte, a Lithuanian-born filmmaker and cinematographer based in New York (Advanced Style)
Lara Zizic, director (The Isabel Fish; Mission Congo)
Moderator:
Leah Meyerhoff, founder of Film Fatales
Date: Friday, February 6, 6PM
Location: James Room, 418 Barnard Hall
Co-Hosted by Film Fatales
Panelist Bios:
Lynn True is a New York based documentary filmmaker. Past projects include iThemba|Hope (Sundance Channel 2005), LUMO (PBS/P.O.V. 2007), and most recently, Summer Pasture (PBS/Independent Lens 2012), which follows a young family of nomads in eastern Tibet as their pastoral way of life confronts encroaching modernization. Called “enthralling” by The New York Times, Summer Pasture was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, an IFP Gotham Award, and won a Peabody Award. Lynn is currently working with veteran filmmaker Albert Maysles on a documentary portrait of America that takes place entirely on long-distance trains. Lynn graduated from Brown University with a joint degree in Urban Studies and Architecture.
Deborah Goodwin wrote, directed and co-produced her first feature film, Vampires in Venice, which had its sales debut at Cannes Market 2011 and just completed her second, The Pastor, which will be released in March 2015. Her scripts have sold to animated series, Tales from The Cryptkeeper, and have been optioned by independent producer’s like Andrea Miller (Dark Matter), Greg Carter (My Big Phat Hip Hop Family) Harry Knapp (Rescue Dawn), and selected for FIND, Film Independent/LA’s screenwriter’s and producer’s labs as well as IFP/NY Film Market’s Emerging Narrative. Deborah has also served as Director of Development at Sanford/Pillsbury Productions (Desperately Seeking Susan, The River’s Edge, Eight Men Out, How to Make An American Quilt).
Lina Plioplyte is a Lithuanian born filmmaker and cinematographer, living and working in New York. After moving to NYC in 2007 she incorporated her love of fashion and color into her video work as a camera woman for NYLON magazine TV. Currently she is creating shortfilms, music videos and documentaries about bright personalities for clients including Urban Outfitters, Tod’s, Saks 5th Avenue, 30 Seconds To Mars and others. Her feature debut is the documentary Advanced Style (13).
Lara Zizic received her master’s degree in filmmaking at Columbia University. She directed the short film The Isabel Fish (06) and co-directed the feature Mission Congo (13) which premiered at the Toronto Int’l Film Festival.
Moderator Bio:
Leah Meyerhoff‘s debut feature film I Believe in Unicorns premiered in competition at SXSW 2014, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Atlanta Film Festival, Best Score at the Nashville Film Festival, Honorable Mention at the Woodstock Film Festival, and additional awards from IFP, SFFS, Tribeca Film Institute and the Adrienne Shelly Foundation. The film was acquired by Gravitas Ventures for domestic distribution and will be released theatrically in 2015. Meyerhoff’s previous short films have screened in over 200 film festivals, won a dozen awards, and aired on IFC, PBS, LOGO and MTV. She was one of eight filmmakers chosen to participate in the IFP Emerging Narrative Labs, IFP Narrative Finishing Labs, and the Tribeca All Access Labs. She was also one of ten filmmakers chosen to participate in the Emerging Visions program at the New York Film Festival. She has been featured in Variety, The Hollywood Reporter and The New York Times and starred on the docudrama Film School on IFC. Meyerhoff is the founder of Film Fatales, a female filmmaker collective based in New York with ten local chapters around the world, dedicated to the creation of more films by and about women. She holds a BA in Art-Semiotics from Brown University and an MFA in Directing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
