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Alliance Of Women Directors
The Alliance of Women Directors (AWD) is an American 501c(3) nonprofit organization created to support education and advocacy for women directors in film, television, and new media. The AWD, established in 1997, has over 250 members and is based in Los Angeles. Programs The AWD works to support and promote the work, visibility, and professional development for female directors through a variety of programs including screenings, educational events, and industry parties both for their members, and the general public. The Alliance offers a "TV Shadowing Program" providing opportunities for new directors to learn from experienced directors at work. The AWD is a nominator for the Fox Global Directors Initiative and an allied organization of the Women Filmmakers Initiative. The AWD helps its members make professional connections. In 2014, Maria Burton was hired as director of ''A Sort of Homecoming'' when the film's producer consulted the AWD to find a suitable candidate. In 2008, Vict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
501(c) Organization
A 501(c) organization is a nonprofit organization in the Law of the United States#Federal law, federal law of the United States according to Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. § 501(c)) and is one of over 29 types of nonprofit organizations exempt from some Taxation in the United States, federal Income tax in the United States, income taxes. Sections 503 through 505 set out the requirements for obtaining such exemptions. Many states refer to Section 501(c) for definitions of organizations exempt from state taxation as well. 501(c) organizations can receive unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations, and Labor union, unions. For example, a nonprofit organization may be tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) if its primary activities are charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering amateur sports competition, or preventing cruelty to Child abuse, children or Animal cruelty, animals. Types According ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes Festival (; french: link=no, Festival de Cannes), until 2003 called the International Film Festival (') and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including Documentary film, documentaries, from all around the world. Founded in 1946, the invitation-only festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. The festival was formally accredited by the FIAPF in 1951. On 1 July 2014, co-founder and former head of French pay-TV operator Canal+, Pierre Lescure, took over as President of the Festival, while Thierry Frémaux became the General Delegate. The board of directors also appointed Gilles Jacob as Honorary President of the Festival. It is one of the "Big Three" major European film festivals, alongside the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany, as well as one of the "Big Five" major interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paley Center For Media
The Paley Center for Media, formerly the Museum of Television & Radio (MT&R) and the Museum of Broadcasting, founded in 1975 by William S. Paley, is an American cultural institution in New York City, New York with a branch office in Los Angeles, dedicated to the discussion of the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms for the professional community and media-interested public. It was renamed The Paley Center for Media on June 5, 2007, to encompass emerging broadcasting technologies such as the Internet, mobile video, and podcasting, as well as to expand its role as a neutral setting where media professionals can engage in discussion and debate about the evolving media landscape. Locations The New York City location is in the heart of Midtown Manhattan at 25 West 52nd Street (Manhattan), 52nd Street between Fifth Avenue (Manhattan), 5th and Sixth Avenue (Manhattan), 6th Avenues. With a growing collection of content Broadcasting, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TheWrap
''TheWrap'' is an American online news website covering the business of entertainment and media via digital, print and live events. It was founded by journalist Sharon Waxman Sharon I. Waxman (born c.1963) is an American author, journalist, and blogger who has been a correspondent for '' The Washington Post'' and '' The New York Times'', and founded the Hollywood and media business news site ''TheWrap'' in early 2009. ... in 2009. Awards ''TheWrap'' has won awards for its journalism, including best website in 2018 for a news organization exclusive to the internet at the L.A. Press Club's SoCal Journalism Awards and best entertainment website in 2018 at the National Arts and Entertainment Journalism (NAEJ) awards. In 2016, the L.A. Press Club's NAEJ gave the site its top prizes for feature photography and Sharon Waxman's WaxWord blog, as well as second place for Best Entertainment Website and Entertainment Publication. The site was named the best online news site in both 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Warren
Jennifer Warren is an American actress, producer and film director. Early life and education She was born in the Greenwich Village section of New York City, the daughter of actress Paula Bauersmith and Dr. Barnet M. Warren, a dentist. Her uncle was Yiddish theatre actor and director Jacob Ben-Ami. Career Warren made her Broadway debut in 1972 in ''6 Rms Riv Vu'', for which she won a Theatre World Award. She appeared in the short-lived '' P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!''. Warren's film credits include '' Sam's Song'' (1969), '' Night Moves'' (1975), ''Slap Shot'' (1977, as the frustrated wife of hockey player Paul Newman), ''Another Man, Another Chance'' (1977), '' Ice Castles'' (1978), ''Mutant'' (1984), and ''Fatal Beauty'' (1987). She was listed as one of the 12 "Promising New Actors of 1975" in John Willis' ''Screen World'', Volume 27. She also played a role in ''Steel Cowboy'' (1978). Her television credits include guest roles on ''The Bob Newhart Show'', ''Kojak'', ''Cagney & La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Dues
Union dues are a regular payment of money made by members of unions. Dues are the cost of membership; they are used to fund the various activities which the union engages in. Nearly all unions require their members to pay dues. Variation Many union members pay union dues out of their wages, although some unions collect dues separately from the paycheck. Union dues may be used to support a wide variety of programs or activities, including paying the salaries and benefits of union leaders and staff; union governance; legal representation; legislative lobbying; political campaigns; pension, health, welfare and safety funds and the union strike fund. The expenditure of dues is then authorized either by the local union meeting or by the elected leaders of a union. Dues are different from fees and assessments. Fees are generally one-time-only payments made by the union member to the union to cover the administration of ongoing programs or activities. One example is the initiation f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lesli Linka Glatter
Lesli Linka Glatter (born July 26, 1953) is an American film and television director. She is best known for her work on the AMC drama series ''Mad Men'' and the Showtime series ''Homeland'', for which she's received eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She's also received an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film nomination for ''Tales of Meeting and Parting'' (1985). Life and career Glatter was born in Dallas to Jewish parents. She began her career as a dancer and choreographer. Her early choreography credits include William Friedkin's ''To Live and Die in L.A'' and the music video for Sheila E.'s "The Glamorous Life". Her first film, ''Tales of Meeting and Parting'' (1984), produced by Sharon Oreck, was nominated for an Academy Award in the Live Action Short Film category. She made the film as part of the American Film Institute Directing Workshop for Women, of which she is an alumna. In 1995, Glatter directed her first feature film, ''Now and Then'', a coming-of-a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethany Rooney
Bethany Rooney (formally credited as Beth Hillshafer and Bethany Rooney Hillshafer) is an American television director and producer who has worked on over three dozen television series and made-for-television films. Since her directorial debut in 1985 in an episode of '' St. Elsewhere'', she has directed multiple episodes from a vast number of television series, most notably ''The Wonder Years'', ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', ''Crossing Jordan'', ''Melrose Place'', ''Melrose Place (2009)'', '' Ally McBeal'', ''One Tree Hill'', ''Gilmore Girls'' and ''She Spies'', whilst other credits include ''Las Vegas'', ''Desperate Housewives'', '' Inconceivable'', ''Dawson's Creek'', ''Boston Public'', '' Ed'', '' Jack & Jill'', ''Grey's Anatomy'', ''Private Practice'', '' Dream On'', ''Castle'', ''Revenge'', ''Arrow'' among other series. In addition, Rooney has directed various episodes of the American TV series, '' NCIS''. She has also directed a number of made-for-television films, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Thomas
Betty Thomas (born Betty Lucille Nienhauser; July 21, 1948) is an American actress, director, and producer. She is known for her Emmy Award-winning role as Sergeant Lucy Bates on the television series ''Hill Street Blues''. As of March 2018, Thomas is one of just two directors (and the only solo director) to have multiple films on the list of seventeen highest-US-grossing female-directed films. Additionally, two of her films are in the top twenty-five highest-US-grossing female-directed films. Early life Thomas was born Betty Lucille Nienhauser in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1947 to Nancy (née Brown) and William H. Nienhauser, Sr. She graduated from Willoughby South High School, Willoughby, Ohio, in 1965. After high school Thomas attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Upon graduating Thomas worked as an artist and taught high school before becoming a part of The Second City, the premiere venue for improvisational theater in Chic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mimi Leder
Miriam Leder (; born January 26, 1952) is an American film and television director and producer noted for her action films and use of special effects.Hurd, Mary G. Women Directors and Their Films. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007. She was the first female graduate of the AFI Conservatory, in 1973. She has won 2 Emmy Awards and received nominations for 10 Emmy awards. Early life Leder was born in New York City in 1952, the daughter of Etyl, a classical pianist, and Paul Leder, a director, producer, actor, writer, and editor of such films as '' My Friends Need Killing, Attack of the Giant Horny Gorilla,'' and '' Dismember Mama''. Leder was raised in Los Angeles in a Jewish household. Her mother is a Holocaust survivor from Brussels, Belgium, who was interned at Auschwitz. During childhood, her father, a low-budget independent filmmaker, introduced Mimi and her siblings to film production. Her father often dropped her off at the cinema to watch the latest films. Leder states that one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debra Granik
Debra Granik (born February 6, 1963) is an American filmmaker. She is most known for 2004's '' Down to the Bone,'' which starred Vera Farmiga, 2010's ''Winter's Bone,'' which starred Jennifer Lawrence in her breakout performance and for which Granik was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and 2018's '' Leave No Trace,'' a film based on the book ''My Abandonment'' by Peter Rock. Early life and education Granik was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to father William R. Granik, who was an attorney with H.U.D. who litigated fair housing, and mother Brenda Granik Zusman. She grew up in the suburbs of Washington D.C. Her parents divorced in 1978. Granik is the granddaughter of broadcast pioneer Ted Granik (1907–1970), founder and moderator of the long-run public affairs panel discussion program, '' The American Forum of the Air,'' on from 1934 to 1956, first on the radio and later on television. Granik is from a Jewish family. In 1985, Granik received h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jen McGowan
Jen McGowan is an American filmmaker. At the 2014 South by Southwest Film Festival, McGowan won the Gamechanger Award for ''Kelly & Cal'', her first feature film. McGowan is the creator of filmpowered.com, an international skill-sharing, networking and job resource for professional women in film and television. Career Jen McGowan began her career as a filmmaker when she received her BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. There she studied film and trained as an actor at the Atlantic Theater Company with David Mamet, William H. Macy, and Sam Shepard. During this period, McGowan worked with New York companies such as RSA/Black Dog, A Band Apart, Killer Films, and Propaganda. She worked on independent feature films, including the Oscar-winning '' Boys Don't Cry''. McGowan received a grant from The Caucus Foundation for her thesis film, ''Confessions of a Late Bloomer'', which began its festival run at the Tribeca Film Festival. McGowan then directed the short film ''Touch'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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