tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147435839097784642011-04-21T16:42:47.841-07:00Women write. Women direct. Everybody laughs.The Broadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03479728610012091450noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-214743583909778464.post-54606927012273246622008-07-25T09:51:00.000-07:002008-07-26T09:53:18.149-07:00

The Friday Traffic Report has put up a list of the top 142 blogs that help with social network marketing. If you want to learn about how to do this for your film or project, here is a resource to get ideas and advice.http://www.jackhumphrey.com/fridaytrafficreport/social-networking/top-142-social-marketing-blogs-on-the-web/

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Lots of indie filmmakers, not to mention the big studios, are trying to figure out how to get an audience for their work. Many people went the Myspace/Facebook route that worked so well for the music business. But music and film are two different beasts, and while music can be used to fill your regular life with a soundtrack that adds to the richness of your experience, movies ask you to leave

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Yes, breasts. When I saw "Breast Fest Film Festival" in my bulk folder, I almost didn't open it thinking it was a disguised porn site. Turns out, Rethink Breast Cancer is having a film competition.Breast Fest is now accepting video submissions for a short film competition. The winning films will be screened at the Festival, taking place on November 21 & 22, 2008 in Toronto.We are looking for

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I've been Twittering (actually I think they call it "tweeting" but I refuse). The way I understand it, Twitter, and similar sites like FriendFeed, are a perfect complement to blogging. They allow quick interaction among users who are all passionate about the same subject. Links, announcements, and just plain human contact all can be bundled there quite effectively.I'm still not comfortable

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At BlogHer '08, talk about the lack of female voices in the political arena reminds me that our difficulties getting our films to be included in the entertainment industry are part of a larger social issue.The following liveblog of the political blog panel, Top-Notch Political Commentary, lays out the numbers.Statistics on public debate: 85% are mostly privileged (Harvard and Yale graduate)

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FILM AWARDS Best Feature Creating Karma by Jill Wisoff Best Short Las Perdidas by Laura Somers and Lauren Costa Best No-Budget Short You're Too by Meg Weidner Best Documentary Pursepectives by Wendy Cohen Audience Award The Pussycats by Jill Broadfoot Audience Award Honorable Mentions Oh, Sammy! by Susan Deming Red Flag by Victoria Cordova SCREENPLAY AWARDS Short Screenplay Citizen Rose

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The broads were invited for a quick turn in the bay by Odyssey Yacht Charters and we had a chance to plan for the future of Broad Humor and all the broads while sipping mimosas and sunning on deck.The day was sweet.  The company was fun.  The mood was pure 'can do.'  

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To all the broads and the broad-minded: Submissions have closed for the Broad Humor Film Festival, and while a few entries that have gotten mis-routed or sent from other countries may yet trickle in, the first stage of this first year is now complete.  We met and surpassed our goal of 100 submissions and we’re now planning how best to showcase and support the filmmakers and screenwriters.  By 

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Donna Discover, a women's travel event in Lucca, invited Broad Humor to show some shorts and teach a workshop.  Filmmaker Donna Wheeler joined festival director Susan di Rende for three days of fun, film and foodfoodfood.

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We've been invited back to Italy - Lucca this time - to exhibit shorts from the festival at the 4th annual Women Traveller's Weekend. All the films exhibited will have to be subtitled in Italian, so we're planning on showing a combination of the films that screened last year in Lucarno and a few new ones. Stay tuned for more info.

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Broad Humor - Rome edition, sponsored by the English Theatre of Rome, invited us to screen films from the festival at L'Arciliuto, a theater in the heart of the historic center. The theater is in an ancient workshop space with walls dating back almost two thousand years.  The screenings were a hit and the filmmakers who were able to come had a blast.Saturday afternoon, the broads took time out to

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I am so happy that the Festival weekend in Venice was such a success. The filmmakers who came watched each other's films and talked in the lounge and enjoyed not only the satisfaction of having other people see their work, but also of meeting other women whom they admired.  There was much to admire in this crowd. What I loved in all the conversations was the spirit of problem solving

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I kept hoping somebody would donate tote bags for the filmmakers.  I imagined the experience for the filmmakers arriving and wanted them to feel they were part of something real.  We are a first-year festival and they sent their money in on faith with nothing promised in the way of prizes beyond the festival itself.   Well, I got another one of my ideas.  You see, for all of my adult life, I

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Let me just say that choosing is not fun. I am more stressed out by the thought of saying 'no' than I would have expected. In the abstract, it is a simple matter. And in reality, the binary nature of the 'yes' or 'no' carries a cartesian clarity. Unfortunately, none of the films or scripts was submitted by a computer that speaks in binary coding.

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One month to go and we go into overdrive. There are now too many things for my brain to remember.   A list on paper I can lose, so I stick my list on the archway.  The post-it notes go up one side of the doorframe and down the other.

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Talk about a feel-good couple of days.  So many of the gals who got our email thanked us.  And while 'thanks' is not why we're doing this, 'thanks' sure makes us feel like we're doing something good.  Here are what some of you said.  Thanks back at you. Susan What a delight to get such a thoughtful, generous e-mail from a film festival programmer! I truly admire your commitment to your mandate

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Look at this picture.  Do you see what I see?  Oh. My. God.  These billboards are all over town. Talk about a statement! The Guerilla Girls have been putting up at least one billboard in Hollywood for years now trying to shame the movie community into acknowledging its near exclusion of women from the Oscar ranks.  The Oscars have chosen a billboard ad campaign this year that not only rejects

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The beginning.  Our first pile of films.

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Since the festival was announced, we've been getting emails like these: This is perfect for me, since most of my films have been comedies which have not seemed to attract the more socially conscious women's film festivals. I'm all for the films that can change the world, but all I want to do is entertain people. What a fabulous idea!  Women, humor, film!  There is a G-D! We started this on the

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While women are 52% of the population, they average 25% of the creatives on prime time television.  Yes, that number means a woman has only half the chance of a man of equal ability.  But the numbers as a lump are also deceiving.  Women in power average 20, 24, and 36% as creators, but only 22, 16, 13, and 2% (!!) as hired creatives.  Check the numbers below.  Why aren't the women execs giving

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The Writers Guild of America posted its nominees the the awards this year. Original screenplay Cliff Hollingsworth and Akiva Goldsman: "Cinderella Man," story by Hollingsworth Paul Haggis & Bobby Moresco: "Crash," story by Haggis Judd Apatow & Steve Carell: "The 40 Year-Old Virgin" George Clooney & Grant Heslov:  "Good Night, and Good Luck" Noah Baumbach: "The Squid and the Whale" Adapted

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The Broad Humor Film Festival has been created to find and promote women's humor on the screen.  That means written AND directed by women.  We believe that films have two creators.  The writer faces the empty page and puts a story with characters there.  But a screenplay is not a book or even a stage play. The work is not really complete yet.  Even though a stage play needs to be on stage to come

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