Making It: Women in Film

A weekly podcast for all aspiring women in film & TV, ft. conversation w/ women in the industry. Listen now, wherever - whenever.

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Listen to the official trailer for Making It: Women in Film.
A weekly podcast where two aspiring filmmakers sit down with women in the industry to have honest and introspective conversations about what it means to be a woman - in front & behind the camera. https://t.co/rN6KYZRtV5

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✨ New episode out! #5 | Mental Health Awareness in TV with Amelia Nashe episode of Making It: Women in Film
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Tomorrow's episode is all about the portrayal of mental health issues in film & TV - here are some statistics to keep in mind:

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--- Study conducted by USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative in May 2019

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A fantastic article about a phenomenal filmmaker. Go check it out.

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"For Sachs, translation is frequently as much a vessel for encountering others as it is a tool to mold her films’ forms. " Check out this article by @29s____ on how @LynneSachs1 has turned spoken language into cinematic language. https://t.co/2mo7TaNpY9 #DirectedByWomen

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The advice that I would give to any director is that you should act.

- Greta Gerwig

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"Say, Andura Onashile - watching her on set, directing people and having a go at the camera and stuff [...] Again, I hate using the word 'powerful', but that's what it felt like."

Hear more about the power of seeing women on set here:
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Hire women.

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Women Directed Less Than 25% of European Films, Series in Three-Year Period https://t.co/ebgQVAkB35

[Naomi McDougall Jones @NaomiMcDougallJ]

We'll see if the Academy actually does this and what the "diversity requirements" would be (i.e. they could undercut the power of this by weeny-ing out and making the bar so low that it's possible to step over without meaningful representation). BUT...I am cautiously optimistic.

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"The filmmakers stated that ICE threatened to subpoena raw footage and “threatened legal action” if scenes that negatively portrayed their policies and actions were not removed."

Immigration Nation will be out on Monday, Aug 3rd.

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Filmmakers @cclusiau and Shaul Schwarz were told by @ICEgov to remove scenes from their documentary 'Immigration Nation' and delay the release date until after the 2020 election. The doc covers Trump's "zero-tolerance" immigration policy. https://t.co/bMYzVqNRPH

[rachel zegler (she/her/hers) @rachelzegler]

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@Winstonwrites Thank you! The support we have already received has been so incredible, figured it was time to join the Twitter space as well:)

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Listen to the official trailer for Making It: Women in Film.
A weekly podcast where two aspiring filmmakers sit down with women in the industry to have honest and introspective conversations about what it means to be a woman - in front & behind the camera. https://t.co/rN6KYZRtV5

[Making It: Women in Film @MakingItWIF]

In this episode we talk about everything from making it through film school, why we need to see a drastic change in the representation of Muslims on & behind the screen, the power of seeing women on set, and how lockdown has changed the creative game forever.

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Listen to the most recent episode of our podcast: #2 | Making Your Way Through Film School w/ Shamaila Zaman and Sinead McCool - available wherever you get your podcasts. https://t.co/0RrzfMw3qO

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"I'm not going to continue knocking that old door that doesn't open for me. I'm going to create my own door and walk through that." -Ava DuVernay

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Listen to the most recent episode of our podcast: #2 | Making Your Way Through Film School w/ Shamaila Zaman and Sinead McCool - available wherever you get your podcasts. https://t.co/0RrzfMw3qO