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• Victoria Nestorowicz discusses

  • From: daphne23
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    Victoria Nestorowicz was one of the ensemble actors that I met at the Banff Creative Workshop's Women in the Director's Chair workshop. I just fell in love with her courage as an actress and told her that I was going to write something for her. REPLAY is that film.

    A little while ago, I asked Victoria about taking on the role of Kate and this is what she shared.

    Playing Kate in REPLAY was a challenge. I think I will always have the initial question before I get onset, "am I a good enough actress to make this believable?" Michaelin was a wonderful director; she spent a lot of time with me working on Kate's mentality and personality and that inspired great confidence.

    While shooting some of the scenes in the car, I would actually get so involved that it was difficult not to actually break down and cry, again Michaelin played Kate's sub conscious and instilled a tremendous amount of strength in me. I believe that in most cases by not 'playing the victim', someone who is captured will eventually be granted freedom.

    It's an interesting border that women (especially western) dance round today. A lot of media and fashion experts tell us how liberating it is to act a certain way and wear certain clothes. We think it is "woman's liberation' but is this actually the truth? In an indirect sort-of-way palying this role helped me realize the rights and honor of being a woman.

    The way that Michaelin expressed this film is very impressive and courageous; both onset and off, she is a role model for Kate and mentor to me.

     

     

     

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• Undercurrent Screening 2-4pm O

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    This is a short film written, co-produced by and starring myself (Rhea Akler) and David J. MacNeil, directed by Jock MacDonald. It is currently on the Film Festival circuit with great success. Festivals include ReelHeART International Film Festival 2009 (Won ReelHeART Spirit Award), SoCal Film Festival 2009 (Rhea Akler Nominated for Best Actress in a Short) and the upcoming La Femme Film Festival 2009 in LA.
    
    In a nutshell, Undercurrent is a domestic drama. Sandy returns from her acting class late at night, consumed by something she must tell her husband but unsure how to do it. Jealous of her actor friends, threatened by the person she is around them, and feeling unimportant, Adam confronts her in what turns out to be something neither one of them expected.
    

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• Undercurrent Screening @ La Fe

  • From: rakler
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    Come check out the short film Undercurrent, from Toronto, Canada screening Thursday Oct 15th 2-4pm. Coming out of SoCal Film Festival 2009, Rhea Akler was nominated for Best Actress in a Short.  The film is written by, co-produced by and starring Rhea Akler, alongside David J. MacNeil ... directed by Jock MacDonald and co-produced by Darren Adderley. 

    Sandy returns from her acting class late at night, consumed by something she must tell her husband, but unsure how to do it. Jealous of her actor friends, threatened by the person she is around them, and feeling unimportant, Adam confronts her in what turns out to be something neither one of them expected.

    The truth is never simple.

    For Tickets/Schedule:  http://www.lafemme.org/

    Venue 1, Renberg Theatre, 1125 N McCadden Place Los Angeles 90038

    For more info on the film: www.noellaproductions.com

    

    

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• The Award Winning film about Y

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    Lives of YouTube “Weblebrities” Chronicled in Upcoming Documentary

                Meet six folks in the feature documentary “Butterflies” who share the common goal of becoming internet sensations via YouTube. Each real-life character in the documentary has made a presence online with thousands of subscribers following their daily lives and video blogs. 

               “Butterflies” is being presented by La Femme Film Festival on October 15th, 2009 at 6PM at the Davidson/Valentini Theatre, 1125 N McCadden Place in
    Los Angeles.

               Ester Brym, producer, director and editor of the documentary, is thrilled to showcase her work at La Femme

                “This opportunity to showcase YouTube on a big screen means that the traditional and new media are slowly merging” Brym said.  “Each character in the film represents each one of you. The girl next door, the talented musician, the up and coming actress or the regular guy who always makes you laugh.”

                   The film has won the Alan J. Bailey Excellence Award at AOF and has been nominated for Best Social Commentary at AOF and Best Director and Feature Documentary 2009 at Montana IFF.

    For more information about Butterflies,” visit www.butterfliesthemovie.com

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• Begginer

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    Hello all......My name is Sonja Denice!!! I am an aspiring actress who wants to learn anything and everything about Film! I currently live in Vegas....I assure all the stories about my SIN CITY are true. Turned 21 this year so this whole year has been about trying to find myself and expierencing the Adult part of Vegas. I've never really wrote a Blog before so be gentle. Trying to be an actress in Vegas with no expierence and only a few classes I find very hard to do but not giving up. I've searched this city looking for classes but cant seem to find any, I mean they have seminars but they are really expensive, you can say Im a struggling actress. I was in this company where I took only a few classes and the coach/teacher told us that people dont cast out of Vegas because we lack talent....I wonder is that true??? Well if it is I am more then happy to prove everyone wrong. I hope to meet alot of interesting and talented people here, who can give advice if they feel on anything they think I should know. Also hoping to make friends with the same goals and dreams as myself! Cant Wait to hear from you!!!

    (Sonja Denice)

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• Alice Guy "La fee aux Choux" 1

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    1896 sorlie de"La fée aux choux" premier des + 600 films réalisées par Alice Guy Blaché
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    Publié le 07/07/2007 à 15:42

    Par Alice Guy Jr.

    CONTENT BEGINS HERE Key Dates in the Life of Alice Guy Blaché 1873 -- Alice Guy's French parents, Mariette and Emil Guy, live in Santiago, Chile, but Guy's mother travels to Paris to give birth to her fifth child. Guy is raised by her grandmother in Switzerland until she is three or four years old. 1877 (approx.) -- Her mother comes to collect her daughter and take her home to Santiago. In Santiago Guy meets her father for the first time. 1879 (approx.) -- Her father brings her back to France and enrolls her in the boarding school where two of her older sisters are already studying. 1884 (approx.) -- Her father's bookstore chain is bankrupted by a series of violent earthquakes, fires, and thefts. Her parents return to France and her older sisters quickly marry. Guy is transferred to a cheaper boarding school. Her brother dies after a long illness, and her father dies soon after. 1893 -- Guy has trained as a typist and stenographer and gets her first job as a secretary for a company that sells varnishing products. 1894 -- Guy is hired by La Gaumont, the "second-in-command" to work for Felix Richard's still-photography company. Soon after, Richard loses a patent suit and is forced to go out of business. Leon Gaumont buys the inventory and starts his own company, taking Guy with him. Guy is present when Georges Demenÿ demonstrates his phonoscope and offers Gaumont the patent for his biographe, a 60mm motion picture camera. March 22, 1895 -- Gaumont and Guy are invited by the Lumière brothers to witness a demonstration of their cinématographe, a 35mm motion picture camera, at the Société d'encouragement ˆ l'industrie nationale. Guy persuades La Gaumont to let her use the Gaumont camera to direct a story film. 1896 -- Guy writes, produces and directs La Fée aux choux (The Cabbage Fairy). 1897 --La Gaumont makes Guy head of film production, a post she holds until 1906. By 1906 she will have produced over 400 films . 1902 -- Gaumont demonstrates his chronophone, a synchronized-sound system. 1902-1906 -- Guy directs over 100 phonoscènes, films made for the chronophone. 1906 -- Herbert Blaché, a Gaumont manager, is assigned to serve as Guy's cameraman on Mireille. Later, Guy is sent to Berlin to oversee demonstrations of the chronophone and assist Blaché with sales. Christmas Day, 1906 -- Blaché and Guy are officially engaged. Guy is 33, Blaché is 24. Spring, 1907 -- Guy and Blaché marry. Gaumont sends Blaché to the U.S. to promote a chronophone franchise. Guy resigns her position to accompany her husband to the U.S. 1907 -- The Blachés spend nine months in Cleveland working with investors to promote a chronophone franchise. The effort is unsuccessful. 1908 -- Gaumont hires Herbert Blaché to manage his studio in Flushing, New York, for the production of phonoscènes in English. Lois Weber is among the performers hired, and she is later given the opportunity to direct phonoscènes herself. 1908 -- Guy gives birth to her daughter, Simone. 1910 -- Tempted by the Gaumont studio in Flushing, New York, that is underused, Guy creates her own company, Solax, and rents the Gaumont studio space. Her early films are melodramas and westerns. 1911 -- Guy gives birth to her son, Reginald. 1912 -- Solax is so successful that Guy builds a studio in Fort Lee New Jersey , said to cost over $100,000. Solax produces two one-reelers (10-15 minute films) a week and develops a stable of stars. Guy writes and directs at least half of these films and oversees all production. Her rate of production equals that of D.W. Griffith, working at Biograph just a few miles away. 1912 -- Gaumont has a falling out with George Kleine, a member of the Motion Picture Patents Company and his U.S. distributor. Gaumont moves over from the "licensed" side of distribution to join the ranks of the independents. Since Solax's films are distributed through Gaumont in both the U.S. and France, Solax joins the ranks of the independents along with Gaumont. March 1, 1913 -- Release date of Dick Whittington and His Cat. With a length of three reels (45 minutes), a $35,000 budget and elaborate staging (including burning a boat) and costuming, it is Guy's most ambitious Solax project. June 1913 -- Blaché's contract with Gaumont expires and Guy makes him president of Solax so that she can concentrate on writing and directing. After three months, Blaché resigns and starts his own film company, Blaché Features. Blaché Features uses Solax's plant, inventory and actors, making the two companies hardly distinguishable for a few months. Blaché Features' production eventually supersedes Solax production, so that by 1914 Solax is virtually defunct. August 1913-August 1914 -- Blaché and Guy alternate producing and directing longer films (three and four reels) for Blaché features. 1914-1916 -- The market now demands feature-length films (five reels or more). The Blachés join Popular Plays and Players, a production company which produces features for distributors such as Metro, Pathé, and World Film Corporation. These films are shot in the former Solax Studio in Fort Lee, which still belongs to the Blachés. 1916 -- The Blachés are dissatisfied with their distribution arrangement and decide to part ways with Popular Plays and Players. As the U.S. Amusement Corporation, they produce feature films and make their own distribution deals with the same distributors who bought the films from Popular Plays and Players. Guy directs seven features, including The Ocean Waif. 1917 -- The former Solax studio is now rented out to other companies, starting with Apollo Pictures. At age 44, Guy has an excellent reputation as a film director but her last few films have not been commercially successful. Blaché, who is 35, is enjoying the attention of young actresses. In the fall of 1917, Simone, age nine, and Reginald, age five, contract rougeola become seriously ill. Blaché sends his family to the healthier environment of North Carolina, where Guy cares for her children and takes part in the war effort by volunteering for the Red Cross while her husband continues to manage business in Fort Lee. 1918 -- Blaché finds his wife a job directing The Great Adventure for Pathé Players. The film, a comedy, is commercially successful. 1918 -- Blaché moves to Hollywood with Catrine Calvert, an actress who has starred in four films directed by Guy. Guy gives up her house in Fort Lee and moves into an apartment in New York City. 1919 -- Léonce Perret hires Guy to write and direct Tarnished Reputations, offering her $2,000 for six weeks of work. The film takes ten weeks to make and in the process Guy contracts Spanish influenza, which kills four of her colleagues. Blaché, passing through New York, is alarmed by her condition and invites her to join him in California. 1920 -- Guy moves into a small bungalow in Los Angeles with her children. Blaché does not live with them, but hires Guy as his directing assistant on The Brat and Stronger than Death, both starring Alla Nazimova. A few months later Guy is called back to Fort Lee to oversee the auction of the Solax properties. In the middle of bankruptcy arrangements, a polio epidemic sweeps the Northeast and Guy, imitating her friends the Capellanis, flees with her children to Canada. Tarnished Reputations opens March 14, 1920. It is Guy's last film. 1922 -- Bankruptcy proceedings are finished and the Blachés are divorced. Guy (now calling herself Alice Guy-Blaché) returns with her children to France. 1922-1927 Guy's efforts to work in the French film industry do not bear fruit. She returns to the U.S. in 1927 to try to find copies of her films to use to find work. She finds none, even at the Library of Congress where some of them were copyrighted. When the silent film era ends in 1929, it becomes clear that she will not make films again. She becomes financially dependent on her children, especially her daughter, Simone. 1930 -- Léon Gaumont publishes a history of the Gaumont company which does not mention any of the film production before 1907. Guy embarks on a deferential letter writing campaign to correct his omissions. Gaumont agrees to add to his document and corrects the manuscript himself, but it remains unpublished at his death in 1946. 1937 -- Guy's son Reginald returns to the U.S. Simone and Guy move to Paris , where Simone's work prospects are better. Guy supplements her daughter's meager income by writing children's stories and novelizations of films for women's magazines. 1940 -- Simone Blaché begins her career working for U.S. embassies in Europe. Guy follows her daughter on various assignments, first in Vichy (1940) then Geneva (1941-1947). 1947 -- Guy makes guest speaker appearances at high schools and women's clubs in Switzerland. The success of these informal appearances leads her to write her Memoirs. 1947-1952 -- Simone and Guy live in Washington D.C. In Georgetown Guy begins to seriously work on her memoirs and filmography, and renews the search for her films. She begins a correspondence with Louis Gaumont, Léon Gaumont's son. December 8, 1954 -- Louis Gaumont gives a speech in Paris on "Madame Alice Guy Blaché, the First Woman Filmmaker" whom, he says, "has been unjustly forgotten." Film historians such as: Jean Mitry, Georges Sadoul, René Jeanne and Charles Ford begin to take notice of her. 1955 -- Guy is awarded the Légion d'Honneur, France's highest non-military honor. March 16 1957 -- Guy is honored in a Cinémathèque Fran?aise ceremony which goes unnoticed by the press. 1958 -- Simone is transferred to the U.S. embassy in Brussels. 1963 -- Victor Bachy , the professor who initiated the academic study of cinema in Belgium, meets Guy by accident and begins researching her work. 1965 -- Guy and her daughter move to New Jersey. March 24, 1968 -- Guy dies in a nursing home in New Jersey, at the age of 95. 1976 -- Publication of Guy's Memoirs in French, with a filmography by Francis Lasassin. 1986 -- Publication of Guy's Memoirs in English, edited by Anthony Slide, translated by Roberta and Simone Blaché. 1994 -- Publication of Victor Bachy's Alice Guy-Blaché: La Première femme cinéaste du monde.

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• Lea Thompson - 2007 Humanitari

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    Lea Thompson is the 2007 LA Femme Film Festival Humanitarian Award Winner
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• Melissa Rivers - 2007 Master o

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    Melissa Rivers is the Master of Ceremonies for the 2007 LA Femme Film Festival.
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• Rosanna Arquette - 2007 Pionee

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    Photo of the 2007 LA Femme Film Festival Pioneer Award winner, Rosanna Arquette.
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