Quarterly OP LYNX & NewFest Filmmaker Brunch Series
Sunday, May 11, 2008
1:00PM - 4:30PM
Lesbian Webisodes: New Wave Storytelling
Meets Multi-Platform Marketing
SOLD OUT! Waiting List Only.
NEWS UPDATE! ANGELA ROBINSON regrets she's unable to make it in person as planned, but will be joining us for the Q&A via iChat.
We will feature webisodes from award-winning filmmakers Angela Robinson (The L Word, D.E.B.S., Girl Trash), Debra Wilson (First Take) and writer/comedian Rebecca Drysdale (The Time Traveling Lesbian). Plus, the winners of the Q-Me Con 2008 Women's Summit & AfterEllen.com Webisode Contest.
AfterEllen's Sarah Warn, along with Filmmaker Rebecca Drysdale will join us for a Q&A, which will be moderated by NewFest Administrative Director, Kerry Weldon. Angela Robinson and Debra Wilson will join the Q&A.
A very exciting collaborative team has come together --
OP/LYNX, NewFest, Punkmouse, Queer Black Cinemas & Afterellen.com
-- in presenting this event as an official program of Q-Me Con 2008 (Queer Media & Entertainment Conference).
The event will start at 1pm with a Continental Brunch,
which will include fresh bagels, muffins and pastries, a selection of
fruit & veggies, as well as coffee,
OJ and $5 Bloody Marys and Pomegranate
Mimosas. Brunch is followed by the Screening at 2:30pm. Q&A follows the screening.
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT! RSVP to be placed on a waiting list only. Admission for Brunch & Screening: $15 for Non-Members; $10 for OP/LYNX, NewFest, Queer Black Cinema Members & Q-Me Con Ticket Holders. Admission for Screening Only: $10 for Non-Members, $5 for OP/LYNX, NewFest, Queer Black Cinema Members & Q-Me Con Ticket Holders.
Cattyshack
is located at 249 4th Ave btwn President & Carroll Sts, Park Slope,
Brooklyn. By Subway: R to UNION ST [1.5 blocks from Cattyshack]; or F/G
to 4th Ave-9th St [8 blocks from Cattyshack]. Visit Cattyshack online
for street map: www.cattyshackbklyn.com
Now you can listen to a PODCAST of the entire Q&A with Filmmaker Leslie Klainberg and Kerry Weldon, Managing Director of NewFest.
Click on the PODCAST icon below to be taken to our ITunes page where
you can subscribe to OP Podcasts or click on the LynxFilmBrunch.mp3 file to listen to the Filmmaker Brunch right in your browser.
LynxFilmBrunch.mp3
Previous FILMMAKER BRUNCH screenings have included: In February, Lesli Klainberg
screened "In the Company of Women", which features interviews with such
iconic actors and directors as Jody Foster and Susan Sarandon about
groundbreaking female roles in film in the past few decades. In
November 2007, Joyce Draganosky hosted a collection of her shorts, THE
SCIENCE OF LOVE, JARED, EXTREME MOM and HAPPENSTANCE. In August,
we were near capacity for a showing of short films by local filmmakers.
In May, we previewed CURL GIRLS, a new reality series on LOGO.
Maureen Guthman, Vice President of Acquisitions and Co-productions for
LOGO joined us in discussion about the series and about her role at
LOGO. In February, Peabody and Emmy award-winning filmmaker and
journalist for ABC News, Barbara Rick joined us in screening her
acclaimed documentary, IN GOOD CONSCIENCE, about Sister Jeannine
Gramick who is defying a Vatican-issued ultimatum to denounce
homosexuality or lose everything.
SAVE THE DATES: Quarterly OP/LYNX Filmmaker Brunch Series will continue on Saturday, August 9 & Saturday, November 8, 2008.
Produced in collaboration with Q-Me Con & Queer Black Cinema
For more information on NewFest: www.newfest.org
For more information on Queer Black Cinema: www.queerblackcinema.org
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