MEMBERS IN THE NEWS

Member Liz Canning was awarded a Los Angeles Emmy® on July 24th, 2021 for her work as Director, Producer, Writer, Editor, and Host on Episode 1 of KCET’s Global Mosaic: Could Empowering Girls Transform the World? - in the category of Education/Information programs for its premiere broadcast on the public television station KCET in Burbank, CA.

Watch the trailer here. See the official broadcast version here.
Check out the director’s cut here!

Member Cynthia Abbott, Director/Producer, and Co-producer/Director Andrea Leland received a Northern California Emmy® for “Three Ocean Advocates: Inspiring Change” in the Educational/Science (Long Form) category. The segment is part of Every Second Breath film series about committed individuals who are helping to heal an ocean.
KRCB – Nor Cal Public Media was the broadcast station. The filmmakers want to acknowledge Amy Boyd COO for all her help and encouragement.

Carol Lee Hall's feature-length period drama, The Angry Angels of Chinatown, placed as a SEMI-FINALIST in Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition.

The script is inspired by true events and is about two women who take down the most notorious human trafficker in 1911 San Francisco Chinatown. This script has won or placed in seven contests in the last six years, and is currently being developed by Carol's film company, Blue Carp Productions, as a motion picture.

Nil Unerdem’s script, Settling Sounds (recently renamed Song of Selale) was a QUARTER-FINALIST in the 2021 Screencraft Comedy Competition and the Screencraft Fellowship Competition.

When a disenchanted 38-year-old engineer & amateur cover band guitarist settles for the security of her old college crush, she struggles to make the relationship work and funnels her woes into lyrics…until she finds the courage to perform her own song onstage, with the real love of her life listening in the audience.

A Sound Life, by member Kristin Sherman Olnes is a feature-length documentary 6 years in the making about Oscar-winning sound designer Richard Beggs. His career spanned 43 years working as a sound designer and mixer for motion picture soundtracks. The film features interviews with Sophia Coppola, Walter Murch, Barry Levinson, and others. Olnes is currently finalizing the edit in preparation for the audio post-production. Read more about Kristin and A Sound of Life at kristinshermanolnes.com

Tamara, by member and WISFBA board director Julie Rubio, is a visually stunning and sweeping feature documentary that traces the life and adventures of the renowned painter Tamara de Lempicka, from her rise to international stardom in 1920s Paris, to her move to the United States fleeing fascism in 1940, to her revival in the current art market. The film follows this remarkable emigrée as she reinvents herself multiple times and attempts to claim her rightful place in art history. Click here to see the Trailer for Tamara. Follow: @tamaradelempickadoc