Women's Initiative: F3: 2014 Winners Announcement

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[F3] FUELING FEMALE FILMMAKERS

2014 WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT

CONGRATULATIONS !

Congratulations to the five winners of the inaugural F3 Event created and produced by the CineCause Women's Initiative! You were chosen because of your commitment to sharing your passion and living your purpose through storytelling for change. Your courage, dedication, creativity and vision is clear, bold and beautiful. I am thrilled to work with each and every one of you! With a stellar support team of industry experts by my side, we will work diligently in partnership to manifest your creative projects and launch them into the world. Each one of your successes supports our larger mission of closing the gender equity gap in the entertainment industry. Here’s to a new day!

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A special thanks goes out to the CWI team, Amanda Horvath, Allie Merrick & Natalie Irby, with great appreciation for the jury members, Gina Belafonte, Aaliyah Williams & Jocelyn Towne.

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With deep love and respect,

JLove Calderon

JLove Calderon Founder of CWI

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CODE: DEBUGGING THE GENDER GAP CODE EXPOSES THE DEARTH OF AMERICAN FEMALE AND MINORITY SOFTWARE ENGINEERS AND EXPLORES REASONS FOR THIS GENDER GAP.

ROBIN HAUSER REYNOLDS !

Robin Hauser Reynolds of Finish Line Features, LLC brings a longstanding history of creativity and photographic production to her innovation as Director/Producer of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap, her second documentary film. Her first documentary, award-winning Running for Jim, follows high school running coach Jim Tracy and the impact of his battle with ALS on his championship teams.

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EAST WILLYB AN EDGY WORKPLACE COMEDY IN WHICH A WHIMSICAL BAR OWNER AND HIS DYSFUNCTIONAL REGULARS COME UP WITH WACKY WAYS TO STAY RELEVANT IN THEIR RAPIDLY GENTRIFYING BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOOD. ‘ALWAYS SUNNY’ MEETS ‘DO THE RIGHT THING’.

JULIA AHUMADA GROB !

Julia Ahumada Grob is a writer, performer, and creative producer of Chilean and Jewish heritage. She is cocreator, producer and actor of the hit digital comedy East WillyB, named the “Latino Show for a New Generation” by the NY Times. Prior to her success as a digital content creator, Julia’s one-woman show He(R)evolution toured nationally and internationally, and her interactive video, "The Beat Back Bush Workout," won the coveted Crowd Pleaser Award at the New York Hip-Hop Odyssey Film Festival. Her writing has been published in Oxford Encyclopedia for Latinos and Latinas in the U.S. and We Got Issues! A Young Woman's Guide to a Bold, Courageous and Empowered Life, along with numerous blogs. She is a graduate of National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) Latino Producers Academy and Latino Artist Mentoring Program, and a semifinalist for the 2013 CBS TV Writing Mentorship Program. She holds a B.A. from Brown University.

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CHRISTMAS DANCE A LONELY OLD WOMAN SUFFERING FROM ALZHEIMER’S ENTERS A DREAM WORLD DURING CHRISTMAS EVE AND MEETS HER LONG LOST FAMILY AND FRIENDS. SHE MUST REMEMBER HER MOST IMPORTANT MEMORIES AND SHARE ONE FINAL DANCE WITH HER DAUGHTER BEFORE SHE FORGETS EVERYTHING.

PING-WEN WANG !

Writer and director, Ping-Wen Wang, a burgeoning filmmaker from Taiwan, is currently a third year graduate student at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles. Prior to LMU, Wang worked in the commercial and film industries of Taiwan, for which she received a substantial scholarship to study in the US.

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Wang’s past work The Clown (2013) is the “Best Fantasy” winner of International Student Film Festival Hollywood (ISFFH). It has been purchased and screened on Public Television in Taiwan. Her last project, Between Us (2014), is officially selected to screen at Palm Springs International ShortFest, Boston LGBT Film Festival, Out Takes Film Festival in New Zealand, Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival, Los Angeles International Student Film Festival, Taiwan International Queer Film Festival and won the Special Prize of Excellence at the Screwdriver International Short Film Contest in Taiwan.

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PROJECT

THE GO GIRL CHRONICLES THE GO GIRL CHRONICLES IS A FISH OUT OF WATER SCI-FI WEBSERIES THAT FOLLOWS LARES LEBRON, AN IMMIGRANT DOMINICAN TEENAGER WHO IS ATTENDING A PREDOMINANTLY WHITE HIGH SCHOOL, WHILE STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE ADVERSITY AS SHE IS LEARNING TO UNDERSTAND THE PARAMETERS OF A NEWLY DISCOVERED GIFT SHE’S CARTOKINETIC. MEANING, WHATEVER SHE DRAWS COMES TRUE.

ELISHA MIRANDA !

Miranda under her pen name, E-Fierce wrote her debut young adult novel, THE SISTA HOOD: ON THE MIC, about a multi-racial, all female hip-hop crew (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, 2006). She is also a contributing author to the anthologies JUICY MANGOS (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster, 2007), OTHER RICAN (Random House, 2013) and THE FIRE THIS TIME (Anchor Books, 2009). She is the co-publisher of the hip-hop feminist curriculum CONSCIOUS WOMEN ROCK THE PAGE which is based on three novels that centers young women’s voices in hip-hop culture including her. As a screenwriter, Elisha has also garnered awards from her scripts such as OUTSIDE THE WALL (Tribeca All Access 2005, Sundance Feature Film Lab Finalist 2006, NALIP Writer’s and Producer’s Lab 2006 and 2007) explores the prison industrial complex and BETTY’S GARAGE (Sundance Feature Film Lab Finalist 2012) looks at domestic violence in the futuristic Americas and her current feature STAINLESS explores the psychological impact of racial profiling and bullying on a mixed raced teenager in this thriller. She cowrote and directed the off-Broadway multimedia show - Pandora’s which dealt with Latino LGBTQ experience. She has also directed and produced short films that have garnered awards and screened domestically and internationally. Currently, SANGRIA STREET, her television show she co-created was recently optioned. Her webseries, THE GO GIRL CHRONICLES was awarded a 2014 artist grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture. Miranda is also a seasoned cultural activist and educator who has co-founded and built diverse organizations, programs and initiatives. For more information visit www.elishamiranda.com.

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REPEAT AFTER ME ELAINE GOODMAN (60’S) IS NEWLY RETIRED AND READY TO SET SAIL AROUND THE WORLD WITH THE MAN OF HER DREAMS, BUT WHEN HER ESTRANGED DAUGHTER MAKES A TRAGIC MISTAKE, ELAINE IS FORCED TO CONFRONT HER PAST, LET GO OF HER FUTURE AND DISCOVER WHO SHE IS TODAY.

BRITTANY BALLARD !

Brittany Ballard produced and music supervised The American Dream, an award-winning narrative feature, which premiered at Santa Barbara and Edinburgh Film Festival and over 30 festivals and educational workshops before it’s DVD/VOD release by Image Entertainment. Brittany and Jamil are developing Repeat After Me, the screen adaptation of Ayelet Waldman’s novel Daughter’s Keeper while they prepare to shoot their next feature, Steal That Horse in 2014. In 2013, Brittany completed her 8th year as Director of Programming for Urbanworld. From 2009-2012 she served as Manager of FILM FORWARD, a joint initiative between Sundance Institute, Presidents Committee on the Arts and Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts and Institute for Museum and Library Services. Before forming little plow films, she was Head of Acquisitions at Newmarket Films, Programmer at Santa Barbara Film Festival, and the Media Literacy Instructor for Step Up Women’s Network. Brittany studied with Directing/Acting Coach Joan Scheckel and participated in USC’s Directing Intensive. She graduated with Honors, Double Majoring in Black Studies and Comparative Literature with an Emphasis in Media Studies from University of California at Santa Barbara. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for New Leaders Council Los Angeles and Oakland.

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