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“Hocus Pocus 2” Screenwriter & Reel Jewels Film Festival on the NYWIFT Women Crush Wednesdays Podcast
11.22.2022 - New York Women in Film & Television
Terry Greenberg introduces the inaugural Reel Jewels Film Festival in an exclusive interview on this New York Women in Film & Television podcast episode.
“Call Your Mother” Panel: Top Takeaways
Comedian Bridget Everett (right) with her mother in the Comedy Central documentary Call Your Mother.
7.1.2020 — Leah Curney, NYWIFT
Leah Curney looks back on her favorite humorous - and heartfelt - moments from NYWIFT's "Call Your Mother" comedy panel, which was presented May 2020 and produced and moderated by Terry Greenberg.
Feelin’ Like Film Distribution Reality Bites? Bite [Me] back! Four ‘A’ Takeaways from the NYWIFT Bite Me Panel
Naomi McDougall Jones as Sarah (left) and Christian Coulson as James in Bite Me (Photo Credit: Eun-ah Lee)
06.10.2019 — Mellini Kantayya, NYWIFT
The team behind the independent feature Bite Me recently joined NYWIFT for a panel case study on how they flipped the film distribution paradigm from something you “get” into something you “do.” Bite Me is a romantic comedy about a woman who believes she’s a real-life vampire and the IRS agent who audits her. The team felt they had a unique and edgy while still relatable and heartfelt film, but it wasn’t quite fitting into the current festival and distribution landscape. So, they forged their own path ahead.
Celebrating the Spirit of NYC Artists at the Greenwich Village Film Festival
From left: Antonio Padovan, Richard Eric Weigle, Terry Greenberg, Michael Anastasio and Alessia Gatti on the Greenwich Village Film Festival red carpet. (Photo credit: NXM Photo)
11.05.2018 — Stephanie Cole, NYWIFT
It’s 30 minutes before the start of Opening Night at the Greenwich Village Film Festival, and Alessia Gatti, President and Co-Founder of the festival, looks about as unruffled as you can get. I’ve been introduced to her and her business partner (and co-founder), Antonio Padovan, by New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) Board member Terry Greenberg, who also happens to be on the jury for the festival. As we chat for a few minutes, I can’t help but notice that both Alessia and Antonio are nothing but easy smiles and relaxed stances. I’m more than a little impressed considering it’s not just opening night, but the festival itself has made quite the big leap this year.
Women Calling the Shots Photo Exhibit Concludes NYWIFT’s 40th Anniversary Year
NYWIFT member Katie Irish among the racks of clothing in the costume shop for the TV series THE AMERICANS, which she designed. Photo by Kent Meister (2016)
08.02.2018 — Mellini Kantayya, Honeysuckle Magazine
This time last year, our sisters at New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) were just kicking off their 40th anniversary celebration with a gala celebration that included our HERS issue. Now the calendar is turning over once more, but the visionary work of women in the arts continues, stronger than ever.
Master Collaborations: The Power of Creative Partnerships
Raphaela Neihausen and Kahane Cooperman and moderator Liz Cook Mowe
02.15.18 — Madeline Johnson, NYWIFT
NYWIFT is very excited to launch a new series, Master Collaborations: The Power of Creative Partnerships, which provides a unique opportunity to hear accomplished women in the industry discuss their key collaborations on a film or television project. How do these women connect and join forces? How do they complement each other during the process? What does it take to make the project happen? What were some of the challenging and defining moments?
Style Workshop: How to be Wardrobe Ready for Your Life with Andrea Claster Greenspan
Image Consultant Andrea Claster Greenspan (via NYWIFT website)
05.24.2017 — NYWIFT Staff
Your appearance introduces you before you even speak. Within five seconds you make an impression that conveys your unique value, your style, relevance, influence and power. These impressions have an enormous impact on your personal and professional success. How do you create the impression you want to make?
Join Image Consultant Andrea Claster Greenspan as she unveils the mystique of personal style by exploring the external and internal influences that color our view of ourselves. Through examples and discussion, she will show you how to: see what’s appropriate vs inappropriate, explore what fabrics reveal, select shapes and cuts of clothing and accessorize. Her goal is to kickstart you to become the best version of yourself, so that you can be free to achieve your goals while feeling comfortable, current and confident.
Made in New York: Comedy Makers Brings Laughs and Insight to Carolines
Phoebe Robinson and Jeannie Gaffigan at Made in New York: Comedy Makers
11.17.2016 — Jean Criss, NYWIFT
On Thursday, November 3rd, 2016, New York Women in Film & Television and Carolines on Broadway co-presented Made in New York: Comedy Makers. This latest edition of the annual Women in Comedy panel, now in its 4th year, was part of the 2016 New York Comedy Festival and named one of the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment’s 50 for 50 programs, highlighting the best of the best of the NY Entertainment industry for MOME’s 50th anniversary. A night of comedy, insights and work/life balance discussions were among the top dialogues…and a few others that I just can’t repeat!
Joining us were panelists including Jeannie Gaffigan (The Jim Gaffigan Show), actor, producer, writer, philanthropist and mother of five; Carrie Keagan, proudly known as a “crass” comedienne, also an author, actress and entrepreneur; Phoebe Robinson, creator and co-star of the 2 Dope Queens podcast from WNYC; Julie Rottenberg (Odd Mom Out), a playwright, comedy writer, former comic book editor and Sex and the City producer; and Liz Tucillo (How to Be Single), a Sex and the City writer, author and director. Cat Greenleaf, host of Talk Stoop, moderated, and Dion Flynn was the emcee. Dion is best known for playing President Barack Obama on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and leads improve workshops in mental agility via improvisation with Fortune 500 companies.
Interiors Art Exhibit To Open At GCAC
Odeon Restaurant by Maxi Cohen, 1981, Crystal Fuji Flex
09.16.2016 — Great Neck Record Staff
An opening reception for Interiors will be held at the Gold Coast Arts Center (GCAC) on Sunday, Sept. 18, from 4 to 7 p.m. at 115 Middle Neck Rd. The new exhibition, which runs until Nov. 20, will include photography, painting and sculpture from artists Maxi Cohen, Orestes Gonzalez and Laini Nemett.
Interiors explores the artists’ relationships with familiar places and how they connect to interior landscapes of personal history, memory and association. Photographer/videographer Maxi Cohen captures moments in the ladies room “as a space of sanctuary and solitude.” Painter Laini Nemett wants the composite imagery to “conjure memory” and emulate an experience of place. Orestes Gonzalez’s photographs capture moments of loneliness, happiness and a time of innocence.
Female TV Veterans Get Real About Creating Comedy and Not Waiting to Be Asked
“Comedy Makers: Tales from the Dark Side” at Carolines on Broadway, part of the 2015 New York Comedy Festival
11.13.2015 — Sonya Saepoff, IndieWire
This year’s New York Comedy Festival was kicked off with riotous laughter by the New York Women in Film and Television Panel “Comedy Makers: Tales from the Dark Side.” Moderated by comedian Lizz Winstead, the panel included writer Susan Fales-Hill, producer Barbara Gaines, writer and actress Jill Kopelman Kargman, director and executive producer Stephanie Laing, and writer and executive producer Elisa Zuritsky.
These hilarious women shared the ups and downs in their careers, including some horror stories from the male-dominated writers’ rooms.
Dinner-Party Queen Jill Kargman Will Bring Up Her Birth Control, Thank You
Jill Kargman. Photo: Grant Lamos IV/Getty Images
11.12.2015 — Samuel Anderson, The Cut
With three kids and a hit TV show, Odd Mom Out star Jill Kargman effortlessly embodies the cool-mom ideal, but on Tuesday at an all-female panel for the New York Comedy Festival, she retained her right to make birth-control jokes at dinner parties:
“I was talking about my IUD and how my bedsheet is the flag of Japan every month. And I’m dying and I hate it. And this woman [said she] had her tubes tied after having her fifth baby, and I said I would have taken the ‘We heart our customers’ thing off the dry-cleaning hanger and just, like, twist. And this guy goes, ‘TMI, TMI, that’s disgusting.’ And I’m like, we hear about your dicks all day long. Why do I have 20 synonyms [for male masturbation]? Like, spanking the monkey, choking the chicken, punishing the bitch in the turtleneck. And God forbid I talk about my [uterus] for one minute. It’s not about being irreverent. It’s leveling the playing field.”
These Women Are Labias to the Wall Funny
Universal Studios/Photofest
11.07.2014 — Emily Shire, Daily Beast
Despite the fact that Lucille Ball, Gilda Radner, Joan Rivers, Tracey Ullman, Whoopi Goldberg, Sarah Silverman, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and a boatload of other people with two X chromosomes have been making us laugh for decades, it is still considered valid to argue that women aren’t funny. “Why are women, who have the whole male world at their mercy, not funny? Please do not pretend not to know what I am talking about,” pondered the late, revered intellectual Christopher Hitchens in revered publication Vanity Fair not so long ago in 2007.
Fittingly, at Caroline’s on Broadway—a legendary New York comedy venue run by Caroline Hirsch—a group of hilarious women gathered Thursday night to prove to people like Hitchens, Patrice O’Neal, Artie Lange and unfortunately many others that having a vagina doesn’t render you humorless. In addition to Carolines on Broadway, the panel was organized by NYWIFT and the New York Comedy Festival. Lea DeLaria (better known as Big Boo to OITNB fans), Louie executive producer Blair Breard, Emmy-award winning Judy Gold, and Chappelle Show veteran comedian Marina Franklin all spoke at “Women Aren’t Funny: Debunking the Myth” in a panel hosted by stand-up comedian Bonnie McFarlane, who recently made a documentary of the same name.
‘Too Long; Didn’t Listen’ Ep. 6: ‘Women Aren’t Funny’ With Bonnie McFarlane And Marina Franklin
11.05.2014 — Katla McGlynn, HuffPost
In a special sixth edition of “TL;DL,” Katla McGlynn sat down with the very funny Bonnie McFarlane and Marina Franklin ahead of their New York Comedy Festival panel entitled, “Women Aren’t Funny: Debunking The Myth” on Nov. 6 at Caroline’s.
Instead of our usual segments, comedians Bonnie and Marina offered their thoughts on the viral catcalling video and the comedy community’s various responses to it, then moved on to discuss the unfortunate misconception that women aren’t as funny as men.
What’s in Your Toolkit: Anne del Castillo
4.16.21 — Terry Greenberg, NYWIFT Blog
As the Commissioner of the NYC Mayors Office of Media and Entertainment, Anne del Castillo has a very full and challenging job, juggling a lot of balls, especially now during COVID-19. A native New Yorker, del Castillo has more than 25 years of experience in film and TV production, public media, and arts and nonprofit administration. She discusses what's in her toolkit, and how she has led MOME "from cheerleader to crisis manager" during the the pandemic.
What’s in Your Toolkit: Jennifer Snowdon
1.17.20 — Terry Greenberg, NYWIFT Blog
NYWIFT member Jennifer Snowdon shares insights from her 25-year-career as a makeup artists and offers us a peek inside her makeup toolkit.