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Beyond the Glass Ceiling
Women organize film, theater fest in Garrison
Inside the dynamic duo at the helm of Theatre Revolution, "I'm the brawn and she's the brain," says Nora Matz about her collaborator, Gabrielle Fox.
After a beat, Matz quips: "Well, I'm also half the brain."
"True, but I am zero percentage brawn," Fox replies.
The team writes and produces plays and films but also presents what's become an annual weekend festival of work by women artists. Glass Ceiling Breakers begins tonight (June 6) at the Philipstown Depot Theatre in Garrison and continues Saturday and Sunday.
"This is a good way to elevate female voices and those of other marginalized groups, especially in theater and film, where we're still not well-represented," says Matz, who lives in Garrison.
The two created Theatre Revolution in 2016 to oppose Trump administration policies, says Matz, so it's fitting that members of the Beacon Rising Choir, which gelled after the Woman's March in Washington in 2017, will close out the weekend with a performance.
All the plays and most of the festival's movies are written by people who identify as female. The bare minimum criteria for film submissions is two women in the key roles of writer, editor, producer, director or cinematographer.
Five short plays, which run about an hour back-to-back, will be presented each day, but only tonight's performances will be followed by a discussion with the playwrights. Four live in Westchester County and one in Rockland.
Writers produce their own vignettes, supplying props and set pieces. Fox is presenting "Artistic Integrity," which she says lasers in on "a generational clash of playwrights about the future of human creativity."
Four film blocks of about 75 minutes each will showcase a total of 24 shorts culled from 200 worldwide submissions, followed by Q&As with the filmmakers. Three blocks will screen on Saturday and one on Sunday, followed by a closing-night mingle and the Best of Fest Awards.
On Saturday at 3 p.m., the Depot Theatre will host a free panel discussion, "A Conversation with Women in the Business," featuring director C. Fitz (a Los Angeles resident best known for her documentary Jewel's Catch One) and filmmaker Annetta Marion, whose two most recent short films are Welcome to Theatre and The History of Carol, about censorship in education.
Theatre Revolution tries to select pieces that give voice to other marginalized groups, but "there are misconceptions," says Matz. Attendees at past festivals sometimes got confused when film and play topics veered from women's liberation or strident politics.
"The festival showcases women's talent; it's not necessarily about feminist topics," says Matz. "We have horror, drama, comedy and the whole spectrum of life, like all other plays and films."
The Philipstown Depot Theatre is located at 10 Garrison's Landing. Tickets are $17 for each film block and $27 for the short-play performances. See depottheater.org.
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By Highlands CurrentWomen organize film, theater fest in Garrison
Inside the dynamic duo at the helm of Theatre Revolution, "I'm the brawn and she's the brain," says Nora Matz about her collaborator, Gabrielle Fox.
After a beat, Matz quips: "Well, I'm also half the brain."
"True, but I am zero percentage brawn," Fox replies.
The team writes and produces plays and films but also presents what's become an annual weekend festival of work by women artists. Glass Ceiling Breakers begins tonight (June 6) at the Philipstown Depot Theatre in Garrison and continues Saturday and Sunday.
"This is a good way to elevate female voices and those of other marginalized groups, especially in theater and film, where we're still not well-represented," says Matz, who lives in Garrison.
The two created Theatre Revolution in 2016 to oppose Trump administration policies, says Matz, so it's fitting that members of the Beacon Rising Choir, which gelled after the Woman's March in Washington in 2017, will close out the weekend with a performance.
All the plays and most of the festival's movies are written by people who identify as female. The bare minimum criteria for film submissions is two women in the key roles of writer, editor, producer, director or cinematographer.
Five short plays, which run about an hour back-to-back, will be presented each day, but only tonight's performances will be followed by a discussion with the playwrights. Four live in Westchester County and one in Rockland.
Writers produce their own vignettes, supplying props and set pieces. Fox is presenting "Artistic Integrity," which she says lasers in on "a generational clash of playwrights about the future of human creativity."
Four film blocks of about 75 minutes each will showcase a total of 24 shorts culled from 200 worldwide submissions, followed by Q&As with the filmmakers. Three blocks will screen on Saturday and one on Sunday, followed by a closing-night mingle and the Best of Fest Awards.
On Saturday at 3 p.m., the Depot Theatre will host a free panel discussion, "A Conversation with Women in the Business," featuring director C. Fitz (a Los Angeles resident best known for her documentary Jewel's Catch One) and filmmaker Annetta Marion, whose two most recent short films are Welcome to Theatre and The History of Carol, about censorship in education.
Theatre Revolution tries to select pieces that give voice to other marginalized groups, but "there are misconceptions," says Matz. Attendees at past festivals sometimes got confused when film and play topics veered from women's liberation or strident politics.
"The festival showcases women's talent; it's not necessarily about feminist topics," says Matz. "We have horror, drama, comedy and the whole spectrum of life, like all other plays and films."
The Philipstown Depot Theatre is located at 10 Garrison's Landing. Tickets are $17 for each film block and $27 for the short-play performances. See depottheater.org.