International Women In Film

By Michele the Trainer

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May 15, 2017 19_Explicit_Olivia Baptista_Quadruple Talent_Here We Wait International Women in Film with Michele the Trainer
New Jersey native Olivia Baptista is a rising quadruple threat talent who is partner in Multihyphenate Productions: a woman owned production dedicated to increasing the presence of women in film, POC filmmaking, and the “multihyphenate” artistry in film. As an actor/producer, she is lucky and proud to say all of her films have been to festivals, and that a few have even found successful distribution deals. Most recently she won Best Actress in a Feature Film at the Endless Mountain Film Festival and was nominated for the same at the CHAIN FF in NYC for her feature film debut SYCAMORE. And her short film WAKING UP (writer / producer / star) was just accepted to the 15th annual Garden State Film Festival – making its premiere this March. She loves all things “genre” (Orphan Black, Firefly, Black Mirror…) and strives to be a part of off-beat stories with compelling characters that keep viewers coming back. As a producer, she is determined to bring high concept ideas to life on low budgets – with the hopes of wide exposure so that markets thirsty for high-quality content can get it.
Olivia currently lives in Los Angeles.
Check out Olivia in the web series Here We Wait (herewewait.com), the short film Waking Up (Garden State Film Fest) and her award winning feature – Sycamore (Amazon).
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April 04, 2017 18_Rosalind Winton_Editor Stage 32_International Women in Film Podcast with Michele the Trainer
Episode 18 Rosalind Winton, Editor for Stage 32
As well as being the official Editor for Stage 32, Rosalind has her own literary editing business. She has edited everything from full length novels, novellas, children’s YA and picture books, non-fiction, articles, blogs and websites. Rosalind edits screenplays and television scripts for members of Stage 32 and she adapts manuscripts into a screenplays for her clients. She has edited work by authors from all over the world and is currently privileged to have been hired by the Canadian TV host and actress Stephanie Herrera to edit her books. Rosalind also writes lyrics and songs and she’s enjoyed some lovely achievements over the years including hearing her songs performed on stage and winning awards.
Links
http://www.onevoiceliteraryagency.com/
https://www.facebook.com/OneVoiceLiteraryAgency/?fref=ts
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February 13, 2017 17_ReneeOConnor_ActressWriterDirectorProducer_IWIFwMicheleTheTrainer
Episode 17 of the International Women in Film Podcast stars, Reneé O’Connor, a successful actress and filmmaker, best known for her role on Xena: Warrior Princess, brings her unparalleled passion to each and every project.
Reneé made a name for herself when she resided in Auckland, New Zealand, playing the role of Gabrielle, Xena’s trusted sidekick on the popular series from 1996-2001. The scene stealing role created a huge worldwide fan base, one still active in countless websites dedicated to the actress and this signature series.
She then moved on to launch her own film production company – ROC Productions. Her first independent production under the company is the romantic comedy, Diamonds and Guns which was released on DVD in January 2008. She also starred in several independent films, including Boogeyman 2 opposite Tobin Bell; The Sci Fi Channel’s Monster Ark opposite Tim DeKay and Alien Apocalypse, opposite Bruce Campbell, one of the highest-rated original movies in the cable network’s history. She starred in the action webisode series ARK from Judah/Sacks (executive producers of 90210 and Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and the anticipated Faith Based feature film, Beyond The Farthest Star, due for release in 2016, from Pathlight Entertainment.
Prior to her breakout role, Reneé lived in Texas and began her professional film career at the age of 17, starring in the serial Teen Angel, a regular feature on the Disney Channel’s The Mickey Mouse Club. Other credits include the Disney film, The Adventures of Huck Finn with Elijah Wood, and television movies such as Follow the River with Ellen Burstyn, Danielle Steele’s Changes with Cheryl Ladd, and James Garner’s second Rockford Files reunion movie.
Reneé’s talent extends well beyond the big screen or the small screen. Also an acclaimed stuntwoman, Reneé is proficient in several forms of martial arts and the use of martial arts weapons, which includes, the Nunchaku, Bo-Staff, and the Sai.
She is a certified teacher of Emotional Awareness for the gifted community by the Rocamora School, and Renee has been an annual nominee for the Women Making A Difference award by the Los Angeles Business Journal since 2010.
Renee is involved as co-director for some Los Angeles Film Festivals and teaches the Youth Intensive film lab, an educational laboratory for showcasing local talents.
Currently, Renee writes, directs, and produces award winning short films, bridging social awareness with the entertainment industry, and she is in post production on the feature film, Watch The Sky, a Science Fiction Family film, due for release in 2017.
Diamonds and Guns
http://internationalwomeninfilm.com/2016/07/25/infinity-by-randy-crowder-starring-renee-oconnor/

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January 18, 2017 16_EXPLICIT_DawnHigginbotham_WriterDirectorProducer_IWIFPodcast_wMicheleTheTrainer
Episode 16 of the International Women in Film podcast stars Dawn Higginbotham, Writer, Director and Producer
Dawn Higginbotham, Morning Person Pictures, is an award winning Writer/Director/Producer who has also worked on Titanic and Star Wars I,II, and III shares her stories and her films from yesterday and today and tomorrow!
Dawn is a member of the Producers Guild of America, SAG/AFTRA,
#WeAreWITI and The New Hollywood. She is an Award Winning Writer / Director
/ Producer. Her directorial debut,“The Usual,”was an Official Selection at Festival de Cannes American Pavilion Emerging Filmmakers and screened at Shorts Corner at the Cannes Market, as well as many others (with Producers Sharen Davis, Renee O’Connor and Kumari Bakhru). Currently she is in
development on the feature films “Passing Through”(for Cordova Pictures with
Co-Owner / Producer Brooke P. Anderson), “Shanghai Nirvana” and “Sleepers”
(with Sharen Davis, Bill Killgore and Richard Lu), and is in the midst of packaging “Fatherhood,” working with the same team, she is producing the project, and is set to direct. Originally from Memphis, TN, Dawn moved to New York to study music, theater and film at AMDA. She got her career start as a musical theater performer in
several Off-Broadway shows and a National Tour. She soon shifted her sights to film where she worked in production on numerous feature films including “Die Hard W/ A Vengeance” (John McTiernan), Jim Cameron’s “Titanic”, “The Thin Red Line” (Terrence Malick), and “Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas” (Terry Gilliam).
Dawn’s background also includes VFX on the films “Godzilla”and “Armageddon,”and post production, as a manager for Dolby Laboratories (working with various filmmakers and studios), and as a post production supervisor for Lucasfilm/THX, she worked along side various labs in L.A., Canada, UK, Italy and Australia overseeing film print quality on “Star Wars:Episode I, II, and III” (George Lucas), she also worked on a variety of other
projects for major studios (DreamWorks, Fox, Paramount, Disney…).
Dawn has written several screenplays, including “Off The Ledge”
(starring Brooke P. Anderson (The Perfect Host, Lost) and Andrew Pinon (Singled Out), who co-wrote the film; Zosia Mamet (HBO’s Girls), Jenny Mollen, Nectar Rose, and Anne Ramsay (League of Their Own); “Diamonds & Gun”(starring Renee O’Connor and and Ted Raimi); and the upcoming “Passing Through”
(Cordova Pictures).
She has produced several distributed feature films and projects
including; “Diamonds & Guns”, Off The Ledge”, “Night of the Templar”, ‘You are a Star”, “Outside My Window”, Randy Crowder’s “Infinity”, “Words Unspoken” …and is in development on the upcoming “Road to Nowhere”, “Single Not Desperate” etc. (with writer/creator Julian Moses and Midnitemove Productions).
She also went on to direct “Last Chance” (starring & executive produced with Renee O’Connor, and executive produced by Sharen Davis) and “The Hub” (starring Brandon Gibson, Paul McKinney, Derrex Brady, Raymond O’
Connor, and with executive producer Sharen Davis), “DreamWorks 3D Animation” with
Valerie Lettera Spletzer, and is currently in editing on her latest documentary
series, “#WEfilmLA,” about women filmmakers in all fields, from all walks of life,
diverse and passionate about their craft, working in Los Angeles.
For more details please see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9rEqM6JlS0
http://www.morningpersonpictures.com
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0383307/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
https://www.facebook.com/theUsual2014/
https://twitter.com/TheUsual2014
http://www.offtheledgemovie.comThe Usual (distribution information coming soon)
Follow on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/theUsual2014/
Films:
Diamonds and Guns
Off The Ledge
www.offtheledgemovie.com
www.cordovapictures.com
Night of the Templar available at:
ITunes, Walmart and Target
http://www.nightofthetemplar.com
DreamWorks 3D Animation with Valerie Lettera Spletzer

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January 05, 2017 15_JannaYeshanova_AuthorScreenplayStory_SovietUnionExodusLoveIsNeverPastTense_International Women in Film Podcast withMicheleTheTrainer
Episode 15 Janna Yeshanova, Author of Love is Never Past Tense Screenplay
Author of the bestseller, ‘Love Is Never Past Tense’ which is adapted to a screenplay (J. Walter Cohen).
‘Love Is Never Past Tense’ is a beautifully written historical romance, based on the true story of Janna Yeshanova, who escaped to the USA with her mother and young child, a few hundred dollars and the clothes on their backs, along with thousands of others fleeing from the life threatening and oppressive Soviet regime in the 1980s.
Janna self published the book, which follows the story of an estranged couple whose lives are shaken by the country’s collapse, the question is, can they reconnect in the future?
www.loveisneverpasttense.com
www.life-spark.com
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November 11, 2016 14_JennPage_DirectorLA_Musicals_IWIFwMicheleTheTrainer
Episode 14 Jenn Page
Jenn Page has directed and produced multiple feature films, branded series, music videos, live stage shows, and a TV talk show.
Determined and passionate, Jenn has a reputation for taking on tough projects and leading them to excel against the odds. Although she’s directed in almost every genre, she’s most drawn to romantic dramedy and musical projects.
http://jennpage.com/ (directing)
http://passiondrivenproductions.com/ (production company)
Twitter: @TheJennPage
FB: /ajennpagefilm
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October 24, 2016 13_CarlyStreet_ProducerWriter_FragileStormTheIntruder_IWIFwMicheleTheTrainer
Episode
13 Carly Street
Carly Street Producer and Screenwriter Joins Michele to talk
about her films The
Intruder and Fragile Storm.
The Intruder is Carly’s latest short which is currently
looking for investment and is in the middle of a crowd funding campaign.
The Intruder starts with a routine trip to the shop turning into a hellish
nightmare for Joanna, as she is forced to battle the demons occupying the
darkest recesses of her mind.
The Intruder is a visual tale depicting the
harrowing effects of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Our goal is
to shine a light on this serious issue that many people
go through and are still scared to talk about. This is an issue
present around us on a daily basis, living in the darkness. We believe
that more awareness should be made around PTSD and help those afflicted to
speak about their experiences.
The film specifically explores the thought of being trapped
inside your own mind…. and the consequences when that is a reality. PTSD
sufferers in the media are generally depicted as male former servicemen. The
reason for this is because finally, a dialogue about PTSD affecting soldiers
due to the horrors they are forced to endure as part of their service, has been
gaining voices. Whilst this is very true and what most people are rightly
trying to bring awareness too, we want to shift our focus ever so slightly to
highlight the effects of PTSD on the everyday men, women and children who are
also affected, as well as our service man and women. They could be
doctors, soldiers, police officers, teachers, parents.
Every day ordinary people doing every day and ordinary things. This
short will snapshot the ongoing cycle of PTSD for ALL of those people and out
lead character is a woman.
Here is the link:
https://wwww.indiegogo.com/projects/the-intruder–3#/
Carly’s previous short was Fragile
Storm, which has won a total of 10 awards during its festival run,
including best script and starred Lance Henricksen. I wrote the original
script and co-wrote the final draft with Dawn Fields.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4002314/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
https://www.facebook.com/streetscribez/
www.fragilestorm.com
http://www.streetscribez.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/street_scribe
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October 09, 2016 12_MicheleHall_UnderwaterFilmProducer_EmmyWinningImax_International Women In Film with Michele the Trainer
Episode 12 Michele
Hall
Michele Hall is an Emmy Winning natural
history and underwater film producer specializing in marine wildlife and marine
conservation films for TV and IMAX since 1991. She is a member of the
Television Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Women Divers Hall of Fame.
After nearly 2 decades as a pediatric nurse,
Michele entered the field of documentary filmmaking in 1991, specializing in
marine still photography and marine wildlife films.

While her underwater still photos have been published internationally, the
focus of her work has been working as a team with her husband, Howard,
producing marine wildlife documentary films for television and theatrical
release. She has produced or co-produced many television films including
a National Geographic Special, two episodes of the PBS series Nature (one of
which featured her and her team on-camera) and the five-hour PBS series Secrets
of the Ocean Realm. These television films garnered seven Emmy Awards,
and numerous other wildlife film festival awards.

The Halls are perhaps best known for their underwater IMAXÒ films. In 1994 Michele was Location Manager on the
first-ever underwater IMAX 3D feature, Into the Deep (which Howard directed),
and in 1998 she produced the IMAX film Island of the Sharks (also directed by Howard).
In 2005 Michele returned to the IMAX 3D format for the Warner Bros. / IMAX
feature Deep Sea 3D. The award-winning sequel Under the Sea 3D followed
in 2009.

Howard and Michele have participated in other underwater IMAX productions in
various capacities, including MacGillivray Freeman Films’ IMAX film Coral Reef
Adventure, released in 2003. More recently she has lent her expertise as
a Producer to several IMAX features as Location Manager, including MacGillivray
Freeman Films Journey to the South Pacific and Humpback Whales, and National
Geographic’s Ocean Giants.

Michele has strived to make family-friendly films that raise awareness of and
increase appreciation for the marine environment. During the past 25
years, the films she has produced have been seen by thousands of children and
adults. She has received positive feedback in letters, emails and in
person from many who have said that not only have her films increased their
knowledge of the marine environment, but they have also been the inspiration to
turn their career choices toward marine sciences and / or environmental issues.

In 2003 Michele and Howard were named Divers of the Year by the Boston Sea
Rovers, and in 2011 they received the same accolade at Beneath the Sea.
That same year they were also inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall
of Fame. In 2004 Michele and Howard were recognized by PADI with the PADI
Environmental Award. In 2013 they received the International Wildlife
Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Marine Conservation &
Media. In 2015 they were recognized by the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film
Festival with the Outstanding Achievement Award for Natural History Filmmaking.

Michele is a member of the Television Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Women
Divers Hall of Fame, and is a recipient of the Academy of Underwater Arts and
Sciences NOGI Award.
http://www.howardhall.com/
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September 07, 2016 11_DictynnaHood_DirectorWriterUK_Wreckers_IWIFwMicheleTheTrainer
Episode 11 Dictynna
Hood, DR Hood
Writer and Director from London
Dictynna Hood, DR Hood, from London, directed
and wrote the feature ‘Wreckers’ with Claire Foy and Benedict Cumberbatch,
which came out in 2012 and its international premieres were at Palm Springs and
Moscow Film Festivals.

Dictynna’s first feature film WRECKERS starred Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire
Foy, and Shaun Evans. WRECKERS premiered at the London International Film
Festival 2011 where it was nominated for best debut feature; its international
premieres were at Palm Springs IFF 2012 and Moscow IFF 2012 where it won a
Silver George. WRECKERS is released in the UK by leading arthouse distributor
Artificial Eye, who named it as ‘debut which changed the face of British
cinema’, and is distributed worldwide through Content Media Corp. Prior to her
first feature WRECKERS, Dictynna wrote and directed multi-award winning short
films THE OTHER MAN with BAFTA winner Anna Maxwell Martin (Edinburgh IFF winner
2006), and JOURNEY MAN, with Ruth Madoc. JOURNEY MAN was a global festival hit
and had eight months’ theatrical exhibition in the UK.

Dictynna has had work commissioned by Granada and Channel 4, and wrote the
screenplay for Tim Krabbe’s cult novel DELAY. Dictynna has also directed for
theatre and audio, including audio versions of Aristophanes’ THE CLOUDS with Andrew
Sachs and extracts from Homer’s ILIAD with David Warner.

Dictynna also teaches and is the inventor of the Pudovkin game for students.

D R Hood

Director/producer

+44 7985 458407
LINKS:

www.likelystory.co.uk

www.likelystory.co.uk/wreckers.html

CURRENT PROJECTS:

www.likelystory.co.uk/thisfamily.html

www.likelystory.co.uk/doctorfaustess.html

www.likelystory.co.uk/overandunder.html

FACEBOOK:

www.facebook.com/likelystoryfilms

TWITTER:

Twitter: #wreckersfilm and #thisfamilyfilm and @filmlikelystory

WRECKERS:

‘A debut that changed the face of British cinema’ – Artificial Eye

‘A handsome debut… there is a strikingly confident voice here which marks
[Hood] out as a talent

to watch… a natural, strong style which many would envy” – Fionnuala Halligan,
Screen

International

‘A beautiful eye to it… haunting… beautifully directed’ – Mark Kermode, BBC
I also liked this DR article from Huff Po UK! http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/samantha-baines/award-winning-filmmaker-d-r-hood_b_9397246.html
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August 18, 2016 10_MoniqueImpagliazzo_WriterProducerDirector_TurkeysDone_IWIFwMicheleTheTrainer
Episode 10 Monique Impagliazzo
Monique Impagliazzo, writer, producer director with 10 years
experience as Associate Producer is now working on her own short, Turkey’s Done
starring Cheri Oteri!
Monique was born and raised in South Philadelphia, PA. She graduated
from Temple University with a BA in Film and Media

Arts. Fresh out of college, she went on to intern at the Mary Anne Claro Talent
Agency, where she soon became Mary Anne’s right

hand. Monique then booked a spot representing Toyota on the International Auto
Show Circuit as a Lead Product Presenter and

specialist. From that, Monique booked a guest host spot on QVC representing the
Weatherproof brand. Mary Anne Claro then referred

Monique to Producer, Diane Kirman and Executive Producer James Brolin. Kirman
and Brolin were in the midst of producing the

children’s feature film musical, Standing Ovation and brought Monique onto the
production as an Associate Producer.

After the film wrapped, Brolin told Monique that his wife, Barbra Streisand,
was looking for an Executive Assistant at her film

company, Barwood Films. Since being hired, Monique has assisted Ms. Streisand
during the filming of The Guilt Trip (Paramount

Pictures), and the production of Streisand’s CDs, What Matter’s Most, Release
Me and Partners. Monique was Ms. Streisand’s Executive

Assistant on her 2012 US and Canadian Tour: Back to Brooklyn and The 2013
European Tour.

Monique caught the eye of Producer Wendy Cox of History Making Productions.
Wendy hired Monique as a Production Manager for the

Documentary Series, Philadelphia: The Great Experiment. Soon after, she was
hired as the Production Coordinator on Cheri Oteri’s

Pilot Presentation, The HOA. Presently Monique is preparing to direct and
produce Turkey’s Done,

a comedic short film that she wrote along with Jennifer and Krystal

Tini.
Indiegogo Video

https://youtu.be/Z5-8doeZgWo

Indiegogo Campaign Link

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/turkey-s-done-ashort-film/x/5855135#/
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