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Meet the Media Makers: A SFIWFF and BAWIFM Mentoring Event
Think you need to move to Los Angeles or New York City to jumpstart your career in film? Think again! The Bay Area landscape is ripe with many thrilling opportunities for women to make it big in the movies.
In this special panel, co-presented by the Bay Area Women in Film & Media and the San Francisco Art Institute, you will meet 6 female movers and shakers in the film industry, whose success stories are living proof that there's no need to be in L.A. or NYC to make a career in film happen.
Speaking as your mentors in this panel are:
Lynn Hershman Leeson
(Filmmaker and Historian)
An award-winning pioneer in new media, Lynn Hershman Leeson now teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute. Leeson pioneered site specific, performance and interactive media. Most recently, she was honored by the Digital Art Museum in Berlin with the d.velop digital art award (d.daa), the most distinguished honor for lifetime achievement in the field of new media. Her other honors include the prestigious Golden Nica Prix Ars Electronica, the ZKM/Seimens Media Arts Award and the Alfred P. Sloan Film Prize for writing and directing Teknolust. In 2009, she became a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Siggraph. Hershman Leeson wrote, directed and produced the feature films Teknolust, Conceiving Ada, Strange Culture and !Women Art Revolution - A Secret History.
Martha Gorzycki
(Associate Professor of Cinema, San Francisco State University)
Since the mid 1980's, Martha Gorzycki has worked as an animator/animation photographer for award winning independent filmmakers in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is an award winning animator/filmmaker and media artist. Her works explores aspects of visual culture and dreams and is exhibited nationally and internationally in festivals, galleries, LCD billboards and the web. She coordinates the animation program at San Francisco State University.
Ryan Lynch
(Pixar Story Supervisor)
Ryan Lynch grew up on the outskirts of Atlanta, GA on a farm, where she'd spend the hot summer days riding her horse to the local video store to rent the latest new release. While traveling in the Middle East, India and Southeast Asia and filming every minute, she inadvertently created what became her first documentary. Enamored by telling stories through moving images, she decided to become a filmmaker. Ryan has spent the last six years at Pixar Animation Studios in the story department working on films such as Ratatouille and the upcoming 2012 release, Brave. Also while at Pixar, she's worked on numerous short live-action films in various roles from director to writer to production designer through Pixar's live-action film coop. Her latest film she wrote and directed, Real Men Go Hunting went on to screen at numerous film festivals all over the world including Cannes Short Film Corner and Honolulu IFF where it won an Aloha Accolade Award. She is in production on another short she's directing called, The Farms, through her production company she started in 2009 called MissMottMedia, LLC. She received a B.F.A. in visual arts from University of Colorado and an M.F.A. in film directing from Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
Iris Malang
(Vector Art Director)
Iris is an artist from San Francisco, California who grew up on the beautiful islands of Hawai'i. Trained as an animator for 4 years and finding a home in the Game industry and strives to create beautiful works of art for mobile and social gaming platforms. Aside from gaming Iris finds excitement in other activities such as hiking, running, painting, and exploring a variety of other mediums.
Ami Zins
(Creative Consultant & Film Commissioner)
Ami Zins was the director of the Oakland Film Office for 13 years during which she attracted and supported productions such as the Matrix II & III, the Bee Season, Mistress of Spices and hundreds of other feature and short films, television, commercial, music video, documentary and student film productions; produced film screenings and advised developing filmmakers. Ami is a graduate of Laney College and San Francisco State University, where she completed her Masters in Theater Arts, and prior to running the film office directed over a dozen plays and taught at local colleges. She is excited to have wrapped up her work with the OFO and to return to teaching, consulting and working on her own creative projects with a focus on social justice.
Joanne Parsont
(Director of Education, San Francisco Film Society)
Joanne has worked in the Bay Area film community for 15 years as a film programmer, writer, editor, consultant, project manager and media educator, specializing in outreach, education, youth media, children's and documentary programming.
This panel is free and open to the public, so register now!
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LocationSan Francisco Art Institute, Lecture Hall (View)
800 Chestnut Street
San Francisco, CA 94133
United States
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