UNSTOPPABLE WOMEN DIRECTORS
Making Impact Across Platforms

When: May 28, 2020
Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am PDT / 1:00 – 2:00 pm EDT

Tune in live on your desktop or mobile device in order to participate in our Q&A session!

Homeland, Twilight, Lords of Dogtown, Miss Bala, Thirteen, The Newsroom, The Walking Dead, True Blood, Mad Men, The Good Wife, The West Wing, NYPD Blue, ER, Blue Bloods and Criminal Minds

These are just a few of the projects our panel of directors have worked on. During this exciting webcast, accomplished Directors Catherine Hardwicke, Lesli Linka Glatter, and Rachel Feldman discuss their journey as filmmakers. From low budget indie films to studio fare and from episodic television to directing features, they will dive into the benefits and challenges that come with their roles. We’ll also learn how these visionary leaders are prepping their current projects during this global crisis.

We’ll dive into these questions and more:

• What projects were you working on before everything came to a standstill?

• How have you been preparing for shoots while in quarantine?

• What are the differences in the filmmaking process across platforms – Television vs. Film vs. Mobile?

• How do you finance your independent projects currently?

• What experiences have you had as women directors that have either obstructed your career progress or have propelled it forward?

• How do you see the industry moving forward for female filmmakers?

• What are some innovative ideas that might disrupt the way business has been done for a better future? 

Join us for an inspiring and insightful conversation with some of Hollywood’s most seasoned and accomplished female directors.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS:

Rachel Feldman is a director and screenwriter with credits in film and television, movie and series.  This season, she directed multiple episodes of “Blue Bloods,” “Criminal Minds,” “The Rookie,” and the pilot & first season of “The Baxters” for MGM. 

Feldman is in late development to direct LILLY,  a feature film based on the remarkable life of Fair Pay icon Lilly Ledbetter. This beloved project is the nexus of her professional, personal and political passions.

Feldman has written and directed several feature films including LOVE NOTES, SMOTHERED, SHE’S NO ANGEL, and WITCHCRAFT III and has sold features and pilots to eOne, Freeform, and Lifetime Television. Her pilot KINKS won the 2020 ScreenCraft Best Pilot Launch, the WGA Drama Queens Best Pilot Competition, and was selected for the MIPCannes In Development Initiative.

A long time activist for gender parity in Hollywood, Feldman is former chair of the DGA Women’s Steering Committee. She can be seen in the Geena Davis produced documentary, “This Changes Everything,” Amy Adrion’s “Half The Sky,” and Bloomberg Television’s “Celluloid Ceilings."

Feldman was a professional child actor, then worked up film production ranks as a storyboard artist on studio films. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College then earned an MFA from NYU Grad Film & TV, where her graduate thesis film went on to win over 25 national and international best short awards. She's repped at Verve.

Full bio & credits @ www.rachelfeldman.com / Follow her @WomenCallAction.

Lesli Linka Glatter is a director of film, network, and premium cable television drama, with both pilots and episodes to her credit. Lesli’s TV work includes Homeland, The Newsroom, The Walking Dead, Justified, Ray Donovan, Masters of Sex, True Blood, Mad Men, The Leftovers, The Good Wife, The West Wing, NYPD Blue, ER, Freaks and Geeks and Twin Peaks. Lesli has also directed numerous pilots including Gilmore Girls, Pretty Little Liars and SIX. Her films include Now and Then, The Proposition and for HBO, State of Emergency.

Lesli is currently the Executive Producer/Director of the award winning series Homeland. She began her directing career through the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women, in which her film Tales of Meeting and Parting was nominated for an Oscar. Lesli has received 7 Emmy nominations, 7 Directors Guild Award nominations, winning twice for Mad Men and Homeland, as well as a Humanitus Award nomination for HBO’s State of Emergency. Lesli is currently developing projects for Netflix, Amazon, Showtime, Epix and her next project is The Bankers Wife, an 8 part mini series for Amazon.

Lesli serves as the 1st Vice President of the Directors Guild of America, is on the DGA’s Western Directors Council, serves on the Executive Committee of the Directors Branch of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She is also an advisor at the Sundance Institute’s Director’s Lab. Lesli has been committed to mentoring for many years and most recently help develop the successful NBC program, Female Forward. Lesli has received the Caucus Foundation Award, the Dorothy Arzner Directing Award from Women in Film and the Franklin Schaffner Award from the American Film Institute and most recently, an Honorary Degree from the American Film Institute.

Prior to her work as a director, Lesli was a modern dance choreographer who worked throughout Europe, Asia and the U.S.

Choosing material that is thought-provoking and controversial, Catherine Hardwicke’s films have helped to redefine popular culture.

Hardwicke’s latest project Don’t Look Deeper, stars Don Cheadle, Emily Mortimer and newcomer Helena Howard. It follows a young woman who's fighting a looming feeling that there is just something fundamentally different about her. Don’t Look Deeper will be released in June as 14, 10-minute or shorter episodes on QUIBI, a mobile-first media platform spearheaded by Jeffrey Katzenberg.

Hardwicke’s first film as a director was the critically-acclaimed Thirteen, which won numerous awards including the Director’s Award at Sundance, Golden Globe nominations for Holly Hunter and Evan Rachel Wood, an Academy Award nomination for Holly Hunter and an Independent Spirit Award for Nikki Reed.

Hardwicke has since then become best known as the director of Twilight, which launched the blockbuster franchise, The Twilight Saga and earned nearly $400 million at the global box office. 

Hardwicke’s other credits include: Lords of Dogtown, Miss You Already, Red Riding Hood, The Nativity Story, Plush, and MISS BALA.  For television, she directed episodes of This Is Us, Eye Witness, Low Winter Sun, and Hell on Wheels.  She also previously worked as a production designer on films directed by Richard Linklater, David O. Russell, Cameron Crowe, and Lisa Cholodenko. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from UT Austin, and did graduate work in animation at UCLA Film School.

MODERATOR:Amy Baker
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
WINSTON | BAKER

As Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WINSTON | BAKER, Amy Baker oversees the company’s global strategic planning, business development and vendor relationships. Amy co-founded the FILM FINANCE FORUM® in 2008, which provides the leading series of events dedicated to bringing finance and entertainment executives together from around the world. Prior to establishing Winston/Baker, she successfully directed B2B and B2C business development efforts for over 10 years by leveraging innovative sponsorship methods to engage business professionals. At ALM, as Vice President of Business Development, she provided finance executives and marketers with targeted channels for reaching decision-makers within the legal, entertainment, healthcare and tech sectors. In her previous position, Director of Business Development at RPMC, she worked with entertainment, music, and sports companies, creating event marketing programs, travel incentive services, sweepstakes, and media promotions. Amy received a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology with honors from New York University. In 2018 Amy was honored to join the National Board of Advisors for the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.

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