Month: July 2018

Ep. 32 Jalena Keane-Lee : Social Justice Filmmaker

Jalena Keane-Lee is a co-founder of Breaktide Productions an all women of color production team. Her first documentary short, The Construct: Female Laborers and the Fight for Equality follows Burmese female laborers as they physically develop a country that is rapidly changing. The short was selected for streaming on Seed&Spark’s “Fight for Your Rights” playlist, and has begun its festival run at the Portland Film Festival, and Seattle Asian American Film Festival.

 

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Additionally, Jalena has Directed a short Czech language film on 16mm, a spec pilot with an all woman of color cast and crew, and partnered with non-profits to amplify their work. Jalena is currently a 2018 Sally Burns Shenkman Woman Filmmaker Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center, which has supported shorts that have premiered at SXSW, HotDocs, and Sundance. Her writing has been featured in Seventeen Magazine, The Tempest and NBC.com, and she has made films that highlight the importance of campus activism, a woman of color running for office, and destigmatizing menstruation.

 

On This Episode (Listen HERE)
Why it’s important to her to tell stories that spark social change?
Her Project Standing Above The Clouds
First Piece of Equipment she invested in as a filmmaker verses what she would invest in now?

Who is the priority in your story, who wants to see what you are doing?

Being a one woman band, teaching her about her voice and perspective
Finding her voice as a filmmaker.

What is she reading? Behold the Dreamer

Mentioned in show:

Canon 70D 

Brown Girls Doc Mafia 

Project 1324

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EP. 31 Toni Thai : Director & Screenwriter

A published author at 8 years old, writing is where I started. A Writer is what I am. A Director is who I am. Luckily, they both work well together. Photography is a passion that feels more like giving because I love making people feel beautiful. In my latest project (Potty Break) I step in front of the camera as well as behind it; a journey that was challenging, but fun.

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​As a director and photographer, Toni has worked with talents such as Taraji P. Henson, Rob Lowe, Fab 5 Freddy and Ava Duvernay. It was Ava who named Toni Vibe’s Next Female Filmmaker. As a commercial and content director, her clients have included AOL, Barnes & Noble, Kmart, AT&T, The Nicki Minaj Collection, Clinique, A&E television, Tyra Banks’ Type F, and Wacoal.

Recently, she was selected by the NYC Mayor’s office for their MOME film finance lab. Through the lab, she’s developing a narrative feature film project. Currently, Toni is in Post Production on a fun and raw webseries she wrote and directed called “Potty Break”.

​Toni co-produced and co-starred in the Gotham Award nominated film, “August The First”.

​Also, Toni is in production on a feature length Documentary about a recently released former Pennsylvania Drug Kingpin, who is simultaneously fighting to save his community and his life as he battles cancer.

On This Episode (Listen HERE)
Her Documentary Unapologetic 
Her upcoming Web Series Potty Break 
How she was able to work with clients like; AOL, Barnes & Noble, Kmart, AT&T, The Nicki Minaj Collection, Clinique, A&E television, Tyra Banks’ Type F, and Wacoal
Why traveling is important for filmmakers.

What is she reading? The Last Black Unicorn, The Miracle Morning  

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EP. 30 Sarah Moshman : Director, Documentary Filmmaker

Sarah Moshman is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and TEDx speaker whose work has been featured on Upworthy, Marie Claire, CNN, and Good Morning America.

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After directing two short documentaries about female empowerment in young women, (Girls Rock! Chicago (2010) and Growing up Strong: Girls on the Run (2012)) she set out to direct her first feature doc The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things (2014) which has been screened over 700 times around the US and around the world in schools, groups, organizations and corporations starting conversations about gender equality. With Indieflix as the distributor, the film has been sponsored by major brands like Nordstrom, American Girl and Microsoft to spread this message far and wide. Sarah’s second feature doc, Losing Sight of Shore follows the incredible journey of four women who rowed across the Pacific Ocean. The film was released globally in 190 countries on Netflix in May 2017.

Next up she’s making a documentary examining sexual harassment in the workplace entitled NEVERTHELESS. Sarah is dedicated to telling stories that uplift, inform and inspire as well as showcase strong female role models on screen.

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On This Episode (Listen HERE)
Her Documentary Losing Sight of Shore.
How she ran prepared none filmmakers at sea to tell their story through film.
Not having money for your project but how to get it done.
Mentioned using sony fdr ax100
How to look for the deeper layers to tell a documentary story?
How to get started when as a documentary storyteller?
Empowerment Project.

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