Eric Blume reporting for duty. We hadn't yet reviewed the short film Oscar nominees so I binged all 15 of this week. Many minds and bladders wander away from the Oscar telecast during these three categories. Even those of us who claim we’ve “seen everything” have rarely seen all of the entries in the three shorts fields. But pay attention because these winners can bring some of the best moments of the show: remember the 1991 show when producer Debra Chasnoff won for Documentary Short Subject for the General Electric expose Deadly Deception? She got to the podium and said “boycott Ge!” with a cut to Barbra Streisand smiling and clapping with Kevin Costner right behind her decidedly smiling and not clapping. We Oscar lovers live for moments like this.
There’s a lot of quality among the three categories this year. Here’s a quick overview as well as thoughts...
There’s a lot of quality among the three categories this year. Here’s a quick overview as well as thoughts...
- 2/25/2016
- by Eric Blume
- FilmExperience
Debra Chasnoff, Chair for the filmmakers of New Day Films, has written a letter to Janet Napolitano of the Department of Homeland Security (Dhs) on behalf of documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras, who was detained most recently at Newark International Airport on April 5, 2012. Ms. Poitras, an Oscar- and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, has left the Us 40+ times over the past 6 years to film and work in places such as Iraq and Yemen. Almost every time she has attempted to come back home to the U.S., she has been ...
- 5/22/2012
- by krelth
- International Documentary Association
My very first encounter with the issues involved in lesbians having and raising kids was Choosing Children, a documentary by Debra Chasnoff and Kim Klausner.
I honestly don’t remember where I saw it. I was barely out, dating a reporter that gave me access to so many events that they are all jumbled in my mind. I do remember that the film had been out a few years — long enough to make an impression on the community. And I remember the tears, some happy, some not.
Choosing Children was the first film to chronicle the journey of gay men and lesbians to become parents and contributed to a new definition of family, one that included Lgbt parents and their children. It also captures much of the history that has led to recent Lgbt family rights victories like the California ruling that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.
This year marks the 25th...
I honestly don’t remember where I saw it. I was barely out, dating a reporter that gave me access to so many events that they are all jumbled in my mind. I do remember that the film had been out a few years — long enough to make an impression on the community. And I remember the tears, some happy, some not.
Choosing Children was the first film to chronicle the journey of gay men and lesbians to become parents and contributed to a new definition of family, one that included Lgbt parents and their children. It also captures much of the history that has led to recent Lgbt family rights victories like the California ruling that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional.
This year marks the 25th...
- 9/3/2010
- by the linster
- AfterEllen.com
Power Up, founded in 2000 to promote the visibility of gay women in the entertainment industry, is going co-ed by adding men to its honorary board of directors.
Joining its honorary board are "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, filmmaker Q. Allan Brocka, producer Bruce Cohen, Indie PR president Jim Dobson, Showtime's Robert Greenblatt, HBO's Michael Lombardo and actor-director Peter Paige.
A nonprofit film production company and educational organization, Power Up develops, finances, produces and distributes Glbtq films and conducts educational programs, consisting of filmmaking classes, workshops and seminars.
"With the current climate, Power Up saw this as a time, more than any other, where our Glbtq community -- women and men -- needs to be unified to help achieve our collective goal of equality, representation and acceptance," said Stacy Codikow, the organization's founder and executive director. "Although our mission was geared to gay women, the reality is that Power Up...
Joining its honorary board are "Milk" screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, filmmaker Q. Allan Brocka, producer Bruce Cohen, Indie PR president Jim Dobson, Showtime's Robert Greenblatt, HBO's Michael Lombardo and actor-director Peter Paige.
A nonprofit film production company and educational organization, Power Up develops, finances, produces and distributes Glbtq films and conducts educational programs, consisting of filmmaking classes, workshops and seminars.
"With the current climate, Power Up saw this as a time, more than any other, where our Glbtq community -- women and men -- needs to be unified to help achieve our collective goal of equality, representation and acceptance," said Stacy Codikow, the organization's founder and executive director. "Although our mission was geared to gay women, the reality is that Power Up...
- 5/26/2009
- by By Gregg Kilday
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
If you've seen Itty Bitty Titty Committee or D.E.B.S., you've seen the fruits of Power Up!'s labor. Power Up! is a lesbian-film based non-profit organization that raises funds to put out films by gay female directors, writers and actors. Both Itty director Jamie Babbit and Angela Robinson (D.E.B.S.) are on the honorary board of directors, in good company with the likes of Debra Chasnoff.
Now Power Up! has made a new surprising move: They are opening up the organization to gay men as well. Founder and executive director Stacy Codikow released a statement regarding why she felt that it was time to bring men into the organization:
With the current climate, Power Up saw this as a time, more than any other, where our Glbtq community - Women & Men - needs to be unified to help achieve our collective goal of equality, representation and acceptance. Power Up knows that...
Now Power Up! has made a new surprising move: They are opening up the organization to gay men as well. Founder and executive director Stacy Codikow released a statement regarding why she felt that it was time to bring men into the organization:
With the current climate, Power Up saw this as a time, more than any other, where our Glbtq community - Women & Men - needs to be unified to help achieve our collective goal of equality, representation and acceptance. Power Up knows that...
- 5/18/2009
- by Trish Bendix
- AfterEllen.com
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