The Women’s Media Center congratulates Katy Garretson for becoming the 26th recipient of the Frank Capra Achievement Award at the 64th Annual Director’s Guild of America Awards. It is a pleasure to see her talents, career, and service recognized and celebrated.
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The Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors has approved a merger package with AFTRA. Hollywood’s two leading acting unions will now comprise one entity. For details, see the Screen Actors Guild website.
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WMC VP of Programs Jamia Wilson and WMC Board Member Gloria Feldt have both written chapters in the new book, “Madonna and Me: Women Writers on the Queen of Pop.” Congratulations Jamia and Gloria! Check out this review of the new book on Atlas.
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The Women’s Media Center is very excited about the upcoming Athena Film Festival and is so proud of Melissa Silverstein at Women and Hollywood, who worked for the Women’s Media Center in our early days and is a true force for women in the media. We are also delighted that the HBO documentary about our Co-Founder, Gloria Steinem, will be featured at the festival. Watch the inspiring trailer for this great festival here!
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On November 16, 2011, the Women’s Media Center invited girls ages 14-22, to create a 1- 5 minute video for our first annual Girls State of the Union (#GSOTU) video contest. Like the President’s report, the Girls’ State of the Union sums up the condition of the country—with a special emphasis on the welfare of girls.
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WMC Co-Founder Gloria Steinem was interviewed by Salamishah Tillet of TEDxWomen on modern feminism, media, aging, and the future of feminism, among other things. Check out the full interview here.
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WMC Founding Board Member and CEO of the Paley Center for Media Pat Mitchell discussed the Sundance Film Festival in a Huffington Post article yesterday. “I was honored,” she wrote, “to be cohost of a gathering about women in film…along with two great organizations—Women In Film Los Angeles and the Sundance Institute.”
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