→ Movies By Women.com: About Us
Welcome to the website about movies directed by women. This site includes information on historical women directors, current and past statistics on women directors, and also includes female director interviews. Please visit the rest of our site.
→ OUR BACKGROUND
Everyone is a member.
Women Filmmaker's Summit. MoviesByWomen.com was initially called 50/50 Summit which was an outgrowth of the 50/50 Women Filmmaker's Summit which occurred in April, 2000. The mission of the group was to attain equality for women in film and television, and all media now known or hereafter devised, worldwide, in perpetuity.
By calling attention to past women directors we seek to write the true history of filmmaking. 5050summit.com changed names in the summer 2002 to the far more digestable name of MoviesByWomen.com. We are not a formal organization, but rather an informal group using the internet to increase awareness of our mission.
Our Strategic Goals are to increase the number of women directors working in film, television or other media; to build audiences for women directed films; to increase awareness of women's contributions to film and television history; to develop a community that will increase employment opportunities for women in entertainment.
→ DONATIONS TO SUPPORT THE FIRST WEEKENDERS GROUP
DONATION NOTE: We do hope you consider donating 20, 30, or heck, even 50 dollars to promote women directed features for 2007 and beyond! The only way we are currently able to offer a tax-deductible contribution is via check or credit card to through the generosity of New York Women in Film & Television. Write checks out to:
NYWIFT (New York Women In Film and Television).
and then please mail to: Webmaster/Tara Veneruso, 419 N. Larchmont Blvd. #90, Los Angeles, CA 90004.
We are seeking tax-deductible donations to continue the First Weekenders Group weekly email and the MoviesByWomen.com website. Our website has been instrumental in garnering the attention of media and academia and will be mentioned in several upcoming books.
Our website has also enabled over 3,000 people to sign up for the First Weekenders Group which contains valuable statistics and resources on women working in the film business. We are making a difference. So much depends upon us staying connected with each other and staying informed and the popularity of the weekly emails continues to grow.
We are looking to expand it to include events listings site so we can include events in places other than New York and Los Angeles. Your ideas are welcomed and encouraged what would you like to see? What would be helpful to you?
We will update all who contribute on what we have collected and how we are doing. You don't have to contribute to keep getting the weekly updates, but your support is crucial to its continuing.