What We Do
Meeting Archive:
2009 Meetings
Storytelling on the Web: Harnessing a World of Opportunities
Summer Sizzle: Mixer & BBQ
"The Connection:" a screening with guest Wendy Clarke
Black & White Night - A Fundraiser with special guest Barbara Orbison
First Annual Athena Award for Excellence in Short Screenplay, awarded to Lynn Marie Helvey
International Women's Day Film Festival
NMWIF Annual Meeting - Vote for New Board and speaker Keith Wayne MacGregor
"Get a Job!" Networking Meeting
2008 Meetings
Sage Award Ceremony @ Santa Fe Film Festival: presented to Ann Lerner
Costuming for Film & Television: panel with Cathy Smith, Kate Healy, Dorothy Baca & Janet Davidson
Composing for Film with Wendy Blackstone
Finance, Budgeting and Incentives for the Filmmaker
Plays, a Potluck and Craig Barnes
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Acting: Panel Discussion
Bonny Dore, producer,
one-time head of comedy at ABC, co-founder of numerous WIF chapters
International Women’s Day Film Festival, with Award presented to Janet Davidson
All About Indies: Panel Discussion
HighTea and Fashion Show
Breaking in Below the Line – Panel Discussion
2007 Meetings
Sage Awards Ceremony @ Santa Fe Film Festival: presented to Shirley MacLaine
Egyptian Filmmakers Forum
Screening of “Help, Hope, Healing” PSA
Summer Potluck
Michael Donaldson: Fearless Negotiating
International Women’s Day Film Festival
All About Casting with Lynn Stalmaster, Jo
Edna Boldin, Kathy Brink and Angelique Midthunder
Albuquerque Studios Tour
2006 Meetings
Sage Awards Ceremony @ Santa Fe Film Festival: presented to Lisa Strout
Hispanic Cultural Center Tour
Vista Studio Tour
Lloyd Segan, Exec. Prod. Of Wildfire
Summer Potluck with Blue Turtle, psychic readings and a raffle
Marty Raphael of Global Connections Coaching
Nana Visitor, Actress
The Horror Chronicles Producers
International Women's Day Film Festival with special guest Shirley MacLaine
UNM Art Lab, with Eric Whitmore
Wildfire Studio Tour
Public Service Announcements (PSAs)
Women in Film has made numerous PSAs for 501(c3) charities through its member chapters, and nationally, WIFTI has calculated that a 20% increase occurs in charity activities and funds for an organization when a PSA is run.
Our PSA production program is a way for us to give back to our communities, as well as to exercise our mentor program.
In 2007, with the help of a grant from the WIF/General Motors alliance, NMWIF produced a PSA for the Santa Fe Rape Crisis and Trauma Treatment Center. The Center was chosen from a pool of nonprofit organizations. The writer, director and producers were selected from the membership of NMWIF after a proposal process. "Help, Hope, Healing" was predominantly a volunteer production and is currently running on KOB Channel 4 and KOAT Channel 7.
New Mexico Women in Film Cast and Crew:
Denise Ann Beale*
Candace Boulay*
Carolyn Brown
Doranne Candlelaria
Ursula Coyote
Janet Davidson
Katie Douthit
Jill Dupont*
Ande Hambuchen
Elissa Kannon
Beverly Kizer*
Karen Koch
Allison LeQuin
Susan Magestro
Sheri Mann
Deanne May*
Liliane McCarthy
Sarah McCollum*
Genia Michaela
Amber Midthunder
Angelique Midthunder
Charlene Reader
Betty Smith
Cynthia Straus*
Shawn Tolhurst*
Lisa Van Allen
Susan (Sy)Yurkovic
* denotes members who were mentored in new positions
NMWIF and the SFRCTTC would like to thank members of the film community who donated their time and resources to make this possible.
Sage Award
The Sage Award was created by NMWIF to honor a person or entity which takes professional and/or financial risks to create important film and television work dedicated to the "greater feminine," i.e. issues of social justice, environmental degradation and protection, civil rights, racism and sexism. .
The first Sage Award was presented at the Santa Fe Film Festival Awards Night in December, 2006. The award continues to be given in conjunction with the Santa Fe Film Festival. The Membership of NMWIF submits nominations to the Board of Directors, who votes on the recipient. The award is presented annually.
The Sage Award is a bronze cast of an owl sculpture by the well-known artist, Doug Coffin, in support of feminine wisdom.
Sage Award Recipients:
2008 Ann Lerner
For her tireless efforts on behalf of promoting the film industry in Albuquerque and the state of New Mexico, as well as her support and promotion of women in the New Mexico film community.
2007 Shirley MacLaine
For her outstanding portrayal of the female characters she has played and for her dedication to expanding consciousness, the Sage Award was presented to Shirley MacLaine.
2006 Lisa Strout
New Mexico Film Commissioner Lisa Strout, a woman who has made a profound contribution to the development of the Film Industry in the State of New Mexico, was the recipient of the inaugural Sage Award.
New Mexico Women in Film Writers' Group
The Writers' Group is a collection of actors and writers who meet every other Monday to read and give feedback on new work. If you are interested in joining the group, please contact the Group Moderator.
New Mexico Women in Film Scholarship
In 2007, NMWIF was able to offer a scholarship, funded by General Motors. It was awarded to a woman working in the film industry in NM, for continuing education. The award of $1500 was split between Lexie Shabel and Faith Strongheart. Lexie used her award for education in the grant-writing process, so that she could more effectively raise money for her documentary about breast cancer. Faith used her award to help cover the costs of the NM Filmmaker Intensive program.
CineMas New Mexico Women in Film Award
The "NMWIF Award" was created to honor an Outstanding Film by a Woman, from all entries in the CineMas Film Festival, formerly the Sin Fronteras Film Festival. Films that were either produced or directed by a woman qualified for consideration by the NMWIF panel. The award consisted of a $300 award to the filmmaker, as well as a plaque.
Screenwriting Conference
in Santa Fe Scholarship
The Screenwriting Conference in Santa Fe is a 6 day series of seminars,
panels, classes, labs, consultations and pitch sessions. NMWIF gratefully acknowledges
The Screenwriting Conference in Santa Fe and director Larry Stouffer for donating
a scholarship in 2007 for a NMWIF member to attend the conference.
International Women's Day Festival
Women in Film and Television International's Short Film Showcase Celebrating International Women's Day is screened in twenty cities worldwide, on or about International Women's Day. We are honored to showcase the work of nine exceptionally gifted international directors, as well as a selection of local filmmakers. We look forward to marking International Women's Day with peers and audiences across three continents, highlighting the strength of our network and celebrating the filmmaking talents of women worldwide. NMWIF celebrates with a screening and reception every March 8th .
Local Filmmaker Kate Brown was selected twice for inclusion in the NM portion of the program, and once in the International program.
WIFTI is a global network comprised of over 40 Women In Film and Television chapters worldwide and more than 10,000 members. All are dedicated to advancing professional development and achievement for women working in all areas of film, video and other screen-based media. WIFTI provides networking and learning opportunities, scholarships, a film finishing fund, a presence at major worldwide film festivals, as well as offers help and encouragement to women who aspire to work in the film and TV industries.
A History of International Women's Day
adapted from the United Nations
International Women's Day (March 8th) was birthed with the turn of the Twentieth Century, to rally to women's suffrage and calls for peace. The first National Woman's Day was observed across the United States in 1909. In 1910, a meeting in Copenhagen of The Socialist International established a Women's Day, international in character, to honor the movement for women's rights and to assist in achieving universal suffrage for women. Russian women observed their first International Women's Day in 1913; the following year, elsewhere in Europe women held rallies to protest the war and to express solidarity with their sisters. In addition to the right to vote and to hold public office, they demanded the right to work, to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job, rights we find ourselves still fighting for today.
International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history. It is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. March 8 th is an occasion when women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of women's rights.
International Women's Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike. This date is commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. Few causes promoted by the United Nations have generated more intense and widespread support than the campaign to promote and protect the equal rights of women. The Charter of the United Nations, signed in San Francisco in 1945, was the first international agreement to proclaim gender equality as a fundamental human right. A central organizing principle of the United Nations is that no enduring solution to society's most threatening social, economic and political problems can be found without the full participation, and the full empowerment, of the world's women.
