Newark Women In Film is a multimedia, film, television, visual art and new media organization. We are dedicated to promoting equal opportunities in media for all women by encouraging and sustaining creative projects for women, by expanding and enhancing portrayals of women in all forms of global media with a particular interest in women of color.
NEWARK
WOMEN IN FILM
Where women run the set and membership equals access.
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For a few extra dollars a month,
you could change the life of a woman media maker and help her have a room of her own. Your donation will help women media makers in need of personal
and social help.
you could change the life of a woman media maker and help her have a room of her own. Your donation will help women media makers in need of personal
and social help.
MEMBERSHIP = ACCESS
Our membership program is designed to assist professional, students and emering women media makers in need of production support.
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OUR FIRST FRIDAY MIXERS
Every first Friday of the month in Newark NWIF will have a meet, greet and network membership drive. We will be showcasing and displaying our existing members’ and guests’ work.
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HOW DO WE HELP THEM?
Scholarship Fund
The Newark Women In Film Scholarship Fund was launch in 2017 and given yearly. Application submission is ongoing. The mission of the fund is to provide financial assistance to women second-year film students at Rutgers-Newark and Arts High School. Students are nominated by faculty at their respective institutions. For more information, contact the Newark Women In Film @ info@newarkwomeninfilm.com
The Sabrina Wright-Gilliar Award honors the memory of the legendary prop master Wright-Gilliar and will be given to a female high school senior graduating from Arts High School for Careers in Television and Film in Newark, New Jersey.
The Newark Women In Film Scholarship Fund was launch in 2017 and given yearly. Application submission is ongoing. The mission of the fund is to provide financial assistance to women second-year film students at Rutgers-Newark and Arts High School. Students are nominated by faculty at their respective institutions. For more information, contact the Newark Women In Film @ info@newarkwomeninfilm.com
The Sabrina Wright-Gilliar Award honors the memory of the legendary prop master Wright-Gilliar and will be given to a female high school senior graduating from Arts High School for Careers in Television and Film in Newark, New Jersey.
ABOUT US
“No black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much.’ Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’… No woman has ever written enough.” –bell hooks
With a particular interest in women of color, Newark Women In Film has established media works to strengthen the female image and filmmaking community. We do this by providing monthly networking meetings and talk backs, screenwriting sessions, mentorship programs, up to date film equpiment, professonal workshops and training, grants and a screening outlet to showcase new works directed, shot, written and produced by women to the Newark metro area community.
September 29, 2016, Newark Women In Film started to build the structure as a media co-working support base for women media makers because of the lack of funding and work opportunity for women, practically women of color in Newark and the overall media industry in general. As we talked in a cold studio full of production gear, we talked about what we needed to move forward in our careers, and felt we needed media literacy training, doing hands-on production and office space was the top priority for us to grow as a team to be hired for big productions that are held in NY/NJ/PA metro area.
We launched a workshop intensive and leadership series designed to forward the careers and practices of emerging filmmakers and media artists who are women and female-identified media makers. It was the Newark International Film Festival and our first short film we produced that sparked this movement for Newark women media makers to work together and create this co-working membership-based network for better opportunities in production.
We launched a workshop intensive and leadership series designed to forward the careers and practices of emerging filmmakers and media artists who are women and female-identified media makers. It was the Newark International Film Festival and our first short film we produced that sparked this movement for Newark women media makers to work together and create this co-working membership-based network for better opportunities in production.
Newark Women In Film was founded and created by producer/director Angela Williamston and advised by Professor Jennifer Wager in partnership with Common Mind Media Group. Newark Women In Film launched January 2017 we have been providing, ongoing production services, community workshops and industry workshops, opportunities for professional development within the local film industry and media arts sector of New Jersey, and ongoing networking opportunities for the growing creative economy of Newark.
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"So, all of us would do well to stop fighting each other for our space at the bottom, because there ain't no more room." - Cheryl Clark
Media patriarchy doesn't not favor women. This is a fact. But women have been educated to protect it, defend it, discipline other women over it, sustain it and even seek refuge in it. Given that women comprise 50 percent of the population or more, Newark Women In Film's ultimate goal is to see the same gender parity reflected on and off screen. This is a multimedia, film, televison, digital, new media group who radically identifies their gender, gender identity, energy, presentation, and/or a combination of that as a woman, as female, as femme, as butch and/or feminine of center. This group is intended to be a safe space for media development.
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