In the last two weeks, I have spent a lot of time researching how Girlworld is going to be seen and used by girls. First, I went to the Seattle Girls School and met with four amazing teachers, Rosetta, Wendy, Brenda and Trina. They got me super fired up. Then I flew to Oakland to [...]
Wow! Robert West, the executive director of Working Films is a super smart guy. His whole thing is helping filmmakers create powerful audience engagement campaigns and he is really good at it. Working Films has facilitated outreach campaigns for films such as The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Garbage Dreams (about two young garbage collectors in [...]
I just read an interview with the Documentary Doctor, Fernanda Rossi about trailers and it made me feel really good about ours. The Girlworld trailer as it is now is 10 minutes of Shanta, our oldest (and I would say, most intense) subject. In these 10 minutes we see her walking home from school, doing [...]
Scott and I are working and reworking our Girlworld pitch. You know, what we tell people when they ask us what we’re doing. We are getting better and better, the more we do it. One thing that is becoming very clear is that for funders we really need to explain how our documentary will bring [...]
A couple months ago we wrote about Shanta. Amy wrote, “…she really gets it!” –meaning that Shanta seemed to sense that being part of our film might have a bigger effect on her life than just the several days’ interruption us and our cameras made. On our first day with Shanta, as we had with most [...]
