Women in Film recently announced their new trustees and 2012 Film Finishing Fund winners.
They have added 13 new trustees to their 30 member board. All are based in Los Angeles.
They also announced the recipients of the 27th annual Film Finishing Fund winners. Co-sponsored by Netflix, the winners receive a cash grant and in-kind production services. This year 10 winners were selected, including two features, seven documentaries and one short.
2012 Film Finishing Fund Winners:
Narrative Feature:
Josh (Against the Grain) — Writer/Director — Iram Parveen Bilal
Yema — Produce — Antonin Dedet
Documentary Feature:
Baddddd Sonia Sanchez — Directors — Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater
American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs — Writer/Director — Grace Lee
Out in the Night — Writer/Director — Blair Doroshwalther
Good Ol’ Freda — Producer — Kathy McCabe
Hava Naglia — Director/Producer — Roberta Grossman
Miss World — Director/Producer — Cecilia Peck
Regarding Susan Sontag — Producer/Director — Nancy Kates
Narrative Short Film:
The Etymology of Zero — Writer/Producer, Katie May and Rapunzel/Producer, Liz Anderson
New Trustees:
Clare Baren — Music video director and DVD original content producer
Hillary Bibicoff — Partner, Greenberg Glusker
Ivy Kagan Bierman — Partner, Loeb & Loeb, LLP
Cindy Bond — President, Mission Pictures International
Lisa Gewirtz — singer/songwriter; Director of Sales and Marketing, Entertainment Partners
Kathy Fields Lander — MA/MFT; Founder, In Your Dreams Productions
Concepcion Lara — President, Lara MultiMedia, Latino Media Pioneer and Specialist
Lillah McCarthy — Senior Vice President, Original Programming, TNT and TBS
Robert Nieto — President, Greenhouse Marketing Group
Ellen Olivier — Founder/Editor, SocietyNewsLA.com
Betsy Pollock — Award-winning Producer; Associate Dean, American Film Institute
Tamara Rawitt — Emmy®-Award winning Co-Creator and Producer of In Living Color
Diana Tauder — Vice President, Post Production, Warner Bros.
