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Divas Direct: Film Workshops for Girls educates high school girls in San Diego on the technical and creative skills of filmmaking. Through the mentorship of local women filmmakers, the young women learn the technical skills of producing, filming and editing. The Film Foundation hopes to further develop the culture of women filmmakers by breaking female stereotypes, promoting young women into leadership roles and giving them experience in positions that lack female representation.
The Divas Direct: Film Workshops for Girls' mission is to educate high school aged young women in San Diego about film. Through the mentorship of women filmmakers in San Diego, the young women will create, produce, film and edit multiple P.S.A.'s that will address teen concerns and issues prevalent to today's young women. Through this program, we hope to break female stereotypes and create social change by promoting women into positions of leadership and give them experience in jobs that are male-prevalent.
SDWFF's ongoing partners include Monarch School, Coronado Middle School, Coronado High School, San Diego MANA Hermanitas, San Diego Girls Alliance, High Tech Middle Media Arts, Escondido Arts Partnership and Girl Scouts, which serve students from various ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. If your organization is looking for a media program for young women in high school, please contact: info[at]sdwff.org.
2007 Schedule
Girls with HTMMA (date to be announced)
February
Women at USD
March
17-24th: Escondido Arts Partnership
31st: Escondido Arts Partnership - FILM PREMIERE
July/August
13-21st: Girl Scouts
July 30-August 10: Monarch Camp
Fall
High Tech Middle Media Arts, Dates TBD
G.E.M.M: Girls Empowered to Make Movies
G.E.M.M. is a partnership between the San Diego Women Film Foundation and the Girl Scouts of San Diego. SDWFF instructors implement the Divas Direct: Film Workshops for Girls curriculum with local high school girl scouts.
Facts about Women and Film:
In the Academy Awards, only three women have ever been nominated for Best Director. They were:
- Lina Wertmuller for Seven Beauties, 1976
- Jane Campion for The Piano, 1993
- Sofia Coppola for Lost in Translation, 2003
A 1997 report published by the Director's Guild of America showed that women only represented 12.2% of the total membership. Some fields still show a lack of representation by women, careers in technology being one of them.
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