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Cinewomen On Screen?A NYWIFT

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Event: Wednesday Feb. 24, 2010

What do you get when you cross Mumblecore

with elements of Dogme 95 and New York, I
Love You?
You get WONDER . . . 10 short films, 1
script.
photo still from WONDER

It's one feature film made by 10 directors. The

twist? The shorts range from thrillers to comedies to dramas. They each use the
same scripted dialogue, but with different actors and locations. The project was
conceived by Dutch Doscher within the Directors ?n Actors (DnA) directors lab
and features the talents of three NYWIFT members: directors Peggy Howard
Chane and Annetta Marion and editor Veronique Doumbe.

Other directors are: Shari Carpenter, Dutch Doscher, Ian Fischer, Jason
Hayes, Jordon Horowitz, Evan O'Brien, Don Puglisi and Ross Williams,
with Ed Roy as Compilation Producer.

Q & A will moderated by Abiola Abrams.

The film runs 73 minutes. Join us after the film for food and a cash bar.

Directors:

Peggy Howard Chane spent five years at Paramount Pictures, working on the
series Bosom Buddies and TV movies, then formed her own production company,
CPC Entertainment, which produced the thriller In the Eyes of a Stranger.
She now directs plays in L.A . and New York. Upcoming film projects
include River to Greyrock, Passing Thru and Full Crop of Earlies. She began her
career as Associate Producer of docs at the United States Information Agency
working on the moon landing, followed by game shows, pageants, sporting
events and music videos.

Annetta Marion is an award-winning filmmaker whose work spans documentary

and narrative films, broadcast commercials, public service announcements and

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episodes for a Web series. Marion is currently developing her next film with
producer Peter Wentworth. She has received a directing fellowship at AFI's
Directing Workshop for Women, and has been nominated for the Working Woman
Entrepreneurial Excellence Award and the Northern Ohio Live Awards of
Achievement in Film/Radio/TV.

Shari Carpenter's debut feature film, Kali's Vibe, won both the Jury Award and
the Audience Award for Best Feature at the Denver Pan African Film Festival and
a Vision Award at the Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival. She has written and
directed four shorts: Walk, Call Me On It, The Assistant and Since Lisa, which
won awards at the Black Filmmaker's Hall of Fame, the Black American Cinema
Society and the Rochester International Film Festival.

Dutch Doscher has been a freelance director of after-school specials, music

videos and short films as well as many educational videos. He has completed
over 50 after-school specials, earning numerous awards from the Association of
Visual Communications. He has also earned awards from the Columbus Film &
Video Festival, Connecticut Film Festival, Cannes Short Film Corner, Los Angeles
Shorts Festival, New Filmmaker New York City, International Filmmaker Film
Festival and the Houston International Film Festival.

Ian Fischer directed Man on Earth's music video for Hold Your Breath and Brace
for the Crash. His short film Foet won Best Adaptation at South Africa Horrorfest
and has been accepted into Cannes, New York City Horror Film Festival, Boston
Underground and the Fantasia Festival. His multi-award-winning short film,
Magritte Moment, recently won Best Short Film at the Philadelphia Asian-
American Film Festival and Best Experimental Film at the Route 66 Film Festival.

Jay D. Hayes was a Top 5 Finalist in the Director's Competition in season two of
Project Greenlight. He worked for Philadelphia-based production company The
Big Picture Alliance where he wrote, produced, directed, edited and acted in over
40 different films, shorts, PSA's and commercials, many of which were screened
in film festivals around the country. His shorts and features have also sold to
local television stations for broadcast in the Philadelphia area.

Jordan Horowitz is an award-winning director and producer based in New York

City. He is an active member of DnA, a weekly workshop in Manhattan that
brings working directors and actors together to run scenes and improve their
craft. Jordan has also served as a judge at two film festivals, New York Festivals
and The Lower East Side Film Fest, and was on the screening committee for the
2009 Gen Art Film Fest.

Evan O'Brien, actor and first time director, has been seen on Parks And
Recreation on NBC, General Hospital, Late Night With Conan O'Brien and many
commercials and voice-overs, as well as theater in Manhattan and abroad. Will

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of Wonder is his first collaborative film project. He executive produced and

performed in a new improvised storytelling radio program in Hollywood called
The Naked Air. O'Brien has worked with the Upright Citizens Brigade, Gotham
Improv and with ensembles at the Chicago and Toronto comedy festivals.

Don Puglisi is a New York-based actor/director who honed his skills in theatre
directing showcases of such stageplays as Jesus Hopped the A Train, Glass
Menagerie, Women of Manhattan and many others. As an actor, he has been in
various New York episodics including Law and Order and Life On Mars. Film
work includes Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock and Sangre de me Sangre.

Ross Adrian Williams is a composer whose music has been performed in North
America, Australia and Asia by the West Australian Youth and Symphony
Orchestras and the Australian String Quartet. Recently he has been composing
and sound designing for theater and film using traditional and electronically
manipulated sounds. He recently finished producing, engineering and mixing a
full length album with the singer/songwriter Martin Bernt.

Moderator Abiola Abrams is an independent filmmaker, author, TV personality,

motivational speaker, and self-declared Goddess Passionista. As part of her Safe
Sex Initiative, she directed the award-winning and critically acclaimed feminist
erotica art film, Afrodite Superstar. In addition, she hosts television shows like
BET's, Best Shorts, HBO's The Buzz, and NBC's Source: All Access, and appears
as a Pop Culture talking head on other major entertainment networks. She is
the author of a popular debut novel DARE. She has also written several essays
on love, sex, dating, and personal empowerment for bestselling anthologies,
such as Behind the Bedroom Door and Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia.
Her writings on stopping violence against women and girls are published in Eve
Ensler's anthology; A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer. She has also
written for publications such as Self magazine and is a lead contributor of
articles, video content, and celebrity interviews to several news and
entertainment oriented web sites.
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