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Women & Hollywood on Panel at the Long Island International Film Expo on Sunday

posted by Women & Hollywood
Friday, July 9, 2010 at 6:12pm CDT

I’ll be participating in a panel entitled: WOMEN IN CHARGE: Kicking Open The Doors To The Film Industry on Sunday, July 11th from 12-1pm on Long Island.
Location: Filmmakers Lounge @ BELLMORE MOVIES (222 Pettit Ave. Bellmore, NY 11710).

If you are around Bellmore, Sunday at noon with nothing to do, please come on by.

Sponsored by: New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), CAVU Pictures & Long Island Film/TV Foundation

Moderated by: Producer/ Distributor Isil Bagdadi, Co-Founder & President of Distribution at CAVU Pictures

Here are the other panelists:
GRACE BLAKE: renowned film producer of such ground breaking films as School Daze, and Associate Producer of Silence of the Lambs, and Production Supervisor of The Wiz.

ELIZABETH LUCAS: Filmmaker Elizabeth Lucas recently made her feature directing debut with three genre movies about New York City past, present and future: her indie rock musical drama, CLEAR BLUE TUESDAY (which is opening in theatres September 3rd), her slasher flick, RED HOOK (distributed by Phase Four Entertainment), and her sci-fi FADE TO WHITE.

ABBY PECK: Abby Peck is the Marketing Manager at WOMEN MAKE MOVIES (WMM), a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization, which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women.

About the Moderator:
ISIL BAGDADI: Isil Bagdadi has worked in the film industry as a producer, publicist, marketing and distribution executive. In 2001, Isil and her business partner Michael Sergio started CAVU Pictures in order to finance, develop, produce, acquire and distribute cutting-edge, critically acclaimed and award-winning independent films.

More details.