WIFVNE is proud to be co-presenting three films as part of this year's
WICKED QUEER: DOCS Festival
Nov. 15-22, 2024

Pumping Iron II: The Women (1985)
Saturday, November 16 at 9PM at the Brattle Theater

Long before Love Lies Bleeding, there was Pumping Iron II: The Women. This little-seen sequel to the film that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a superstar follows a group of four women as they prepare and compete in the 1983 Caesars World Cup in Las Vegas: butch Australian powerlifter (and now out lesbian) Bev Francis, the more traditionally feminine Rachel McLish, former synchronized swimmer Carla Dunlap, and Texan Lori Bowen, who hopes to win so her bodybuilder boyfriend can quit his job as a male stripper.

Tickets: $15 GA; $10 students, seniors
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Old Lesbians
part of the Doc Shorts 2024 program of five stories of how the community lifts itself up for survival, for success, and for our future.
Sunday, November 17 at 4PM at the Brattle Theater

For the last quarter century, Houston native Arden Eversmeyer journeyed across the country to record hundreds of oral “herstories” with a mostly invisible population that is rapidly disappearing. Old Lesbians honors Arden’s legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project.
Tickets: $15 GA; $10 students, seniors
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Janis Ian (2024)
November 18 at 7PM at the Brattle

Janis Ian chronicles the singer’s epic life journey beginning with her Jewish childhood on a chicken farm in New Jersey; her youthful struggle with notoriety following her hit “Society’s Child" her ascent to fame with the single “At Seventeen.” The film also covers her release of the album Breaking Silence about her loving relationship with her wife Pat Snyder.

Tickets: $15 GA; $10 students, seniors
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Join us for the Music Literacy for Content Creators workshop with WIFVNE Member Joel Roston, composer and educator at Longy School of Music of Bard College. The workshop will be held via Zoom on December 2 from 7 PM to 8:30 PM EST and is open to all. General Admission is $15, $10 for WIFT-US members, and free to WIFVNE members with an optional $10 "Pay it Forward" donation.

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Without a musical background, talking about music can be intimidating.

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to listen more closely to a piece of music, develop a practical language for discussing music, and learn what factors to consider when adding music to your next production project.

Through deep listening and discussion, you’ll build your musical vocabulary and confidence. This workshop is perfect for beginners and seasoned professionals—anyone looking to sharpen their musical understanding and communication skills.

Attendees will become better music listeners in life-ways and more effective music communicators in work-ways.

Joel Roston has composed music for films, commercials, podcasts, web videos, and installations, composed chamber works and solo pieces for numerous ensembles and instrumentalists, and performed nationally and internationally in classical, new music, and rock idioms. Joel teaches guitar, music theory, and composition privately, leads workshops on music literacy and communication for media producers, and is a visiting faculty member teaching media composition and film scoring at Longy School of Music of Bard College. https://www.joelroston.com/

Join the WIFVNE Board and your fellow WIFVNE Members for our last Zoom gathering of 2024!

In preparation for the holiday season, let's take a moment for some real (reel?) holiday talk about how to navigate the inevitable family questions about your industry career.

Potential topics include:

“Have you met Matt and Ben?? How about Marky Mark? ANY of the Wahlbergs?"

3 Ways to explain to Aunt Patty why you’re NOT on TV 

Avoiding the suggestion that "you should just get a job at Netflix”


How to answer the question “So what is it you actually DO?” in less than 5 minutes.

Free for WIFVNE Members with an optional $5 "Pay it Forward" Donation to WIFVNE. Funds will be used to support workshops and events.

Come represent Women in Film & Video New England, and build your national network!

Want to network with like-minded professionals? Crewing up in another area? WIFT-US National Networking Night is for you!

Held on the 2nd Thursday of every month, this is your opportunity to meet sister organizations from across the country and tap into the WIFT-US hive mind for information and advice.

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