Women's Film Challenge! Imagine that! Tiziana Perinotti’s abstract film Imagine, which she's entered into Audience Awards Women's Film Challenge, is a mix of music, dance and mirror images. She composed and sang the song “Imagine” herself. Like a beat poet, her voice...
Filmmaker Angela Terga Shoots for Enlightenment
Her trailer for fantasy series "Hybrid" enters the AAWIC ring “Growing up, filmmaking wasn’t a career choice for someone like me,” says Angela Terga. She’s just one of the women who submitted to AAWIC’s webisode contest. She was a teacher before she discovered a...
Michelle Anglin Hopes for an AAWIC Webisode Win
The New York filmmaker has three entries in the webisode competition Michelle Anglin is a writer, director and editor from New York. She started as a playwright, having success with plays such as Hello, An Elevated Christmas, The Lord Knows, Woman to Woman and I Lost...
Filmmaker Lucy LP Mines for Gold in Galamsey
Her exciting Female Filmmakers entry shows miners in Africa through the #FemaleLens Starting a long line of filmmaker spotlights on female filmmakers leading up to Audience Awards Film Festival in early April, we highlight filmmaker Lucy LP. Her film Galamsey (which...
Filmmaker Angelica Wedell Takes Steps Toward Gender Balance
With help from League of Women in Government, Wedell sheds a light on gender parity Angelica Wedell, began her career as a television news journalist. She is now producing what she classifies as mini-documentaries for the League of Women in Government. She recently...
Filmmaker Spotlight- Troy Lucia
As a senior in high school, student filmmaker Troy Lucia submitted his film Insomnia to our dramatic shorts at the beginning of this year. In Lucia’s words, Insomnia follows “a man [who] goes psychotic after being awake for nearly a week.” It’s a fast-paced,...
Alex Shandelman shines the light on his grandparents’ love
Alex Shandelman’s love short Turkey Bacon serves as a love letter to his Bubba and Poppi, Barbara and Frank Shandelman. His actual grandparents star in this, his first narrative short, about what might happen if fictional Barbara, “who has lost touch with her...
Filmmaker Spotlight- Mark DiNatale
Mark DiNatale is one of the many filmmakers taking a shot at GoDaddy’s Small Business Stories challenge. A late-blooming filmmaker (we love those!), DiNatale says he’s always had an interest in “people that are going ‘old school’,” which falls right in line with his...
Filmmaker David Jenny and “Rupert”
How did you get inspired to become a filmmaker? I have wanted to be a filmmaker since I was 9. As a child I always loved listening to my family tell stories and I really enjoyed reading. Like most children, I think 1977's Star Wars was my gateway drug into the film...
Filmmaker Gabriela Staniszewska and “I Should Have Run” are competing in Horror Shorts Film Festival
How did you get inspired to become a filmmaker? I think I have always been a filmmaker. Telling stories is part of everyone's imagination and internal monologue. Committing them to film is just the next logical step. What is your favorite part about the short film...