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Upcoming WIFT events

See you at the following WIFT Events:

Music Television/Nickelodeon, 22 May, RSVP by Friday 16 May, Members Free / Non-Members $10
Enjoy this free networking event in Auckland, and take the chance to see where Music Television happens and meet their staff. And you can bring a friend for just $10. Entry is by RSVP only so please contact the WIFT office on office@wiftauckland.org.nz / 09 378 7271 by Friday 16 May to reserve your place.

Advanced Editing Workshop, 27 May, Members $40 / Non-Members $80
There are still a couple of seats left for this workshop which will update Final Cut Pro skills in an evening seminar. It’s hosted by DVT and Renaissance Apple and those who attended the Beginners Workshop a couple of weeks ago have given presenter Stu Barnaby rave reviews. Contact us at office@wiftauckland.org.nz / 09 378 7271.

A Night with International Visual Effects Specialist Arnon Manor, 12 June, Members $20 / Non-Members $25
Arnon Manor will talk about the visual effects landscape and show examples of his work in this three-hour evening event. Contact us at office@wiftauckland.org.nz / 09 378 7271 to register your interest. Limited seats available.

Welcome To The Firm, 14 June, $15
This is our fantastic sell-out annual event for young women thinking about or just entering the industry - a unique chance to hear more than 25 distinguished women working in technical, directing, writing, production and acting talk about their experiences and their careers. Contact us at office@wiftauckland.org.nz / 09 378 7271 to learn more and reserve your place. Strictly limited capacity so be in early.

Christchurch Networking Event with Marilyn Milgrom, 19 June, Members Free / Non-Members $10
Catch up with colleagues and friends over a glass of wine and some nibbles in this South Island networking event, and enjoy the special opportunity to hear NZ Film Commission Head of Development Marilyn Milgrom talk about her work – she’s very clever and also great fun. Register your interest with the WIFT office early at office@wiftauckland.org.nz / 09 378 7271.

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WIFT Mentoring Programme Announced

WIFT is delighted to announce the launch of its new mentoring initiative, commencing with a July-December 2008 pilot.

The aim of the programme is to match early-mid career women with senior practitioners to help them gain knowledge and skills, be better able to self-critique their work, have confidence in their abilities, deal with professional issues and advance in their chosen field.

To deliver the programme, WIFT is working with some very generous senior practitioners who will offer a dedicated number of hours to selected mentees to work on identified goals through meetings/phone/email etc. as appropriate.

KEY PROGRAMME INFORMATION
- the agreed number of mentoring hours for the pilot is twelve per mentee, to be delivered over the period July-December 2008;
- applicants must be full members of WIFT;
- up to ten mentoring matches will be made;
- placements will be decided by a panel and no correspondence will be entered into;
- proposed matches will be introduced in June and then, if the parties are happy to proceed, a contract will be drawn up for the mentoring period.

MENTEE REQUIREMENTS
Mentees will need to:

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WIFT Membership Subscriptions – Heritage Hotels and Happy-Go-Lucky prize draws

Thanks to all those members with subscriptions due who have renewed for the 08/09 year and congratulations to Jan Saussey who is the lucky winner of a fab night at a Heritage Hotel of her choice.

For all other members who received invoices in April, your subscriptions are now overdue and it’d be great to receive your payment. All members with 1 May-30 April subscriptions who are paid up by 31 May will be in the draw to win double passes to Mike Leigh’s enchanting new comedy Happy Go Lucky, coming to cinemas at the end of May. This movie is winning accolades and we can’t wait to see it. Thanks to Trigger Marketing and Publicity for enabling us to bring this you this great prize. Update your membership and be in to see one of the movie highlights of the year.

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Win tickets to the opening night of the Human Rights Film Festival

This annual festival returns to Auckland for the fourth time on Thursday, screening at the Rialto Newmarket. It includes award-winning documentaries direct from film festivals including Toronto, San Francisco, Jerusalem, IDFA Amsterdam, and Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic). There’s a number of great films focussing on women and an overall theme of celebrating extraordinary people striving for success and achievement in harsh circumstances.

We have two double passes to give away to the 15 May opening night screening of A Walk To Beautiful which tells the stories of five Ethiopian women setting out on a journey to change their health and their lives.

Just email us before 5pm tomorrow (Wednesday 14 May) at office@wiftauckland.org.nz with 'Beautiful Walk' in the subject line to be in to win. And check out all the films in the festival at www.humanrightsfilmfest.net.nz

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Kirsty MacDonald (WIFT International Mentee) Reports

Kirsty MacDonald reports on her experiences on the set of The Vintner’s Luck in France, funded by WIFT Auckland. Read about Kirsty’s time in the northern hemisphere here ...

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WIFT member Hweiling Ow’s good news

Congratulations to WIFT member Hweiling Ow on her latest piece of work- Keira arrived on the 17th April and all are well.

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Members of WIFTI chapters invited to submit shorts

October 14-19 2008

WIFT members are cordially invited to participate in the fifth year of New York Women in Film & Television/Hamptons International Film Festival short series TO THE POINT: WOMEN TELLING STORIES THROUGH MEDIA, an entry point to the WIFT International Short Film Showcase.

The Series provides a unique platform for WIFTV member filmmakers to showcase their multi-faceted short films and videos -- fictional narratives, animations, documentaries and experimental works that bring unorthodox and original perspective to the experiences of women from all walks of life from around the world.

TO THE POINT showcases the filmmaking forte of women from, for example, Australia, England and the USA. Last year’s submissions included works from Canada to New Zealand, all enthusiastically received by members of the filmmaking community and the general movie-going public.

If you wish to participate in this exciting showcase of filmmaking talent, visit the New York Women in Film & Television website, www.nywift.org. There is a link to the NYWIFT/HIFF APPLICATION (submitted in duplicate) for the TO THE POINT SERIES.

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