Christopher F. Smith is the Director of Marketing for San Francisco
School of Digital Filmmaking and Fog City Pictures. A filmmaker,
writer, artist and pop culture prognosticator, Smith has great taste in
bad movies and a strong appreciation for surrealistic and experimental
film.
|
|
|
BAWIFT Changes Name to BAWIFM
One
of the longer-running film organizations in the area has made a slight
change to their name. This woman's-only group has been active and
influential in the Bay area for close to a decade and is part of the
international organization, Women in Film and Television.
BAWIFM
began as Cinema Chicks in February 2001 and is now a community of over
915 women mediamakers from all over Northern California. In May 2003 we
became Bay Area Women in Film and Television (BAWIFT), a chapter of the
Women in Film and Television International network. In January 2009 we
became Bay Area Women in Film and Media to better reflect our
multimedia community.
If you are woman involved in film,
television and all things media, this is the group to which you should
belong. Be sure to sign up for Chicks-Chat newsletter. Women only, of course.
They
have an interesting talk coming up this Wednesday, January 14th that
you may want to consider. Unlike some of their special engagements -
where those with rockin' the XY combo are welcome - this presentation
is for women only.
From BAWIFM:
INTERACTIVE TV:
What is it? Where is it? How can you get involved?
If
you thought interactive TV was nowhere to be found in this country, you
were wrong. It is being deployed all over the United States on every
platform (cable, satellite, the Internet, mobile phones and on CE
devices in your home).
The medium of television is changing.
Those changes are taking place because of new technologies and ideas
breaking in the marketplace and news everyday. Knowledgeable producers
and developers are actively exploring ways to create fiction and
non-fiction programming incorporating new concepts such as social
networking and viral
advertising.
Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today (http://www.itvt.com),
the publication "of record" for the ITV industry, will lead a panel of
experts who will discuss what is happening today, how to recognize what
interactive television is and is not, and how you might be able to
participate fully in the TV of tomorrow.
Event Moderator:
Tracy Swedlow, CEO, Publisher, Editor-in-Chief of InteractiveTV Today [itvt]
Panelists:
Mugs Buckley, Principal, MugsTV
Bill Niemeyer, Principal, Centrimedia
John Gilles, VP of Media and Entertainment, Method
Geoff Katz, VP, Business Development and Marketing iWidgets
Link to article:
http://www.examiner.com/x-1363-SF-Movie-Examiner~y2009m1d12-BAWIFT-Changes-Name-to-BAWIFM?cid=exrss-SF-Movie-Examiner