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Members of the Washington Film Directors MeetUp is welcome to join Women in Film & Video's (WIFV) Narrative Directors Roundtable. WIFV invites members of the Washington Film Directors to "MeetUp" as we look forward to supporting your mission and the regional film community through our monthly Narrative Directors Roundtable. Together, we can help find collaborative partners and professional development resources to advance your careers and projects. Learn more about WIFV at www.wifv.org.
All roundtable meetings are free for WIFV members and have a $10 fee for the general public (this includes Meetup members). Please RSVP through link provided in all Meetup event postings.
Questions? Email membership@wifv.org. WIFV welcomes all experience levels and genders to its programs.
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•OnlineDoc Rdtbl: One Bad Crab
OnlineOur November 10 Documentary Roundtable will feature WIFV past president and award-winning environmental filmmaker Sandy Cannon-Brown and her latest film ONE BAD CRAB. Watch the trailer here
Joined by Mary Parks, Founder and Director of GreenCrab.org, One Bad Crab tells the provocative story of an invasive species of crab, and its universal threat to ecosystems and one company's response to mitigating the threat and protecting the valuable shellfish resources - by eating it! Shot primarily in New England including Martha's Vineyard, the documentary explores innovative methods to stem the potential loss of income from watermen, while creating new revenue generating opportunities for those who make their living from the sea.
You won't want to miss this as we might have recipes for those who attend.Presenter Bios:
Sandy Cannon-Brown, founder (1985) and president (1985-present) of VideoTakes, Inc., is an award-winning environmental filmmaker whose work has taken her from the Chesapeake Bay to Central and South America, West Africa, the Northern Great Plains of Montana, and the Everglades. She also taught at American University where she was named AU's Adjunct Professor of the Year in 2011. She was a founding associate director for AU's Center for Environmental Filmmaking and honored as CEF's first senior scholar in 2013. Among her many other honors, WIFV honored Cannon-Brown as a Woman of Vision in 1998. She served as WIFV's president 2011-12. The Chesapeake Film Festival awarded her its first Woman of Impact Award in 2022.Mary Parks grew up in Penobscot Bay and first learned about green crab's invasive impact from the surrounding lobstering and clamming community. After working in traceability for a commercial fish wholesaler in Boston and learning more about bait markets for green crabs, she started asking what needed to be done to build a culinary market. In 2020, she went on to found GreenCrab.org: a nonprofit dedicated to building culinary markets for European green crab and spreading awareness of its invasive impact.
Free for WIFV Members (must be logged in) / $15 for public
You MUST register here: https://www.wifv.org/calendar/#id=32301&cid=783&wid=401&type=Cal
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