Film Organization QUEER FEMALE FILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES
- A Media Site & LA Film Mixers (2018)
FILM BIO:
My filmmaking experience includes Film School (1992–1994,) Film Program at Los Angeles City College, (as International Film Student from the Netherlands paying out-of-state tuition.)
I worked at the art house movie theater chain The Laemmle Theatres throughout the 1990s.
I Interned and Volunteered at various independent film production companies (including IFC’s Next Wave Films, Samuel Goldwyn Films and Miramax Films,) and film organization Film Independent and their Spirit Awards and LA Film Festival in the early 2000s.
In 2001 I produced a very well received John Cassavetes Film Retrospective at the Laemmle Theatres, titled ‘Gena and John: A Cassavetes Retrospective,’ and including the definite documentary on Cassavetes, Charles Kiselyak’s ‘A Constant Forge: The Life and Art of John Cassavetes.’
The 3-months film retrospective showcased the complete directing work of my personal film inspiration John Cassavetes, generally considered “the godfather of American independent filmmaking,” and enjoyed the participation of Cassavetes’ main cast and crew.
Lastly, in my own filmmaking experience, I’ve been writing and documenting my own story as a Queer Female Filmmaker in Los Angeles and am in production of a Feature Documentary about LGBTQ US-Immigration and DOMA Immigration-Exclusion Policy, titled ‘The Queer Case for Individual Rights.’
I got my start in the US as an International Film Student from the Netherlands and faced enormous hardship in the anti-LGBTQ US Immigration system.
I identify as a Gender Nonconforming Lesbian, “non-op” Trans-Masculine, Bi-Racial, from the Netherlands, Los Angeles-based, and am a Writer, Filmmaker and Producer.
I am also the Founder of Nonprofit Film Organization Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles.
In 2018 I am publishing my story and essays in a book, titled ‘The Queer Case for Individual Rights & Other Essays.’
My pronouns are: they/them/theirs.
QUEER FEMALE FILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES
- A Media Site & LA Film Mixers (2018)
The Film Organization Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles — A Media Site & LA Film Mixers consists of Three Components; a Media Site featuring Original Short Video Content about Queer Female Filmmaking and Identity; Film Criticism as Written Articles; and Film Mixers in physical spaces in Los Angeles.
A VIDEO to launch Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles will be up in the Fall. Also, this project comes with an actual MANIFESTO, which I will also explain in the Video.
Regarding the (4-POINT) MANIFESTO, anyone familiar with the many filmmaking movements throughout film history, (Italian Neo-Realism, French New Wave, the New Hollywood of the 1970s, the New Queer Cinema and Independent Film Movement of the 1990s and Dogma ’95, to name a few,) would know I specifically mean with this that I really want to go back to real independent filmmaking, as in very low-budget, very small crews, simple production values, and a serious focus on human dilemmas over filmmaking techniques and genres, etc.
And I have absolutely no personal interest in high concept or super hero type of filmmaking. I’m really thinking on being both highly creative and extremely pragmatic as a minority in the film industry.
I also want to give space on the Media Site for Queer Female Film Criticism, since there’s a dire need for Female Film Critics in general, and Queer Female Film Critics specifically.
I think we need our own people, Queer Female Film Critics, and preferably Filmmakers themselves, to analyze our own stories, with a Queer Female Gaze, rather than let mainstream critics misinterpret our stories and give mediocre reviews based on that.
All I will say about Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles for now is that I am taking it back to true independent filmmaking, which in my opinion rightfully belongs to minorities, not only because our stories are far better than mainstream studio fare but because we have been systematically shut out of mainstream institutions and from mainstream legal and financial resources.
Minorities are by nature and by necessity the true independent artists and always have been, just like mainstream entertainment has traditionally been the arena of the privileged masses.
I believe in nothing less than connecting, creating and fostering a QUEER FEMALE FILM MOVEMENT, and will publish the Film Organization’s MANIFESTO shortly.
The idea behind the Film Organization Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles - A Media Site & LA Film Mixers came from a personal need for Queer Female Filmmaking Community, while working on my Feature Documentary about LGBTQ Immigration-Exclusion Policy ‘The Queer Case for Individual Rights.’
I am the Founder of Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles, and own all Film Equipment necessary for this project.
I hope to raise funds through Crowd-Funding Campaigns and Grants for the Nonprofit Film Organization Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles.
In 2018 I am publishing my story and essays in a book, titled ‘The Queer Case for Individual Rights & Other Essays.’
I run these Two Projects, my Feature Documentary and the Film Organization, from a Film Production Office in Hollywood, and own all the Film Equipment necessary for these projects.
I’m also looking for Established Filmmakers in the Queer Female Filmmaking Community to come on the Board of Directors of this Nonprofit Film Organization, as their names and established legitimacy would definitely help with fundraising and marketing efforts.
The Film Organization Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles is actively looking for people who openly identify as Queer Women, (Gender Nonconforming and Trans-Inclusive, of All Races and Ethnicities,) who are Filmmakers in Los Angeles, both Established and Emerging Filmmakers, to give input on queer female independent filmmaking and identity, through original short video content, video essays, interviews, articles, on the Media Site, and attend film discussions over coffee or lunch, drinks, dinner, which I refer to as LA Film Mixers.
A lot of media sites focus on Millennials and Generations after, but as a Gen-X-er myself, (kind of the last of the last pre-internet generations,) I want to include all of our voices, so this is Intergenerational as well.
For starters I will be looking for Videographers and Editors, as well as people with strong Marketing, Social Media and Internet Skills, to get the Media Site up and running.
And eventually I will let Content Creators upload their own Original Short Video Content and Written Articles, always through Pre-Approval of the Film Organization.
Copyrighted, existing film and media footage may be used for Video Content under the Fair Use Act for educational purposes.
As much as I would love to be able to pay people from the start, this will not be financially doable for me. As the Media Site progresses I would want to pay regular contributors but I simply cannot afford anything like that at the moment.
Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles is a 501 (c)(3) Nonprofit Arts Organization and will be Membership-Based.
Regular Creative Content Contributors will eventually paid but not in the start-up stages of the Media Site. All Intellectual Property Rights Remain With Original Content Creators, and all Content Collaborators may list their Creative Contributions on Resumes and Social Media, etc.
The Film Organization Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles has received several Partnership Offers, and will also have a Magazine Publication on Medium through the Medium Partnership Program.
To Follow:
FILM MOVEMENT Through 4-POINT FILMMAKING MANIFESTO
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My name is Gabriella Bregman, I am a Hollywood-based Writer, Filmmaker and Producer, currently in production of a Feature Documentary about LGBTQ US-Immigration Exclusion-Policy, including my personal story of US immigration discrimination during DOMA, (Defense Of Marriage Act, of 1996–2015,) titled ‘The Queer Case for Individual Rights,’ through my film production company Bregman Films.
The 2001 John Cassavetes Film Retrospective ‘Gena and John: A Cassavetes Retrospective’ at the Laemmle Theatres in Los Angeles is a Bregman Films Production.
I am also the Founder of a Nonprofit Film Organization Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles - A Media Site & LA Film Mixers (2018.)
In 2018 I am publishing my story and essays in a book, titled ‘The Queer Case for Individual Rights & Other Essays.’
I identify as a Gender Nonconforming Lesbian, “non-op” Trans-Masculine, and Bi-Racial, from the Netherlands, Los Angeles-based.
My pronouns are: they/them/theirs.
Please check out my other articles on LGBTQ- and Immigration Issues, the State of Women and LGBTQ People in Film, and Lesbian/Queer Film as well as Queer Female Sexuality and Gender Identity at medium.com/@gabriellabregman
A few titles:
Resume/FILM BIO: Gabriella Bregman (2018) (2018)
2018 Update on Documentary ‘The Queer Case for Individual Rights’ (2018)
A Note on the State of Women in Film (2016)
A Few Notes On LGBTQ Filmmaking (2017)
Some Thoughts on the State of Lesbian Filmmaking in the US (part 1 of 5) (2018)
John Cassavetes Film Retrospective (2001) (2018)
On ‘Moonlight’ and the Subject of Positive Representation (2017)
My 2018 Oscar Pick for Best Picture (2018)
In Defense of Rationality (2018)
In Defense of Individual Rights (2018)
A Few Notes on US Immigration Exclusion Policies Towards Women- and LGBTQ Immigrants (2014)
The Root Cause Of Misogyny, And The Necessity Of Free Will (Gender Binary System notes, part 1 of 7) (2016)
The Male And Female Brain, And The “Cause” Of Transgenderism (Gender Binary System notes, part 2 of 7) (2016)
The Gender-Binary System Was Created For Population Control And Slavery, Including Sex Slavery (Gender Binary System notes, part 7 of 7)
All Articles Written by Gabriella Bregman (TM). All Pictures Owned by Gabriella Bregman (TM). All Rights Reserved (2018)
