QUEER FEMALE FILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES
A Media Site & LA Film Mixers (2018)
QUEER FEMALE FILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES
A Media Site & LA Film Mixers
I will post more info on this project on social media in the following weeks, and a VIDEO to launch the Media Site will be up in the Fall.
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; Film Criticism in the form of primarily Written Articles, also featured on the media site; and Film Mixers in physical spaces throughout Los Angeles.
Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles is a 501 (c)(3) Nonprofit Arts Organization and will be Membership-Based.
All Intellectual Property Rights Remain With Original Content Creators.
Also, this project comes with an actual MANIFESTO, which I will also explain in the Video.
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 Organization Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles has already received several partnership offers.
In the meantime I continue work on my Feature Documentary about LGBTQ Immigration-Exclusion Policy ‘The Queer Case for Individual Rights.’
I identify as a Gender Nonconforming Lesbian, “non-op” Trans-Masculine, Bi-Racial, from the Netherlands, Los Angeles-based, and am a Writer, Filmmaker, Producer.
I am the Founder of Nonprofit Film Organization Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles.
My pronouns are: they/them/theirs.
QUEER FEMALE FILMMAKERS LOS ANGELES
- A Media Site & LA Film Mixers (2018)
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.
And 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 working on my 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.
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 preferrably 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.
Again, the Film Organization Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angles - A Media Site & LA Film Mixers consists of Three Components; a Media Site featuring Original Short Video Content; Film Criticism in the form of primarily Written Articles, also featured on the media site; and Film Mixers in physical spaces throughout Los Angeles.
I have received several Partnership Offers for the Film Organization, and the Media Site may have a Magazine Publication in conjunction with the writing website Medium through their Medium Partnership Program.
The idea behind the Film Organization Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angles - A Media Site & LA Film Mixers came from a personal need for Queer Female Filmmaking Community, while working on my Feature Documentary ‘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.
I have a Film Production office in Hollywood, where I run these two projects from, and am definitely actively looking for people who openly identify as Queer Women, and who are Filmmakers in Los Angeles.
I’m also looking for some of the more 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.
And generally I’m looking for both Established and Emerging Filmmakers, and of different generations as well, to give input on independent filmmaking, through original short video content, video essays, interviews, articles, film discussions over coffee or lunch, drinks, dinner, which I refer to as LA Film Mixers.
The Film Organization wil be Gender Nonconforming and Trans-Inclusive, including Trans-Women, Trans-Men and anyone in between. I recognize Trans-Men as men of course, yet feel we can all benefit from positive media exposure together, and by working together in this.
And the Media Site will be Inclusive of People of all Races and Ethnicities, and for the same reasons. We stand to benefit from working together and supporting each other’s stories.
A point I want to make also is that lot of media sites focus on Millennials and Generations beyond that, but as a person of the Gen-X, (kind of the last of the last pre-internet generations,) I want to include all of our voices, and also give voice to the people who came before us and paved the way for us, so this is to be very Intergenerational in general.
I think all of our voices are valid in this Queer Female Filmmaking Experience. I think there are many older filmmakers who didn’t quite get to have the careers they had hoped for because of the oppressive systems they were forced to deal with, and who are now sort of seen as aged out, but who aren’t done at all, and I want to include those people.
And I also think that the voices of newer generations are valid because they were raised on a lot of information through internet access exactly, and this has worked realistically for good and for bad. I won’t focus on the bad right here but will say that the good that came out of that is that these people are more socially aware and have less patience for idle and escapist entertainment.
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.
To be perfectly honest, 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.
Again, all Content Creators will Retain the Intellectual Property Rights to their Original Content, and all Content Collaborators involved may list their Creative Contributions on Resumes and Social Media, etc.
Lastly, the Nonprofit Film Organization Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles - A Media Site & LA Film Mixers is a passion project for me, which came forth from my personal need for Queer Female Filmmaking Community.
It is the Film Organization’s intent to create and foster community and visibility for Queer Female Filmmakers in Los Angeles, and I am living well below my means myself in order to pursue these artistic endeavors.
I identify as a Gender Nonconforming Lesbian, “non-op” Trans-Masculine, Bi-Racial, from the Netherlands, Los Angeles-based, and am a Writer, Filmmaker, Producer.
I am the Founder of Nonprofit Film Organization Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles.
My pronouns are: they/them/theirs.
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My name is Gabriella Bregman, I am a Hollywood-based writer, filmmaker, producer, currently in post-production of a feature documentary called ‘The Queer Case for Individual Rights,’ through my film production company ‘Bregman Films.’
I am the Founder of the Nonprofit Film Organization Queer Female Filmmakers Los Angeles.
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.
And please check out my other articles at medium.com/@gabriellabregman, on mainly LGBTQ- and Immigration Issues, and the State of Women in Film and Lesbian/Queer Film, as well as Queer Female Sexuality and Gender Identity.
Click for Complete List of Articles (2016)
Here are a few titles:
A Note on the State of Women in Film (2016)
A Few Notes On LGBTQ Filmmaking (2017)
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 LGBT Immigrants (2014)
THE ROOT CAUSE OF MISOGYNY, AND THE NECESSITY OF FREE WILL(Gender Binary System notes, part 1 of 7)
THE MALE AND FEMALE BRAIN, AND THE CAUSE OF TRANSGENDERISM (Gender Binary System notes, part 2 of 7)
THE GENDER-BINARY SYSTEM WAS CREATED FOR POPULATION CONTROL AND SLAVERY, INCLUDING SEX SLAVERY (Gender Binary System notes, part 7 of 7)
