Chick Flicks is one of Women in Film.Dallas’ most important fundraisers and proceeds from ticket sales and entry fees help benefit our yearly scholarship program that we created to benefit two women studying film and television in the North Texas area. Your attendance helps support this cause while celebrating women filmmakers locally and nationwide. We have a great lineup set for Thursday, October 4th with the screening starting at 7:00pm at the Angelika Film Center at Mockingbird Station! To kick off the evening come early for drinks and appetizers at Spike Global Grill, just steps away, for Martini Madness at 6:00pm. Tickets are available at the door of both events. 

Announcement of our past and present Scholarship Recipients, Tania Khalaf, Liz Daggett and Sharie Vance.

Welcome to our Chick Flicks Jury - Kathleen McInnis and Cynthia Salzman Mondell

Director’s Films in Alphabetical Order by Directors

Jennifer Aniston & Andrea Buchanan: Room 10
Room 10 marks Jennifer Aniston’s directorial debut. It is a film that she co-directed with one of her best friends, documentary producer and director Andrea Buchanan. Based on a short story written by Colleen Goldrick, she tells a story about a couple that changed her life forever. Room 10 revolves around an emergency room nurse from New Jersey, portrayed by Robin Wright Penn and also starring Kris Kristofferson. "I was approached first with … 'Hey, you want to do this short that Jennifer Aniston's directing?' And I said, 'Yeah, I do!' because I always loved her from afar," says Robin. "And then they told me that it was stories made by women for women and I just thought, what a great opportunity. This is the new millennium for women. Women are in film. They're here. There is a pulse. It's just we need to open the screen door." Photo and blurb courtesy of www.robinwrightpenn.org.

June Boniedot: Local Address, Global Access: Irving, Texas
This short is a local journey to discovering Irving, TX in a HD production produced under the guidance of June Boniedot to assist the Irving Economic Development Partnership in marketing the City of Irving to site selectors, real estate brokers, corporate CEOs and other decision makers. The video will also be used during retention visits to local businesses so that the City of Irving can continue to be the home to over 30 Fortune 500 companies. To learn more contact jboniedot@cityofirving.org.

Anna Dewell-Bussart: DIVAS
DIVAS, a short by producer, director, camera and editor, Anna Dewell-Bussart explores the world of Texas Women's Shooting Sports, also known as the DIVAS. This all women's organization focuses on teaching women how to safely and skillfully use firearms. This group of Texas gals have stepped into the traditions of shooting sports and hunting – leaving a mark on the landscape of Texas and the world. The only question remaining is – “Where is my lip-gloss?” Courtesy of http://annadb.com/divas.htm.

Liz Dagget: Birth Pangs of a New…
Liz Dagget, filmmaker and recent WIF.D scholarship winner, features Birth Pangs of a New… This experimental film is about one filmmaker’s feelings as an American in Amsterdam during the summer of the conflict of Lebanon.

Erin Davies: Mohsin and Husna
The first time Husna saw her husband Mohsin was fourteen days before their arranged, Muslim wedding in their native Pakistan. Filmed on the eve of their 21st wedding anniversary in their adopted hometown of Austin, TX, Mohsin And Husna, by Erin Davies, is an intimate portrait that explores the universal themes of love and disappointment, and challenges our assumptions of cultural and religious differences.

Tania Khalaf: Born in Beirut – Excerpt
As part of Tania Kahlaf’s master thesis film, Born in Beirut reflects a very personal look of how growing up in a war zone influenced her life and work. Her new film Born in Beirut is a way of expressing her feelings about war and a childhood that was often times unpleasant. The excerpt highlights footage of hostilities and interviews with Lebanese citizens who had lost their homes, family members or friends to rocket and mortar attacks. Tania Khalaf is a past WIF.D scholarship recipient and current WIF.D Board member.

Carolyn Macartney: Wanda the Wonderful –The Trailer
Wanda the Wonderful, written and directed by Carolyn Macartney, chronicles the adventures and tragic story of Mattie O’Wanda Hardwick who abandons her children to pursue her sharp shooting career. Wanda was a traveler, a seeker and an outsider struggling to reconcile love and struggling to reconcile love and its requisite sacrifices with her urgent need for independence. Watch for more information at http://www.wandathewonderful.com/.

Jessica Schoenbaechler: Hooker
Hooker, produced, directed and photographed by Jessica Schoenbaechler, introduces you to Whitney Lee, a hooker. As a little girl she made a latch-hook rug of a pink heart with “LOVE” spelled across it. Now the Austin-based artist uses the kitschy craft to depict naked ladies of all shapes, sizes, and ethnicities in a positive and empowering way. One of Whitney’s first rugs depicted a classical reclining nude and was based on a real photograph of nude model Sydney Moon. In the film, Whitney and Sydney meet for the first time and start a dialogue about images of women, personal pressures, and the value of their work. Information courtesy of www.purlproductions.com/hooker.php.

Linda Stogner: Nowhere But Texas: Circus Town
In this short, comedian and filmmaker Linda Stogner, takes a fun look at the Gainesville Community Circus, an amateur three-ring outfit that included high-wire acts and tamed animals, as well as the story of Mama Cuellar, founder of El Chico's and the high-stakes gambling rings that operated in Arlington in the 1930s.

Shirley Thompson & Trayc Claybrook: High Five
You’ll remember this great team from past Chick Flicks festivals and once again Shirley Thompson and Trayc Claybrook have combined their talents to bring us High Five. The prairies of North Texas are an austere landscape. On the wide, flat terrain, man-made towers of the concrete and steel become our forests, a freeway interchange our Grand Canyon, the sky our ocean. Learn more about this team at http://www.shirleythompson.net/ and http://traycclaybrook.com/about.php.

Marie Ullrich: Fugue
Not new to the short film festival circuit, Marie Ullrich presents her latest creation called Fugue.

Sharie Vance: Scholarship-winning Demo
Sharie Vance, a busy student working on her upcoming film project, demonstrates her work in this demo that exhibits why she is one of Women in Film.Dallas’ recent 2007 scholarship recipients.

Acknowledgement of Our Distinguished Jury

Kathleen McInnis is a film festival veteran, independent film publicist and producer. Kathleen served as the Festival Director for the 11th Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, January 2005 and as Director of Programming for the 2005 Palm Springs International Short Film Festival.

Long associated with the Seattle International Film Festival, where she held the positions of Lead Film Programmer, Director of Industry Programming and Director of Publicity/Promotion during her 12-year tenure, McInnis also co-founded the popular Fly Filmmaking Challenge there in 1996, producing nearly three dozen unique short films.

As a film publicist, Ms. McInnis has helped shepherd many a film through their world premiere campaigns at such festivals as Sundance, Berlin and Toronto, including Sherman Alexie’s The Business of FancyDancing, Aisling Walsh's Song for a Raggy Boy, and Katherine Lindberg's Rain, among others. As unit publicist, she has worked on many films, including Victor Nunez's Coastlines, Stephen King's Rose Red as well as David Slades Hard Candy, Victor Salvo’s Peaceful Warrior and Andrew Currie’s Fido, all three being distributed by LionsGate Films. Recently, Ms. McInnis has completed work on Sterlin Harjo’s Four Sheets to the Wind, a Sundance lab project.

A respected film journalist early in her career for such publications as MovieMaker Magazine, The Seattle Times and KCMU (KEXP) Radio, Ms. McInnis was also Vice President of Festival and Filmmaker Relations at FilmFestivals.com in 2000.

Currently, Ms. McInnis is the Film Festival Specialist at Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television. She continues to work as a unit publicist. Ms. McInnis has a B.F.A. in Theatre (Acting) from the University of Washington.

Cynthia Salzman Mondell

Cynthia Salzman Mondell is an independent filmmaker who is committed to making films and videos that she feels have something to say about the world she lives in. Her first documentary on housing and the lack of it aired on public television in l977. She then teamed up with Allen Mondell to form Media Projects. Together, they have created over forty social-issue documentary films, museum films and educational videos. Most have aired nationally on television and won numerous awards.

Their work includes the six films about the life, death and legacy of JFK for the Sixth Floor Museum; Funny Women, part of a permanent exhibit at the Women’s Museum; Louie, Louie: A Portrait in Parkinson’s, about her family's struggle to cope with her father's 30-year battle with the debilitating effects of Parkinson's disease; A Fair to Remember documenting the history of the State Fair of Texas; and Sisters of ‘77 capturing the second wave of the Women’s movement and including some of the last recorded interviews of Betty Friedan and Ann Richards. She spent 3 years going in and out of ladies rooms recording women’s hidden culture in her film The Ladies Room. She is currently working on The Monster Among Us, documenting the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe; Contract to Live, about depression and suicide among young people; and Sole Sisters, exploring women’s obsessions with shoes.

Cynthia is past president of Women In Film.Dallas and currently serves as their international delegate. She received the WIF.Dallas Achievement Award at Topaz 2001. She is also past president of the Board of New Day Films, a nationally known independent film distribution cooperative. She is a member of Dallas Summit, Women’s Issue Network and recently selected to Leadership America.