Working Girls
Film femmes get the chair
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Thesp Jessica Alba meets her fans at the Women in Film panel in Beverly Hills. |
WHO: WIF prexy Cici Holloway; panelists included thesp Jessica Alba, producer Cathy Shulman, scripter-producer Nicole Holofcener, TV helmer Ellen Falcon Gittelsohn, hyphenate Penelope Spheeris and helmer Lian Lunson.
WHERE: The Regent Beverly Wilshire in BevHills
REEL WISDOM: Event, which hosted a team of teen femme filmmakers and marked the preem of their self-produced PSA and two-minute film short, geared the Q&A to getting into the industry. Spheeris advised the mini-auteurs to join guilds: "Pay or play. I want to tell you young girls, before you rock the boat, make sure they can't get rid of you."
TV TRUTH: Though she touted the merits of working as a woman in TV, Gittelsohn noted the industry is often retro-minded. "(Just) lately, they have decided they don't need to have a man direct a sitcom about a working mother," she said.
