tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6306110354892635202024-02-20T21:47:29.694-05:00Subjectified BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-49315887111403735142011-08-30T12:24:00.001-04:002011-08-30T12:25:45.470-04:00San Francisco crowdfunded screening and UC Davis free campus screening!Super fun stuff is coming into place. We've finished the sound mix and are working on the DVD presently. In the meanwhile, you can see the early release DVD at some exciting upcoming screenings!<br />
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<b>Thursday, September 15th in San Francisco! </b>7:30PM at Opera Plaza Cinema at 601 Van Ness Avenue, followed by a Q&A with the Director and (hopefully) and interview subject. The tickets are $6 and are on sale in advance exclusively through crowdfunding site <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/Subjectified-Community-Screening-San-Francisco">IndieGoGo</a>. If there are any tickets remaining, we will sell them the day of the event for $8.<br />
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<b>Thursday, September 22nd in Davis, CA!</b> 7:00PM in Giedt Hall Room 1002 on the UC Davis Campus. Followed by Q&A with the director. Free!<br />
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Be in touch with us via info *at** subjectified D*O*T com if you have any questions or ideas. We're looking for a couple of volunteers to help us with each screening, either just posting flyers/postcards, or helping us set up for the screening. Be in touch!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-62081812778729166812011-03-15T17:09:00.003-04:002011-03-15T17:27:35.858-04:00Organizing: on campus and offI want to say how impressed I am by the organizing going on at college campuses, and how welcomed I've felt when presenting <i>Subjectified</i>. The presence of Women's Centers, Safe Spaces, and gender equity organizations is immense. I don't remember that presence when I was in college. Could it be that these groups didn't have the same prominence a decade ago, or that I was just on a very un-organized campus? The things I was working on weren't focused primarily on feminism at the time, either, so maybe I was just unaware.<br />
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We have a few great events in the pipeline, but I don't want to announce them until they're finalized. <i>If you are in New Haven, San Diego, Tucscon, Davis/Sacramento, Providence, or NYC, I want to hear from you! We have events that are almost possible in these locations, and will become totally possible with a little more help on the ground.</i><br />
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I'm excited about organizing a screening with Megan Andelloux of <a href="http://www.ohmegan.com">Oh, Megan!</a> Megan's amazing attitude has helped her build <a href="http://thecsph.org/">The Center for Sexual Pleasure and Health</a> in Pawtucket, RI, from the ground up. Think of it as a sex ed center for adults. Hopefully we will work on an event together this spring.<br />
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In the meanwhile, join us in Providence at Brown University on Wednesday, March 23rd! Details to follow.<br />
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The screening at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health has been rescheduled to Wednesday, April 6th. Hopefully no blizzards will stop us this time. Please be in touch if you'd like to come. The event is open to the public on a limited basis.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-32301333496633222182010-11-24T21:25:00.000-05:002010-11-24T21:25:02.136-05:00Review from Jennifer Baumgardner!This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for the support of some awesome feminists. What are you feeling grateful for? Gratitude is contagious... comment below to share!<br />
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"This culture is long on lamenting the sexualization of women and girls, but short on actually listening to women and girls talk about their own experiences with sex, being sexy, and sexuality. Melissa Tapper Goldman's Subjectified says that women don't want to be reduced to their sexuality, but they don't want to have to deny it, either. This is feminist storytelling--and it is powerful."<br />
--Jennifer Baumgardner, creator of the I Had an Abortion Project and author of Look Both Ways: Girls and Sex, Manifesta, and Abortion & Life.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-79901349657109303142010-11-12T16:55:00.003-05:002010-11-14T21:14:29.689-05:00From the roadI just wrapped up an incredible trip to Bowdoin College.<br />
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It is always amazing to get on a plane in the hecticness of New York, surrounded by buildings and asphalt, and find myself amid green trees and just an hour later. Maine is incredible.<br />
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Bowdoin was super welcoming and I had a chance to meet Leah Pepe, the student organizer for Safe Space, a campus organization dedicated to supporting survivors of sexual violence, and Melissa Quinby, the Director of the Women's Resource Center. Both groups helped to bring <i>Subjectified</i> to campus.<br />
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The Bowdoin newspaper did a story on <i>Subjectified</i> as well. Very cool! You can read it <a href="http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2010-11-12&section=4&id=1" target="new">here</a>. It's always interesting to read other people's perspectives on <i>Subjectified</i>, and always strange to read my own quotes. I need to work on speaking grammatically in conversation! Recently, quite a few people have asked me what I personally learned in the process of making the doc and how it affected me. That is good food for thought. I can't quite know the answer yet because the process is not yet over. The succinct answer is what I told the Bowdoin Orient writer, Quinn Cohane <a href="http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2010-11-12&section=4&id=1" target="new">"'I feel much freer to express myself, and that's been really useful in my personal life and the way I relate to other people,' said Goldman. 'I had to confront things I was uncomfortable with head on, things I didn't even realize I was uncomfortable with.'"</a><br />
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The longer answer is more complicated. I can honesty say that every single one of these interviews changed me and made me recognize something in myself that I had never acknowledged or understood. It's not too useful for me to speak in these sweeping generalities, so I will come up with some specific examples. More on this later.<br />
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In the meanwhile, this shooting/screening trip continues. I'll be in the southwest for a few days and eventually up to UC Berkeley for the event on Thursday! All are welcome: 145 Dwinelle Hall at 7PM on 11/18.<br />
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/MelissaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-63376013834475509112010-11-01T18:56:00.000-04:002010-11-01T18:56:41.843-04:00Screenings full steam ahead!It's been eventful over here as I'm trying to finish up post-production (and even a little bit of production! More on that later), while moving forward with lots of campus screenings using the existing version of <i>Subjectified</i>. I've also been taking care of business and legal stuff, which is less fun but also very important.<br />
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<b>Upcoming events!</b><br />
I am very excited to be doing screenings and discussions at Bowdoin College in Maine (11/10) and at UC Berkeley (11/18). I am also working on another mystery screening in January! Stay in touch for details....<br />
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<b>Other big news</b><br />
I am super excited to be working with John Weston of Futura Productions on our sound mix. John is an awesome guy and has been terrific to work with so far. It's so heartening to know that we have the support of men as well as women on this project! John will help to refine the rough edges of this DIY project. <br />
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I am working in parallel to John to refine the video components. All the money that I <i>didn't</i> have to start this project translated into my using very basic equipment, which is translating into a <i>lot</i> of time on the back end, fixing things. I had no idea that I'd get so far with <i>Subjectified</i> that day when I walked into the electronics store and looked for the cheapest digital video camera with a mic input... Five years and thousands of hours of work later, I am very close to a final product that (hopefully) does justice to the incredible bravery of the women who told their stories on my camera!<br />
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There is other news to do with the final push for production/post-production, but that will have to be another blog post. More content soon, I promise.<br />
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<b>Recent events!</b><br />
We've had some really successful events recently, including a screening and Q&A at Lesley University, and a screening and fascinating discussion at Moishe/Kavod House in Brookline, MA, put together by their Sex Ed Team. The Moishe/Kavod Sex Ed Team does young adult sex ed at their social justice community center. The discussion was facilitated by Bonnie Solomon and Mimi Arbeit of the blog <a href="http://sexedtransforms.blogspot.com/">Sex Ed Transforms</a>.<br />
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Daphne Strassmann wrote a very stimulating <a href="http://lesleywomenscenter.blogspot.com/2010/10/subjectified-screening-thursday-10-21.html">blog post</a> through the Lesley Women's Center about <i>Subjectified</i> and the culture of oversharing. (She doesn't think that <i>Subjectified</i> is part of the oversharing problem, by the way!) I really appreciated her insights. It helps that she loves the project! She did a fantastic job putting together the event at Lesley and really going to bat for Subjectified.<br />
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I also had the pleasure to show an excerpt from the doc at Dr. Amy Rutstein-Riley's course on Women in Culture and Society, and to conduct a discussion with the class. You can see photos on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=235628&id=35258766980">facebook</a> through the Lesley Women's Center. It's so fun and refreshing to encounter young women grappling with these ideas, sometimes for the first time. I wish they could be more involved with the project. By the way, if you are reading this and you want to get involved, I could totally use the help! Be in touch.<br />
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//MelissaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-15757351984444923172010-07-26T11:46:00.000-04:002010-07-26T11:46:06.665-04:00News, slowly but surelyIt has been a busy few months for me, mostly with things totally outside of <i>Subjectified</i>. I needed some time to finish grad school, among other exciting projects. Now I'm back full-time. The news right now is not so interesting for those watching from the outside, but I'm focusing on important long-term ventures in terms of creative ways to distribute the project and some final issues with post-production.<br />
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It looks like we will have another public screening in the Boston area in the fall! More to come on this. I'd love to expand <i>beyond</i> our many tremendous opportunities in Boston, so please be in touch if you want to see <i>Subjectified</i> screened elsewhere.<br />
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Anyway, don't let the radio silence fool you, we have lots of good stuff in the works. I just have to go underground for a little while to make it happen!<br />
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MelissaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-7872606221654955562010-04-13T02:07:00.002-04:002010-04-20T19:21:23.938-04:00Upcoming: Boston and WellesleyWe are getting excited for the <a href="http://www.bifilmfestival.com/000010session37.html" target="_blank">Boston International Film Festival</a> screening on Saturday, April 24th! We will have a party afterwards- check in for details. Please contact us if you can help put posters around Boston before the event Also, we have another exciting event coming up soon in the Boston area.<br />
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Wellesley students and Wellesley-area people: come see Subjectified at Wellesley College, followed by a Q&A with the director! Wednesday, May 5th at 7PM in Collins Cinema. For non-Wellesley affiliates, suggested donation of $5 for students and $10 others. Sponsored by the Wellesley Sexual Health Educators.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-90219874518972731732010-03-31T11:45:00.001-04:002010-03-31T18:45:23.773-04:00Boston International Film Festival<b><i>Subjectified</i> is having its festival premiere at the Boston International Film Festival! </b> Please join us on Saturday, April 24th at 6PM. More information online at <a href="http://www.bifilmfestival.com/000010session37.html">the BIFF website</a>. Please note, the tickets link isn't accurate right now, but this is the <a href="https://www.fandango.com/purchase/movietickets/process03/ticketboxoffice.aspx?tid=AAPNV&mid=132178&row_count=1796589039">direct link</a> to Fandango where you can get your tickets for Session 37. We will follow the screening with a premiere party nearby where we will answer any questions you have about the project. I will be there and I'm hopeful that Alexis will be in attendance as well.<br />
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We're also planning a screening at Wellesley College this spring through the Sexual Health Educators organization. Later this spring, we're hoping to work with the Boston College Underground Film Festival to show Subjectified at B.C. Check here for updated information or join the <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?key=tBS-nz3J901nSzyKGXCYPPQ">email list</a> so you don't miss out on a screening in your area.<br />
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/MelissaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-30796781181113615652010-02-07T01:01:00.000-05:002010-02-07T01:01:06.372-05:00Fun at MITThe MIT screening was amazing! 160 people, standing room only and an incredibly fun q&a with interview subject Alexis Van Pelt and myself. I met some very interesting people who are hoping to bring Subjectified to several other campuses in the Boston area, and hopefully some home screenings as well. <br />
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The event was also featured on <a href="http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Picks/Event.aspx?id=641209&date=02-04-2010">the Boston Phoenix's picks of the week</a> and the blog of <a href="http://theamericanvirgin.blogspot.com/2010/02/if-youre-in-boston-check-out.html">The American Virgin</a>. Thanks to everyone who turned up. Please join the email list if you'd like to hear about upcoming screenings.<br />
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/MelissaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-68857611241190329322010-01-30T17:42:00.000-05:002010-01-30T17:42:18.183-05:00More great coverageWe've been featured on the sex blog <a href="http://carnalnation.com/content/46225/897/young-woman-talk-about-sex-video-sfw">Carnal Nation</a>! I'm glad to see more people becoming interested in this subject. <br />
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We've got some creative distribution strategies in the works, so join the <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dEJTLW56M0o5MDFuU3p5S0dYQ1lQUFE6MA..">email list</a> to stay up to date with news. As always, contact me if you'd like to see Subjectified screened in your city. I'm getting some great responses from people and we're hoping to have a screening schedule up soon.<br />
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/MelissaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-56261380975286728932010-01-25T11:07:00.000-05:002010-01-25T11:07:36.778-05:00Cool shout outHey people. We got a cool shout-out from Rachel at the<a href="http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2010/01/new-documentary-on-young-womens-sexuality"> Our Bodies Ourselves blog</a> today! <br />
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Everything is looking good for the screening next week. I hope to see all of you (in the Boston are) there.<br />
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/MelissaUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-18994439007394252992010-01-13T09:53:00.001-05:002010-01-15T18:58:29.951-05:00Screening in Cambridge MA coming up!Please join us for a FREE screening of Subjectified at MIT in Cambridge, MA! The documentary will be followed by a Q&A session with the filmmaker. We are thrilled to be a part of Women in Film/Video New England's Chicks Make Flicks series, hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and co-sponsored by the MIT Program in Women's and Gender Studies, who have made this free screening available to the public.<br />
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Thursday February 4 at 7:00PM in <a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?mapterms=6-120">room 6-120 inside the MIT Campus</a>. Note to everyone: the MIT campus is a little bit confusing! Give yourself a few extra minutes to find the room, which you can access through the big dome on Mass Ave.<br />
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Feel free to RSVP to the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=167423071057&index=1">facebook event</a> and become a fan on facebook to receive updates. <br />
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For more information, check out the listing on the Women in Film/Video New England website <a href="http://www.womeninfilmvideo.org/programs.chicksmakeflicks.php">http://www.womeninfilmvideo.org/programs.chicksmakeflicks.php</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-75425103762541748202009-11-21T02:48:00.000-05:002009-11-21T02:48:44.412-05:00Updates, etcLots of little incremental things to report.<br />
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I've wanted to keep this blog strictly about Subjectified-related updates, but please join the conversation on <a href="http://twitter.com/subjectified">twitter</a> or <a href="http://www.facebook.com/subjectified">facebook</a> (and myspace, if there's interest) where I've been posting some relevant news articles and links to other related projects. Those are good places to start an actual conversation. Feel free to comment here, as always.<br />
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This winter I will be working fellow <i>Subjectified</i> producer Hannah Labaree to develop more comprehensive organizing tools. These should help those of you who are excited to host your own screenings. I've had some emails from people interested in working together on this, and we'd love to have more people. We will try to make it easy for you! The organizing tools will materialize this winter so we can start planning spring screenings in community centers, local cinemas, campuses and maybe even people's homes, in places where that makes more sense. <br />
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We are joining up with <a href="http://www.openindie.com">OpenIndie</a>, a startup website and online tool that will allow people to get mobilized to bring <i>Subjectified</i> (and other partner independent films) to your community. OpenIndie could be a a great tool for anyone interested in independent films. It will be free for fans to sign up, so we hope it'll be an easy and fun way to socially-network our way into cool, independent screenings. More details to come.<br />
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I've been super busy on things unrelated to <i>Subjectified</i>, so I've been getting some much-needed help from the intern Paul. Thanks, Paul! On the subject of interns, Paul is a college student and says he may not be able to help out next semester because of his own course load, so please contact me if you'd like to put in a few hours to help me organize the film's strategies moving forward. That can be someone here in New York or remotely. I've had so much wonderful help and partnership while making Subjectified over the course of the past three years. Now that we're in this strategic phase, I'm mostly on my own, so I'd love to get input from others (particularly people with experience in organizing, P.R., advertising and media integration, but really lots of it is just internet research and other things that you're already good at, if you're reading this). Thanks in advance!<br />
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I've received a bunch of emails from people who are interested in the movie and want to learn more or get involved. Keep them coming! This phase is about building a group of people who want to get this conversation started.<br />
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One of our facebook ads was rejected by their editorial staff. I'm not sure if it was decided by an automated system that looks for words like "sex," or whether it's a real people who found it somehow inappropriate. The ad, composed using tips and guidelines from the facebook advertisers' guidelines, read "Subjectified. 9 Young Women Talk about Sex: A new documentary. Real stories from women around the country. Click to watch the trailer. Become a fan!" Now we're barred from advertising <i>Subjectified</i> at all on facebook. This is sad because we gained many fans through our modest and cheap advertising campaign there. So, please do help spread the word through your own personal network now that we're not advertising there. I'm sure everyone knows one person who would really enjoy this project. Send out a link to the facebook site or to <a href="http://www.subjectified.com">subjectified.com</a>, and suggest that she/he becomes a fan or joins the email list so we can keep track of who's on board. I am a little angry at facebook right now, but I still think it's a valuable tool for us based on the people who have found us that way, so I don't want to boycott it altogether. Please share your thoughts in the comments below.<br />
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Thanks again as always.<br />
Melissa (info_ a*t _ subjectified.com)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-42618934864920770982009-10-26T20:29:00.002-04:002009-10-26T20:29:39.823-04:00Screening in Cambridge, MA! Are you coming?Subjectified will be screened on February 4th at MIT at 7PM, followed by a Q&A with the Director. The event is free and open to the public. Are you coming?<br />
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Presented through the Chicks Make Flicks series presented by Women in Film & Video New England and the Women & Gender Studies Department of MITUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-75492779648566988672009-10-24T02:34:00.000-04:002009-10-24T02:34:26.259-04:00Boston Screening!Great news. We have a screening in Cambridge, MA (Boston area) lined up this winter! We will post more details when they are confirmed. Check back in and join our <a href="http://www.subjectified.com/Subjectified/Email_List.html">mailing list </a>to stay updated.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-15936502489841197942009-09-05T17:30:00.001-04:002009-09-05T17:30:35.723-04:00Get involved!Subjectified needs a few good ladies (or men)! We are organizing an outreach effort to get the film into festivals and screenings around the country. You can help in little ways like spreading the word about the project to your friends, becoming a fan on facebook or myspace and emailing your friends to tell them to get psyched. We also need some bigger help like real-world networking, writing emails and generally helping with the technology and P.R. side of things. Every film festival submission takes time and money! Melissa will be back in school this fall and Christy has her hands full with teaching and mommyhood, so time is in very short supply. If you are well-organized, good with details, positive spirited and excited about this movie, please contact us for more information about how to get involved. Email info_at_ subjectified _dot__ com, and make sure to join the mailing list (on the left) to get news by email about upcoming screenings. We promise to keep your address safe and sound, and not to bombard you with emails!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-630611035489263520.post-55248242420316582472009-07-12T19:13:00.002-04:002009-08-24T22:37:51.412-04:00Website, update and newsHello:<br />
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Thanks for visiting the blog. I will be posting news and information about upcoming screenings. In the meanwhile, check the <a href="http://www.subjectified.com" target="_blank">main website</a> for the trailer, press kit and other information. <br />
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The final version is wrapped up and I am in the process of submitting to film festivals. Once that process is under way, I'd also like to screen the documentary at women's organizations nationwide, on college campuses and in community groups. Please contact me if you have any ideas about where to screen, or if you would like to organize a screening in your community or campus later this year.<br />
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