The Sound of Gender: How Women Composers Vigorously Maneuver Hollywood’s Show Biz
“In my opinion music is gender free so why should female composers get treated any differently than their male colleagues?” a woman in the audience commented at the speaker series panel – Music in Film and Television – organized by Women In Film. The five female composers who made up the panel at El Torito Grill in Beverly Hills on Wednesday, October 28, all nodded their...
Read MoreGerman Filmmaker Andreas Dresen on Movie Making
German writer/ director Andreas Dresen shared his insights into movie making at the Goethe Institut’s “Show and Tell” series in Los Angeles on Monday, October 26. He talked about his beginnings studying directing at the Konrad Wolf Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg back in the 80s in the GDR. “The school under direction of Lothar Bisky was a place...
Read MoreHow to Live Green in Los Angeles – and in any other place for that matter
I was happy to learn from reading Chris Guillebeau’s blog post that it’s Blog Action Day today! This year’s theme is climate change. Better writing late than never I’m thinking – so here’s my contribution to the worldwide “climate blog action”: How to Live Green in Los Angeles – and in any other place for that matter People who don’t...
Read MoreNew German Films Worth Watching
Let’s not talk about famous German filmmakers in Hollywood like director Roland Emmerich whose latest movie 2012 is coming to US theaters this November. Instead, let’s talk about talented German filmmakers who are making fantastic movies in Germany. I just recently attended the German Currents film fest in Los Angeles and saw two great German films that are absolutely worth...
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