WXF May 2024 Newsletter
WXF Updates
WXF’s Milena Warns Selected for NFL’s Women in Sports Filmmaking Experienceship
Milena Warns from our team was selected to the highly competitive Women in Sports Filmmaking Experienceship, a training program designed to inspire and develop female talent in cinematography🎥 , sound capture🎙️ , and other aspects of production🎞️ . The two-day boot camp introduced us to an amazing cohort of fellow passionate female filmmakers and prepared us for future projects.
WXF Attending International Documentary Association
Getting Real Conference
Representing the WXF team, Wei Dai attended International Documentary Association’s biennial conference on non-fiction content, Getting Real. This year, the event was held in Los Angeles and featured speakers from production companies, distributors, industry research organizations, and many more sectors of the industry. Meeting fellow filmmakers is the favorite part of our job and always inspiring! 🤝
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How the Climate Crisis Fuels Gender Inequality
By: CNN Special Report
Climate change catalyzes existing injustices, magnifying their impact. Women and girls, who already contend with gender inequality, face intensified challenges when extreme weather events ravage communities. According to the UN, inequalities worsen as a result of these weather events: incidents of intimate partner violence escalate; girls are withdrawn from school, early marriages of daughters increase; and women and girls displaced from their homes confront elevated risks of sexual exploitation and trafficking.
DID YOU KNOW
According to estimates from the Brookings Institution, for each additional year a girl attends school, her country’s resilience to climate disasters may increase by 3.2 points on an index measuring vulnerability to climate-related disasters.
Notable Historical Individual Born in March
Nellie Bly
Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, also known as Nellie Bly, was an acclaimed American journalist born May 5, 1864. She gained widespread recognition for her groundbreaking journey around the world in just 72 days, mirroring the exploits of Jules Verne’s fictional character Phileas Fogg. Additionally, she made headlines with her undercover investigation of an abusive mental institution, exposing its inner workings to the public. Nellie Bly’s contributions marked her as a trailblazer in investigative journalism, setting new professional standards.
DID YOU KNOW
In 1887, Nellie Bly rose to prominence as a journalist, achieving star status through her daring undercover investigation at a New York City mental health asylum. Her courageous exposé in the New York World revealed the appalling conditions within the institution, sparking widespread awareness about mental health treatment and catalyzing reforms in institutional practices. Bly’s reporting also heralded the dawn of investigative journalism.
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