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What is Image Makers?
Women
in Film & Video members, local production professionals and area
businesses volunteer their talent, time and resources to assist area youth
in the production of thirty-second public service announcements. Image
Makers provides these young people with the tools to learn about the
script-to-screen production process, as well as expose them to the various
types of jobs available in the industry. The youth also discover how to
make their message powerful and persuasive, and how to look more
critically at the messages they see in the media. The youth make their
PSAs for local non-profit organizations so that they have the opportunity
to perform their own community service and in addition have an authentic
experience with a "client" in need of a PSA. WIFV membership
also gets a chance to participate in a multi-pronged community service.
How the Program Works:
The
Image Makers program consists of a 12 week series of seminars during which
youth from the D.C.
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tro area participate in producing thirty
second Public Service Announce
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nts (:30
PSA) for local community organizations. The seminars cover all aspects of
pre-production, production and post- production, providing each
participant with a hands-on experience. The schedule is broken up into
three days of pre-production, three days of production and three days of
post-production. There is an orientation day to get things started and an
award reception to wrap the program.
Image Makers is a contest. The students' work is judged by a panel of
award winning film and video professionals. All three PSAs are broadcast
on local television stations as well as being screened at the annual WIFV
Women of Vision Awards Gala.
Image Makers 2005 Program Chairs:
Hilarey
Kirsner
Hilarey
is a Producer/Director at EFX Media where her responsibilities include
producing and directing video programs for large corporations, government
agencies and non-profits in the
Washington
DC
metro area. Some of her clients to date at EFX Media have included America
Online, Sonitrol, Department of Defense, and Habitat for Humanity. Prior
to joining EFX Media, Hilarey was a Production Coordinator for Jack Morton
Productions And Production Group International where she worked on dozens
of video Programs to support large-scale live events. She has also worked
as a freelance producer in
Los Angeles
where she worked on several commercial spots and infomercials. Some of her
other corporate and broadcast credits include MCI, Coca-Cola, ExxonMobil,
Xerox, and The West Wing. She
is also on the WIFV Board of Directors.
Jennifer
Pennybacker
Jennifer
Pennybacker develops, writes and produces magazine pieces, corporate
videos, public service programming, video news releases and commercials
for local and national clients of Ventana Productions. She began her
career in the Conus Washington news bureau as a special assignments
producer. There
she worked in the capacity of White House producer, field producer and
assignments manager.
At Ventana Productions her career and responsibilities expanded.
Her clients include TLC, Travel Channel, Animal Planet,
Georgetown
University
Hospital
,
The National Safe Kids Campaign, FOX, VH1, MTV, Lifetime Television for
Women, Discovery Channel, A&E and the YMCA. Her technical abilities
and story telling qualities combine to make a well-rounded producer.
Sima
Shah
Sima
is a Promotions Producer at C-SPAN where she writes, produces and edits
promotional spots for all C-SPAN networks.
Prior to C-SPAN, she worked at Turner Network Television (TNT) in
Atlanta
in the Programming and Scheduling department.
There she she devised strategies for programming executives by
researching competing networks. She also aided in the development process
for TNT original series and movies.
Sima also volunteered for a non-profit organization called
Indicorps, where she produced, directed and edited short documentary
videos to promote the organization’s volunteers in
India
.
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