NEW! #Spotify episode of On Fire: Retrospective dropped this week! There’s a new episode out every #Tuesday where my daughter and I dissect a chapter of the book, On Fire, my award-winning #memoir. This week we’re talking how being an #introverted #parent affected Savannah. Does it? In Savannah’s case, yes! If you missed the launch … More NEW! Press Play: Spotify episode dropped today—check it out
There is a horror film called Body Parts—the film I’m discussing is not that film. The Body Parts I’m talking about is a 2023 documentary that looks at how sex scenes are shot in Hollywood, the demeaning way in which women have had to get naked, and how the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements brought about … More Body Parts: Sex scenes in Hollywood and the women who pushed back
“If the camera is predatory, then the culture is predatory as well.” — 2022 Documentary, Brainwashed: Sex—Camera—Power from filmmaker Nina Menkes. If you don’t know Nina Menkes or her films, then it will help to peruse her website now to get a feel for who she is and what she stands for. You can view … More One of the most important documentaries of our time: “If the camera is predatory then the culture is predatory as well.”
If you haven’t seen the Toronto Raptors cringeworthy video that dampened the start of Women’s History Month yet, you’re lucky. But just so we can cringe together, you can see it here in this Deadspin article. I mean, honestly. Kudos to the NBA for making an attempt to honor women. I can appreciate that men’s … More Women’s History Month off to a cringe-y start
All of us have known rejection. It comes in all forms and flavors, from romance to work and everything in between. It varies in impact and pain, livelihood and acceptance. It is a ubiquitous vein of pain we all share in some form or another. And the more you live, the more chances you take, … More Rejection is useful in all its forms
COLUMBUS (Oct. 2019) – Columbus-based Producer and Director Stephanie West (formerly Steph Greegor) was accepted into the Sundance Institute Collab’s Directing and Visual Storytelling courses in December and will finish in the spring of 2020. “These two courses will be my second and third classes with the Sundance Institute Collab program and I’m thrilled to … More Director Stephanie West accepted into two additional Sundance Institute Collab Courses
COLUMBUS (Oct. 2019) – Columbus-based Producer and Director Stephanie West (formerly Steph Greegor) was recently accepted into the Sundance Institute’s Collab producing course and will finish in December. “The Sundance Institute offers so many opportunities for emerging artists, particularly women, in a variety of ways, from its fountainhead festival to labs and fellowships,” said West, … More Producer/Director Stephanie West accepted into Sundance Collab course
COLUMBUS (OH) ~ Eleven One Productions owner Stephanie West (formerly Steph Greegor) was awarded two individual artist’s grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. West received the Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson Professional Development & Research grant and a Resource grant to support her work as an individual artist in … More Writer-Director Stephanie West awarded artist’s grants from Arts Council
Dr. Lisa Hinkelman is changing the world for women one young girl at a time, through her female empowerment nonprofit organization ROX (Ruling Our Experiences). … More Women Supporting Women ~ Dr. Lisa Hinkelman of ROX
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