✨THE LIGHT LEAKS HIGHLIGHTS: EDITION #40✨

🚨🚨Mark your calendars- The Light Leaks is finally throwing our first in-person event in 3 years! Los Angeles: Join us Saturday, March 25, 2023 for ‘Creating Your Spotlight: A Panel on Building a Creative Career’ with guest panelists from across the arts - film, television, photography and more! This panel will be about how to go from passions to paychecks. Come ready to ask questions and mingle with other creatives-in-the-making as our guest panelists share the ins and outs of creating their own career path. We’re hosting at Junior High, an amazing feminist arts space and venue, tickets are $12. We’ll see you there!

• 📷 TLL community: we’re also looking for a photographer / videographer who would be able to volunteer their time to capture the highlights of our upcoming event for coverage.  Want to join us and help us make some magic happen? Interested please email [email protected]

✨Fun fact of the day: Light leaks in film photography occur when the film is prematurely exposed. Initially seen as damaged film, light leaks are now a trendy stylist choice that disrupts the image. Our name comes from this analogy because we see the women and gnc filmmakers in our community as those disruptive voices making everlasting change within the film industry. It’s not the norm for now but one day we hope it will be. This is why we are PROUD of our name, The Light Leaks. ✨

Passionate about the film industry but not passionate about film school? That’s totally OK!  You can still find the knowledge and experience to make you unstoppable.  TLL’s Dani Espinosa is here to offer tips on how to find your way in the industry without film school.

In the latest edition of What We’re Watching, we’re sharing our favorite movies and TV shows that will leave you on the edge of your seat, waiting to see what happens next. Watch our suspensful picks with a group of friends, or alone…if you dare 👀

Rep TLL by wearing your heart on your jacket with our “Invest In Yourself” pin!  Designed with the intention of giving you a boost of inspo day to day. Use code HIGHLIGHTS25 for 25% off!

Yay! The Athena Film Festival is coming back to NYC this March 2-5 at Barnard College. It’s their 13th annual celebration of women and leadership through incredible storytelling. We’re excited to share with our TLL community a 20% discount on tickets! To get your discount, visit athenafilmfestival.com and use the code AFF23ORG at checkout.

✏️Looking for a Rom Com Writing Seminar?✏️ TV writer and cultural essayist, Alanna Bennett is a friend of TLL and she’s hosting an independent screenwriting seminar. Check out the 6-week, “Nancy & Nora & Me & You: A Rom-Com Screenwriting Seminar”! 

“Across the media and entertainment industry, companies are shedding staff, winnowing budgets and looking to shore up cash on hand as they steer out of the pandemic and into an uncertain future.” Learn more about this new massive wave of layoffs occurring at even the largest entertainment companies.

In a time where physical intimacy in film is a heavily debated topic on Twitter and Tiktok, the third and final installment in the Magic Mike franchise emphasizes female desire and sensuality, remaining devoted to the pleasure for its fanbase!!

It’s important to note that not all representation is good representation. ‘The cost of Hollywood's depiction of Brown girls’ examines the many ways the industry gets it wrong while still making small moves forward. 

Success for women in entertainment has been tied to youth and age for as long as movies have been made, but now we’re seeing aging in Hollywood become redefined and celebrated, like through the global adoration of Jennifer Coolidge to Pamela Anderson’s candid sharing of her life story.

Are you searching for opportunities to get your creative juices flowing or for grants to fund your next big idea? Look no further than our 💗 creative opportunities💗 page, full of upcoming fellowships, grants, workshops, festivals, and so much more!  

• 📌The IWMF Fund for Women Journalists provides grants to support women journalists worldwide in pursuing their reporting projects and advancing their careers! The Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists (FWJ), supports journalists and journalism projects including, but not limited to, professional development opportunities, investigative reporting and media development initiatives led by women and nonbinary people. Rolling applications for the Fund for Women Journalists are open!

• 📌Submissions for the NYWIFT Women's Film Preservation Fund Grant are open until April 1, 2023, to support the preservation of films created by women and films that significantly depict women.

• 📌The Women Make Movies Production Assistance Program is accepting applications until March 31, 2023, for funding and support for women-directed and produced documentary, fiction, and experimental films.

• 📌Applications for the Film Independent Episodic Lab 2023 are open until March 14, 2023. The lab is designed for emerging writers and writer/directors with projects intended for episodic distribution.

• 📌The Sloan Distribution Grant, which provides funding and resources to support the theatrical distribution of films with science or technology themes, is accepting applications until May 1, 2023.

Here at TLL, we value our community's needs and creative ideas. That's why we created The Light Leaks Feedback Form. Is there something you want to see more or less of from us? Submit your thoughts and let us know!

Like what you see? Be sure to follow us on social for more highlights, more empowerment, and more education. Here's to spreading light! ✨