Asian American Women Media Makers - Raising Money To Tell Our stories

While the competition for funding is tough for most filmmakers, are there added challenges for Asian American women filmmakers? Do we tell stories that are perceived to have a small commercial market? Do we ask for money effectively? What are the unique challenges we face as a community? How can we successful fund our projects when we don’t know anyone in the business?

Hear from a panel of experts who have given away money and people who have successfully asked for money - to tell our stories in media:

Kyung Yoon - Executive Director, Korean American Community Fund

Kay Takeda – Director of Grants & Services, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council

Angie Wang – Asian Women Giving Circle, Outreach Director, Women, War & Peace

Mynette Louie – Producer, Syncopated Films

Dai Sil Kim-Gibson – Writer /Filmmaker

FREE EVENT

Co-sponsored by:

Asian American / Asian Research Institute - CUNY

Korean American Film Festival New York (KAFFNY)

Asian CineVision

KoreanAmericanStory.org

RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/event/6054670683

Asian American Women Media Makers is a working group founded by a few filmmakers in the spring of 2012. What started out as a monthly brunch for networking and support to tell our stories in media has expanded into an ongoing conversation to address the issues of underrepresentation and underemployment of our community in mainstream media, and to find ways to empower ourselves as content creators.

Asian American Women Media Makers

Founding Circle:

S. Casper Wong

Yunah Hong

Kathy Huang