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Women in Film & Video/New England announced its 2006 Image Awards Gala, an exciting biannual fundraiser to be held Wednesday, March 22, 2006, at the Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel. The event this year not only raises funds to help support WIFV/ NE’s mission, but also marks the New England chapter’s 25th anniversary. Their 2006 honorees include Dorothy Aufiero, originating producer of Bravo Television’s Queer Eye for the Straight Guy;  Lisa Simmons, founder of The Color of Film Collaborative in Boston; and Carol Patton, publisher of Imagine, the publication for the Northeast’s film and TV industries. 

The Organization for Film Distributor Accountability is being formed by filmmakers who feel the need to create a network through which we share information on film distributors. One of the organization’s main tool is a website through which filmmakers will be able to share their stories on distributors and have a rating system on distributor performance. Currently the website is called
www.filmdistributors.org. 

Boston University’s most spectacular film event of the year, the Redstone Film Festival will hold its screening on February 15th.  All the nominees are then screened on the night of the film festival and the winner is announced. In addition, the winner of the Fleder-Rosenberg short screenplay contest will be announced. This event is open to the public and admission is free: the show starts at 7pm and is held in Boston University’s Tsai Performance Center (685 Commonwealth Avenue). For more information, visit: http://www.bu.edu/com/ft/film/redstone.html 

With a strong slate of competitors from this past Chlotrudis Short Film Festival, held in October at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, the programmers invited Chlotrudis to re-screen the entire night’s program in its Screening Room. This exclusive return engagement begins Friday the 17th (call the theatre at (617) 734-2500 for times and ticket prices).  For more information, visit http://www.chlotrudis.org. 

The Coolidge Corner Theatre announces actress Meryl Streep as the recipient of the 2006 Coolidge Award, to be celebrated April 5-6. The annual event, recognizing a selected film artist whose work advances the spirit of original and challenging cinema, was launched in 2004. 

The WGBH Forum Network currently produces and presents lectures and other community forums online as a free public service.  Several of their lectures and filmmaker interviews are posted on their site at http://forum.wgbh.org/wgbh/forum.php?lecture_id=247. 

The New Hampshire Film and Television Office, in partnership with the Squam Lakes Area Chamber of Commerce, Plymouth State University and the Laconia Citizen will mark the 25th anniversary of the release of the motion picture On Golden Pond in New Hampshire with a series of exhibits and events commemorating the state’s long-standing connection with the film. The exhibit will initially run from May 18 to June 8, 2006 in the Map Gallery of the State Library in Concord and will then tour various venues around the Lakes Region throughout the summer.  For more information, visit www.nh.gov/film.

Two recent works, Pledge of Allegiance Blues and Women Make Art, by award-winning local filmmaker Lisa Seidenberg will screen at Connecticut’s Westport Unitarian Church on Sunday, February 26 at 5 pm.  For more information, visit www.pledgefilm.com.  

Hineini: Coming Out in a Jewish High School screens on Thursday, February 9th at 7 pm as part of Women in Film Video, New England’s series Chicks Make Flicks.  For more information on the screening, visit http://www.wifvne.org/programs.chicksmakeflicks.php and  for information on the film, visit www.boston-keshet.org.