Co-President with Louise Fleming March 2004 - January 2006

It was with great joy and pleasure to serve CWNY by being Co-President with Louise Fleming. Louise and I also ran the Screening Series (that came first for a couple of years and continued while we were Co-President's) - call us crazy! - but it was sure exhilarating to move the series to Pioneer Theater, incorporate a pizza/beer party into the mix and just an absolute dream to be able to screen fellow women filmmakers that among other things, went on to be nominated for Academy Awards and win prizes at Sundance, very exciting!

My first suggestion, for us to set up a CWNY Co-Presidency, is still in existence, and as long as it's working, glad to see it's still happening! Some highlights for me: helping re-invigorate the organization by bringing back The Screenwriter's Group, the Filmmaker's Group and the Producer's Group along with setting up a well received Screenplay Reading Series, producing some panels with exceptional women filmmakers that created thought provoking Q&! A's, finding a new home for our NYTEs at Women Make Movies, along with setting up Show and Grow (based on a suggestion from a CWNY member to Louise) and helping put together The Advisory Board. The re-design of the CWNY Newsletter and the running/management of it was lots of fun at the time as well as setting up a CWNY gallery where members could post pics/resumes. Oh, and there was the re-design of the splash page that no longer exits that we used to share with CWLA as well as the re-design of the website and logo used until the current go-round, in place now.

Wow....when I think back to these days, I get a little woozy! It was a great ride and the most wonderful thing of all was meeting and networking with our members and visitors to the NYTE's and other functions, where connections were made to help make each other's projects come to fruition, a very satisfying and heartwarming thing to see and help make happen.