Greater LA

Women’s Weekend Film Challenge

Hosted by Steve Chiotakis Mar. 05, 2020 Los Angeles

An all-women film crew during Women’s Weekend Film Challenge. Photo credit: Makana Shimaoka.

The “Women’s Weekend Film Challenge” brings together women professionals to create a movie within 78 hours. Their ages range from the early 20s to mid-60s. They agree: Problems get solved faster, and there are fewer egos here than on male-run production.

From this Episode:

Women’s Weekend Film Challenge: 78 hours to make a movie and shake up the industry

At one film set in Brentwood’s Mandeville Canyon, you won’t find a single man, which is almost unheard of in the film industry.

8 min

For 50 years, Venice Family Clinic serves Angelenos who can’t afford basic healthcare

Fifty years ago, LA doctors Philip Rossman and Mayer Davidson realized that some people in their community couldn’t afford basic healthcare.

17 min

Credits

Host:

Steve Chiotakis

Producers:

Christian Bordal, Jenna Kagel