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In Monte Carlo, Overlooking the Sea: The Baroness Blogs, Part 3
By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger None of us has been here before, and it is, without a doubt, a most elegant city. From my window I see the sea and the Casino . . .
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From Monaco to Milan, Two Operas Later: The Baroness Blogs, Part 4
By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger We went to the charming neighborhood where Mariuccia lived as a child. She hadn’t returned for 70 years. It was very meaningful for her. And a time travel trip for me, too.
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On Nooks, Crannies and “The Necessary:” The Baroness Blogs Part 5
Here, the final day of shooting, and the final dispatch from the road. A good flight home to the Baroness and her film crew!
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Poetry Sunday: A Gift of The Season
Womens' Voices For Change Last week, our Poetry Editor was fortunate enough to have tea with her friend, the most polymath-ic member of the WVFC board. Elizabeth Hemmerdinger is an award-winning...
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The Biggest Treat Of All
By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger Before Halloween is completely steamrollered by the winter holidays, WVFC's own “Grambo” offers some reflections on why you can never be too old (or too dignified) to dress up...
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Women’s History Month: At NYU, Rosie the Riveter Speaks
“I felt we had a moral imperative to break down the long-existing icon of ‘Rosie’ and give these stories to the world," said Rosie the Riveter Project producer (and WVFC co-founder) Elizabeth...
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The Wednesday Five: ‘Rosify’ Yourself, Women You Never Heard of, And Happy...
As summer unofficially begins, our fave blogs are wishing a top supermodel a good 42nd birthday, saluting a pair of pioneering Chicago artists, and exploring the true stories behind that Meryl moment.
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The Big Picture: ‘ELAINE STRITCH: SHOOT ME,’ Episode 2
By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger "Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me" is an always-entertaining, often startling, paean to an often irascible, fiercely perfectionistic, always independent, long-lived woman who has no...
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Kirsten Kelly on Film and Theater Directing: Nice Work If You Can Get It
By Deborah Harkins The (pleasant) challenge for 40-year-old director Kirsten Kelly: Mount a play involving 50 brides and 50 flight-suited, helicopter-dangling grooms on the stage of a 60-seat theater.
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‘Women’s Voices for Change’: Celebrating Women in the Second Half of Life
By Gail Sheehy Now we are 6, and our site, "Women's Voices for Change" has broadened its vision beyond its original mission—debunking the universal myths about menopause—to celebrating the power and...
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Crowds and Sounds and the Unexpected
By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger The brilliant British filmmaker Lindsey Dryden, deaf in one ear since childhood and threatened with losing her hearing altogether, helps us “hear” the loss, feel the fright,...
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Those Radical Rosies: Keeping Their Stories Alive
By Deborah Harkins “It has taken a couple of generations for the belief in women’s competence to really sink in,” notes producer Elizabeth Hemmerdinger. “Women of my generation have it . . . women in...
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Another Opening for Elaine Stritch
In addition to the profound joy I felt in celebrating a good friend's success, what was so moving to me was the chance to see an independent film about an independent woman celebrated and hailed as...
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Diary of a Documentary Filmmaker During Oscars Weekend
By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger What's it like out there in Hollywood during Oscars weekend? Playwright/producer/screenwriter Elizabeth Hemmerdinger lets us know.
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Diary of an Oscars Weekend, Part II
By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger An insider's look at a playwright/producer/screenwriter's working weekend in Hollywood. Many parties are involved.
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Diary of an Oscars Weekend, Part 3
Playwright/producer/screenwriter Elizabeth Hemmerdinger offers an inside look at what it was like out there in Hollywood during Oscars weekend. Here’s Part 3 of our series—working the parties on Oscars...
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Wednesday 5: Five Films on Brave and Courageous Women
In this week's Wednesday 5 we honor the start of Women's History Month with five documentaries (all available for streaming on Netflix) featuring the lives and stories of brave and courageous women.
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