Film Zines available at the fest

- Ms. Films DIY Guide to Film & Video
- A Companion Guide to Rooftop Films
- Media Whore
- Polaroid-Celluloid

 



The new 2nd edition of the
Ms. Films DIY Guide to Film & Video
$3 or free to full pass-holders
The do-it-yourself, anyone can get started zine put out by Ms. Films. Topics include: Cameraless Filmmaking (Pat Doyen), Super 8 basics (Pat Doyen), Animation (Ianthe Jackson), Make Your Own (how to produce a no-budget short film while being unemployed) (Lenn Keller), Activist Camera/ Film in Community (Alice Elliott), Basics of Video & Exercises for the beginner (Alexandria Searls), Girls & Filmmaking (Andrea Richards), Screenwriting (Shani Harris Peterson), What is a Short Film? and What is a Long Film? (reprinted from Rooftop Films' zine), DIY Drive-In ( Jessica Halgren Sexton), Organize your own film festival or film night, submitting to film festivals, film zines, books, and other resources, a partial filmography of films by women (by Tina Spangler, of Femme Flicke zine), plus other stuff!
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A Companion Guide to Rooftop Films $3
A great zine on short films, microcinema, the business and art of making films,do-it-yourself pieces, articles by filmmakers about filmmaking, other aspects of the visual, the inspired, the inspiring, plus watching films, programming festivals, and attending festivals, and running festivals.
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Media Whore $2
A zine that focusses on media and culture from a feminist perspective, encouraging women, and covering topics and projects that are below the radar. Issues #2 and #3 will be available, topics include (#2) a call for women's film/video groups, portraits from Tools of the Trade by Tamara Staples, an article about abortion as primetime taboo, an editorial on the Suicide Girls as a new kind of porn, (#3 - the DIY issue) tips for self-promotion, an interview with Amy Schroeder, founder of Venus magazine, a self-publishing odyssey and guide, an interview with Slim Moon from Kill Rock Stars.
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Polaroid-Celluloid $1
Media, culture, art, music, subculture, radical movements, crafts, mental health, construction, film, zines, and whatever else comes up.
This first issue has pieces on Rock Camp for Girls, interviews - with a filmmaker, and with a zine librarian, a klezmer band's busking tour diary, building a table, true stories of a land surveyor, the southern girls convention, and more.
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Merchtastic!!
Shirts in a variety of colors, and totes in classic black!
Design by Lisa Brockmeier, and printing done by the lovely THE MERCH of Chapel Hill...


Chicks Rock!
The compilation CD that came out of the Chicks Rock series -- 11 great songs, all proceeds benefit Ms. Films!

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Natasha!
Chicks Rock favorite Natasha finished a CD just before 2 left for college, which they left in with us to sell to benefit Ms. Films. This is a great CD -- 9 energetic, poppy, spunky songs:

Struck Out
Apathy
Disco-Go
Scary Secretary
Keyboard Kadet
ABC
RAWK
Song for
Noam
Complete Stop