Heroine Films

the weight of words...

2005-12-07T23:55:52Z

It's been almost a year since Heroine Films started and a lot has happened. I've been posting updates in communities from time to time, but today as I was sitting here thinking about everything I realized it says something about my, our, generation. Everyone always says that we can't get behind a cause...that we are too coddled and too lazy to do anything. But I've seen something completely different.

Not all of you know the whole story, so here it is in nutshell form:

Heroine Films is a production company started by three women. Mel wrote a script which won the New York International Film and Video Festival, at the time it was called "Heroine". In it's most recent form it is "The Gladdest Thing". Before there was ever such a thing as this production company we were supposed to make this film. We had a cast, a crew and most of our financing. Then we held a reading and to make a long, painful story short some influential people found out that the main character is a lesbian. We are in North Carolina. Our financial backers gave into pressure and pulled out. So we lost everything.

A year later, Alex, Mel and I were sitting around trying to figure out what to do. How could we get enough to make it? That's when the idea of grassroots struck. There are people who believe in women making art, there are people who believe that a lesbian voice should be heard. There are people who believe in the passion of doing what you believe in at any cost any way possible. So we started a website, made some t-shirts and undies and hit the blogging communities. And we were STUNNED. In the first week we had so many hits we had to get a bigger website to keep from shutting down. We got donations and letters from all over the world. Including sweet high school girls giving what they could from after school jobs and heartbreaking letters from parents of LGBTQ kids who had been put through hell. These people want to do something...want to change something. Some of you who are on my friend's list now I met b/c you were one of the many who touched our hearts and made us cry with your support. It's been beyond incredible. We even had a lesbian screenprinter donate her services to us. And we quickly made a trailer to help attract investors and show the people supporting us what this could be like. An example--if this is what we can do on borrowed equipment with no crew and almost no money imagine what we can do when we are able to make the film.

Now we have been lucky enough to get a great deal of the funding from a combination of donations and a production company that has put up a large portion. Not all of it yet, but enough that we are confident that finding the rest is more than possible. We have an article coming out in CURVE magazine next week and we are in talks with LOGO about a marketing strategy on their new network. We aren't where we need to be yet but we are so much farther than we thought we'd be when we lost it all...and our hearts and spirits couldn't be higher. My life will never be the same because I now know that people believe in what I'm doing and want to hear the story we are trying to give a voice. I have even more passion because I know I am not just doing it for me...as cheesy as it sounds...I'm doing it for young girls and young LGBTQ people everywhere...to show that you CANNOT silence us.

-Amanda

UPDATE!

2005-12-03T14:51:45Z

Hi all...

I know it's been some time, but we've all be on location for a couple of freelance projects for the past two months...

We're back now and DECEMBER is rockin'!!! Here's what's happening in HEROINE FILMS' LAND:

(I'll make this short and sweeeet)

* AMVF PRODUCTIONS of Wilmington, NC just put up a BIG starter fund for not only THE GLADDEST THING, but QUEENS as well. They're giving us 10% of our budget - so we are, at present, trying to match the funds so we can get the movies made. If you'd like to help the effort, there's more info. on our HOW YOU CAN HELP PAGE at heroine films!

* LOGO (MTVs new GLBT channel) is partnering with Heroine Films by putting together a marketing/advertising plan for us, which will air when the budget comes through. MTV has also expressed interest in buying the finished The Gladdest Thing and we're in talks about a possible "making of" documentary about the process of raising $$$ to make a GLBT themed film.

* the CURVE MAGAZINE ARTICLE featuring the Heroines comes out on stands THIS MONTH!!! It'll make GRRRREAT stocking stuffers!!

* the SECOND CINEMA INTERVIEW (video) is finally up at the site. Check it out and let us know what you think.

We can really use your help now, folks as we come in to the new year and celebrate a wonderful first year of Heroine Films. We've gotten this far with your help and we especially need you now. Please check out the new revamped website and let us know what you think. You can still donate for heroine Ts & undies and we're hoping to add a few more items to the list (possibly bumper stickers, etc.) Let us know what you'd like to see. And, of course, the biggest help, is just to spread the word about us.

The underground is an amazing place...

Happy Holidays to all. Thank you so much for a wonderful year of support. You have our gratitude. The movies are yours too...

xoxo M and the gals

heroinefilms @ 2005-11-10T11:08:00

2005-11-10T16:16:18Z

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMANDA!!!

Everyone, please stop by and give Amanda a shout out...She's the big 2-3 today! Woo Hoo.

And in other news ;)

The Heroines are partnering with LOGO (MTV's new glbt channel)!!! We will give you more details in the coming weeks, but for now, just know that The Heroines will be on LOGO (which goes out to 18 million peeps) and they have expressed interest in possibly buying The Gladdest Thing!!! We're moving on up. We still need your help, though. In order to get this film to MTV, we have to come up with the rest of the money---

Not a bad investment I'd say...MTV has a lil' bit of money to make good on an investment ;)

We'll be doing updates shortly... CASTING may be a BIIIIIIG topic of discussion shortly.

LOVE YOU ALL!!

Show Amanda some love today!

xox M

and in today's news...

2005-10-26T13:59:26Z

10/25/2005 - I'm updating from the road...Alex and I are in Virginia working on BET's College Hill, meanwhile Amanda is gearing up for her role in Shelly's Diary with W2 Entertainment.

But the real news is here:

THE HEROINES HAVE
OBTAINED PRODUCTION FUNDS!!!

Check out the news at: Heroine Films

Love you all! Thanks for the amazing amount of support and help...

xox,

the gals at heroine films

T-shirts and Curve mag.

2005-10-09T02:44:22Z

So, Mel is on location working for BET at the moment and can't update the website so I thought I'd at least give a shout out on the livejournal.

Things are going well. Our CURVE MAGAZINE article got bumped again...this time to Jan. so be sure to check it out and we'll keep you posted if it moves again.

We've been contacted by two potential investors this week which is looking very good. yay! More on that as we find out more.

Also, my fabulous cousin Dennis was wearing his "Got Heroine?" T out and about in Washington DC and apparently it was a BIG HIT. He called me with T-shirt orders from a group of his friends. It's nice to watch it keep catching on.

We've also had more feedback from women's soccer players interesting in "Queens of the World" I'm not giving any names but it's VERY EXCITING!!

Personally, we are all doing well. Mel and Alex are working in Virginia on BET's COLLEGE HILL and I am about to start shooting as the lead in w2 Entertainment's newest feature film "Shelly's Diary" which features some fun country music singers from Nashville and promises to be a blast!

More to come. We love and adore you all. xox
Amanda and the Heroine Films gals

CURVE MAGAZINE

2005-08-06T20:39:05Z

Ok, everyone be sure to check out SEPTEMBER's Careers issue of CURVE Magazine.

We just had a fabulous interview and they will be running an article with photos about HEROINE FILMS and two other inspiring women's filmmaking groups!!!

We are so excited I can't even tell you.

Also, we finally got to actually see the Second Cinema interview (we've been on location filming) and it looks FABULOUS. We'll try to get it up on the website ASAP.

I hope everyone is doing well.
<3

heroinefilms @ 2005-06-29T00:54:00

2005-06-29T04:54:41Z

Any women's SOCCER fans out there?

;)

more later...

hits & feedback

2005-06-26T22:16:35Z

Hey all!

Heroine Films is about 400 hits away from 20,000 on their website (in just over four months!!!) and we need you and all your friends to stop by and check it out!!! Please help! The numbers are being used to entice investors and prodcos. We've had a couple of Distributors interested, but we need to show them a finished film and YOUR NUMBERS on the website. So hit us up! ;)

ALSO - we've received very little feedback on the AUDIOBLOG and really want to know what you all think about it. We're having a great time with it, but don't know if it's something you want to hear or are interested in. Stop by...let us know.

We'll love ya foreva!

xox the gals at heroine films

second cinema

2005-06-20T14:37:43Z

Second Cinema posted a lil' blurb about the Heroine's interview on their site.

Check it out HERE.

Stop by the Heroine's Blogspot and say hi. We're lonely... ;)

xox the gals

ooooh technology is wicked frickin' cool

2005-06-19T21:38:12Z

So, the heroines have a new AUDIO BLOG.

You should all def. check it out!!! Let us know what you think...

And now...I am going to step away from the computer, as I have been glued to it for most of the day!

Peace, love and smootchies...

xox M

shoot to kill...

2005-06-19T17:16:50Z

As some of you read in burnandshiver 's journal, the Heroines are trying to restructure...

Here's the lofty version of things:

When I first moved to New York, I was struck with the realization that I had come home. I moved there to help an SVA fourth year rewrite her thesis script, do a rewrite on my own (the Gladdest Thing, then called Heroine) and to work for the Visibilities the Lesbian Magazine. Little did I know that what I would find in that city was my life, my love, my passion. I took it with me when I left and have had an immense longing to return to the city ever since.

Before I left, I picked up a book at the STRAND, a little tattered $5 copy of Christine Vachon's Shooting to Kill (if you love independent cinema and want to make movies - read this book. it will remind you why you love it.) I'd since lent the book out, never to be returned.

Our last stop in the city (on this last trip) was to the STRAND. When I loved (this is a typo, but I do enjoy a good Freudian slip) there, they boasted "8 MILES OF USED BOOKS". It now stretches on for 18 MILES. I was lost in the dust and the grime and the history of words embedded in crushed paper. I searched the isles in the FILM/TV section, only to find that I was too short to reach the really good books. So I stood there peering up at the stacks, glimpsing biographies of the greats, the how-tos, the why-not-tos and there I saw it. This bright baby blue binding screaming out at me. I waited for the store clerk next to me to leave. It seemed like hours before he stepped off his ladder and walked away. I grabbed the ladder and climbed quick, grabbed that bible and went on a search for Amanda (who was lost in the Civil War History section - don't ask...).

She says she gets to see what I must have been like as a kid when I get excited over funny little things (my new Swiss army bag, the palm pilot she got me for Christmas, a fancy new cell phone - luxuries I only get every once in a while.) When I rounded the corner, I must have looked about five years old. She laughed at me and asked what I'd found. I held up Christine's book and asked if we could leave! ;)

We had been driving off an on for about 72 hours. We'd stopped to see Nan and the fam. and were back on the road again to get home for the Second Cinema Interview (oh how friggin' glamorous we are lol. In reality, we were exhausted, grumpy and just plain foul smelling). It was about 9:30pm and I was sitting up front with Alex. I had my gadgets out before me: the new bag open and ready, with the perfect cell phone and palm pilot slot, the swiss Army embedded legal pad, just ready to write what came to me, but there was nothing. Alex and Amanda were doing yes/no riddles and I was too tired to think.

The great thing about the new bag is that there's a handy slot for a book. I reached into the compartment and pulled out Shooting to Kill fingered the smooth cover and remembered how I'd felt the first time I read it back before I had knowledge, back before I'd made any films of my own, back before I knew what a DP was or what an Associate Producer really does and just who that Alan Smithee guy is anyway. I started reading. By page seven, I got excited again. I asked Alex and Amanda if I could read aloud and they appeased me.

"The movie I remember most from those early years is Parting lances, a superb-looking gay drama made for a few hundred-thousand and released in 1986."

"Hard as it is to believe, there weren't many models at the time for a micro-budget movie with a gay theme shot with money the Director had raised himself. (Bill would stop shooting when he ran out of funds and start again months later.) Some of the financing came from gay men -- five thousand dollars here, ten there -- who wanted to see their lives depicted on screen for the first time. (Some investors got parts in the movie in exchange for their money.) "

"He said, "Okay, I've got an apartment, I've got friends who can act," and he made a movie on his own terms. The tremendous pitch-in attitude he inspired is still, for me, the essence of the independent scene---even though it isn't present as much nowadays, with so many low-budget films being shot and so much competition for talent."

I stopped reading for a moment to catch my breath and could virtually hear their brains ticking. All was quiet and then there was a huge, soft mismatch of our voices (as is the case when we've come up with something.). We were throwing around a lot of "why-nots"...a lot of "why didn't we think of this before"s Of course we could get the equipment, the cast, the crew. We could change locations. Shit, we shot the trailer for NOTHING and it turned out pretty well. There ARE grants out there for finishing. We've just got to get this thing made. It's our baby. We have people that want to see it, people who've helped us get this far, have put there their tips out there, their babysitting money, their "savings for a rainy day" out there. We HAVE to make this movie.

We talked and started planning for the next few hours of our drive. I scribbled a little budget on my brand new legal pad. Amanda offered to help crew as well as act in the film (something which I hate, but love her for offering), Alex was already giving me a list of names of people who we could borrow equipment from and ask to crew for us.

We have a budget and a business plan and proof that we can make this film and sell it. We've gone about everything the right way thus far and we still managed to lose our funding over "content" in past. We scratch and claw and try to sell the film and thank everyone who's helped us along the way and we still don't have the capital to get this thing made. Or do we?

You've told us you like the trailer, can't wait to see it, would take all your friends and your family to see it, moms have written to say thanks for trying to make it, they've offered to cook for us and put us up; oversees, you've shown your support daily, Curve showed it to their crowd at the 15th Anniversary and Diane says it was a smash, the script won at a huge festival, we've got name people reading it and press and all the support in the world...so why isn't this film getting made?

We struggle with it daily, but have come to realization that it's us. WE have to make this film, no matter what the cost.

So...here it is. I'm rewriting the budget. We are collectively searching out grants. We are going to start pulling favors. We will do this on the simplest terms. We will define deferred and when it sells, will pay back every single penny owed on the deferred and make more films of this caliber. And we must...because it's in our blood. We must because we all started in this business for the same reasons. We must because Christine Vachon and every independent filmmaker like her says it can be done and it will. This is art. In time and space and in our blood, this is our art and we only want to share it with you.

You've all been so supportive and generous and along the way we've made good true friends out of most of you (though we've never met face to face). I said something in the interview the other night for Second Cinema (you'll see it in NC and broadcast on the site in July) that finally hit home for me and I want to share it.

I said, (in so many words) So many people have helped us try to get this film made and this is no longer just our project, it's all of yours. I want this to be your film. I want your name in the credits, so you can say, "I helped make that film." And I truly believe that.

So, we're calling on you again, our supportive friends and family.

- Help us spread the word about Heroine Films: tell your friends and your family, your neighbors and strangers on the street.

- If you know anyone who would be willing to donate equipment and time (and love), please send them our way.

- If you know of any grants for glbt/women filmmakers (or any old grant will do), please send them our way.

- If you live in NC and want to donate your services, please contact us.

- And again, if you know anyone who can cough up a couple hundred thousand, we'd like to do make this film the easiest/best way possible, but will settle for the hardest/best way. ;)

As of right now, we're going to try to start shooting The Gladdest Thing in October 2005 after we wrap on the feature, The Dog Days of Summer, if all goes well.

Let us know your thoughts. We still love to hear from you all.

Sorry about the rant...I just really wanted to let you all know how we're feeling/what we're doing. Keep the faith.

Side note - Wish me luck! A Prod Co./Management Company just requested a copy of a script I wrote several years ago about Women's Soccer. What a hoot!

With all the love in the world (just shoot me),

xox Mel

www.heroinefilms.net

heroinefilms @ 2005-06-18T22:38:00

2005-06-19T02:39:55Z

psst...

New hero/ine of the week! we <3 u Jess L.

More news to come. Stay tuned!!!

xox the gals

heroinefilms @ 2005-05-31T11:27:00

2005-05-31T15:28:09Z

It's been four whole months since Heroine Films opened its' doors and I just wanted to drop everyone a note to say thanks to everyone for your continued support. More to come...more to come.

xox M

CURVE MAGAZINE, we heart ethan silverman and the heroines make their TV debut?

2005-05-21T18:26:58Z

Heroine Films - bi-monthly update!

PRESS -

The Executive Editor of CURVE MAGAZINE has gotten in contact with the Heroines and has expressed interest in doing a story on our project. Diane Anderson-Minshall, the EE went a step further for us as well...she just took the Gladdest Thing trailer and our pitch to Curve Magazine's 15th Anniversary Fest at the Portland GLBT Film Fest and is pitching it for us THIS WEEKEND!!! We're shocked, amazed and can't wait to hear about what's happening. We'll update you all on the article for Curve as soon as we have more info.

And here at home...NC's Second Cinema is a television show that was created to showcase Independent Film & Video from Producers in the Triad region of NC. Second Cinema has contacted the Heroines to request an interview and will show the trailer and the interview on their show which will run for the entire month of JULY!!! We'll hopefully be able to broadcast a copy on the website, so that our peeps outside of NC can see it as well. We're pretty excited and Second Cinema has been amazing thus far. Check out their website for more info. on times and channels.

ALSO - The Heroines will be attending the MELISSA FERRICK concert here in Carrboro, NC on May 26 at Cat's Cradle. We'll be in our Heroine T's,so stop by and say hey. And support an amazing artist --- Melissa Ferrick!!!

In case anyone missed it, we also had an article in the Chapel Hill News. Check it out in our IN THE NEWS SECTION on the website.

HERO/INE OF THE (BI)WEEK

You may recognize our latest & sexiest Hero/ine of the Week, Ethan Silverman from our trailer...Ethan is a wonderful actor from NC...He not only hooked us up with our biggest location for the shoot, he also put his gorgeous mug on memorex for us and now girls all over the world are swooning ;) We love you, Eth...and tell your mom thanks for the amazing donation!!!

PROSPECTS

Unfortunately we're not able to say who, but we wanted you all to know that at this point in time, a Creative Executive for a major Cable Network has expressed interest in the The Gladdest Thing Project. She is reading the script and looking over our Production Plan as I write this.

On the same note, an amazing actress, whom Mel originally wrote a part for has just gotten in contact with the Heroines and has agreed to read the script. Keep your fingers crossed on this one...it would make our year if she likes the script...

FYI

The Heroines are going into Pre-Production on another feature that is being shot in August. Amanda will be acting in the film, Mel is Line Producing and Alex is Production Manager on the show, which is called The Dog Days of Summer, a Tamiami and Film Foundry Production. The feature already has domestic & foreign Distribution and Theatrical Release. So you'll be able to see us up on the big screen sometime next year (or in Blockbuster) ;) We'll still be updating and working on Heroine Films stuff, but will be a little less present for a couple of months...Write to us though...we love talking to you all...

GEAR

The Heroines have worked out a deal with Mel Wall, our amazing screenprinter, for new shirts and a new logo. Thanks to an amazing donation by VICKIE HANNAH, we're able to get a new logo and new style. So we'll report back as soon as we have the new gear in. We still need pics of you in your gear to post, so send them to INQUIRIES@HEROINEFILMS.NET!

MISCELLANEOUS

Send your congrats to the Heroines...Amanda just graduated from The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill last week and Alex just finished up at the North Carolina School of the Arts, School of Filmmaking. And Mel...send your congrats for when she's able to quit her day job ;) And watch out world, cause' the Heroines just got some edjumacation... ;)

That's all for now, lovely Hero/ines...Hit us up anytime.

Thanks so much for your support!! We love you all...

xoxo the gals at heroine films

heroine films

phone: 919.593.6962

fax:408.676.3642

e-mail: inquiries@heroinefilms.net

heroinefilms @ 2005-05-20T20:58:00

2005-05-21T01:03:09Z

So Phelps decided to "report" on his outing to the Laramie Project Protest that the Heroines attended in early May. thought you all might find this amusing, interesting...crazy. Please keep in mind that the details are a bit hazy... ;)

Blah. PHELPS PHUDGING THE DETAILS

Newsletter will be out this weekend, with lots to report! and a new hero/ine of the week!!!

xox the gals

www.heroinefilms.net

Well folks...we have good news!

2005-05-12T21:50:19Z

First off, thanks to everyone who commented about the PHELPS Protest. It's good to see everyone putting their two cents in.

Second - CURVE MAGAZINE is doing a piece on HEROINE FILMS!!!!! Also, Ms. Diane Anderson-Minshall, Curve's Executive Editor is taking the Heroine Films Trailer and Promotions to the Portland Lesbian & Gay Film Festival which is honoring Curve's 15th Anniversary!!!! We are floored, quite frankly.

Third - Second Cinema will showing the Trailer and will interview the Heroines. The interview and trailer will be aired and broadcast for the entire month of July. We'll try to have it up on the site for those of you who are not in NC. For those of you in NC, we'll post times/channel as soon as we have them!

Also, there's a very special someone reading our script as I write this and we're pretty excited about it. Wish I could share details, but that would be assy of me ;)

Stop by and say hi!

We love you all!

xox the gals at heroine films

heroinefilms @ 2005-05-08T19:12:00

2005-05-08T23:14:30Z

Check out the NEW ARTICLE IN THE CHAPEL HILL NEWS...

HAPPY HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!

xoxo the gals at heroine films

www.heroinefilms.net

back from the PHELPS PROTEST...

2005-05-07T04:50:00Z

Just got home and wanted to tell you all about it...

If you're interested, please check out PROTEST to read and see how it went down.

Drained and saddened,

the gals at heroine films

Phelps Protest, EBAY and a new hero/ine?

2005-05-05T13:45:21Z

*HEROINE FILMS BI-MONTHLY NEWSLETTER**

Short, but Sweet...

This just added!!! Mel Wall, our amazing screenprinter wrote us an inspiring letter to speak out to the GLBTQ Business Owners across the globe for support. In the coming months, we'll be sending the letter out. In the meantime, if you know anyone who might be interested, please feel free to download the PDF version of the letter and pass it on to them.

****IN THE NEWS

Check out the Heroines in the Sunday Edition of the Chapel Hill News! We'll have a column in the MY VIEW SECTION! All feedback is welcome!

****HEROINE OF THE WEEK

VICKIE HANNAH is our HEROINE OF THE WEEK! In HONOR of Mother's Day! Check Vickie out! She's an incredibly gifted actress and one of our biggest supporters (not to mention our "mom on set...) We love you, Vickie!!!

****HEROINES LIVE
This sorta falls under the LIVE category... ;)

This Friday, May 6th, 7-7:30pm the anti-queer hate mongering preacher
Fred Phelps will be protesting the play 'The Laramie Project' at the
Durham School of the Arts. He has received a permit to protest only on
the sidewalk in front of the school, not on the school grounds or
anywhere else. Therefore, it will be extremely easy to block him and
his message of hate.

The Laramie Project tells the story of Matthew Shepard, a queer man who
was beaten to death in Laramie a few years back.

Phelps has been preaching his message of hate for years. He runs the
websites godhatesfags.com and godhatesamerica.com. Check those out for
examples of his disgusting hate-filled messages.

Come to the Durham School of the Arts at around 6:30pm on Friday to take action against this man! DSA is 400 North Duke Street in Durham,
opposite the West Corporation Street corner. Bring noise making
devices, banners, puppets, and anything else that may come in handy.

There will be an event at Duke University East Campus starting at 1pm
and going until near the protest time.

***** OOOOH EBAY
Boy, so the Heroines have a bidding opp. for you! ;) We've got a Heroine Films Memorabilia Package up over at EBAY if anyone wants to check it out!!!

Any questions? Comments? Suggestions? Please feel free to e-mail us at inquiries@heroinefilms.net

love you all!

xoxo the gals at heroine films

So important

2005-05-05T02:18:11Z

This Friday, May 6th, 7-7:30pm the anti-queer hate mongering preacher
Fred Phelps will be protesting the play 'The Laramie Project' at the
Durham School of the Arts. He has received a permit to protest only on
the sidewalk in front of the school, not on the school grounds or
anywhere else. Therefore, it will be extremely easy to block him and
his message of hate.

The Laramie Project tells the story of Matthew Shepard, a queer man who
was beaten to death in Laramie a few years back.

Phelps has been preaching his message of hate for years. He runs the
websites godhatesfags.com and godhatesamerica.com. Check those out for
examples of his disgusting hate-filled messages.

Come to the Durham School of the Arts at around 6:30pm on Friday to take
action against this man! DSA is 400 North Duke Street in Durham,
opposite the West Corporation Street corner. Bring noise making
devices, banners, puppets, and anything else that may come in handy.

There will be an event at Duke University East Campus starting at 1pm
and going until near the protest time.

This is the man responsible for godhatesfags.com

heroinefilms @ 2005-05-02T17:40:00

2005-05-02T21:40:56Z

A Letter to all of our friends & family:

Due to artistic differences we have decided to part ways with Cherrae Stuart. She is an amazing actress, friend and supporter, but our paths were leading us in opposite directions. We have an amazing amount of respect for her work ethic and we are grateful to have had an opportunity to work with her. We wish her the best in all of her endeavors personal and professional.

All Our Best,

Amanda, Mel and Alex
Heroine Films
www.heroinefilms.net

awwwww

2005-04-27T20:53:49Z

I just had to share with you all.

Baby Audrey is the cuuuutest. Dig the Got heroine one-sie! You can see more of Audrey on our OUR HERO/INES page.

And check out LOGO (MTV's new gay channel) if you haven't already!

Loves...

xoxo the gals

LOGO - MTV's new GLBT Channel

2005-04-26T18:29:16Z

Hey all:

I just wanted to tell everyone about the new gay TV Channel, in association with MTV, LOGO.

Check it out...we're so excited that MTV continues to be progressive in an attempt to create creative spaces for glbt art/media.

The Heroines are at present pitching the Gladdest Thing to LOGO and we feel really great about it. As soon as we have more information, we'll let you know. Until then, let LOGO know you're out there and tell em' you'd love to see the Heroines on the boob tube. ;)

Love to all...

xoxo the gals
www.heroinefilms.net

heroinefilms @ 2005-04-20T14:05:00

2005-04-20T18:08:32Z

Heroine Films - bi-monthly update!

HERO/INE OF THE WEEK - This week's hero/ine if the one and only WAYNE CRAWFORD! Wayne is an amazingly talented actor/director/producer and took the time out of his busy schedule to help out us in the filming of the trailer! We just wanted to say thanks... You're the best Wayne!

PRESS & PACKAGES - If you missed it in the last update, the DTH did an amazing article on the Heroines and you can read the article here - DTH - Heroine Chic.

We've been working overtime to get press kits/Production Packages out. So far, we have one with Ellen Degeneres, Frontier Media, Wolfe Video and we're still pushing to get in touch with Ms. Rosie O'Donnell's agent to see if we might get the script to her for consideration as one of the leads - Main character, Kate's mom - Marlene. If you feel so inclined, let Rosie know you want to see her in the film by dropping her a note in her BLOG at: Formerly Rosie! Thanks to all who help!

High up on the list as well is - Guinevere Turner - You all know Guin from Go Fish, American Psycho and most recently, the L WORD. The Heroines have sent off a query to Ms. Turner's agent and are awaiting their reply.

We've also just submitted to the Sundance Institute's Writer's/Director's Lab, so keep your fingers crossed on that one!

LIVE SHOWS - The heroines will be speaking and show the trailer all weekend at the UNC Variety Show - at the Caberet in the Student Union, April 22-24. Check us out and stop by to chat! We'd love to see you there!

GEAR - We're still waiting to see your MUGS. Send us pics in your heroine gear!!! We'll put you on the site!!!

That's all for now folks!

We really appreciate all the support we've been getting...it means the world to us. Keep it coming!

xoxo the gals at heroine films

heroinefilms @ 2005-04-07T19:43:00

2005-04-07T23:44:45Z

Hi All, from Heroine Films...

This will be short, but full of info. for all you heroine junkies out there:

IN THE NEWS

The DTH (The Daily Tarheel) just featured a HUGE center spread on yours truly. Check out the article in our in the news section. Kristen Williams wrote the article and she is fab!

PROMOS

Promotional packages have been sent to Wolfe Video, Frontier Media Corp. and ELLEN DEGENERES! Mel spoke with Curve Magazine today and is sending off a Press Packet for them tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed.

If you feel so inclined, write to Curve and tell them you want to see an article about heroine films!

GEAR

New Shirts are in. T-shirts w/sleeves!!! Carolina Blue or white. We'll have pics up on the website early next week.

HEROINE OF THE WEEK

KRISTEN WILLIAMS ;) is our HEROINE OF THE WEEK! Kristen wrote and amazing article about the heroines in todays DTH. She's a talented writer and we're honored...

HEROINES LIVE

The heroines attended the Women's Word/Women's Voices event at UNC- Chapel Hill and had an amazing time watching the other artists perform and promoting their trailer. Thanks to all who donated for shirts and the overwhelming response to the project. We were absolutely touched and loved being involved. You're all fabulous!!!

Thanks so much, Claire!!

TRAILER

check out the trailer at www.TheFilmLink.com & sister site www.TheLinkTV.net

GLBTQ OWNED BUSINESSES

Melanie Wall of Bread & Butter Screenprinting is at it again, going all out for Heroine Films!!! Melanie has compiled a letter in support of Heroine Films geared toward GLBTQ Businesses in an attempt to get the business community involved in the Heroine Films Fundraising efforts. If you know anyone who is GLBTQ and owns a business (or not) that might be interested in our grassy roots, please give us the heads up! We'll be sending out letters in the coming weeks for donations!

I will be posting the letter on the site in the next week or so, if you need a copy to shop around.

DVDS

We have DVDs of the Promotional Trailers being used for Distribution & Production Companies. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let us know and we'll get a DVD to them!

NEED A COMMERCIAL? AD? KNOW SOMEONE WHO DOES?

Going along with the above, Heroine Films has decided to lend their expertise to the businesses (or personal) who would like to donate to Heroine Films. For a production budget we come in and shoot your commercial or music video, hire/direct actors, find locations, script and edit your commercials and will negotiate rights. You get a sweet, sleek and sexy commercial/music video/documentary and help us get closer to our goal. For further information, please e-mail: inquiries@heroinefilms.net

Love ya!