In conjunction with the 2nd S'pore Indie Documentary Festival
Presented by The Substation Moving Images programme and Objectifs

Objectifs
12A Liang Seah St
Saturday, March 10, 2007, 130pm

Admission is free by registration. To register, please email info@objectifs.com.sg or call 6339 3068.

In celebration of International Women's Day, author and filmmaker Andrea Richards will be honouring the work of today's most talented female filmmakers. Women directors have been making movies since the invention of cinema back in the nineteenth century. Even before Hollywood existed, women were on the front lines of film production. You may not know them by name, but without these women the movies as we know them today would not exist. In this seminar, Andrea will highlight the works of some of the most influential and interesting contemporary women directors of our time including Sophia Coppola and Miranda July.

Lick The Star©Sofia Coppola

About Andrea Richards

Andrea Richards is the author of the acclaimed book Girl Director: A How To Guide for the First-Time, Flat-Broke Film and Video Maker (Ten Speed Press, 2005). A contributor to publications such as Attaché, Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture, BUST, Los Angeles magazine, the LA Weekly, and SOMA, Richards’s writing also appears in the anthology, Bare Your Soul: The Thinking Girl’s Guide to Enlightenment (Seal Press, 2002).

As a filmmaker Richards has written, directed and produced four short films that have screened at various international festivals including OutFest/LA Freewaves, Ladyfest, Adelaide Fringe Festival, Ms. Films, Corto Metraje and The North Carolina Film Festival. She co-wrote a documentary about Black Mountain College and has produced music videos for clients such as DreamWorks and Merge Records. She has curated film programs and lectured at the Walker Art Center, the Atlantic Film Festival and LA’s American Cinemathque.

Richards is an MFA graduate of the California Institute of the Arts Critical Writing Program and has a BA in Religious Studies and American Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives in Los Angeles.

Andrea Richards

About The Substation

Founded in 1990 by the late Kuo Pao Kun, The Substation is Singapore's first independent contemporary arts centre. Venues include a black box theatre, a gallery, a dance studio, the Blue Room and two multi-function classrooms. They present and co-present a wide range of artists and programmes, from traditionally trained dancers to local rock bands; established visual artists to young poets; publications to international short film festivals; experimental theatre to seminal conferences on Singapore arts and culture.