Creating New Media Content for a Diverse and Digital Revolution
July 11, 2016
Event Date: Saturday, July 16, 2016 || Speaker: Rolla Selbak || Check-in: 12:30 pm ||
Filmmaker Rolla Selbak will share what it takes to feed the audience’s hunger in a new world of insta-hits, youtubes, and vines, and the process of writing for her viral series “Kiss Her I’m Famous”.
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Rolla Selbak is a triple-minority in the filmmaking world, representing the Queer, the Arab-American, and the Female. She’s an award winning filmmaker whose most recent credits include the internationally acclaimed feature film, Three Veils, a first of its kind to confront delicate subject matters such as arranged marriage, homosexuality, and love within the Muslim-American subculture. She is also the creator of the virally popular online series, Kiss Her I’m Famous, which satirizes our culture’s relationship with fame.
Through the San Francisco Women’s Film Institute Leadership team, she’s involved in initiatives specifically geared towards nurturing a generation of young female filmmakers. She’s also creator and host of Grrl’s Guide To Filmmaking, a docu-series that features interviews with fellow influential women in the film industry.
Recently, she was thrilled to announce her attachment as a producer for the upcoming feature film “Last Black Man In San Francisco” that tells the breathtaking tale of two brothers living in the ghettos of San Francisco, trying to find their place in the city that has forsaken them.”
Join us on the Third Saturday every month at:
CBS Studio Center
4024 Radford Avenue
Studio City, CA 91604
Free Parking — Enter the CBS lot at the main gate & inform security you are there for the Scriptwriters Network event.
You’ll be asked for your government issued photo ID, and then given directions to the meeting location. You may park in any available space on the lot, unless CBS’ Security directs you to a park at a different area.
As this is a professional event, we ask that you please arrive prior to the event start time.
Meeting Timeframe: 1:00 pm to approximately 3:00 pm
Please remember to bring a picture ID and your SWN Membership Card!
Any questions, email us at [email protected].
