by Windy Borman | Oct 1, 2021 | DVA Productions Blog, Founder's Note, LinkedIn Posts, Media Productions Blog
If you are pouring blood, sweat, and tears—and probably some personal capital, too—into your film/media project, you need to protect yourself, the production team, and the intellectual property you’re creating. Last month I received a question about protecting a film....
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by Windy Borman | Sep 27, 2021 | Mary Janes Blog, Media
High Herstory is a media brand that creates space for women & femmes to explore the responsible consumption of cannabis while bringing to life meaningful, stigma-changing visuals at the intersection of weed and culture. The “High Herstory” series...
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by Windy Borman | Sep 22, 2021 | Mary Janes Blog, Media
Women are turning to the cannabis plant for health and wellness or for relaxation and pure enjoyment, but the stigma still lingers for many. Meet Windy Borman, MS, the multi-award-winning director and producer of the groundbreaking documentary, “Mary Janes: The...
by Windy Borman | Aug 3, 2021 | DVA Productions Blog, Founder's Note, LinkedIn Posts, Media Productions Blog
The Bechdel test, also known as the Bechdel–Wallace test, is a measure of the representation of women in fiction. The test is named after American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, in whose 1985 comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For the test first appeared. According to...
by Windy Borman | Jul 22, 2021 | DVA Productions Blog, Feminism, Feminist Film Theory, Founder's Note, LinkedIn Posts, Media Productions Blog
The concept of the “Male Gaze” was first developed by feminist film critic Laura Mulvey in her 1975 essay entitled “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”. “The Male Gaze” is the way visual arts depict the world and women from a...
