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....
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...
by Windy Borman | Jun 7, 2021 | DVA Productions Blog, LinkedIn Posts, Media Productions Blog
Over one year into the global pandemic, film and video production are finally moving forward. While many Hollywood studios and commercial sets are back at work, every week we hear of another shutdown or “pause” due to a positive COVID-19 test from someone...
by Windy Borman | May 10, 2021 | DVA Productions Blog, Founder's Note, LinkedIn Posts, Media Productions Blog
We celebrated the digital release of “Mary Janes: The Women of Weed” on AppleTV, Google Play, Vudu and Vimeo with a Virtual Red Carpet Event in April 2021. In another time, we would have celebrated with an in-person event; however, the on-going COVID-19 pandemic made...
by Windy Borman | Mar 2, 2021 | DVA Productions Blog, LinkedIn Posts, Media Productions Blog
I’ve been reflecting on allyship recently. For me, allyship is an active state, not a passive one, and it requires listening, learning, and re-learning. This year, Women’s History Month takes on new meaning for me as we have already seen several women make history in...
