Sunday, April 8, 2007

Hey Monie! this thursday 4/12/07


CHICKS MAKE FLICKS presents
Featuring Dorothea Gillim and her animated comedy series, Hey Monie
7:00 pm
M.I.T. Campus, 77 Mass Ave, Room 6-120, Cambridge

Women in Film & Video/New England (WIFV/NE) presents the fourth evening of this season's Chicks Make Flicks, the monthly screening and discussion series presenting work directed by local women filmmakers. Dorothea Gillim, producer at Watertown-based Soup2Nuts, will share her favorite episodes of Hey Monie, an animated comedy series about a single, professional black woman and her exploits in big-city America. Dorothea created this series for the Oxygen Network in 1999 and it went on to be the first animated series on BET.

Gillim will be present at the screening to introduce her work, and will stay for a post-screening discussion.

For more information, including film stills and interview opportunities, please contact the WIFV/NE office at info@womeninfilmvideo.org, or 781.788.6607
You can read an interview with Dorothea Gillim here in this Boston Phoenix article.


-sam smiley

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