Great Women of Film
Makeover Media spent two years working on Great Women of Film. This anthology, as told through the female lens, draws us into the timeline of how a film is made, by the individual experts whose talent, skills, and vision make the magic happen. The book is a series of deftly constructed interviews, accompanied by beautiful photographs. These top women in entertainment, many of whom are Academy Award nominees, including actors Joan Allen and Jody Foster, and costume designer Ruth Carter, who share their experiences and explain what they do.
We generated close to $200K in in-kind sponsorships, including a Lexus vehicle, film processing, locations, and free costume rentals. We also secured the book deal with Billboard. We garnered top media placements including Hollywood Reporter, Variety, LA Times, and a profile in Hasselblad Forum.
The book is a hybrid text on film studies, women’s studies, and careers in film, as well as a beautiful coffee table book. Beginning with a placement in Publishers Weekly, the Hollywood Reporter of the book trade, we worked on book signings that included Oscar® nominee Joan Allen and then-Sundance Channel President Larry Aidem, in conjunction with the Sundance Channel’s month long celebration of female filmmakers, “She Said Cinema,” at Borders Bookstore in New York City.
This two year project included a short “making of” documentary film, as well as an exhibition of the images taken to accompany the interviews, which were hung at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for an opening reception during Oscar week. Another result of this campaign was the opportunity to relaunch the authors’ previous project: Screenwriters: America’s Storytellers in Portrait, a stylish coffee table book. that reveals the hidden talent of the screenwriter behind Hollywood’s most famous films.
Linda Arroz
Makeover Media 