She first started working with young women when she worked with Conservation International. There she worked with women in third world country helping them develop micro-enterprise opportunities. After returning to the United States she founded the "Girls Club Entertainment , LLC." She created this film production company to create films that will educate and active women and push them to transform culture.
One of her major films is "Miss Representation", which we watched in class. She made the film to give light to the misrepresentation of women and the under-representation of women in position of power in the media. Following the release of the film Siebel founded MissRepresentation.org, a non-profit social action campaign and media organization established to "shift people's consciousness, inspire individual and community action and ultimate transform culture."
One of her major films is "Miss Representation", which we watched in class. She made the film to give light to the misrepresentation of women and the under-representation of women in position of power in the media. Following the release of the film Siebel founded MissRepresentation.org, a non-profit social action campaign and media organization established to "shift people's consciousness, inspire individual and community action and ultimate transform culture."
One of her most recent film project is "The Invisible War" a documentary film about sexual assaults in the U.S Military. The film premiered in the Sundance Film Festival in 2012 and received the U.S. Documentary Audience Award. Apart from being a film which exposes those military sex crimes, displaying the women's struggles to rebuild their lives and fight justice, but the production team is equipped with a team that consist of eight women and six men.
With producing films like these and creating the company and organization she has created it is safe to say that Jennifer Siebel Newsom fits the theory of auteur as well as Maggie Humm belief of "a fresh and sophisticated span of feminist literary thought."(pg. 92)
Work Cited:
1. http://www.jennifersiebel.com/biography.html
2. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-siebel-newsom/
3. http://www.apbspeakers.com/speaker/jennifer-siebel-newsom
4. http://www.notinvisible.org/the_movie
5. http://invisiblewarmovie.com/filmmakers.php
6. http://youtu.be/1qxoqTO4Pic
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