First-Ever Winners of the Lifetime Movie Network Student Filmmaker Competition to...

First-Ever Winners of the Lifetime Movie Network Student Filmmaker Competitionto be Saluted at the 2007 Women in Entertainment Power 100 Breakfast, Hostedby Lifetime Networks and The Hollywood Reporter, Tuesday, December 4 in LosAngelesFIRST PLACE 'ANNA' FILM WILL MAKE ITS WORLD PREMIERE ON LIFETIME MOVIE NETWORKTUESDAY, DECEMBER 11

NEW YORK, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Two outstanding young artists, LilianaGreenfield-Sanders of New York City and Jessica Marie Sutherland of Berea,Ohio, the first-ever winners of the Lifetime Movie Network Student FilmmakerCompetition, will be stepping into the industry spotlight when they arehonored at the star-studded 2007 Women in Entertainment Power 100 Breakfast,hosted by Lifetime Networks and The Hollywood Reporter, on Tuesday, December 4in Los Angeles.

Lifetime Movie Network, The Hollywood Reporter, New York Women in Film &Television (NYWIFT), The William Morris Agency and Women In Film Los Angelessponsored the national competition, designed to encourage and discover thenext generation of female filmmakers.

Said Louise Henry Bryson, Executive Vice President/General Manager,Lifetime Movie Network: "Lifetime Movie Network is the #2 women's network,second only to Lifetime, and the channel has been experiencing a surge inratings. So we're already the home for women who watch movies, but we alsowant to be the home for women who make movies. The Lifetime Movie NetworkStudent Filmmaker Competition is critical to fostering and inspiring suchtalented women like Liliana and Jessica and we are proud to be showcasingtheir incredible work."

Greenfield-Sanders' first place film "Anna," about a peculiar young womanwho struggles to connect with the people she encounters in the East Village ofNew York City, will make its world premiere on Lifetime Movie Network onTuesday, December 11, and will also be shown on www.lmn.tv.Her first film, "Ghosts of Grey Gardens," premiered at the Tribeca FilmFestival in 2005. It has also been screened at the Museum of Modern Art andmade its television debut on PBS in 2006.

She currently attends NYU's Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Program inFilm.

Sutherland is a Master's student at the University of SouthernCalifornia's School of Cinematic Arts. "Seven Turn," her first-ever film, isbased on Jessica's memory of her own seventh birthday party, the same day herfather died.

Both films were screened during a reception, honoring them and other womenfilmmakers, at the 2007 Hamptons International Film Festival on October 20.

An elite panel of producers, directors, executives and actors from theHollywood community, including Lauren Shuler Donner, prolific producer of hitssuch as the "X-Men" movies and "You've Got Mail"; Gale Anne Hurd, producer ofbox office favorites like "The Terminator" movies; Mimi Leder, veterandirector of television series like "ER" and "L.A. Law"; actress and producerJennifer Lopez; and Catherine Olim, Managing Director of PMKHBH PublicRelations, assessed nearly 70 short films produced by female film studentsfrom across the country. The contest was open to all female film students,including executive producers, producers, writers, cinematographers andeditors.

In 2006, women comprised 15 percent of all directors, executive producers,producers, writers, cinematographers and editors working on the top 250domestic-grossing films. This is the same percentage of women employed inthese roles in 1999 and represents a decline of 2 percentage points from 2005.

(The Celluloid Ceiling: Behind-the-Scenes Employment of Women on the Top 250Films of 2006).

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