Written by Noelle Ashley
Photographed by Krisztina Fazekas
Donna Leftwich and June Ottinger
Noelle Ashley
To celebrate the Tribeca Film
Festival, the Women's Film Preservation Fund hosted
a Friday night party in the FIP Lounge at 13 Laight
Street, New York, New York.
Industry insiders mingled over hors d'oeuvres with
the goal of the WFPF in mind: to preserve the cultural
legacy of women. In the last decade,
the group has raised the financial resources to
preserve seventy-five films (shorts and features). The
oldest films date back to the early teens, including
Alice Guy Blache's A Fool and His Money (1912),
one of the first films with an all-African-American
cast.
The organization is the only one of its kind.
It was founded in 1995 by New York Women in Film
and Television in conjunction with the Museum of
Modern Art. On June 9, the Museum of Modern
Art will hold screenings for six preserved films
by women, shot in 16mm and 35mm.
