Our Mission
Every September thousands of bright, ambitious young women head off to college. 1 in 3 will be sexually assaulted. I know this because of numerous studies and my own experience. Too many of my friends’ daughters and my daughter’s friends have been sexually assaulted.
Sexual assault shouldn’t be a rite of passage – young men and women should be able to become intimate and sexual without hurting one another. And I know that by making a narrative film with students about students for students, we can open this conversation about sex and intimacy and boundaries and respect and help us make change at the level it needs to be made – in those dark rooms, one on one.
Partnering with Colleges
Stage 1
Colleges across the United States are supplying student interns to help us research the issues and do the groundwork for our production.
Stage 2
We will partner with a college in the New York area which will supply locations for our shoot and student interns to fill out our professional cast and production departments. We will hold workshops on campus.
Stage 3
When our film is finished, part of our distribution will include a tour of colleges and high schools, in conjunction with our placement on a streaming platform.
Our Team
Elizabeth Page
Producer/Writer/Director. Plays include Spare Parts (produced by Olympia Dukakis at Whole Theatre and Off B'way at Circle in the Square Downtown where it was nominated for a John Gassner Award), The Nazi Plays (Denver Theatre Centre's US West Theatrefest) and Aryan Birth (Best Short American Plays) which brought her into Television where she won six Emmy Awards and three Writers' Guild Awards and fell in love with the camera which took her to film school where she made lots of shorts and then started making low budget commercials for B'way plays and web pieces for artists such as Melba Moore. Ms. Page is also the Founder and Director of From Script to PreProduction, a lab for women filmmakers.
S.Casper Wong
Creative Producer. Casper is an award-winning New York-based filmmaker, technology lawyer, social entrepreneur, activist and Founder/CEO of OO Media. Her documentary feature debut, The LuLu Sessions, has won 10 international awards and nominations in every major category and premiered on PBS’s World Channel as part of the America ReFramed Documentary Series. She received a Humanitarian Award from the SASS Foundation for Medical Research along with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in recognition for her film’s social impact on the emotional complexities of breast cancer. She has directed and produced co-productions in China since 2005 and most recently, serving as the studio executive for Roger Corman's first co-production with China, culminating in a China-wide release of the Palace of the Damned in November 2017.
Allison Vanore
Consulting Producer. Feature film credits include award-winning films 42 SECONDS OF HAPPINESS, DADDY, and LOVE IN THE TIME OF MONSTERS and THE RAINBOW EXPERIMENT which just premiered at Slamdance. Allison serves as Head of Production at Canvas Media Studios. She is an Emmy-nominated producer of StyleHaul's revenge-filled drama VANITY. Outside of Canvas, Allison's series credits include PRODUCING JULIET, ANYONE BUT ME, and MY GIMPY LIFE and most recently WHATTA LARK on Revry TV, and launching this April, AFTER FOREVER. Allison is published in the book "Thriving in Hollywood!: Tenacious Tales & Tactics from Ms. In The Biz."
Eun-ah Lee
Cinematographer. Eun-ah expresses the core emotion of every story through her atmospheric style and dazzling camera work. Born and raised in Seoul, Korea, she attended NYU Tisch School of the Arts in directing and cinematography where she began developing her filmic style by incorporating her cultural background and artistic training into her work. To date she has shot more than 50 films. She is known for her work on "Blackbird" starring Oscar winner Mo'Nique, released theatrically on IMAX and featured on CNN, "A Song Still Inside", winning the Best Cinematography Award at the Gene Art Film Festival in New York, Milcho Manchevski’s "Thursday", which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, and "Sea Is All I Know", starring Melissa Leo, which was an Oscar semi-finalist. Her works have screened worldwide, including at the Cannes, Sundance, Venice, Pusan, Hong Kong and Los Angeles film festivals.
Avanti Adhia
Advisor. Avanti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing at the University of Washington in Seattle. She received her doctorate in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University. The goal of her research is to prevent interpersonal violence by (1) understanding its causes and consequences and (2) evaluating the role of laws, policies and interventions in reducing violence. She uses multiple, interdisciplinary methods to examine the social and structural determinants of intimate partner violence and sexual violence, primarily among adolescents and young adults. She is an interdisciplinary researcher committed to conducting research that promotes social justice, maximizes human well-being, and engages communities to enhance the health of marginalized populations. As an undergraduate, Avanti was a peer advocate and peer educator at her campus rape crisis/anti-violence support center at Columbia University and worked to improve the school's sexual assault policy as a member of the President's Advisory Committee on Sexual Assault. She also served on a rape crisis hotline for several years on a Boston area hotline.
Jennifer Wenderoth-Holster
Advisor. Jennifer has spent the last 8 years working in the field of victims’ rights where she specializes in sexual violence, domestic violence, and stalking. She has developed and coordinated outreach and educational programs in the community, local schools and universities; worked alongside law enforcement, court officials, and other agencies; and trained numerous professionals on best practices. Jennifer has helped to create and update policies, procedures, and protocols in prevention and in response to violence at schools. In addition to offering crisis counseling to survivors, Jennifer provided advocacy to those receiving an evidence collection kit at the hospital, making their statement with the police, and going through the court proceedings. Jennifer has given testimony on 6 bills that are current laws and holds specialized crisis counseling certifications in the area of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence. Jennifer’s organization, Let It Be Heard, offers education and prevention programing along with motivational speaking engagements.