Executive Producer and Actor Trish Appello and Peabody and Emmy Award Winning Filmmaker Rita Coburn

🎙️ This week on The NYWIFT Podcast, we’ll hear from visionaries in comedy and documentary
🔥 Executive Producer and Actor Trish Appello shatters Invisible Woman Syndrome with The EffYou 50s series, a comedy that embraces midlife as the boldest era yet
🏛️ Peabody and Emmy Award-winning Director, Writer, and Producer Rita Coburn’s documentary W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause explores the life and legacy of notable Black scholar and civil rights pioneer
🏆 Hosts Penni Malloy-Harper and Catherine Woo spotlight the upcoming Tribeca Festival, New York African Film Festival, Met Gala, and the Academy Awards’ new AI-related rules
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NEWS
The 25th Tribeca Film Festival (tribecafilm.com)
The Met Gala (vogue.com/tag/event/met-gala)
The 33rd New York African Film Festival (filmlinc.org/festivals/new-york-african-film-f…)
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (imdb.com/title/tt33612209)
Tony Nominations (tonyawards.com/nominees)
The Oscars and AI (apnews.com/article/oscars-new-rules-artificial…)

GUESTS
Trish Appello: The EffYou 50s (trishappello.com/theeffyou50s)
Rita Coburn (ritacoburn.com)
Rita Cobrun: W.E.B. DuBois: Rebel With A Cause (ritacoburn.com/web-du-bois)

NYWIFT
NYWIFT Masterclass: Navigating Reinvention with Carolyn Michelle (nywift.org/events/#event=53f23cefd7d8262004fad…) | May 12, 19, and 26 | Virtual
Mergers, Defunding, and Public Media! Oh, My! - Examining the Future of the U.S. Media Landscape (nywift.org/events/#event=6fa29e2bab864a6ed8dd0…) | May 21 | Los Depressos Studio
NYWIFT Partners for Film Fatales Artist Connection NYC Spring Social (eventbrite.com/e/film-fatales-nyc-artist-conne…) | May 29 at Museum of the Moving Image
The New Works Lab Annual Reading (nywift.org/new-works-lab-2-2) | May 20 | Pen & Brush

Socials
Trish Appello: IG: @TheEffYou50s (instagram.com/theeffyou50s) / Facebook: The EffYou 50s (facebook.com/profile.php?id=61565932021618&…)
Rita Coburn: IG: @IAmRitaCoburn (instagram.com/iamritacoburn) / LinkedIn:Rita Coburn (linkedin.com/in/rita-coburn-0a363b23)
Penni Malloy-Harper: IG: @Pennbrookconsultingcorp (instagram.com/Pennbrookconsultingcorp) / X: @PennbrookConsu1 (x.com/PennbrookConsu1)
Janine McGoldrick: IG: @2nchapterprod (instagram.com/2ndchapterprod)
Catherine Woo: IG: @kate.anne.woo (instagram.com/kate.anne.woo) / LinkedIn: CatherineAWoo (linkedin.com/in/catherineawoo)
NYWIFT: Instagram:⁠⁠ @NYWIFT⁠⁠ (instagram.com/nywift) / Twitter/X⁠⁠ @NYWIFT⁠⁠ (twitter.com/NYWIFT) / #NYWIFT
🎵 Special thanks to⁠ Elspeth Collard⁠ (elspethcollard.com), the creator of our podcast theme song