with Jan Lisa Huttner
Jan Lisa Huttner, has a BA from St. John’s College and Masters degrees in Psychology from both Harvard and the University of Chicago. She is the managing editor of FILMS FOR TWO: The Online Guide for Busy Couples, a website (in collaboration with her husband) devoted to promoting films of interest to both male and female audience members, and she is AAUW-Illinois’ Director of International Relations. In 2004 she became the coordinator of a new AAUW-Illinois initiative called WITASWAN (Women in the Audience Supporting Women Artists Now) to mobilize consumer support for women filmmakers.
Jan writes film reviews both online and in print, interviews filmmakers (with an emphasis on female filmmakers), writes regular columns for Chicago’s JUF News and The Digital Filmmaker, and is a popular speaker addressing groups on the subject of women in the film industry, including the “celluloid ceiling” which she will define for us in her presentation. She is a member of the Association for Women Journalists, the Chicago Area Women’s History Council, the Chicago Film Critics Association, the Illinois Woman’s Press Association, and Hadassah's AGAM chapter. She has received awards from several of these groups for her work.
Jan is passionate about films, she likes good films, by all sorts of filmmakers, not just by women. But she also has the ability to show us that the female vision is way beyond “chick flicks” bringing us expanded views of the human condition, the human voice, and the human vision. Why not see more rather than less of what it is to be human?
Using "The Devil Wears Prada" as a case study, Jan gave us some background on women in the film industry, showed a short film of how Prada made it to the big screen, and after discussing this and her interview with the wife/husband director duo of "Little Miss Sunshine," allowed us time to ask our own questions.
See below images of this great presentation.
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