September Williams Bioethics Screen Reflections

25/04/2023

New Review of a great Film Wild Life

A Film by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. Review by September Williams/Bioethics Screen Reflections

29/01/2023

LIVING is an example of why brick and mortar movie theaters shall not parish from the Earth. South African Born Director Oliver Hermanus ' LIVING (2022), is an exquisite feature film. It gives us another view of the coexistence of classic bioethical principles in a state of tension. The

14/07/2021

See the link for trailers to Director Cedric O.Bannon, short films an Actbof Unity and Backlash — both of which are being submitted in the fall festival season.

September Williams is an American physician-writer, bioethicist and filmmaker. Her work focuses on promoting resilience for people who are ill, aging, dying, or stressed by environmental and humanitarian violation. She is a member of the National Writers Union(UAW local 1981/AFL-CIO), and an affilia...

04/03/2021

Belinda Hernández Arriaga and Veronica Castillo’s children’s picture book LOVE AND MONSTERS IN SOFIA’S LIFE is a bold and beautiful addition to the cannon of children’s literature. That boldness is in prose, art, and therapeutic concept. LOVE AND MONSTERS IN SOFIA’S LIFE acknowledges that...

30/11/2020

The Elephant in the Room: Bioethics Meets Breastfeeding Please join us for a live webinar with Dr. September Williams on December 4, 2020 from 10 AM to 12 PM. September Williams, M.D. is a physician-author, bioethicist, and filmmaker. Her fiction and nonfiction work wants to fuel

19/10/2020

https://youtu.be/WIbBnsZkXeU
Hi all you can see the film An Exercise in Empathy Executive Produced and directed by Cedric O'Bannon on You tube.

California State University-Chico (CSU) and the surrounding community remains profoundly affected by the death and destruction of the Camp Wildfire of 2018. ...

03/08/2020

SPLASH MOUNTAIN: INSENSITIVE FUN , Read and see this short film on the Curd Williams-Hertz blog, Unique Realms. As it happens, the entry includes a reference to a photograph of which I own a copy, and just finished hanging in the bathroom of my new apartment. It would seem an odd choice to those

13/05/2020

So wonderful to have Cedric O’Bannon document my visit to CSU Chico in February.

In the film AN EXERCISE IN EMPATHY producer-director and journalist, Cedric O’Bannon features September Williams, MD, Author, Bioethicist, immortalizing her, February 2020 Visit to CSU-Chico. The visit was co-hosted by the CSU Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the School of Nursing. The work h

22/03/2020

Did you fill out your census yet?

I very nearly forgot to fill out my household’s United States Census, amid the struggles around the SARS-CoVID19 pandemic. Maintaining social distance is designed to save lives—not to save money and it will do so—if people work hard to adhere to it during the rising phase of this viral epidemi...

16/03/2020

Hey Bay Area Creatives!!
As most of the world is shutting down due to self isolations and quarantine, we would like to extend an offer to anyone interested in participating in the Quarantine International Film Festival

10 Short films from around the globe will be selected to be uploaded to the QIFF Youtube Channel and promoted on social media. This is a "for fun" festival as a way to help people feel creatively fulfilled during isolation caused by COVID-19.

All Selected films and filmmakers will receive:
-Our official selection Laurel
-Promotion on all of the QIFF Social media Pages (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram)
-Uploaded onto our Youtube Channel on April 8th and added to our playlist

Have fun, and create! That's what is most Important!

Our rules are simple, but we ask people to take into consideration the events unfolding around them, and to obey all city and country bylaws and precautions. If it is recommended in your area to be isolated, film something at home with your smartphone or a we**am. If your area isn’t under these conditions, then make it with a few friends. Safety is key though, and we will be judging each submission based on how creative they were given their circumstances (So don’t worry about gathering a crew).

QIFF 2020 SPECIFICATIONS
Quarantine Intl Film Fest 2020 would like to thank you for your interest in our online film festival! This festival is low stakes, as in it's free for you and for us! Yay! To qualify you need to make a film using the resources around you (safely) and submit to us anytime before April 1st to be featured on our page and YouTube channel. We will tag the sh*t out of you and your team!

RULES
1. THEME : 'BEAR' OR 'BARE' - up to your interpretation. This is a prompt, you do not need to say the word in the film if you do not wish. And please no animal cruelty! (Obviously)

2. MUST BE 5 MIN OR UNDER

3. MUST INCLUDE A 30 SECOND (max) TRAILER FOR SOCIAL MEDIA

4. IF REPOSTED OR SHARED YOU MUST CREDIT (we will even make you a dumb laurel) 🤠
5. MUST BE PG-13 (no nudity, excessive swearing or violence)

6. ANY GENRE OR STYLE ACCEPTED (animation, short live action, documentary, experimental)

7. FILM WITH WHAT YOU'VE GOT! (Smart phone, we**am, DSLR, etc…) and use what you can! (Could be you by yourself, could be you and some friends, but be safe and do what is best for your situation).

8. Submissions open March 16th, 2020 and April 1st at 11:59pm is the DEADLINE, and submissions are FREE! We just want to see what you do!

9. Selected filmmakers will be notified by April 7th, 2020, and uploaded on April, 8th, 2020.

Happy Filming!

DISCLAIMER
*By submitting you agree that you are the exclusive copyright owner of your content, OR you have the express written right. You also agree to have your video published on our YouTube Channel, starting April 8th, 2020, as a part of your participation. You also acknowledge and agree that there is no monetary gain from participation in the festival, and this is exclusively for the joy and fun of creating and sharing. The festival may, in turn, promote your project via social media, and you consent to allow your likeness to be used for promotional purposes.*

Any questions can be sent to [email protected]

Submissions can be done through Film Freeway:

15/02/2020

Stop by and see us at the SFWriters Conference.

At the SF Writers Conference- National Writers Union exhibition table today. This Sunday Morning I will be be on the NWU panel at 9AM — check the conference schedule and join us!

16/10/2019

Benson Quach of Wong Fu Productions Invites you to SVAP FilmFest
Benson Quach of Wong Fu Productions invites you to attend the screening of Dating After College at the Silicon Valley Asian Pacific FilmFest, on November 2, 2019 at the CineArts Theater, Santana Row. Meet Benson and the other Wong Fu filmmakers at their Q&A session after the screening. Tickets: svapfilmfest.org/tickets

15/09/2019

this is one to watch—

15/09/2019

09/09/2019

This Sunday I'm at the California Writers Club - Come https://cwc-berkeley.org/2019/08/19/9-15-19-speaker-causes-cross-genres-with-september-williams/

30/08/2019

It's that time of the year and I'm starting to preview some of the films for this years MVFF -- the local filmmaker line up is absolutely marvelous!

: OCTOBER 7-17, 2021.

28/06/2019

Hi all, I’m delighted to be introducing my this year’s book THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM:BIOETHICAL CONCERNS IN HUMAN MILK BANKING to the independent book store community beginning at the guiding light of community based readers BOOK PASSAGE CORTE MADERA, on Saturday, AUGUST 3, 2019, at 4PM. Join

18/06/2019

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/declaration-human-rights/ 

25/05/2019

If you are interested in seeing When We Are Asked https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5866424/?ref_=m_nm_knf_i1
Send me a note at septemberwilliams.com and I will send you a vimeo link to the feature length documentary.

Directed by September Williams. When We Are Asked: About Crossing Over is a film that looks at end of life issues from the perspective of African Americans. In the proximity of death, though African Americans are at risk for worse deaths than others, we also reflect both heterogenous and universal t...

29/04/2019

John Singleton's family is speaking out after multiple online reports that he died. He was reportedly placed in a medically induced coma.

29/04/2019

Boarding my flight from Burbank, I flicked through my phone emails, finding that director Marshall Curry was available for interviews. It was a few weeks before the Academy of Film Arts and Science 2019 shindig. I had not seen Curry’s most recent film nor had I realized it was now also nominated f...

21/04/2019

Bioethics Screen Reflections supports the new series by director Sandra Rhimes https://abc.go.com/shows/for-the-people/about-the-show

The official For The People site on ABC offers a deeper look at the hit TV series with exclusive content and show information. You can watch full episodes of For The People free online.

14/04/2019

WORLDWIDE CASTING CALL: Showrunner/Writer/EP Eric Heisserer (Arrival, Birdbox) is looking for young BIRACIAL ASIAN ACTRESSES for THE LEAD ROLE of Alina Starkov for the Netflix TV adaptation of Leigh Bardugo's popular YA fantasy series SHADOW AND BONE (Grisha Trilogy). Talent must be 18 YEARS OR OLDER and be able to play TEEN.

If you wish to audition for ALINA only, send inquiries and/or submit your rep/contact info to:
[email protected]

SOURCE: twitter.com/HIGHzurrer/status/1116756495134101504

Learn more about the adaptation here: https://deadline.com/2019/01/netflix-orders-shadow-and-bone-series-leigh-bardugo-grishaverse-fantasy-novels-1202532783/

14/04/2019

September Williams, Director: When We Are Asked: About Crossing Over. September Williams is an American physician-writer, bioethicist and filmmaker.The romances and characters she writes exist in a realm punctuated by diversity,much as has her clinical practice and life. All of her work focuses on p...

05/04/2019

The international human rights lawyer will work to defend press freedom around the world.

31/03/2019

Bioethics Screen Reflections supports the new series
THE VILLAGE:
Its trying to do a lot and trying to to something! It’s taken the family drama ( ala THIS IS US meets PARENTHOOD) to a global level
in the device if a new your apartment building.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7866098/

Created by Mike Daniels. With Warren Christie, Michaela McManus, Lorraine Toussaint, Frankie Faison. Residents of a unique apartment building in Brooklyn build a bonded family of friends and neighbors.

31/03/2019

The new “Twilight” Premiering April 1st with director of “Get Out” at the helm. What an appropriate time to revisit Rod Serlings iconic sci-fi commentary on society and life as we know... cause the universe knows most of us wake up every morning these days asking “Are we in the twilight zone?”

https://apple.news/A8x_d8ZVwTxe4nd9jmjPlRw

A look at Rod Serling's classic science fiction, horror and fantasy anthology series, and its latest incarnation produced and hosted by Jordan Peele

12/03/2019

If you are a writer who is a member of a writer you have done your author's coalition survey this year. DOn't know what it is -- have a look.

Authors Coalition Survey NWU is a member organization of the Authors Coalition of America (ACA). ACA distributes non-author specific royalties collected by various reprographic rights organizations around the world, to member organizations in the US. It also distributes author specific royalties whe...

03/03/2019

Sharkwater and the International Ocean Film Festival, San FranciscoAction For SharksSave the WedgefishEngaging and Inspiring YouthEvents ---------------------------------------------------------------  Sharkwater Extinction Opens the International Ocean Film Festival, San Francisco with Shark Ste...

02/03/2019

Well, Netflix likely has the traditional studios shaking in their boots --they did make the best movie of the century--Roma.
They are a righteous force in the industry -- I do wonder about the whole means of production, means of distribution
and means of display in the anti-trust vein.

"Green Book" won Best Picture over "Roma," but a prevailing theory suggests it had everything to do with industry fears over Netflix.

02/03/2019

I had a great time with The Inner Typewriter author-host Scott Calhoun taping three episodes. He wanted to know how writers should think about bioethics. I used as an example EVENING AT THE GARDEN and some Prime Time TV shows. Please Follow, Share and Subscribe to the Inner Type Writer. W

24/02/2019

23/02/2019

‪Congrats CAAM fest on your continued support from the National Endowment for the Arts

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CAAM WILL RECEIVE A GRANT FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS TO SUPPORT CAAMFEST37 “CAAM is honored to continue to receive funding from the Nat...

23/02/2019

LOving MARIN TV -- you will too!

The Community Media Center of Marin (CMCM) strives to educate and advance the way residents, schools, and governments connect and strengthen our communities through media. CMCM operates Marin TV, Marin County's own non-commercial cable TV channels.