The award recognizes Amazing Gay Women who are working, creating and changing lives as they continue their way up the ladder of success. The recipients will receive their award at the 7th Annual Power Premiere Celebrity Gala November 11, 2007 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

“We are extremely proud of POWER UP’s many accomplishments and feel that including the 10 Amazing list allows us to recognize many more women in our community,” stated Lisa Thrasher, president of Film Production & Distribution.

“I’m inspired by the idea of inspiring others. This honor from
POWER UP encourages me to stay visible and keep pushing
against the grain,” said writer/director Lisa Cholodenko.

2007 Ten Amazing Gay Women in Showbiz…
In alphabetical order

Lisa Cholodenko Writer/Director
“High Art” premiered at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival “Laurel Canyon” premiered in 2003 at Cannes and Sundance she has directed for television including episodes of “Homicide: Life on the Street”, “Six Feet Under” and “The L Word.”

Cherien Dabis Writer/Co-Producer of Showtime Network’s The L Word
Short films “Make A Wish” screened at Sundance, Berlinale and Clermont-Ferrand, where it picked up the Press Prize and Jury’s Honorable Mention. Memoirs of An Evil Stepmother (2004) and Little Black Boot (2004), POWER UP Screenwriting grant Winner. She was also recently honored with the L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth Vision Award at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.

Tanya Grubich - President /founder of MyBroadway.com and TMG
The Marketing Group the premier, full-service marketing and communications firm specializing in Broadway, Pre-Broadway engagements, National Tours and the Performing Arts. Clients include Wicked, Mamma Mia!, Hairspray, Rent, Grey Gardens, Legally Blonde, Curtains, LA Phil, Reprise, Roundabout Theatre Company, Dance at The Music Center and the documentary film, ShowBusiness among many others.

Lori Kaye Writer/Producer/Director
Lori was Executive Producer of “Work Out,” (GLAAD Nominee) the first reality series to feature a lesbian as its star on Bravo Television. She also recently completed a stint as Executive Consulting Producer for the LOGO series “Curl Girls” about the lives and loves of a group of lesbian surfers. Lori was also Executive Producer of “The Ride: 7 Days To End AIDS,” Co-Executive Producer for the inaugural season of Emmy-nominated “Kathy Griffin: My D-List Life,” the first season of “Joe Millionaire”, and “American Princess.”

Danielle Knight currently serves as Director, Legal Affairs, Warner Bros. Television. In this capacity, she oversees legal matters pertaining to successful WBTV series such as “Two and a Half Men” and “Smallville”. She joined Warner Bros. Television in 2002, and prior to that worked at the law firm Business Affairs, Inc., where she handled transactional entertainment legal matters for clients such as HBO.

Amy M. Lesser Publisher/Event Producer
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of GO Magazine, the nations most widely distributed free lesbian publication. Launched in 2002, GO continues to provide coverage and support on a national scale to individuals as well as arts, entertainment and community organizations.

Jennifer Morris Director of Programming for Frameline Film Festival
In addition to programming the festival, she also manages the Frameline Film & Video Completion Fund, which annually awards $50,000 in grants to LGBT filmmakers. Jennifer is also active in the San Francisco music scene and regularly appears as DJ Junkyard.

Jenni Olson Director of e-commerce at WolfeVideo.com
Olson is one of the world’s leading experts on LGBT cinema history. Jenni established PlanetOut.com’s massive queer movie database, PopcornQ in 1995. Her debut feature, The Joy of Life (which received funding from POWER UP and premiered at Sundance in 2005) explores butch identity and the history of suicide and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Michelle Paradise Co-creator, Executive Producer, Writer, and Star “Exes & Ohs”
The series is based on her award-winning short, The Ten Rules. Michelle has written feature scripts, stage plays, and a pilot for Danny Jacobson’s (creator, Mad About You) company. As an actor, she’s appeared on stage and screen.

Lynn Whitney Senior Vice President, Worldwide Media Advertising, Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Home Video. Upon her promotion to this post in September 2005, she became Warner Bros. Entertainment’s first divisional executive with responsibilities extending over both home video and motion pictures.

Past recipients of the award include: director Jamie Babbit, Law & Order’s Wendy Battles, L word’s Ilene Chaiken, actress Jane Lynch, Showtime’s Gwen Marcus, Logo’s Eileen Opatut, writer/director Angela Robinson, actress Cherry Jones, Planet Out’s Jenny Stewart, Advocate’s Anne Stockwell, actress Jenny Shimizu, Rosie Lopez Head of Tommy Boy Records, director Rose Troche, and actress Guinevere Turner.