Workshops & Special Activates FREE For Members Included:
- Workshop: Writers of the L word
- Seminar with the L word creators
- Workshop: literary agents, directors
  agents and below the line agents,
- Workshop: Female DP's-
- Workshop: Lesbian Films, What's in
  the Pipeline 
- the art & craft of Pitching
- the art & craft of Networking
- the art & craft of Directing
- the art & craft of Screenwriting
- the art & craft of Film Festivals
- the art & craft of Life Coaching
- Casting Directors ‘meet and greet’
- Pitching to a Production Company
- Introduction to Talent Agent
- Introduction to Book Publisher
- Literary Manager solicited screenplays
- Los Angeles Launch Party
- New York Launch Party
- Chicago Launch Party – in Sept. 2002
- Positions on the crew, from Producer to
  PA, of all grant winning films


Other Events POWER UP has provided members access have included

The Premieres of Showtime's "Queer as Folk," " More Tales of the City,"" A Girl Thing"
Intimate dinners with Sharon Gless, Hal Sparks, Scott Lowell and Helen Mirren & Taylor Hackford.
Panel discussion “Where the girls are” a look a lesbian roles in TV and Film - Co-sponsored
MAKING MOVIES: what it takes, how it is done and who does what...

Industry guests and participants have included:

Lucy Mukerjee,Patrick Baca, Lisa Thrasher, Kelly Evans, Angela Robinson, Joan Sobel, Midge Sanford, Sarah Pillsbury, Jane Berliner, Leslie Belzberg, Effie Brown, Andrea Sperling, Forrest Murray, Lee Rose, Jamie Babbit, Nicole Conn, A. Rosser Goodman, Joanne Linville, Denny Sevier, Jan Oxenberg, Mary Kuyrla, Jeanie Ellis, Cara Coslow, Lindsay Chag, Patrick Baca. Ken Greenblatt of Genesis Literary Agency, Matt Altman and Amy Retzinger of Gersh Agency and Pat Quinn and Jonathan Silverman of Paradigm Agency. Showtime executive Cindy Bell, L Word executive producer and creator Ilene Chaiken, writers Guinevere Turner, Angela Robinson, Ellie Herman, and actress Jennifer Beals, Mia Kirshner, Leshia Hailey.  Lisa Wiegand, Amy Vincent A.S.C. and Nancy Schriber A.S.C Trish Doolan writer/director April's Shower, Roberta Munroe, Programmer Sundance Film Festival and IFP Los Angeles Film Festival; Lydia Marcus, Senior Film Critic Frontiers Magazine and entertainment journalist; Kirsten Schaffer Director of Programming Outfest, Laura Nix director Politics of Fur

POWER UP has FIRST LOOK DEAL - GET your short on LOGO!

POWER UP has entered into a one year First Look deal with LOGO network for the acquisition of Short films. “Logo was extremely impressed with the quality and talent of the POWER UP filmmakers” said Maureen Guthman, Vice-President of Acquisitions & Co-Productions, Vh1, CMT & Logo. “We are very pleased to be able to have these films on our network.” Guthman has already acquired many of the POWER UP shorts that will play over the next month on The Click List: Best in Short Films which airs every Thursday at 10pm est. It airs the same time on the East and West coast unless you have Satellite then it would be three hours behind, so it would air at 1am. (HOWEVER on Direct TV in LA it airs at 7pm).

The Click List: Best in Short Film goes in search of the next Joel Schumacher and John Cameron Mitchell with this collection of short films. Each film will be presented in its entirety, supplemented with brief filmmaker bios, their influences, and some techniques; further detail will be available at LOGOonline. Also at LOGOonline, viewers will rate each film, and at the end of the season the winning films will be announced on the air and online. POWER UP shorts included are BILLY’S DAD IS A FUDGEPACKER, D.E.B.S., STUCK, MEMOIRS OF AN EVIL STEPMOTHER, GETTING TO KNOW YOU, DANI & ALICE, PROMTROVERSY and LITTLE BLACK BOOT.

During the term, POWER UP shall supply to Logo on an exclusive first look basis: completed short films, short film concepts owned and/or controlled by POWER UP, and short films concepts that can be developed into a series or special.

Send a dvd of your short film to: POWER UP
419 N. Larchmont Blvd. #283, LA CA 90004