Feat. Eloise King, Taylor Rees and Barbara Kopple

The Rustic Theatre
Saturday 21st, September
11.00 – 12.00 AM

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We invite the four winners of The Move Mountains Filmmakers Grant to join us at WUTI goes IdyllWILD and meet their mentors! 

The Move Mountains Filmmakers Grant was created in partnership with The North Face to empower more women-driven films with a spirit of adventure. Each of the four filmmakers will be awarded 25K to make their films around the theme of exploration. Each grantee will be guided by a team of mentors experienced in different facets of filmmaking. The mentors will discus the pending film projects and offer insight through their own work and experience. This will be a fascinating conversation for filmmakers at all different levels and experiences. 

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BARBARA KOPPLE

Barbara Kopple is a two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker. A director and producer of narrative films, documentaries and commercial spots, her most recent project is the documentary “New Homeland”.

Barbara produced and directed “Harlan County USA” and “American Dream”, both winners of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Her other films include “A Murder In Mansfield”, “This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous”, “Miss Sharon Jones!”, “Running From Crazy”, “The House of Steinbrenner”, “Woodstock: Now and Then”, “Shut Up and Sing”, “Havoc”, “A Conversation with Gregory Peck”, “My Generation”, “Wild Man Blues”, “Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson”, for which she won a DGA Award for Outstanding Direction, and many more.  

Barbara directed the narrative feature “Havoc”, starring Anne Hathaway and written by Stephen Gaghan, about a group of wealthy teenagers coming of age and searching for an identity in Los Angeles. She also directs episodic television and commercial spots.  Her television work includes episodes of OZ on HBO and Homicide, for which she won a DGA Award for Outstanding Direction. Barbara has directed spots for companies such as Sprint, Applebee’s, Dove, Target, The Tiger Woods Foundation, Pearl Vision and the Children’s Defense Fund.

She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Director’s Guild of America, New York Women in Film and Television’s Honorary Board, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and actively participates in organizations that address social issues and support independent filmmaking.

ELOISE KING

Eloise is an award-winning director and executive producer telling powerful stories that foreground marginalized voices in mainstream and popular culture. Most recently, King was global executive producer at VICE, leading a multi-award-winning international TV & video team. Her titles include award nominated works “Gurls Talk with Adwoa Aboah” and “Pins and Needles”. King also founded Women on Docs, a UK & LA screening and event network celebrating the contribution of women to documentary film. She frequently acts as an industry panelist, advisor and juror for international film festivals and pitch forums.

TAYLOR REES

Taylor Rees is a documentary filmmaker, photojournalist, and avid adventurer. She is driven by an insatiable curiosity to explore and share stories beneath the surface to bring about greater understanding around resource conflicts, climate change, conservation, and human rights. She holds a Masters degree from Yale in environmental management and anthropology, giving her stories a rigorous scientific and social justice background. She has shot and directed doc films for clients including The North Face, National Geographic, and United Nations.