Well I have been for a while, but today I am referring to a tweet I got :)
I uploaded another Bid for Venice video in which I come out to Team Venice and had the wonderful fortune of being on-line today when Crystal was waiting for her plane. I tweeted her the link, believing that she probably wouldn't check it out and certainly no respond it even if she did... but oh how I was wrong! Perhaps I should not be so astonished? After all Crystal and Co. have been nothing short of amazing when it comes to interacting with us fans. They really seem to care. They listen, they play along with us, they watch our tribute videos and enjoy them!
This sort of involvement with the fans is something I've never experienced before. The mere fact that I can log on to twitter and know that I can contact them directly - ask a question, send a link or show my utter admiration has been a revelation to me. After all, as you will find out in my latest vid, I come from little 'ole New Zealand, those wee islands all the way down to the south, four hours from Australia, twelve from LA and a whole day away from the UK. The physical isolation has meant that the stars I grew up watching were always distant and far away. The easy way in which people could, for example, hop over to the Vegas event happening next weekend and meet their favourite stars has always been, until now, a surreal, non-relevant experience for me. It just doesn't happen in my world. (to steal a GL quote...)
But now it IS happening. Through the unbelievably generous nature of Team Venice we have been given the opportunity of going along for the Venice ride. They've asked our opinions, they've shared photos, they've encouraged music and logo submissions. They've titillated us (see how I slipped that one in, Crystal?) with V panty pics and through all this become the nucleus of a warm and loving fan community. I am bowled over.
Crystal's tweet epitomises that to me. She not only watched my video but she took the time to tweet me back with "love u, adorable". This woman who has been on my TV screen for two decades, one of those untouchable, somewhere out there actresses is now immediate and accessible. And to that I say THANK-YOU Crystal and THANK-YOU Team Venice. You are a gift.
Now I'm gonna slink over to my corner and squeeeee like the fan girl that I am... OMG she said 'love u'!!!!!!! I'm so totally CHAPELLED!!!!!
Sunday 29 November 2009
Tuesday 24 November 2009
Venice brings it!
I was perusing the V Community the other day when I came across this article from the wonderful Women and Hollywood blog which talks about the invisible glass ceiling women face in the industry.
Wow. It spoke. Really spoke to me. I felt a great sense of frustration at the truths she raised and I feel it keenly because I am in the industry and as an actor see how women are marginalised. If you read my post from the 23.10.09 about the event I went to for Women in Film and Television, you will see that the statistics have women with half the number of roles as men. It certainly isn’t as bad as the statistic that men are twenty times more likely to direct a film, but it still stands out as revoltingly unbalanced. To that you also have to add a number of other factors into the equation – namely that there are vastly more female than male actors and that when there are roles for women, they are often stereotyped as the love interest, hot girl, girlfriend, mother, wife etc. and generally regaled to supporting roles, lacking in dimension or interest beyond their relationship to the male character.
The saddest thing is this seeming lack of support from other women. Men support each other, why can’t we? Are we somehow programmed to see women as rivals? Why is it that it is women who are the most critical of women as discussed in this article. Why is it that we expect men to be good but are surprised when women are. Can’t we champion each other, encourage each other to rise above the glass ceiling?
All this makes me appreciate just what Venice is doing and what it represents. I said it before but I’ll say it again, this series is groundbreaking. Really. The mere fact that it’s creative team is made up of women, that it’s women centric, that it has women over 35… It makes me want to pimp the frack out of this thing, because I want this to be a success. I want the effort put in to reap rewards, to be viable and to make a statement that women in film and TV can bring it!
Venice is not accepting donations, so I bought my V merchandise and instead will donate to Ela Their’s project. To whoever is reading this out there – I hope that you will support Venice the Series. Please join the V community for free at http://www.venicetheseries.com/ because ultimately we have the power over whether this series will continue...
Wow. It spoke. Really spoke to me. I felt a great sense of frustration at the truths she raised and I feel it keenly because I am in the industry and as an actor see how women are marginalised. If you read my post from the 23.10.09 about the event I went to for Women in Film and Television, you will see that the statistics have women with half the number of roles as men. It certainly isn’t as bad as the statistic that men are twenty times more likely to direct a film, but it still stands out as revoltingly unbalanced. To that you also have to add a number of other factors into the equation – namely that there are vastly more female than male actors and that when there are roles for women, they are often stereotyped as the love interest, hot girl, girlfriend, mother, wife etc. and generally regaled to supporting roles, lacking in dimension or interest beyond their relationship to the male character.
The saddest thing is this seeming lack of support from other women. Men support each other, why can’t we? Are we somehow programmed to see women as rivals? Why is it that it is women who are the most critical of women as discussed in this article. Why is it that we expect men to be good but are surprised when women are. Can’t we champion each other, encourage each other to rise above the glass ceiling?
All this makes me appreciate just what Venice is doing and what it represents. I said it before but I’ll say it again, this series is groundbreaking. Really. The mere fact that it’s creative team is made up of women, that it’s women centric, that it has women over 35… It makes me want to pimp the frack out of this thing, because I want this to be a success. I want the effort put in to reap rewards, to be viable and to make a statement that women in film and TV can bring it!
Venice is not accepting donations, so I bought my V merchandise and instead will donate to Ela Their’s project. To whoever is reading this out there – I hope that you will support Venice the Series. Please join the V community for free at http://www.venicetheseries.com/ because ultimately we have the power over whether this series will continue...
Monday 16 November 2009
I've been Turrisied...
So it doesn't work quite as well as "Chappelled", but the blood that suddenly lept to my face is just receeding, leaving me feeling like I've just had a hot flush. What on earth has Kim Turrisi done to caused me to react in such a way? I recieved a tweet. Yes indeedy, I got a tweet from the writer of the Venice the Series and I had a sudden shot adrenaline jump through my system, ensuring that I won't be going to sleep any time soon. It's not my first tweet from her, I did send her love one day and was utterly surprised when I recieved a reply. But that is beside the point. About 40 minutes ago I send the following tweet.
@KimmyT22 yay, you're on. Have you seen this? http://bit.ly/3gqrkI
To which I got the reply:
@bidforvenice we loved it!!!
Did my heart just skip a beat, did my breath just catch, did the blood rush to my face, did my very cells start to viabrate at a higher frequency? Oh yes. So step one complete my friends, I have officially got them to look at my vid. And they "loved it !!!" (On a side note I love the use of three exclamation marks. There seems to be something auspicious about the number 3...)
But I hardly think that is the end of that. No. I have a number of videos lined up for the next few weeks, including a trip to Paris. I hope my efforts will convince them to invite me over to Venice Beach, CA for the filming of season two!
Meanwhile talking of pimping, I will certainly be at First Out Cafe on Saturday to meet the other UK street team members and if they are happy to, I'll be making a vid about that experience. We'll be looking at how to pimp the series over here.
You'll have to excuse my rather fragmented blog, I'm clearly been mentally affected by that tweet...
Ok, so focus. I actually wanted to explain why I haven't blogged in about 3 weeks. The reason being that I got my previous blog entry up on WFTV site and they linked the whole blog, not the individual post. Not wanting to sabotage the chance of getting some potential viewers to hear about Venice, I decided best to leave the blog alone but then I got Turrisied and well... that all just fell to the way side. I'm so easy. But that doesn't mean that I have not been doing anything... I have been posting vids on my YouTube channel and contacting different magazines and websites to tell them about Venice (links found on my website)
Last but certainly not least in about 2 hours the trailer for Venice will be up here!!!! Can I squeeeeeee any more with excitement?! I made a point of letting DIVA mag (the leading lesbian mag in the UK) know about it. Looking forward to hearing that they'll do a cover on Venice.
xAnita
@KimmyT22 yay, you're on. Have you seen this? http://bit.ly/3gqrkI
To which I got the reply:
@bidforvenice we loved it!!!
Did my heart just skip a beat, did my breath just catch, did the blood rush to my face, did my very cells start to viabrate at a higher frequency? Oh yes. So step one complete my friends, I have officially got them to look at my vid. And they "loved it !!!" (On a side note I love the use of three exclamation marks. There seems to be something auspicious about the number 3...)
But I hardly think that is the end of that. No. I have a number of videos lined up for the next few weeks, including a trip to Paris. I hope my efforts will convince them to invite me over to Venice Beach, CA for the filming of season two!
Meanwhile talking of pimping, I will certainly be at First Out Cafe on Saturday to meet the other UK street team members and if they are happy to, I'll be making a vid about that experience. We'll be looking at how to pimp the series over here.
You'll have to excuse my rather fragmented blog, I'm clearly been mentally affected by that tweet...
Ok, so focus. I actually wanted to explain why I haven't blogged in about 3 weeks. The reason being that I got my previous blog entry up on WFTV site and they linked the whole blog, not the individual post. Not wanting to sabotage the chance of getting some potential viewers to hear about Venice, I decided best to leave the blog alone but then I got Turrisied and well... that all just fell to the way side. I'm so easy. But that doesn't mean that I have not been doing anything... I have been posting vids on my YouTube channel and contacting different magazines and websites to tell them about Venice (links found on my website)
Last but certainly not least in about 2 hours the trailer for Venice will be up here!!!! Can I squeeeeeee any more with excitement?! I made a point of letting DIVA mag (the leading lesbian mag in the UK) know about it. Looking forward to hearing that they'll do a cover on Venice.
xAnita
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