Alexis Krasilovsky writes:

I’m looking forward to a special screening of my film “Women Behind the Camera” at the Yale Club of New York City on October 26 at 6 PM. Please come!

I am delighted to report that the shorter version of the film, titled “Shooting Women,” screened on September 14 at the Culture & Cultures Intercultural Film Festival in Soreze, France, followed by a panel discussion on sexuality and gender in cinema with the Australian filmmaker Denis Piel, the French filmmaker Liliane de Kermadec (“Le Murmure des Ruines”), the Scottish director of “Argentina in Therapy,” Serbian director Lidija Mirkovic and French casting director Francoise Combadiere-Stern and myself.   The film also screened at the Women Make Movies Film Festival at the Roxy Cinema in San Francisco, September 1, and at the International Women’s Film Festival in Rehovot, Israel on September 9.  “Shooting Women” has also been accepted by the Lady Bug Film Festival in Gothenburg, Sweden, October 9-11.

For more details, visit www.womenbehindthecamera.com.

Alexis also writes about her new work in progress:

Following the festival in Southern France, I flew to Paris, where I spent an arduous but productive week shooting my film, “Pastriology.”  With the help of Anouchka Walelyk—assistant, interviewer and translator par excellence—I filmed in some of the most elegant patisseries of Paris—Carl Marletti’s, and Eric Carasso’s Patisserie des Reves—as well as filming a Tunisian Jewish woman baking in her tiny apartment in the banlieux (the equivalent of our inner cities) and children drawing pictures of their favorite cakes in a neighborhood cake-making atelier—which will be intercut with children drawing pictures of their favorite sweets in Kolkata, India.

On September 24th, Anouchka and I took a train to Lilles, where Prof. Georges Vandalle, Chair of the Department of Tourism of the University of Lille, introduced us to Meert, one of the foremost patisseries in France, originally founded in 1761, and once the Official Supplier of His Majesty, Leopold I. The footage that we shot in their kitchens, patisserie and restaurant rivals what I shot in the baklava factories of Turkey, and I’m looking forward to editing it together with my footage from other countries with our editor, Katey Bright.

I also met with documentary filmmaker Emil Weiss, whose festival in Paris screened my film “Exile” many years ago. Emil has agreed to approach French television on behalf of the “Pastriology” project with the French version of our proposal (in progress).  The involvement of French television could enable us to get substantial funding from the Centre Nationale de la Cinematographie. Sanjoy Ghosh, our Co-Producer, is currently organizing upcoming shoots in India and Mexico.

For sample footage and more information on “Pastriology,” visit www.alexiskrasilovsky.com/pastriology.html.