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reframe, whose aim is to advance gender equity. keri putnam is a film executive and producer and the founder of putnam pictures. she served for 11 years as the ceo of the sundance institute, which runs the sundance film festival. prior to that, she worked as a senior executive at miramax and hbo. she is also the co—founder of reframe. welcome. thank you, its great to be here. stephanie allain is a film producer and writer and the newly elected co—president of the producers guild of...

and led by women in film and the sundance institute called reframe, whose aim is to advance gender equity. keri putnam is a film executive and producer and the founder of putnam pictures. she served for 11 years as the ceo of the sundance institute, which runs the sundance film festival. prior to that, she worked as a senior executive at miramax and hbo. she is also the co—founder of reframe. welcome. thank you, its great to be here. stephanie allain is a film producer and writer and...

tell us about what happened. well, that was a very early plot twist in my career. i was coming out of college and i was going to go work at a theatre, and i had a a friend who was working at hbo, which at that time was a very start—up network, a long time ago — pretty start—up network — and she said, "well, you are going to go work "in the theatre but there is some guy coming whos "going to be making plays for television on hbo. "you could maybe be his assistant," and so, i got...

to the women in film headquarters, where im joined by keri putnam and stephanie allain, two women who are working to reshape the industry. they are both part of an initiative founded and led by women in film and the sundance institute called reframe, whose aim is to advance gender equity. keri putnam is a film executive and producer and the founder of putnam pictures. she served for 11 years as the ceo of the sundance institute, which runs the sundance film festival. prior to that, she...

Programming on hbo in the �*80s was a woman, and she was an incredible force and very rare in that time, and she really set a clarity of what hbo stood for — what kind of stories. who was that? bridget potter. oh, yeah. and she has been written out of the history, actually. but actually, what i found out — i dont know if you found this — but i found a lot of my strongest mentors and supporters in my career have been peers. i think thats true, too. one of my peers — and i made more movi...