Filmmaker Kate Montgomery’s Palin Initiative

September 19, 2008 Jennifer Merin 1 Comment alliance of women film journalists, female critics, film criticism, film journalists, jennifer merin, Kate Montgomery, movie reviews, Planned Parenthood, Sarah Palin, women critics, women film critics, women film directors, women film journalists, women in film

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San Francisco-based Indie filmmaker Kate Montgomery (“Christmas In The Clouds,” 2001) suggests that we all make a small donation to Planned Parenthood–in the name of Sarah Palin. We can think of no better way to spend a dollar. Hey, we’d even forego our daily three buck Starbucks! If you want to participate, go to Planned Parenthood Website.

You’ll need to fill in the address to let Pay Pal know where to send the “in Sarah Palin’s honor” card. Kate suggests you use the address for the McCain campaign headquarters, which is:

McCain for President

1235 S. Clark Street

1st Floor

Arlington , VA 22202

Make sure to choose the pull down for of Donate–Honorary or Memorial Donations, not the regular “Donate Online.”

Thanks, Kate. This is really good filmanthropy.

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Jennifer Merin

Jennifer Merin is the Film Critic for Womens eNews and contributes the CINEMA CITIZEN blog for and is managing editor for Women on Film, the online magazine of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, of which she is President. She has served as a regular critic and film-related interviewer for The New York Press and About.com. She has written about entertainment for USA Today, The L.A. Times, US Magazine, Ms. Magazine, Endless Vacation Magazine, Daily News, New York Post, SoHo News and other publications. After receiving her MFA from Tisch School of the Arts (Grad Acting), Jennifer performed at the O'Neill Theater Center's Playwrights Conference, Long Wharf Theater, American Place Theatre and LaMamma, where she worked with renown Japanese director, Shuji Terayama. She subsequently joined Terayama's theater company in Tokyo, where she also acted in films. Her journalism career began when she was asked to write about Terayama for The Drama Review. She became a regular contributor to the Christian Science Monitor after writing an article about Marketta Kimbrell's Theater For The Forgotten, with which she was performing at the time. She was an O'Neill Theater Center National Critics' Institute Fellow, and then became the institute's Coordinator. While teaching at the Universities of Wisconsin and Rhode Island, she wrote "A Directory of Festivals of Theater, Dance and Folklore Around the World," published by the International Theater Institute. Denmark's Odin Teatret's director, Eugenio Barba, wrote his manifesto in the form of a letter to "Dear Jennifer Merin," which has been published around the world, in languages as diverse as Farsi and Romanian. Jennifer's culturally-oriented travel column began in the LA Times in 1984, then moved to The Associated Press, LA Times Syndicate, Tribune Media, Creators Syndicate and (currently) Arcamax Publishing. She's been news writer/editor for ABC Radio Networks, on-air reporter for NBC, CBS Radio and, currently, for Westwood One's America In the Morning. She is also a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association. For her AWFJ archive, type "Jennifer Merin" in the Search Box (upper right corner of screen).