Being Geek Chic is a blog about one woman navigating the male-dominated industries of production and tech. It's written by Elizabeth Giorgi, Founder, CEO and Director of Mighteor - one of the world's first internet video production companies. Learn more about Mighteor here.
Little girls are great. I don’t need to tell you that. But sometimes I feel they are kind of left out of our cultural conversations. Whether it be about who watches media. Or who plays video games. Or who is smarter in school. None of it really matters. The truth is: little girls are the best.
Stories like these fill my heart, because they capture that very thing:
Lucy and the Limbs by Edlyn Capulong
In the Beginning by Arthur Metcalf
The Girl and the Fox by Base14
If that 11 minutes or so of short storytelling didn’t cheer up your Monday, I’m of no use to you! And if it did, well brilliant. Because we need to see more stories featuring the minds of little girls.
Friends! Good things are afoot. If you live in the Twin Cities or plan to be visiting in the near future, please do me a solid and go check out my film while it’s screening at the Walker Art Center!
Tidal Wave Girls is a project I completed in 2013 and was lucky enough to see it featured on The Huffington Post and Jezebel. Now, it’s playing as part of a showcase at our wonderful modern art museum. It will be playing now through February 27th. You can check out showtimes and read about the other films playing as part of the showcase here.
If you can’t make it to the museum, but want to see it on your television screen, you are also in luck. The film will be playing January 19th at 9 PM on TPT MN Channel 2. Rebroadcast times can be found here.
And of course, you can just watch the darned thing by clicking play above. But you know… it’s still exciting to see it in a theater or on your telly.
Today’s a big day for me. Why? Because I’m premiering my newest film, Tidal Wave Girls. It’s a documentary short about the everyday feminist - the mothers, grandmothers, sisters, friends, teachers - who impart the lessons of life on their daughters and sons about real equality. When we set out to make this film, we thought the best people to tell us about women today and in the future are the young ladies who are about to become women and the young men they will work with, marry, befriend.
Watch Tidal Wave Girls now:
I am so excited to finally put this piece out into the world. It’s my firm belief that it’s those of us who don’t have fame and fortune that are changing the world. We are the ones who will define “women” in the next decade and century. But with this, we also have a responsibility to teach our young people what equality means. As the lovely Lachy points out, it’s important to teach young men the importance of women being intelligent and strong:
I asked him: “What kind of girl do you want to meet?”
He said: “A smart girl and a pretty girl.” A SMART girl, first.
It’s a testament to the women in his life. I bet they are a brilliant bunch.
I would be SO grateful and honored if you would share this short film with your family, friends, internet buddies and fellow bloggers. I made it for my mom, but I know there are millions of other moms that need to see it too.
Thanks, always, for your support. And thank you to the people that made this happen, in no particular order: Ann Aronson, Chris Gruszka, Jozef Conaway, Bill Magdalene, TJ Paulson, Allison O'Toole, Mollie Kjer, Vicki Bakk, Tish Watson and all the young ladies and gents who appeared in the piece and their families.
