Story Tellers, Story Finders, All Screens
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id=ieooui></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">In 2000, Beverly Kopf left her job as head writer of ABC’s The View, where she was responsible for developing the smart off-the-cuff voice of “Hot Topics,” to create TVGals Media with her partner, filmmaker Bobbie Birleffi. Since then, these Emmy-award winning filmmakers have completed numerous non-fiction projects including <i>Be Real: Stories from Queer America</i>, broadcast on Logo and screened in festivals around the country, including the Sundance Film Festival in 2006. Birleffi has garnered an Emmy, a Peabody, an </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">IDA</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"> Award of Distinction and a DGA nomination for her long roster of television and film work, which includes the documentaries <i>Is Anyone Home on the Range</i>, <i>The Mormons: Missionaries to the World</i> and an episode of the acclaimed PBS series Frontline, <i>Men Who Molest</i>. Kopf has also won an Emmy award for writing The View, as well as a GLAAD Media Award for a Barbara Walters' segment on Matthew Shepherd. Previously she conceived, booked wrote and produced hundreds of cultural and issue-oriented segments for a variety of talk and magazine shows. Her autobiographical essay, “Oy Vay the Kids are Gay,” was published in </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">an anthology entitled <i><span style="">Mentsh</span></i>.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;">So, what does the “TV” in TVgals stand for, asks Meredith Vieira, co-host of The Today Show and Millionaire? 1) Television; 2) Talent and Vision; 3) Two Vaginas are better than one. Her answer: All of the above. </span></p>