WMM Fall Webinar Series: Unlocking Your Creative Power

This Fall, join Women Make Movies for Unlocking Your Creative Power: Strategies to Fund, Build, and Lead Your Filmmaking Career, a dynamic webinar series designed to help independent artists and filmmakers elevate every aspect of their creative journey. Through expert-led sessions on resourcing your art for maximum impact, leveraging tax credits to fund your projects, and overcoming imposter syndrome to lead with confidence, you’ll gain practical tools and renewed inspiration to sustain your artistic vision. Each session offers actionable insights to help you thrive—creatively, financially, and personally—in today’s evolving media landscape.

By registering for this FREE series, you will have access to the three sessions below:

• Thursday, October 30 | 12pm EST – Making Art That Creates Impact with Simone Pero

Join Emmy-nominated impact producer Simone Pero, founder of For Impact Productions, for an empowering session designed for filmmakers who want their work to make a creative, commercial, and social impact. This session will help you create art that not only inspires—but makes a difference. 

Simone shares ideas on how to structure your project for maximum influence, build an ecosystem of support, and shift your mindset from the “isolated starving artist” to a supported and empowered changemaker. 

• Thursday, November 6 | 3pm EST – The 411 on Tax Credits with Fanshen Cox

Ready to unlock new funding opportunities for your film? Join Fanshen Cox — Founder of TruJuLo Productions, Co-Author of the Inclusion Rider, and DEIA Manager for the California Film Commission’s Tax Credit Program — for a powerful session that will break down how tax credits can help bring your project to life.

In this dynamic webinar, Fanshen breaks down everything you need to know about tax credits —what it is, how it works, and how to position your project for success. Come ready with

• DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED: How to Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Build the Career You Deserve with Kisha Imani Cameron

Are you ready to get to your next level of career success, without the pain and stress that you’ve become used to on the journey? Do you want to clear away perfectionism and the other negative thoughts that keep you stuck?

Join Kisha Imani Cameron, Film Producer & Executive Career Coach, where she shares her proven techniques to help artists overcome self-doubt, get unstuck, and unleash their full potential.

Emmy-nominated film producer, Simone Pero is the Founder and President of For Impact Productions, a sought-after social impact consultancy for creatives of all mediums and genres. Pero’s film portfolio includes LILLY, THE TALE, VIVA VERDI!, VOW OF SILENCE: THE ASSASSINATION OF ANNIE MAE, THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING, and BODY & SOUL: DIANA & KATHY. In 2025, she launched Artists for Impact, signature advisory cohorts and workshops equipping more creatives with strategies and tools to finance and launch mission-driven projects. Pero is on faculty with the Stony Brook Killer Films MFA in Film & TV Writing and serves on the President’s Council of New York Women in Film & Television. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America, BAFTA North America, the Television Academy, Women Independent Producers and the Global Impact Producers Alliance. She began her career in the Federal government before moving into leadership roles within Fortune 500 corporations, and holds a Master’s in Public Affairs and Policy.

Award-winning playwright, actor, producer, and educator, Fanshen Cox, is the DEIA Manager for the California Film Commission’s Tax Credit Program. She is also the Founder of TruJuLo Productions. Fanshen served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cape Verde, West Africa, and holds a BA in Spanish & Education, an MA in TESOL, and an MFA in TV, Film & Theatre. She has been honored with Distinguished Alumni Awards from CSULA and from Teachers College, Columbia University, and an honorary MFA in producing from New York Film Academy. Fanshen is also a co-author of the Inclusion Rider which was announced at the 2018 Oscar awards by Frances McDormandand the co-creator, producer and host of the Webby nominated podcast Sista Brunch. She is a highly sought after speaker on narrative for impact, and on diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility and belonging.

Kisha Imani Cameron is a distinguished documentary producer and showrunner, former studio executive, and accredited professional executive coach. Recently, Kisha completed a feature documentary on MEGAN THEE STALLION for Amazon. She previously served as Executive Producer of THE HAIR TALES alongside Michaela Angela Davis, Tracee Ellis Ross and Oprah Winfrey. She also served as the showrunner/Co-EP of the true crime series AFTER THE FIRST 48 and Consulting Producer on THE FIRST 48. Additional producing credits include the Mike Tyson documentary, THE KNOCKOUT, directed by Geoffrey Fletcher, Spike Lee’s BAMBOOZLED and Raoul Peck’s SOMETIMES IN APRIL. As a trained coach, she also passionately works as a speaker, career and executive coach, for individuals and clients such as CHIEF, MACRO, The Sundance Institute and WIF, to name a few.

Accessibility: Real-time captions are provided, and recordings are available after the sessions to watch on-demand with captions. Email fsprogram@wmm.com with needs or questions.

IMPORTANT WEBINAR REGISTRATION INFORMATION:

• If you register for this entire series, you will have access to all 3 live webinars in this series, as well as the recordings.
• Once registered, you will receive an order confirmation email. Please do not delete it. Your confirmation email will contain a button that says "View the Event" which will bring you to the event page. You must be logged in to Eventbrite with the email address you used to register for this to work.
• Alternatively, if the button isn't working for you, please scroll down your order confirmation email to find and click the Zoom link there.
• If you do not see your order confirmation email within 10mins of registering, please check your junk/spam box or promotional emails. If not in those locations, please email fsprogram@wmm.com so we can reissue the confirmation email. We receive a high volume of calls and emails in the hours before the webinar, so please make sure you have what you need in advance to avoid delays in joining the event.
• If you are unable to participate live, a recording of this webinar will be emailed to all registrants and available for three months after the recording is posted.

Women Make Movies gratefully acknowledges the support of our funders: The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York State Council on the Arts, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Golden Globe Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation.