Executive Producer and Actor Trish Appello and Peabody and Emmy Award Winning Filmmaker Rita Coburn

🎙️ This week on The NYWIFT Podcast, we’ll hear from visionaries in comedy and documentary 

🔥 Executive Producer and Actor Trish Appello shatters Invisible Woman Syndrome with The EffYou 50s series, a comedy that  embraces midlife as the boldest era yet 

🏛️ Peabody and Emmy Award-winning Director, Writer, and Producer Rita Coburn’s documentary W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With A Cause explores the life and legacy of notable Black scholar and civil rights pioneer  

🏆 Hosts Penni Malloy-Harper and Catherine Woo spotlight the upcoming Tribeca Festival, New York African Film Festival, Met Gala, and the Academy Awards’ new AI-related rules

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NEWS 

The 25th Tribeca Film Festival 

The Met Gala 

The 33rd New York African Film Festival

The Devil Wears Prada 2 

Tony Nominations 

The Oscars and AI 

GUESTS 

Trish Appello: The EffYou 50s 

Rita Coburn 

Rita Cobrun: W.E.B. DuBois: Rebel With A Cause 

NYWIFT 

NYWIFT Masterclass: Navigating Reinvention with Carolyn Michelle | May 12, 19, and 26 | Virtual 

Mergers, Defunding, and Public Media! Oh, My! – Examining the Future of the U.S. Media Landscape | May 21 | Los Depressos Studio 

NYWIFT Partners for Film Fatales Artist Connection NYC Spring Social | May 29 at Museum of the Moving Image 

The New Works Lab Annual Reading | May 20 | Pen & Brush 

Socials 

Trish Appello: IG: @TheEffYou50s / Facebook: The EffYou 50s 

Rita Coburn: IG: @IAmRitaCoburn / LinkedIn: Rita Coburn 

Penni Malloy-Harper: IG: @Pennbrookconsultingcorp / X: @PennbrookConsu1

Janine McGoldrick: IG: @2nchapterprod 

Catherine Woo: IG: @kate.anne.woo / LinkedIn: CatherineAWoo

NYWIFT: Instagram:⁠⁠ @NYWIFT⁠⁠ / Twitter/X⁠⁠ @NYWIFT⁠⁠ / #NYWIFT
🎵 Special thanks to⁠ Elspeth Collard⁠, the creator of our podcast theme song