Cineladies and Female Enablers- I was kicked out for being negative after confessing #metoo
Back in 2013 I was trained in Final Cut but did not own the program and I joined a group online called CINE LADIES. It was on Facebook, but also at least one of the members was on Stage 32. I eventually got kicked out of the group for first telling them I wanted a lawyer to sue for being blacklisted and then for being told I am full of ANGER. But I do not know where that came from. However I did tell Assaf Cohen I was ANGRY in 2012 at a meeting at SAG AFTRA and I kind of suspect someone from the UNION must have talked to the group after I told them I wanted to SUE the union. I wanted to be an actor. What was infuriating was the fact that WOMEN can be as misogynist and men in the industry. And they can also be just as much enablers.
I want to point this out first about FINAL CUT. My twitter troll is just an actor. Well they claim to be an actor. I say that because everyone in post production and true film makers would know that Final Cut as on a MAC. Yet my troll blasted me saying I am a PC user and can not use a MAC. All of my classes at Santa Monica were on MACs and I had to do my homework in the lab at school because i had a PC at home and the only software i had was CS4 the Masters program.
Anne Lower approved my request to join the group on May 17, 2003.
As you can see by the next post Lower encouraged me to introduce myself and to get to know others in the group.
On May 21 I received this email stating Anne Lower was advertising her group on STAGE 32. I recently cut ties with RB Botto because of his political beliefs. He publicly told a group of people at an entertainment event that people who bashed the President on their social media he would see as a potential problem on set.
Anyways I decided to be open about being blacklisted and wanting a lawyer and being upset, and the blacklisting. I actually state I am afraid I will get kicked out of the group for speaking out about what happened. This was ANNE LOWER’s response. Please note I think my tone is one of fear and wanting justice and not ANGER. Keep in mind this is 2013 I have not changed my story since 2012 because this is what happened to me.
On June 1 2013 Princess Scribe started following me on Twitter. Princess Scribe is Anne Lower.
The group planned a meeting at someone’s house on June 26, 2013. I decided to go and offered to take vegan food. I made them a Tempeh gluten free curry.
Val Monk was in the group and I think we had met somewhere and Jodei Bentley and I saw each other about a year ago at a movie viewing at the DGA.
I went to pitch fest and a woman on the panel refused to answer a question on advising other women and I noticed that there was only one woman on the panel. In other words I was being a feminist and pointing out what everyone is talking about now. I kind of got dished for stating the fact that the industry casts blonds. But I have had casting people say the same thing. When it comes to women looks are what count and it sucks.
Anyways I recieve the following message on June 5th after my comments.
I shared a members link at their request.
http://www.lauraanntull.com/Cineladies/06072013GmailRe_CINELadiesKCETArtbounddidawriteuponthe Fringe.pdf
On my birthday in 2013, June 8, someone posted they were looking for crew people and I responded. However I never got any more contact than what appears here. I discovered later that my messages were going to some facebook subfolder. It was at a time when Facebook did not have an app and messages from someone not connected to you ended up in some hidden folder.
Someone also posted a non union acting job. Lower responded everyone needs a start. I know. I spent five years on set non union. I just wished there were union gigs in the group. Stating a fact.
this job was posted and i asked about dates At this time I was in school at SMC and preparing for exams. I was also looking for work and i had been asked by a director artist I met at a film meet up to write and perform a poem for a gay pride event. I ended up turning my poem into a song.
I posted in the group about the performance I was doing for GAY PRIDE in west Hollywood. A non denominational performance. the event was spiritual. One of the people involved was a Buddhist monk. I was not gay but I was exploring Buddhism and inspired to write a poem based on a Buddhist icons, the burning flame. Yes in 2013 I was getting into Buddhism.
As it turns out MARTY ELCAN was in the group. I did not know until the meeting on June 26th. However she posted this in the group. I was busy at this time with the performance, and I was dealing with weird symptoms. I was sick and did not know. this was 2013 and over the next year I would keep trying to find a doctor to help me figure out why i kept getting weird symptoms. My weight had dropped in 2008 to 116 but it dropped even lower around this time. I was weak physically and dealing with digestion problems I did not want to talk about. now i do not care. Diarrhea. Vomiting. Sleep issues. Stress. Depression. And I knew it as not a mental problem but a physical one and having people bully me or cut me off or judge me was not helping me.
Mary Enclay was the AD the day on Eli Stone that I was featured in this episode of ELI STONE. She kept telling me I was doing a GREAT JOB. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1039190/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_11
Maryt Enclay is a DGA director. https://www.martyelcan.com/
June 15 an editing job was posted and I responded to it, but I never got the emails. Issues with connection.
http://www.lauraanntull.com/Cineladies/06152013GmailCINELadiesWhosoureditorsin here_Iwanttomeetyou.pdf
After this I decided i needed to create a website for my editing and my teacher Walt Louie explained with in the next two years on how to put a reel on VIMEO.
As you can see Hazel Dolphy sent me this note saying my messages were going to a sub folder. Made me think that maybe I was missing other messages.
The group at the time criticized BLURRED LINES.
Melinda Hughes did this parody eventually. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVI9PfBzsA8
The group ended up with 204 members including industry professionals and I kind of suspect that some of those people knew JEREMY GILBREATHE who molested me. John Ponzio who acted often like we were just extras and that was my station in life. And well at this time HOLLYWOOD FRINGE was going on and BLAKE SHIELDS was doing his play. And i went to see a play by someone in the group.
I also unfortunately told the group about my negative opinion of the ACTORS fund since they kind of told me to go to church on SUNDAY. And I expressed that concern in the group.
I asked if I needed to take plates to the event on June 26 and they responded.
http://www.lauraanntull.com/Cineladies/06252013GmailRe_CINELadiesMeetingwithguestKristine OllerDoweneedtobringoutownutencilsplatesto.pdf
I offer to and bring VEGAN FOOD.
This girl posted in the group about DOVE commercial. this was posted the day after the meeting. I I find it interesting as SHONDA RHIMES now does commercials for them.
Kate HUFFMAN I met at the meeting on the 26th. She gave me a postcard for her show at the HOLLYWOOD FRINGE. I reviewed her show for EXAMINER. IRONY if people were more supportive, especially women, I might have been writing reviews for more people within CINELADIES and helped people instead of we have to knock me down and well black list me for my honesty.
The review I wrote is on this site in the section called “THEATER ARTICLES.”
The meeting went well. I did not cause a scene. In fact I forgot my bag and the next day I had to go back and get it. I had tea with ROBERTA SETZU who had the meeting in her apartment in Los Feliz Silver Lake. I walked to it from my house.
One of the members posted about it in the group.
More positive comments.
I was even tagged in the listing.
Not only was the AD for ELI STONE AT THE MEETING. But RHODA PHELL. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1868781/
Rhoda was a Carny Wife with me on Carnivale. SHe had actually sent me an email about a dance about breast cancer when I was having my mastectomy. However she got cold with me. She made comments about how great my wardrobe was. I was working allot after my mastectomy, including playing lawyers and detectives and FBI. Keep in mind was sexually assaulted by a crew guy from Carnivale, well stand in, who was fired for cocaine. I did not need her jealousy and attitude.
Roberta who i had tea with on the 27th. She friended me on facebook but I think i dropped her because I was hurting. She has not blocked me on facebook nor I her. She did say something odd to me about it was too bad I was not going to date a script writer or something like that. I never said anything about liking a script writer. I had dated a writer in 2006 but this was 2013 and very few people even knew about that relationship. it lasted for about 3 months and was over.
http://www.lauraanntull.com/Cineladies/06272013GmailRoberta SetzuconfirmedyourFacebookfriendrequest.pdf
The last post I seem to have received from CINELADIES before I was kicked out was this post about women editors, which is what i was training to do. http://www.lauraanntull.com/Cineladies/06282013GmailCINELadiesViolaLawrencethefirstfemalefilmeditor.pdf
I got the following messages from PRINCESS SCRIBE on STAGE 32. Needless to say I was perplexed. I had made friends at that event. Yet i point out that RHODA was at the event. And If RHODA was there then I am guessing that the people with the UNION who had me institutionalized and abused told the BOARD of CINELADIES was “full of anger.” I told ASSAF COHEN that I was angry and he should respect my emotions as an actor, not start yelling “She is assaulting me” even though I had my hands full When I tell a cop what Assaf Did their response is, ” you were not assaulting him at all.”
I am going to feel anger when I am being lied about and when justice is not served. I was violated. And it disgusts me if any of the women on the board of this organization are yelling METOO now when I was doing that in 2003 and THEY SHUT ME DOWN.
