HFPA Journalists Attend Women in Film Panel
(WorldNews Entertainment)

It was an inspiring experience when fellow HFPA colleague and journalist Elisabeth Sereda and I were invited to visit the LAUSD/USC Media Arts & Engineering Magnet High School to participate in a `Women in Film` panel. Only the female students were invited to the event held in the school`s auditorium and energy was high from the moment we arrived. Panelist and writer/producer Ann Donohue, who co-created the CSI franchise, interrupted the opening remarks with a simple question as she observed male students in the back with cameras recording the panel. `Who wants to be a cinematographer or a director?` she asked. A few hands went up and she pointed to those girls and said, `Get up and take...