Editorial, Social Media, and Online Activism
Editorial Work
agnès films: supporting women and feminist filmmakers, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief. Apr. 2010-present.
constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief. Oct. 2018-present.
MSU Doc Lab News, Editor-in-Chief. Jan. 2018-May 2022.
Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, Founding Editor and Multimedia Editor. July 2009-May 2016.
Web and Logo Design, Architecture, and Content Development
Besides collaborating with graduate and undergraduate students and colleagues to design the logos and websites for the journals and publications I edit, my documentaries, and certain peer-reviewed projects, I have also worked on the following websites:
Website design and architecture, logo design, and content development. agnès films: supporting women and feminist filmmakers. Designed with Caitlan Spronk, Shell Little, and Hannah Countryman. 2010-present.
Website design and architecture, logo design, and content development. constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space. Designed with Emily Lin, Jeff Kuure and Lauren Brentnell. 2017-present.
Website design and architecture, logo design, and content development. The Documentary Laboratory for Creative Non-Fiction Film at Michigan State University. Designed with Jessica Kukla and Allison Costello. 2017-2019.
Website design and architecture, logo design, and content development. Mothers in Rhetoric and Composition. An NCTE Special Interest Group. Designed with Hannah Countryman. 2017-2018.
Website design and architecture, logo design, and content development. Latinx Caucus. An NCTE Caucus. Designed with Les Hutchinson and Jessica Kukla. 2017-2018.
Social Media Accounts Managed
Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook group accounts for the agnès films: supporting women and feminist filmmakers.
September 2010-present.
I collaborate with undergraduate students to strategize, produce, and research content for these accounts.
Twitter and Instagram accounts for the Cultural Rhetorics Consortium.
September 2016-present.
I collaborate with graduate students to strategize, produce, and research content for these accounts.
Facebook page for constellations: a cultural rhetorics publishing space.
September 2016-present.
I collaborate with graduate students to strategize, produce, and research content for this account.
Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook Group accounts for the MSU Doc Lab.
September 2019-May 2022.
I collaborate with undergraduate students to strategize, produce, and research content for these accounts.
Social Media and Online Activism
#ISupportTheERANow and the “Rethinking Sisterhood: The Role of Media in Affirming the ERA” Webinar Series
March-June 2020
I collaborated with feminist filmmakers and activists to organize a campaign to heighten awareness about the current status of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) calling on Hollywood, the mainstream news media, and streaming outlets to tell the story of contemporary actions taken toward passing the amendment. The campaign included an open letter and a webinar series organized around #ISupportTheERANow.
Open Letter
Dougherty, Ariel, Alexandra Hidalgo, Jennifer Hall Lee, Kamala Lopez, Ivana Massetti, Barbara Ann O’Leary, and Barbara Winslow. “The ERA Is a Hair’s-Breadth Away from Constitutional History in Spite of Mrs. America: An Open Letter to Studios, Networks, Streaming Services, and the Creative Community.” agnès films: supporting women and feminist filmmakers. 7 April 2020.
The letter was signed by over 500 industry members and activists, including actress and activist Rose McGowan, Nevada State Senator Patricia Spearman, film directors Lizzie Borden and Eva Husson, Lizzy Jagger and her father, rock start Mick Jagger, feminist artist Natalie White, fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger and his daughter Ally Hilfiger, Jerry and Rupert Murdoch, Outlander star Caitriona Balfe, Fear the Walking Dead actress Mishel Prada, filmmaker and producer Vanessa Hope, and Ted Hope, head of Amazon Studios.
Webinar Series
For the “Rethinking Sisterhood: The Role of Media in Affirming the ERA” Webinar Series,” I collaborated with leaders from Directed by Women, Equal Means Equal, Generation Ratify, Media Equity, and Women Occupy Hollywood to organize a series of five-webinars featuring filmmakers, activists, politicians, and artists discussing strategies for fostering for gender equality.
“Mrs. America: Cultural and Intergenerational Views.” Moderator Emilia Couture. Featuring Katharine Anderson, Natalie White, Barbara Winslow, and Belan Yeshigeta. 7 May 2020.
“On the Ground Experiences with Characters in Mrs. America.” Moderator Rachel Landis. Featuring Laura Carter Callow, Bamby Salcedo, and Jennifer Hall Lee. 14 May 2020.
“Dissecting Propaganda and Other Media Abuse.” Moderator Gabbie Gonzales. Featuring Maria Giese, Shireen Mitchell, and DeeDee Halleck. 21 May 2020.
“Making Inequality Visible. The Fight for ERA, and Title IX.” Moderator Emma Khodaverdian. Featuring Kamala Lopez, Wendy Murphy, and Senator Pat Spearman. 28 May 2020.
“Approaching Filmmaking and Content Production From a Feminist Perspective to Create Change.” Moderator Akhila Mullapudi. Featuring Rosie Couture, Ariel Dougherty, Alexandra Hidalgo, and Barbara Ann O’Leary. 4 June 2020.
Parents in the Palais: An Open Letter to the 70th Cannes Film Festival
June 2017
Four fellow filmmakers and activists, Sophie Mayer, Mathilde Dratwa, Barbara Ann O’Leary, and Marian Evans, and I wrote a letter to the Cannes Film Festival suggesting that they rethink their 2017 policy of excluding parents who work in the film industry from the festival when accompanied by their children and providing examples from film festivals around the world that have welcoming policies to parents and their children.
Published on agnès films, the letter was signed by 340 filmmakers, actors, film critics, film festival organizers, distributors, scholars, and activists from 35 countries. Those who have added their names to this cause include Academy-Award winning director Joanna Natasegara, The Diary of a Teenage Girl and Can You Ever Forgive Me? director Marielle Heller, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Wakefield screenwriter and director Robin Swicord, Just Seen It actor and director Liz Manashil, Edge of Tomorrow and London Has Fallen actor Charlotte Riley, and head of development, production, and acquisition at Amazon Studios Ted Hope.
Hidalgo, Alexandra, Sophie Mayer, Mathilde Dratwa, Barbara Ann O’Leary, and Marian Evans. “Parents in the Palais: An Open Letter to the 70th Cannes Film Festival.” agnès films: supporting women and feminist filmmakers. 5 June 2017.
Gardner, Cris. “Hollywood Parents Petition Cannes for More Mom-Friendly Rules.” The Hollywood Reporter. 7 June 2017.
Gardner, Cris. “Moms Mobilize at Cannes.” The Hollywood Reporter. 7 June 2017.
“340 Industry Professionals Sign Open Letter to Cannes Film Festival Regarding Treatment of Parents With Children at This Year’s.” Filmfestivals.com. 7 June 2017.
“Hollywood mums fight for family-friendly Cannes Film Festival.” Honey Nine. 7 June 2017.
“Hollywood Parents Petition Cannes for More Mom-Friendly Rules.” Movie Breaking News. 7 June 2017.
“Open letter to Cannes over how parents were treated.” Women in Film and Television New Zealand. 13 June 2017.
“Parents in the Palais – a social media movement that brought filmmaking moms together to condemn sexist practices in film festivals.” Women Making Films India. 13 June 2017.
Cultural Rhetorics Social Media Strategist
November 2015–October 2016, September 2017-present.
“#CRChat: Community, Voice, Identity: Principles of Cultural Rhetorics Pedagogies.” Moderated by Ana Milena Ribero. 25 Aug. 2021.
“#CRChat: Storytelling, Ethics, and Communities: Principles of Cultural Rhetorics Methodologies.” Moderated by Alexandra Hidalgo. 14 June 2021.
“#CRChat: Storytelling and Relationality: Faculty Experiences During the Texas Winter Storm.” Moderated by Sonia Arellano and Kimberly Wieser. 15 Apr. 2021.
“#CRChat: Recognizing New Styles: How Professors Are Coping with COVID.” Moderated by Lauren Brentnell and Sonia Arellano. 4 Dec. 2020.
“#CRChat: A Twitter Chat for Graduate Students About How They Are Coping with Covid.” Moderated by Alexandra Hidalgo. 30 Oct. 2020.
#DirectedbyWomen/ agnès films Twitter Chats and Interviews
September 2020
agnès films teamed up with #DirectedbyWomen for a social media campaign supporting the work of women directors during the month of September.
“#DBWomen2020: Interview with Ariel Dougherty.” Interviewer Alexandra Hidalgo. 30 Sept. 2020.
“#DBWomen2020: Women Independent Filmmakers September Twitter Chat.” Moderators Jennifer Dean and Eric Rice. Featuring Joyce Wu and Zeinabu Irene Davis. 21 Sept. 2020.
“#DBWomen2020: Women Independent Filmmakers September Twitter Chat.” Moderator Barbara Ann O’Leary. Featuring Iram Parveen Bilal and Jen McGowan. 21 Sept. 2020.
agnès films Monthly Twitter Chats
January 2016–November 2016
I coordinated monthly Twitter chats with women in various areas of filmmaking, film criticism, and scholarship.
“#afaug: Women Cinematographers.” Moderator Kim Labick. Featuring Lindsay Barrasse, Bridget LaMonica, and Xuexue Pan. 25 Aug. 2016.
“#afjun: Women Filmmakers and Academics.” Moderator Alexandra Hidalgo. Featuring Alexandra Juhasz, bonnie lenore kyburz, and Adela C. Licona. 27 June 2016.
“#afmay: Women Film Students.” Moderator Lindsey Spitzley. Featuring Grace Barber-Plentie, Maria Cabrera, and Alexandra McCaulay. 17 May 2016.
“#afapr: Women Producers.” Moderator Savannah Smith. Featuring Patricia Benabe, Jessica Devaney, and Adella Ladjevardi. 28 Apr. 2016.
“#afmar: Queer Filmmakers of Color.” Moderator Sarah Shaw. Featuring Savannah Smith, Be Steadwell, and Kai Towns. 29 Mar. 2016.
“#affeb: Women Screenwriters.” Moderator Lindsey Spitzley. Featuring Andrea Madger, Lisa Reznik, and Danielle Winston. 26 Feb. 2016.
“#afjan: Women Filmmakers from the 1890s to the 1920s.” Moderator Alexandra Hidalgo. Featuring Elinor Cleghorn, Pamela Green, and Pamela Hutchinson. 28 Jan. 2016.
#DirectedbyWomen / agnès films Twitter Campaign
September 2016
agnès films teamed up with #DirectedbyWomen for a social media campaign supporting the work of women directors during the month of September. The campaign included one video, four Twitter chats, one Twitter interview, and two screenings of films directed by women. Besides working with #DirectedbyWomen’s Barbara Ann O’Leary, I collaborated with the agnès films staff of undergraduate students (Elena Cronick, Hannah Countryman, Sabrina Hirsch, Jessica Kukla, Savannah Smith, Sarah Shaw, Lindsey Spitzley, and Jenna Ange) in order to create promotional materials, write press releases, and make the video.
“How Many Can YOU Name.” Co-Produced by Alexandra Hidalgo.
“Interview with Ondi Timoner.” Interviewer Alexandra Hidalgo.
“Women Experimental Filmmakers” Twitter Chat. Moderator Barbara Ann O’Leary. Featuring Denah Johnston and Lynne Sachs.
“Women Fiction Film Directors” Twitter Chat. Moderator Danielle Winston. Featuring Jennifer Corcoran, Li Lu, Leah Yananton.
“Women Fiction Film Directors” Twitter Chat. Moderator Alexandra Hidalgo. Featuring Zeinabu irene Davies, Alison Klayman, and Christine Turner.
“Women Television Directors” Twitter Chat. Moderator Barbara Ann O’Leary. Featuring Lily Mariye and Rachel Talalay.
#DirectedbyWomen / agnès films Screenings
“Four Short Films #DirectedByWomen” (with skype Q&A by director Bat-Sheva Guez)
September 12, 2016.
This screening organized by agnès films and co-sponsored by Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, Film Studies, and The College of Arts and Letters.
“#DirectedbyWomen Screening of Sunshine” (with skype Q&A by director Karen Skloss)
September 26, 2016.
This screening organized by agnès films and co-sponsored by Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures, Film Studies, and The College of Arts and Letters.
#DirectedbyWomen / agnès films Press
Cronick, Elena. “WRAC Joins the #DirectedbyWomen Worldwide Film Viewing Party by Co-Hosting Two Screenings This September.” Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures. 9 Sep. 2016.
Cronick, Elena. “Screenings for #DirectedbyWomen Films.” College of Arts and Letters. 6 Sep. 2016.
#FavWomanFilmmaker Campaign Videos
November 9–12, 2015.
I led six undergraduate students (Katie Grimes, Sabrina Hirsch, Shell Little, Sarah Shaw, Savannah Smith, and Lindsey Spitzley,) and Ph.D. student Shewonda Leger in organizing and running a Twitter campaign around the hashtag #FavWomanFilmmaker to explore why so few people have favorite women filmmakers and to discuss the work of women filmmakers around the world.
“#FavWomanFilmmaker Monday Video.” Directed and edited by Alexandra Hidalgo.
“#FavWomanFilmmaker Tuesday Video.” Directed by Ann von Petersdorff and María Pérez Escalá. Edited by Ann von Petersdorff. Subtitles by Alexandra Hidalgo.
“#FavWomanFilmmaker Wednesday Video.” Directed by Clayre Saxon Morrison. Edited by Alexandra Hidalgo.
“#FavWomanFilmmaker Thursday Video.” Directed and edited by Emily Chen.
#FavWomanFilmmaker Campaign Twitter Chats and Interviews
November 9–12, 2015.
“Defining Woman Filmmaker” Twitter Chat. Moderator Alexandra Hidalgo. Featuring Sophie Mayer, Barbara Ann O’Leary, Danielle Winston, Rebecca Sánchez López, Lucía Valverde, and Daniella Daemy.
“Interview with Melissa Silverstein.” Interviewer Alexandra Hidalgo.
“Interview with Sophie Mayer and Hope Dickson Leach.” Interviewer Sabrina Hirsch, organizer Alexandra Hidalgo.
“Strategies for Being a Successful Woman Filmmaker” Twitter Chat. Moderator Shewonda Leger. Featuring Mara Ravins, Miriam Pinedo, Leah Meyerhoff, Alexandra Hidalgo, and bonnie lenore kyburz.
“Interview with Shanele Alvarez.” Interviewer Lindsey Spitzley. Organizer Alexandra Hidalgo.
“How to Balance Personal Life and Work as a Woman Filmmaker” Twitter Chat. Moderator Sarah Shaw. Featuring Patricia Perez, Bat-Sheva Guez, Miriam Pinedo, Jennifer B White, and Alexandra Hidalgo.
“Interview with barb morrison.” Interviewer Sarah Shaw. Organizer Alexandra Hidalgo.
“How to Enter the Field as a Woman Filmmaker” Twitter Chat. Moderator Sarah Shaw. Featuring Dawn Davis, Emma Eden Ramos, Jen Shangraw, and Alexandra Hidalgo.
“Interview with Isabel Stevens.” Interviewer Katie Grimes. Organizer Alexandra Hidalgo.
“Interview with Lauren Kinsler and Carrie Gooch.” Interviewer Lindsey Spitzley. Organizer Alexandra Hidalgo.
“How Audiences Can Find and Support the Work of Women Filmmakers” Twitter Chat. Moderator Katie Grimes. Organizer Alexandra Hidalgo. Featuring Sophie Mayer, Bat-Sheva Guez, Danielle Winston, Mara Ravins, Cristina Oliva Patrick, and Denah Johnston.
“Interview with Deborah Kampmeier.” Interviewer Savannah Smith. Organizer Alexandra Hidalgo.
#FavWomanFilmmaker Campaign Press
“MSU Professors and Students Want to Know Your #FavWomanFilmmaker.” Current State. WKAR. 9 Nov. 2015. Radio.
Jao, Charline. “#FavWomanFilmmaker Campaign Promotes Visibility of Films Made by Women.” The Mary Sue. 9 Nov. 2015.
Evans, Marian. “From Paul Feig to agnès films’ #FavWomanFilmmaker Campaign.” Wellywood Woman. 8 Nov. 2015.
“Bringing Awareness to Women Filmmakers.” MSU Today. 6 Nov. 2015.
“agnès films brings MSU writing and film communities together.” MSU WRAC. 12 Nov. 2015.
Photography
Event Photographer. MSU Latinx Film Festival. Michigan State University. Feb. 2020.
Event Photographer. Professional and Public Writing and Experience Architecture Fall Senior Portfolio Showcase. Michigan State University. Dec. 2019.
Event Photographer. Screening of The Silence of Others and Q&A Session with Director Almudena Carracedo. Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities Global Perspectives Series. Michigan State University. Nov. 2019.
Event Photographer. “Screening of Academy Award winning film Inocente.” Michigan State University Library Film Series. Michigan State University. Apr. 2017. Featured on Shine Global’s official website “Notes from Susan: Inocente Screening at MSU.”
Event Photographer. “Conference on College Composition and Communication.” Portland, Mar. 2017. Featured on WRAC Stories’ article “WRAC Completes Busy Week at National Conferences.”
Event Photographer. “Kate Birdsall Reads from The Flats: A Liz Boyle Mystery.” Greater Lansing Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association. East Lansing. Jan. 2017.
Promotional Materials Photographer. Stepping Stones Montessori in East Lansing. East Lansing. Oct. 2016.
Event Photographer. “Cultural Rhetorics Conference.” East Lansing. Oct. 2016 and Oct. 2019.