Girl Power Is Back: Empowerment Project Trailer Debuts

SEATTLE - Nov. 19, 2013 - PRLog -- November 19, 2013: While mainstream Hollywood stays focused on guns and violence, a new film slated to open in the spring is taking a more aspirational approach. IndieFlix presents: "The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things,” is a unique documentary that spotlights inspirational, positive and powerful women leaders across a variety of lifestyles. “The Empowerment Project” trailer debuts today and starts a journey toward connecting people through this film, created for women by women. The film’s mission is to encourage, empower and inspire the next generation of women.

“The Empowerment Project has a positive and powerful message, but it’s also a great film,” says director Sarah Moshman, of Heartfelt Productions. “We started the project at the grassroots and we’ve achieved our vision of bringing America’s most inspiring women to the screen at a time when we need those stories to be told.”

The project is a co-production of IndieFlix , and Heartfelt Productions’ Emmy ® award winning producers, Moshman and Dana Michelle Cook. It started as a dream that quickly became reality thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign in Spring 2013. Over the course of 60 days, the women raised over $28,000, and attracted team IndieFlix as co-producers. It also attracted the attention of San Francisco-based, feature film producer, Lynn Webb as an advisor and executive producer and “The Empowerment Project” was on.

In September 2013, with their all-female film crew in tow, Moshman and Cook embarked on 7,000-mile cross-country road trip in just 30 days, to interview 17 inspiring women from a variety of career fields. They gained candid insight on how these women define their success, what it takes to be a woman in their position, and valuable advice on how to improve the female role in the workplace. In celebration of the all-female focus in front of and behind the camera, the filmmakers turned the cameras on themselves, capturing their transformational journey. Additionally, in each of the 10 cities they filmed in, the crew mentored an aspiring female filmmaker on set, promoting positive role models within their industry.

“The Empowerment Project” was also co-produced by IndieFlix, the leading global streaming platform for independent films. IndieFlix helped bring the project to life through its “Distribution Lab” initiative, which is a development incubator started by IndieFlix founder and CEO Scilla Andreen. The Distribution Lab also played an active role in “Living On One Dollar,” the documentary that chronicles the efforts of four young friends who set out to live on just one dollar a day for eight weeks in rural Guatemala. It has been among the most popular documentaries on iTunes in 2013, peaking at #1 in the category.

“This is the kind of project that IndieFlix was created to support and distribute,” says Andreen. “’The Empowerment Project’ is going to surprise the film business and entertain millions of people.”

Female leaders featured in this documentary were selected not only for their achievements but also to serve as representatives of diverse interests and careers, including:

Jill Soloway: 2013 Sundance Best Director
Jane Lynch: Golden Globe and Emmy â award-winning actress, GLEE
Ellen Rakieten: 13-time Emmy award-winning producer and Co-Creator of "The Oprah Show"
Beth Klein: Prominent female lawyer fighting human trafficking
Mary Nguyen: Chef and restaurant owner
Katherine Darnstadt: Architect and Founder of Latent Design
Molly Barker: Founder of nationwide nonprofit “Girls on the Run”
Vice Admiral Michelle Howard: First African-American woman to command a U.S. Navy Ship; First African American woman to achieve three star rank in the U.S. Armed Forces
Vy Higginsen: First African American female writer, producer, and director of the longest running Off-Broadway musical in American theatre history with Mama, I Want to Sing
Nana Meriwether: Miss USA 2012

The official trailer for the film will be released on IndieFlix at: http://indieflix.com/indie-films/the-empowerment-project-ordinary-women-doing-extra-36648/ on November 19^th.

For more information on festival distribution, screenings and more please contact: empowerment@indieflix.com

ABOUT HEARTFELT PRODUCTION

Moshman and Cook’s careers began in reality television production, and together they’ve produced two other short documentaries about female empowerment through their production company, Heartfelt Productions.  Their latest short documentary, “Growing Up Strong: Girls on the Run,” just won an Emmy® award from NATAS’ Chicago/Midwest Chapter.

For additional information about Heartfelt Productions and The Empowerment Project Crew visit: www.heartfelt-productions.com

ABOUT INDIEFLIX

Founded by filmmakers in 2005, IndieFlix is a membership-based streaming service that has become one of the most meaningful global online platforms in the industry. IndieFlix gives film lovers access to thousands of high quality independent shorts, features, documentaries and web-series from film festivals around the world via Roku, Xbox and all internet connected devices including smart phones and tablets. IndieFlix’s mission is to champion filmmakers, launch careers, rethink traditional approaches to distribution, and celebrate the artistry and impact of independent film. IndieFlix’s unique royalty payment system “RPM” Royalty Pool Minutes pays filmmakers for every minute watched.

For information about IndieFlix, visit: www.indieflix.com (https://indieflix.com/pages/about-us/)