Producing a Documentary!

Two Camels Films is producing a documentary on Women Entrepreneurs! Through our work with Microsoft’s “Your Office, Your Terms” campaign we’ve met incredible businesswomen and one asked us to help  make a movie about them!

The documentary, SHE MEANS BUSINESS, will be stories of women who create whole businesses, succeeding, sometimes failing, building legacies and livelihoods.

SHE MEANS BUSINESS is now on Kickstarter, raising money from powerful, committed people like you.  We could use your help!

CAN YOU BACK THE PROJECT?

Incredible men and women are already supporting and we have many, many great rewards for your pledge.  Anything you can do – $5, $25, $50, more – makes all the difference.

Watch the video and see for yourself!

Women Getting Biz-Ness Done

Monday was the “Your Office, Your Terms” event hosted by Microsoft Office 365 and 85 Broads, featuring an accomplished panel of Los Angeles Businesswomen… Wait, who are those two at the end?  Yikes!!  Guess our secret is out.

Yes, as filmmakers we are businesswomen – we’re Writers, Directors and Producers but we are also CPA’s, contractors, cooks and therapists.  And guess what, every entrepreneur and business owner is the same!  When you run your own show you reap all the rewards, but you also shoulder all the risk and financial commitment, so when the plumbing goes out at 3 a.m. you learn pretty quick to get handy with a wrench.

It was an honor to be included alongside: Madelyn Alfano, President & Founder of Maria’s Italian Kitchen and President of The National Association of Women Business Owners, Los Angeles (NAWBO-LA); Monica Dodi, Managing Director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund; and Ana Perez, President of National Latina Women’s Business Association, Los Angeles (NLWBLA) [R-L from Elizabeth].

Elizabeth & I were awed by the women alongside us – each so extremely accomplished and equally committed to leadership and support of other businesswomen.   We discussed business plans and accounting, and the importance of mastery and utilization of technology.  We all could agree that owning and running your own business, be it a restaurant, film or tech start-up, is always a lot of work – ALWAYS a lot of work – but with focus and dedication, and the right team of advisors and supporters, there is nothing more rewarding.

Many, many thanks to Microsoft and 85 Broads, who exemplify the “advice and support” that gets us all through our day.  To Independent Filmmakers who often feel like lone gunwomen in the Wild West of Hollywood, this was like a peek into a back room of powerful, dynamic woman who are changing and running the world all around us.  Gosh was it cool!

- Emily D.
February 8th, 2012

“please don’t give emily the mic again.  Really”

Get Down with Microsoft at the Mall!

Date:  Monday, February 6th, 2012

Time:  6 pm – 9pm

Place: Westside Century City Mall, Microsoft Store

What: Women and Entrepreneurs and Technology.  We’ll talk about it, network about it, bond about it, and hear awesome shared stories about it.

REGISTER:  http://85broadsms.eventbrite.com

Free. Light Refreshments.  Be there to learn or just to cheer us on!

Panel:

• Emily & Elizabeth Dell, Two Camels Films
• Monica Dodi, The Womens Venture Fund
• Madelyn Alfano National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO-LA)
• Ana Perez, National Latina Business Women Association (NLBWA-LA)
• Penny Delgadillo, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft

Partay with Microsoft

Proud & honored to celebrate our new partnership with Microsoft Office 365 on FRIDAY Dec 2, 2011 at the Microsoft Store in Century City Mall from 6pm to 9pm.

The event’s co-host is Women 2.0, an amazing media company devoted to promoting female-owned business and entrepreneurs!

Please stop by and say Hi, there’s nothing like a party in a Microsoft store!
(Emily promises not to spill her drink on the keyboard.  The first one.)

They gots free parking for 3 hours, and if you tend to get lost in malls like me (they’re just so BIG!) here’s a MAP.

See you Friday!

Microsoft Teams Up with Two Camels!

The Dell Sisters are working with Microsoft Office365 and 85 Broads to profile women-run businesses making things happen.

Preparing for a film, we work from phones, tablets, laptops, and more, traveling between sets, offices, and states.  Office “in the cloud” has come on board to streamline remote contacts and help make business run better!   Yay remote access!

We are just beginning our Office365 makeover, so stay tuned for updates as we deal with migrations (you want to put all my email where?!!), onsite visits, deployments, and marketing.

Two Camels Films is one of five women-run companies around the US selected for the “Your Office, Your Terms” campaign and we are extremely grateful for the support.

Microsoft Office 365 is an amazing toolset and 85 Broads is a crazy cool group of women around the globe who are kicking down doors everywhere.

Thank you Microsoft and 85 Broads!

Money and Movies

There was a time when all I wanted to do was make my first movie.  And when sweat, tears and a lot of luck turned into a movie, all I could think about was getting it out into the world – convincing distributors and Showtime viewers and DVD buyers (those brave, defiant three!) to love B-GIRL as I do.  It was terrifying and exhilarating.  And THEN I learned something new – I didn’t just want to make a movie, I wanted to make ANOTHER one.

So I found myself starting over, back at the beginning of the movie process: finding the financing.  For a producer like myself, independent film is about money; no studio is footing the bill so I’ve got to figure out how to pay for the movie and make it for less.  Yes this is a creative business, but don’t forget the second word of that name – It’s a Business.  And as such, money is the foundation – every creative choice, provocative camera angle or meaningful movie moment depends on raising those funds…

Read Full Article Here…

* This piece was written by Producer Elizabeth Dell and originally published in the Women and Hollywood Blog, August 16, 2011.