Wendy Braitman is a twenty-year media veteran, who began her career in San Francisco as an on-air journalist and producer in radio and television.

Braitman launched and ran IFFCON (International Film Financing Conference), which became one of North America’s foremost incubators for independent film. She was Associate Producer of the award-winning film The Celluloid Closet and co-producer of playwright Philip Kan Gotanda’s feature film debut, Life Tastes Good. She helped create the landmark documentary film festival, Silverdocs, in conjunction with the American Film Institute and Discovery Channel, consulted with MTV Films/Europe on the launch of a new European film division, and pioneered a web project linking filmmakers with financing executives. Visit Wendy's site FIRST PERSON SINGULAR: NOTES FROM AN UNMARRIED LIFE (http://firstpersonsingular.org/), an online gathering place, resource guide and venting booth for single women.

Blog Entries by Wendy Braitman

How I Grabbed the Best Bedroom in the Guest House

8 Comments | Posted July 2, 2009 | 04:00 PM (EST)


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I grabbed the best bedroom at the beach house for you, vacationing single women and men everywhere, who have been relegated to the bunk bed, the twin bed, the princess bed, the bed shaped like an airplane, the Spiderman-sheeted bed, the blow-up mattress...

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Why We Can Never Do Enough for Mother's Day (No Really, We Can't)

34 Comments | Posted May 10, 2009 | 08:05 AM (EST)


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It's Mother's Day, and I would like to honor my beloved mother, by using the word mother in a sentence as often as possible. No, not that sentence. The next one. I am taking this moment to pay tribute to Anna M. Jarvis, the...
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Would You Rather Be Smart or Sexy?

Posted April 1, 2009 | 02:59 PM (EST)


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"The highest compliment a woman can receive is, 'My God, she looks smart!' not that she's sexy,'" Lanvin fashion designer, Alber Elbaz

I've looked smart my whole life, and with all due respect, Alber, I'll take sexy. Shopping for my first pair of glasses,...

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Barbie: Always A Bridesmaid, Never A Bride

Posted March 5, 2009 | 06:52 PM (EST)


Barbie will turn 50 on March 9. She has never married. Think about that for a minute. The ideal, American pin-up girl is a spinster.

I'm not saying her marriageable days are behind her. But at 50, she has piloted through the bulk of family and peer pressure, grown accustomed...

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