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        Hold This While IP Productions

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          • Hold This While IP Productions

             

            We Incubate and Elevate Stories.

            By and About Real Women.

             

            Helping women writers perfect, package, pitch, publish and produce.

             

          • Our Approach to Supporting Women Storytellers

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            Listen

            We'll listen strategically while you share your story. Brainstorming and bonding are the key to success.

            2

            Plan

            We'll review your project, help you shape your idea and get you set up with what you'll need to move forward.

             

            We help you find your optimal platform, genre and approach. We know what to do because we've done it.

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            Develop and Package

            We'll give you the coaching, collaboration, mentorship and resources you need to elevate and optimize your work.

             

            From outline to beat sheet to pitch to proposal to connecting you to all the right resources, we will help you get your story told.

          • Who We Are

            We're all about the story.

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            Pamela Weiss

            Founder/Executive & Creative Producer/Screenwriter

            Pamela is an award-winning multi-channel creative writer, producer and story-telling entrepreneur. She’s collaborated with top-flight professionals to shepherd heart-felt, funny and transcendent human stories.

            Pamela has held leadership positions in product development, marketing and strategic business development in the online consumer real estate and media industries, overseeing development of online leasing transaction systems, content partnering, ancillary news products and M&A. She is a former award-winning newspaper editor, designer and journalist. Media and publications she’s worked with include The Boston Globe and The Miami Herald, Knight-Ridder New Media and The Capital-Gazette Publishing Co. She was an original member of the Silicon Valley Mom’s Blog, later acquired by Technorati.

            In addition to serving on the board of directors at LifeMoves.org, Pamela is also on the Bay Area advisory board for CrisisTextLine.org, is a trained volunteer Crisis Counselor and public speaker for the organization.

            Pamela received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and her B.S. degree in journalism from the University of Florida.

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            Rebecca Bloom

            Story Producer/Content Developer

            Rebecca Bloom is a writing and storytelling coach, editor and writer.

            Rebecca has devised and led memoirs classes and writers' workshops, helping writers get their stories told. She has also coached writers and speakers in genres including historical fiction, pilots, screenplays, pitches, business, communications and books, Ted Talks and more. She has worked with businesses and nonprofits large and small, strategizing content and tone and creating multi-channel messaging for diverse stakeholders.

            A former workplace and benefits attorney, Rebecca has served nonprofits in the education and women's health space her entire career. Her longest and proudest affiliation is with Bay Area Cancer Connections, where she has served as a patient advocate and advisor for women fighting breast and ovarian cancer for over 28 years. She tells the stories in her award-winning book, When Women Get Sick.

            Rebecca received her B.S. in Humanities from Yale University and her J.D. from New York University School of Law.

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            Working Together to Lift Women Creators

          • Selected Projects

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            Writer: Pamela Weiss

            Genre: Comedy - Feature

            Logline: When one of their own hears a devastating diagnosis and her family’s plan to force her into a Florida nursing home, a group of sassy sorority sisters in their 70s escapes to a fire-damaged California wine town to live out their lives on their own terms.

            Status: Currently in pre-production with Margaret French Isaac and Di Novi Pictures, director Ron Oliver attached. Financing in the works, pitch deck available.

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            Writer: Pamela Weiss

            Genre: Legal Drama –Short Story/Film

            Logline: A young gay lawyer in Atlanta goes to great lengths to hide his true self in the 1980s.
            Status: Completed, Finalist Josephson Entertainment + Roadmap Writers Short Story Competition

            Read the writer's personal statement about the piece.

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            The Understory (Feature)


            Writer: Pamela Weiss


            Genre: Drama


            Logline: When a rebellious, young environmentalist suffers a catastrophic personal loss, she is compelled to risk her reputation, government job and life to defend and protect the fragile ecosystems of Alaska.


            Status: In Development


            We have optioned ME (Michelle) Schuman'sastonishing memoir, The Understory: A Female Environmentalist in the Land ofthe Midnight Sun, and are currently turning it into a screenplay.The Understory is but one of three of Michelle's thrilling, award-winning globally relevant environmentally oriented works.

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            Writer: Rebecca Bloom

            Genre: Non-fiction

            In When Women Get Sick Bloom offers much-needed insight to women and their supporters, diving into essential topics such as building support networks, taming the insurance beast, communicating with doctors, and staying mindful. She exposes the way the healthcare industrial complex disadvantages women, and she empowers them to find the support they need.

            Using women's stories and Bloom's own experience in the trenches, this book guides readers with examples, questions, checklists, useful information, and tips. There's enough stress and fear surrounding cancer and other serious illnesses. Bloom gives women tools to make the best decisions for them in all areas of their healthcare journey.

            Status: Published July, 29, 2025

            Order Here.

            Learn more at whenwomengetsick.com.

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            Founder Pamela Weiss is an Executive Producer of Thirsty, a film from writer/director Emily Abt.

            Logline: A tenacious defense attorney embarks on a high stakes campaign to beat the incumbent mayor of Oakland. As election day approaches, she must reconcile the seduction of the political game with her own moral compass or risk losing it all.

            The story is acutely relevant today because working mothers have disproportionately borne the brunt of the pandemic. In fact, 3.5 million mothers have left the workforce since the pandemic began. A stated goal of writer/director Emily Abt is to embolden women to strive for their professional actualization against the odds and expand our collective notion of what a leader looks like. As Abt says, more we see women and people of color in positions of political leadership, the more we normalize it.

            Starring Sung Kang, Jamie Neumann and Kyra Sedgwick.

            Status: Streaming now on Amazon and Hulu.

            Color of Autumn

            Award-Winning Short Film

            Logline: In 1966 Chicago a sheltered Black eight-year-old girl is blindsided by cruel and casual racism while socializing with on a playground.

            Status: After an award-winning festival run, this anti-racist short narrative shortfilm will be distributed by Planet Classroom Network.

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