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The Official 2024 Tribeca Film Festival selections were released and 9 films from WMM filmmakers will premiere (8 will have their world premieres!). The Tribeca Film Festival, now in its 23rd year, will take place Wed, June 5, 2024 – Sun, June 16, 2024. Three films made with the support of WMM’s Production Assistance...
Congratulations to Sharon Yeung, director of WMM Production Assistance Program film WE ARE VOLCANOES, and Cherish Oteka, whose previous film FREE LYRIC was made with the support of the Production Assistance Program, for receiving 2024 IDA’s Logan Elevate grants. They were 2 of 3 filmmakers selected out of 76 nominees to receive $30,000 each supporting their feature-length...
Twenty-nine (yes 29!) Women Make Movies filmmakers will be pitching and premiering at Hot Docs this year, a record number! Eight films made with the support of the WMM Production Assistance Program will be premiering at the festival, including: STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS (dir. Jalena Keane-Lee; prod. Erin Lau, Amber Espinosa-Jones) – WORLD PREMIERE; KARUARA, PEOPLE...
Six Production Assistance Program films will be in theaters, on television, and streaming in April & May, including: BREAK THE GAME (dir. Jane M. Wagner), which premiered at Tribeca and follows a transgender teenager hell-bent on setting a new speedrunning world record in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, opened theatrically in...
We’re excited to share that 8 films from WMM filmmakers will premiere or screen at Full Frame this year, including 3 Production Assistance Program films: Light of the Setting Sun (United States) | Director: Vicky Du, Producers: Danielle Varga, Vicky Du | World Premiere A Photographic Memory (United States) | Director: Rachel Elizabeth Seed, Producers:...
We’re excited to share that six WMM films and filmmakers are screening at the prestigious 74th Berlinale Film Festival! Three Production Assistance Program films will have world premieres: INTERCEPTED (dir. Oksana Karpovych, prod. Giacomo Nudi); A BIT OF A STRANGER (dir. Svitlana Lishchynska, prod. Anna Kapustina); and REAS (dir. Lola Arias, prod. Gema Juárez Allen). Also screening are DAHOMEY (ATLANTICS), a premiere of the new film by WMM...
This has been an exceptional year for Women Make Movies where 20 WMM films and filmmakers were eligible for documentary awards! Nominated for Best Documentary is THE ETERNAL MEMORY, a new film directed by WMM PA alum Maite Alberdi, which centers on a Chilean couple coping with Alzheimer’s disease. And WMM Program Alum Christine Turner received a nomination for Best Short Documentary for, THE BARBER OF LITTLE...
We are thrilled to see that WMM Production Assistance Program film TO KILL A TIGER, directed by Nisha Pahuja and produced by Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe, and David Oppenheim, is nominated for Best Documentary in this year’s Academy Awards®! This powerful film, which is also nominated for the IDA Documentary Award for Best Writing, tells the story...
The Academy Awards shortlist has been announced and we are thrilled that the following WMM films and filmmakers are on the list: GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT Directed by Michèle Stephenson, Joe Brewster A WMM Production Assistance Program Film The winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2023, this examination presents the...