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BARBARA, FOREVER Opens Theatrically This September. Films by Barbara Hammer Available Through WMM.
BARBARA FOREVER directed by Brydie O’Connor and made with the support of the WMM Production Assistance Program, will have its theatrical release this September! The film, which premiered at Sundance and won the prestigious Teddy Award for Best Documentary/Essay Film at the Berlinale, follows the legacy of experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, a trailblazer among the feminist and queer movements of the 1970s. Women Make Movies...
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WMM at Blackstar Film Festival 2026
The BlackStar Film Festival, now celebrating 15 years of Cinema for Liberation, returns August 6-9, 2026 in Philadelphia — and Women Make Movies is proud to have seven films connected to our organization screening at this year’s festival. 🎬 A DIFFERENT IMAGE (1982, dir. Alile Sharon Larkin), long distributed by Women Make Movies and recently digitally preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive, will be in the line-up. A foundational...
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WMM Celebrates Disability Pride Month
This month marks 36 years since the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This landmark legislation, signed on July 26, 1990, made disability-based discrimination unlawful and revolutionized the way we consider all people’s abilities. Today, disability rights activists are warning that recent federal actions could weaken decades of progress toward community integration and independent living. This moment demands that we revisit one of the central questions of disability...
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