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Women Make Movies has a 50-year history of supporting women filmmakers and distributing artistically significant films to audiences with an intentional focus on uplifting the voices of underrepresented women and enriching society. With a mission of increasing gender equity in the film industry, we support women filmmakers with production assistance and tailored distribution strategies. We have a long history of supporting women of color, differently abled women, LGBTQIA people, and other communities too rarely represented both on-screen and behind the camera.
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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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2026 Sheffield Award Wins
We are delighted to share that BIRDS OF WAR, directed by Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak and made with the support of WMM’s Production Assistance Program, received a Special Mention for the Tim Hetherington Award at the 2026 Sheffield DocFest, which honors outstanding humanitarian storytelling. The film follows the love story of a Lebanese journalist and a Syrian activist, depicting their resilience as they navigate the front lines of war. Congratulations are also in order for two WMM-supported projects that...
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