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After being Palestine’s entry to the 2024 Oscars and receiving nominations for Best Documentary in both the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the European Film Academy Awards, WMM Release BYE BYE TIBERIAS (dir. Lina Soualem) is now one of six films nominated for Best Documentary in the César Awards, the French equivalent to the Oscars....
CPH:DOX announced the projects in their 2025 FORUM and ROUGHCUT sections this week, and three films being made with the support of the WMM Production Assistance Program will be pitching. Two will be part of the CPH:FORUM: House No. 7 (dir. Rama Abdi; prod. Hazar Yazji). This project received special recognition from the documentary...
The jury’s selections are in from Park City! Three WMM Production Assistance Program films took home awards: U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary SEEDS (dir. Brittany Shyne, prod. Danielle Varga) — An exploration of Black generational farmers in the American South, revealing the fragility of legacy and the importance of owning land. Danielle Varga also received...
WMM is excited to announce its presence at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival! Two new releases will screen: MY SEXTORTION DIARY (directed by Patricia Franquesa, produced by Patricia Franquesa and Mireia Graell), a gripping firsthand account of a woman fighting online blackmail after receiving a chilling threat demanding $2,400. MY STOLEN PLANET (directed by...
We’re thrilled to celebrate Roni Jo Draper, Ph.D.—an enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe (the largest in California) and a WMM Production Assistance (PA) Program filmmaker—on being selected for the 2025 Sundance Graton Fellowship for Artists from California-Based Tribes. Her short FIRE TENDER, made with the support of WMM’s PA Program, premiered last year on...
Congratulations to Women Make Movies filmmaker and Production Assistance Program Alum Rea Tajiri, who has been selected to be in the 2025 cohort of USA Fellows, a program of the national arts-funding organization United States Artists. Tajiri is an award-winning, longtime WMM filmmaker. Her groundbreaking film HISTORY AND MEMORY, a view into Japanese internment camps...
We’re excited to announce that four films from the WMM Production Assistance Program and notable WMM filmmakers and alum will premiere at this year’s SXSW. The festival runs from March 7–15, 2025, in Austin, TX. The following films were made with the support of our Production Assistance Program: ARREST THE MIDWIFE (Directed by Elaine Epstein,...
We are thrilled to announce that SUGARCANE (dir. Julian Brave NoiseCat, Emily Kassie), made with the support of the WMM Production Assistance Program, has been nominated for Best Documentary in the 96th Academy Awards®! This documentary, which recently won Best Political Documentary and Best True-Crime Documentary at the Critic’s Choice Awards, reveals a groundbreaking investigation...
On January 4, 2025, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous honor to civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the greatest leaders of the Civil Rights Movement and the subject of WMM release FANNIE LOU HAMER’S AMERICA, directed by Joy Davenport and produced by Monica...
