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All the award nominations for the 2021 International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards have been announced and three films made with the support of our Production Assistance Program are among them!
Seven projects sponsored by WMM’s Production Assistance Program have been selected for DOC NYC’s Only in New York industry program! The program is an opportunity for filmmakers with works-in-progress to meet one-on-one with leading industry decision-makers.
The 2021 International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards have announced the shortlists for the Best Feature and Best Short categories and three films made with the support of our Production Assistance Program are among them! The IDA Awards are one of several awards organizations that help create momentum for documentary Oscar contenders.
Honoring the year’s leading achievements in nonfiction released in theaters, TV, and major digital platforms, the Critics Choice Association has announced their nominees for the Sixth Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards – and four WMM filmmakers are among them!
We are thrilled to announce that six WMM filmmakers, from both our Production Assistance and Distribution programs, will be premiering new films at the DOC NYC 2021 festival!
Congratulations to WMM filmmaker Brooke Pepion Swaney for winning two awards at the 22nd Annual Woodstock Film Festival! Swaney (Blackfeet/Salish) won the NYWIFT Award for Best Female Director and received a Special Mention for Best Emerging Filmmaker for her film, a new WMM release, DAUGHTER OF A LOST BIRD.
The 33rd Annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival is back with a hybrid edition, and we are excited to co-present two films at this year’s festivals! Don’t miss 130+ new queer films, premieres and panels, both in theater in New York City and streaming at home anywhere in the United States, October 15-26.
The International Documentary Association (IDA) announced its latest cohort of ten films receiving the IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund production grants and we are thrilled to see that NINE are directed and/or produced by a woman!
The 42nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards honored WMM release BELLY OF THE BEAST (dir. Erika Cohn, prod. Angela Tucker, Nicole Docta, and Christen Marquez) with an Emmy Award for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary! Selected from more than 2200 submissions, BELLY OF THE BEAST, which premiered on PBS’ Independent Lens in November 2020, was nominated in four categories.
