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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...
Zeinabu irene Davis, a filmmaker who has been with Women Make Movies since the 1990s, is a storyteller, educator, and trailblazer who has spent her career championing narratives that are often overlooked. And we are starting off 2025 by celebrating her as our January WMM filmmaker of the month! With a voice as unique as...
We’re excited to share that several WMM films and filmmakers have been recognized on Ms. Magazine’s list of the Best Feminist Documentaries of 2024! The list includes WMM release RAZING LIBERTY SQUARE, directed by Katja Esson, whose films we have been distributing for more than 20 years. This powerful documentary dives into the devastating...
Zeinabu irene Davis’s landmark film COMPENSATION— distributed by Women Make Movies from 2002 until 2023, when it was restored and re-released by The Criterion Collection—has been selected for inclusion in the prestigious National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. This recognition affirms the enduring cultural, historical, and artistic importance of Davis’s work, and its...
