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Great news! Several WMM-supported films will be showcased at the 2024 Woodstock Film Festival! The 25th edition of the Woodstock Film Festival, a haven for independent film and a platform for promoting new and established filmmakers, will occur from October 15 to October 20, 2024. Two films from our Production Assistance Program will have their...
We’re excited to announce that 14 Women Make Movies filmmakers have been awarded the prestigious 2024 Chicken & Egg Research & Development Grants! These grants provide crucial support to women and non-binary filmmakers in the early stages of their documentary projects, empowering them to explore new ideas and bring important stories to life. This year’s...
We’re thrilled to announce that four classic Women Make Movies films will be featured Sept. 20-29 at the Museum of the Moving Image as part of “Personal Belongings: First Person Documentary in the 1990s,” a series curated by Jeff Reichert and Asha Phelps. These screenings offer a rare opportunity to experience these iconic films on...
Congratulations to WMM PA filmmaker Sarah Friedland, director of FAMILIAR TOUCH, which was made with the support of our Production Assistance Program! Sarah won the prestigious Lion Of The Future – ‘Luigi De Laurentiis’ Venice Award for a Debut Film and the Orizzonti Best Director award at the Venice Film Festival. FAMILIAR TOUCH delves into...
Originally posted on February 23, 2024 Republished: October 7, 2024 at 12:22 PM ET “BYE BYE TIBERIAS cements Soualem’s status as a documentary filmmaker to watch.” – Variety “Suffused with the scents of Palestine, the film is an instructive and touching mosaic where past and present overlap, and a keen sense of heritage and transmission...
We are excited to announce that GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT, directed by Michéle Stephenson and Joe Brewster and made with the support of the WMM Production Assistance Program, has won the Creative Arts Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking! The Creative Arts Emmy Awards celebrate the technical and artistic achievements that...
We’re excited to share that five WMM-supported films and program alum will be screening at the 62nd New York Film Festival, including two from our Production Assistance Program: BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE (dir. Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich) – A beautiful art film about the intellectual, philosophical and emotional imprint left by Martinican anti-colonialist writer and Afro-surrealist pioneer Suzanne...
We are thrilled to announce that WMM releases BYE BYE TIBERIAS (dir. Lina Soualem) and MY STOLEN PLANET (dir. Farahnaz Sharafi) and DAHOMEY (dir. progam alum Mati Diop) have all been shortlisted as part of the European Film Awards Documentary Film Selection 2024. This places these three films among an exclusive group of 12 feature...
The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF), a premier platform for showcasing cutting-edge documentary films, has just revealed its lineup, featuring 12 WMM films and filmmakers. Three films made with the support of WMM’s Production Assistance Program will be screening at Camden: APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS (dir. Petra Costa) MOTHER VERA (dir. Cécile Embleton and Alys...
