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The Hot Docs Forum, the central industry event at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, recently concluded with its awards announcements this past Wednesday. For the second year in a row, a WMM filmmaker won the First Look Pitch Prize. This year’s winner ARREST THE MIDWIFE, directed and produced by Elaine Epstein, and produced...
Originally posted on February 23, 2024 Republished: July 16, 2024 at 9:02 AM 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...
LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING, directed by Lisa Cortés and supported by WMM’s Production Assistance Program, has been nominated for an esteemed Peabody Award. The Peabody Awards, which recognize superior storytelling in media, selected their nominees from a pool of over 1,100 entries that encompass a wide array of themes and current issues. This documentary...
A new bill passed by the Senate this week and signed into law by President Biden demands that its Chinese owners sell the social media app TikTok within a year or face a U.S. ban, underscoring the themes explored in WMM release TIKTOK, BOOM., directed by Shalini Kantayya (CODED BIAS). The film delves into the...
We are deeply saddened to share that longtime WMM filmmaker Lourdes Portillo, a cherished member of the Women Make Movies family, passed away over the weekend at the age of 80. A Mexican-born documentary filmmaker whose work explored Latin American social issues, Lourdes directed influential and acclaimed works such as LAS MADRES: THE MOTHERS OF...
“Preserving the stories and voices of those who have been historically marginalized is a political and feminist act, and these restored and preserved films make a crucial contribution to documenting the complexity and multiplicity of women’s history.” – Amy Aquilino, Manager of Distribution & Digital Assets, WMM & Steering Committee Member, Women’s Film Preservation Fund...
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Congratulations to Sharon Yeung, director of WMM Production Assistance Program film WE ARE VOLCANOES, and Cherish Oteka, whose previous film FREE LYRIC was made with the support of the Production Assistance Program, for receiving 2024 IDA’s Logan Elevate grants. They were 2 of 3 filmmakers selected out of 76 nominees to receive $30,000 each supporting their feature-length...
Cinephiles and women’s cinema history buffs, we have great news for you. The Criterion Channel recently licensed a number of important WMM titles, including a special selection of films made in the 80s and 90s through the London–based Sankofa Film and Video Collective, which produced experimental narrative and documentary works that examine Black life in...
