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We are excited about our latest release, MY NAME IS ANDREA! Directed by award-winning, longtime WMM filmmaker Pratibha Parmar (ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH, WARRIOR MARKS, A PLACE OF RAGE, KHUSH, and more), MY NAME IS ANDREA, is a hybrid feature documentary about one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century who, shaped by the values...
Updated April 6, 2024 We’re excited to announce that WMM Release A WOMAN ON THE OUTSIDE (dir. Zara Katz and Lisa Riordan Seville, prod. Kiara C. Jones) will be broadcast on WORLD Channel on March 28 as part of America ReFramed’s 12th season. The film will launch “Liberated Lives,” a theme curated by WORLD, which will be...
We’re excited to share that 5 WMM films and filmmakers will have their world premieres at SXSW this year, including 3 Production Assistance Program films: An Army of Women (Germany, Norway) Director: Julie Lunde Lillesæter, Producers: Natalya Sarch, Julie Lunde Lillesæter The In Between (United States, Mexico) Director: Robie Flores, Producers: Alejandro J Flores, Kellen Quinn 7 Beats Per...
We’re excited to share that 7 WMM films and filmmakers are in the line-up at CPH: DOX this year, and Executive Director Debra Zimmerman will be in attendance at the festival! Continuing its successful festival run — including premieres at Venice, Toronto, DOC NYC, and Palm Springs — WMM Release BYE BYE TIBERIAS (dir. Lina Soualem)...
We are deeply grateful for the continued and generous support from the National Endowment for the Arts! Women Make Movies is among 958 Grants for Arts Projects awards totaling more than $27.1 million that were selected to receive this first round of fiscal year 2024 funding. “The NEA is delighted to announce this grant to...
We’re excited to share that six WMM films and filmmakers are screening at the prestigious 74th Berlinale Film Festival! Three Production Assistance Program films will have world premieres: INTERCEPTED (dir. Oksana Karpovych, prod. Giacomo Nudi); A BIT OF A STRANGER (dir. Svitlana Lishchynska, prod. Anna Kapustina); and REAS (dir. Lola Arias, prod. Gema Juárez Allen). Also screening are DAHOMEY (ATLANTICS), a premiere of the new film by WMM...
This has been an exceptional year for Women Make Movies where 20 WMM films and filmmakers were eligible for documentary awards! Nominated for Best Documentary is THE ETERNAL MEMORY, a new film directed by WMM PA alum Maite Alberdi, which centers on a Chilean couple coping with Alzheimer’s disease. And WMM Program Alum Christine Turner received a nomination for Best Short Documentary for, THE BARBER OF LITTLE...
We are thrilled to see that WMM Production Assistance Program film TO KILL A TIGER, directed by Nisha Pahuja and produced by Nisha Pahuja, Cornelia Principe, and David Oppenheim, is nominated for Best Documentary in this year’s Academy Awards®! This powerful film, which is also nominated for the IDA Documentary Award for Best Writing, tells the story...
Nominated for the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary, Women Make Movies’s new release BYE BYE TIBERIAS (dir. Lina Soualem) is now playing in theaters in New York City and Los Angeles. The film had its NY theatrical premiere on January 12 at the Firehouse: DCTV’s Cinema for Documentary Film with a SOLD...
