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CORPUS: A Home Movie for Selena
A film by Lourdes Portillo
This classic from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Lourdes Portillo is a complex tribute to Selena, the Tejana superstar gunned down at age 23. Through clips of rare home movies and lively conversations with her father, sister and Latina intellectuals, this film moves well beyond the sensational to present a nuanced feminist analysis of Selena's story. More.

San Francisco Int’l FF, Golden Spire
Taos Talking Pictures  

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Everyone Their Grain of Sand
A film by Beth Bird
Beth Bird chronicles the struggles of the fiercely determined citizens of Maclovio Rojas, Tijuana, Mexico, as they battle the state government's attempts to evict them from their land to make way for corporate development. Over a three-year period, we follow the remarkably spirited and resourceful residents as they build a school by hand and persistently petition the state for such basic services as running water and pay for their teachers. More.

Los Angeles Film Festival, Target Award for Best Documentary
San Diego Film Festival, Feature
Film Award
 

Far From Home
A film by Rachel Tsutsumi
While busing is a rapidly-fading memory in most American schools, it continues to be a reality for over 3,000 Boston students every year. Kandice is one of them, an African-American teenager who has been bussed to a predominantly white suburb since kindergarten. In this revealing doc, she takes us inside her triumphs, struggles, and conflicted feelings about traversing these two worlds. She also reveals her family’s long history of integrated education and activism. More.

YALSA, Selected DVD for Young Adults
National Broadcast on CNN Presents

The Gender Chip Project
A film by Helen De Michiel
Following five young women majoring in the sciences, engineering and math at Ohio State University, THE GENDER CHIP PROJECT reveals how these students are finding new ways to honor their own growth, motivations and experience, and re-imagining how to make the science and technology workplace a comfortable environment for women. More.
 

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God Sleeps in Rwanda
A film by Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman; Narrated by Rosario Dawson
Academy Award Nominee!
The 1994 Rwandan Genocide left the
country nearly 70 percent female, handing Rwanda’s women an extraordinary burden and an unprecedented opportunity. An inspiring story of loss and redemption,
GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA captures the spirit of five courageous women as they rebuild their lives, redefining women’s roles in Rwandan society and bringing hope to a wounded nation. More.

Linda & Ali
A film by Lut Vandekeybus
Ali Saigal and his wife Linda have been married for 20 years, raising their traditional Islamic family in Doha, Qatar. But their relationship is far from traditional—Linda was brought up Catholic in Arizona and met Ali at college in the 1980’s. Shot over two years during the American invasion of Iraq, this poignant doc shows how Linda and Ali struggle to surmount their cultural differences while raising their seven children in a lively, loving home. More.

Chicago International Film Festival
Tiburon International Film Festival

The Lost Tribe
A film by Rachel Landers
This hilarious and highly charged film introduces Ex-Mormon-lesbian-atheist Sue Ann Post who has molded a career as an award-winning stand-up comic from the lurid and toxic brew of tales from her childhood and adolescence. When this one-of-a-kind ex-Mormon travels to Salt Lake City to speak at a conference for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Mormons and learns she has been officially ex-communicated, the outrageous and emotional roller coaster begins. More.

Seattle Int'l Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Out on Film - Atlanta GLBT Film Festival
 

Love, Honour & Disobey
A film by Faction Films, Directed by Saeeda Khanum
This eye-opening and powerful doc uncovers the disturbing reality of domestic violence in Britain’s black and ethnic minority communities, and profiles the work of the Southall Black Sisters, a small group of women who have been working to combat domestic violence for more than 25 years.
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Nalini by Day, Nancy by Night
A film by  Sonali Gulati
This award-winning documentary follows the filmmaker, an Indian immigrant living in the U.S., as she delves into the phenomenon of outsourcing of telephone support service jobs to India. Interspersing animation, archival footage, personal narrative, and live action, this witty film raises important questions about politics of identity and globalization. More.

24 Int'l Cinemateca FF, Uruguay,
1st Prize, International Short Film
Black Maria FF, Director's Choice Award

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Pride of Place
A film by Dorthea Gazidis and Kim Longinotto
A rarely seen classic, PRIDE OF PLACE was made as as a first project while Longinotto was a student at England’s National School of Television and Film. As a teenager, the filmmaker had been condemned to a girls' boarding school in an old, isolated castle in Buckinghamshire. Wisely, she ran away at the age of 17, and years later took the opportunity for sweet revenge.  More.

Tours Film Festival, Best Documentary
Sydney International Film Festival
 

Sisters in Law
A film by Kim Longinotto and Florence Ayisi
The only doc selected for Directors' Fortnight at Cannes this year, festival favorite Kim Longinotto's latest work (co-directed with Florence Ayisi) is a totally fascinating, often hilarious look at the work of one small courthouse in Cameroon. With fierce compassion, the tough-minded state prosecutor Vera Ngassa and Court President Beatrice Ntuba handle cases of abuse with wisdom, wisecracks and justice in fair measure. A cross between Judge Judy and The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, SISTERS IN LAW has audiences cheering when justice is served. More.

Cannes Film Festival - Prix Art et       Essai, Special Mention Europa Cinemas
Toronto Film Festival
 

That Paradise Will Be Mine
A film by Merel Beernink
A frank portrayal of what it means to be a Dutch Muslim, this eye-opening film follows the lives of three women dealing with the consequences of their choice to convert to Islam. Rather than pressing the women for the reasons behind their choice, director
Merel Beernink takes a close look at their day-to-day lives, letting them speak candidly about how they feel in their new cultural and religious context. More.

IDFA, Int’l Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam
One World Int’l Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

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Theatre Girls
A film by Kim Longinotto and Claire Pollak
In her final piece at film school, Longinotto and her partner take us into the "Theatre Girls Club" in Soho, London–a hostel for elderly and destitute women and the only shelter in London that would take in any woman at any time.  More.

Mannheim Film Festival, First Prize
Tours Film Festival, Special Mention