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 AFRICAN STUDIES: New Voices
AFRICAN-AMERICAN: Celebrate the Lives of African-American Women
ASIAN & ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
CINEMA: Women Behind the Lens
EDUCATION: Equity in Education
ENVIRONMENTAL: Women Going Green
GENDER: Transcending Gender
HUMAN RIGHTS: International Collection
IMMIGRATION: A Place Called Home
INTERNATIONAL SECURITY & CONFLICT: Inside Terrorism
ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: New Perspectives
LABOR: Globalization, Labor and Women's Lives
LATINA: Films For Latina Studies
LEADERSHIP & POLITICS: Run Women Run
LITERATURE: Women of Words
MUSLIM: Behind the Veil
NATIVE: Through the Eyes of Indigenous Women
RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY: In Good Faith
TECHNOLOGY: (Re)Wiring Gender: Women in a Digital Age
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN:Ending the Silence
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AFRICAN STUDIES: New Voices
Exploring issues as varied as women in leadership to rape as a weapon of war and the movement to end traditional female genital mutilation, the African Studies Collection includes new releases AFRICA RISING and MRS. GOUNDO'S DAUGHTER as well as popular film IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA and Sundance Special Jury Prize in Documentary winner THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO, plus a diverse collection of films from Benin, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mali and other African countries.
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN: Celebrate the Lives of African-American Women
Including the essential civil rights films CHISOLM '72 - UNBOUGHT AND UNBOSSED and STANDING ON MY SISTERS' SHOULDERS, the acclaimed documentary LOVE & DIANE and biographies on the inimitable Audre Lorde and Beah Richards, the African American Collection celebrates the lives of African American women and the contributions they have made to their families, their communities and society.
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ASIAN & ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
These exciting titles from WMM range from witty explorations of identity to exquisite short dramas, presenting a range of films that tackle multiple issues facing Asian and Asian-American communities today.
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CINEMA: Women Behind the Lens
As directors, producers, actors, and screenwriters, women have utilized the power of film to create and transform their stories and images. From sexual politics as a cinematic subject in SUFFRAGETTES IN THE SILENT CINEMA and as a cinematographic choice in FILMING DESIRE to interviews with women directors around the globe in SHOOTING WOMEN and SISTERS OF THE SCREEN, this collection presents a look at women’s crucial contributions to cinema’s history and global reach.
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EDUCATION: Equity in Education
The films in this essential collection inspire social change in education. Learn about the role and impact of Title IX with new release PATSY MINK, examine gender disparities in math and science, and follow the personal story of an insightful high-school student whose life has been shaped by busing and school integration in FAR FROM HOME.
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ENVIRONMENTAL: Women Going Green
Whether they are suffering exposure to toxic chemicals or struggling to hold on to ancient, time-honored farming techniques, women are often the hardest hit by harmful environmental practices – and they are just as often at the forefront of fighting for change. WMM’s Going Green: Women and the Environment collection gathers together hard-hitting films that investigate issues of environmental destruction as well as celebrate the powerful women who are fighting back. Includes new releases MY TOXIC BABY and TOXIC TRESPASSES as well as RACHEL'S DAUGHTERS from Oscar and Emmy Award winning filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Saraf.
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GENDER: Transcending Gender
From a transcontinental love affair in a digital age in SEARCHING 4 SANDEEP, to the sensitive male to female transition portrait in Gemini Award-winning GIRL INSIDE, or the remarkable portrayal of Japanese women who live their lives as men in Kim Longinotto’s SHINJUKU BOYS, this extraordinary collection of films offers unique, insightful, and important titles for anyone seeking to better understand gender issues today. Also includes the powerful BOY I AM, THE LOST TRIBE, and more.
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HUMAN RIGHTS: International Collection
Featuring new releases AFRICA RISHING, AFTER THE RAPE and MRS. GOUNDO'S DAUGHTER, as well as Sundance Special Jury Prize-winner THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO and Academy Award-nominated GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA, the International Human Rights Collection fearlessly tackles crucial human rights issues from sex-trafficking in Bosnia to prisoner abuse in Israel. Screened in over 25 countries around the world, these vital works have garnered awards at the most prestigious film festivals worldwide.
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IMMIGRATION: A Place Called Home
This extraordinary collection features titles that celebrate the lives and achievements of immigrants in the U.S. and explore ongoing struggles of immigrants today. Includes new release MOTHERLAND and the acclaimed ADIO KERIDA (GOODBYE DEAR LOVE)
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INTERNATIONAL SECURITY & CONFLICT: Inside Terrorism
It's one of the most talked about issues of our time, but what really is terrorism? And who are the individuals behind the violence? WMM's Inside Terrorism Collection delves beneath the surface of this issue, and probes with sensitivity and humanity the complex psychologies and motivations behind this extreme form of protest. Anyone seeking to better understand terrorism in a global world, will want to consider the WMM Inside Terrorism Collection.
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ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: New Perspectives
How do people on both sides of the conflict cope while living in the middle of a war-torn zone? How can one avoid being consumed by hate and anger? Is it possible to end the brutal cycle of victim and victimizer? Lending insight into the everyday life, struggles, and decisions made by women who live in the region, this collection afford us, with honesty and humanity, new insight from all sides into a complex, longstanding. Includes the special set MY ISRAEL-REVISITING THE TRILOGY, SALATA BALADI (AN EGYPTIAN SALAD) the celebratory look at diversity in the Middle East, WOMEN IN STRUGGLE about female Palestinian ex-detainees, THIS IS NOT LIVING about the daily challenges of everyday women in Palestine and many others.
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LABOR: Globalization, Labor and Women's Lives
What drives the global economy? This diverse collection uncovers the connections between the experiences of women on a local level to broader economic patterns worldwide. From sex work to sustainable wages, these films tackle some of today’s most relevant issues and highlight the ways women are mobilizing to make changes in their lives. Includes 2005 Release Maid in America.
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LATINA: Films For Latina Studies
Exploring critical social, political and historical issues that affect Latina women today, this collection includes the Sundance Award winner EL GENERAL, new release A CRUSHING LOVE, and best-seller SENORITA EXTRAVIADA: MISSING YOUNG WOMAN.
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LEADERSHIP & POLITICS: Run Women Run
How are women making a difference in governments around the world? Run Women Run: Women in Leadership & Politics presents global perspectives on women and the power of political change. Follow the campaigns of two American women of color, in CHISHOLM ’72: UNBOUGHT & UNBOSSED and PATSY MINK: AHEAD OF THE MAJORITY, as they fight to break through the barriers thrown up at them in politics because of their race and gender. Watch the rise of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa's first freely-elected female head of state in IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA.
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LITERATURE: Women of Words
This collection of diverse women writers and poets showcases some of the most outspoken, talented and pioneering women in literature today. From great American writers, activists, and feminists like Tillie Lerner Olsen, Audre Lorde and Dorothy West, to Arab writer Nawal Al Saadawi from Egypt, and Asian American poets, Mitsuye Yamada and Nellie Wong, this is an outstanding collection of great literary women.
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MUSLIM: Behind the Veil
Who is the human being behind the veil? The films of this groundbreaking collection offer many answers and new questions. A diverse group of Muslim women daily challenge their role in a male-dominated world in the new release UNVEILED VIEWS. Move beyond the sensationalism of Islamic polygamy with the intimate FOUR WIVES – ONE MAN. In THE NOBLE STRUGGLE OF AMINA WADUD study Islam, race and women’s rights in the United States. Exploring stories of Islamic women from Egypt, Iran, France, Afghanistan, the Netherlands, Palestine, the United States and more, the documentaries of Beyond the Veil enlighten and challenge.
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NATIVE: Through the Eyes of Indigenous Women
This powerful collection of native voices features 2010 New Release TOXIC TRESPASS, which covers environmental racism impacting native communities, and CLUB NATIVE and MOHAWK GIRLS, two coming of age identity films by the acclaimed Mohawk director, Tracey Deer. Also included are the urgent and heartbreaking FINDING DAWN on the human rights crisis of aboriginal femicide, the spirited Southwestern artists’ film THE DESERT IS NO LADY, and provocative cultural look through NAVAJO TALKING PICTURE. These are diverse, dynamic, essential native visions, straight from the cameras of some of today’s most compelling women directors.
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RELIGION & SPIRITUALITY: In Good Faith
This powerful collection highlights the meaningful, unique, and complicated ways women of faith and spirituality reconcile their beliefs with issues of identity, sexuality, gender, and religious law and culture. From the deeply personal statements of faith and rebellion from new release WOMEN OF FAITH to the challenge and joys of gay marriage in IN MY FATHER’S CHURCH to the heartbreak of divorce under Israeli rabbinical law in SENTENCED TO MARRIAGE, or the controversial mixed-gender Muslim prayer service in THE NOBLE STRUGGLE OF AMINA WADUD, these films are a higher power unto themselves – and an indispensable collection for anyone interested in women and religion.
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TECHNOLOGY: (Re)Wiring Gender: Women in a Digital Age
Tackling issues such as bullying and sexual harassment in cyberspace with new release WIRED FOR SEX, LIES AND POWER TRIPS, the outsourcing of labor made possible by advances in communication technology, sex trafficking in the digital age, and reproductive and genetic technology, the films in this collection ask profound questions about how technology shapes the lives of women today and historically.
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VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN:Ending the Silence
Highlighting the extraordinary strength of women who survive sexual assault, institutional disregard, domestic violence and more, these films break the historical silence that has often surrounded issues of violence against women. Inspiring and eye-opening, this collection includes AFTER THE RAPE, about a Pakistani woman who fought a tribal council's order that she be gang-raped as punishment for a crime she didn't commit; SIN BY SILENCE, which examines a women's domestic violence support group - from inside prison walls; Sundance award-winner THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO; the critically acclaimed SISTERS IN LAW; Academy-Award Nominee GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA, and more.
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