2007 SUPPLEMENT NOW AVAILABLE: EXCITING NEW RELEASES
WMM’s 2007 Supplement
is here,
featuring exciting New Releases! Check out new films in our
extraordinary Beyond the Veil Collection, such as
LEILA KHALED,
HIJACKER, which screened recently at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
The supplement also includes new additions to the exciting Girls Project
collection and the educational release of audience favorite,
I WAS A TEENAGE
FEMINIST.
If you are a WMM customer, look for a copy in your mailbox! Visit
our website
to request a
copy of the catalog or to
download the PDF version.
THAT'S HOT! WMM FILMS AT HOT DOCS
WMM is making a strong showing at this year's Hot Docs Canadian International
Documentary Festival, April 19-29.
Winner of the Sundance Festival’s World Cinema Documentary
Jury Prize,
ENEMIES OF HAPPINESS screened
on April 21 and 23, while the latest from Ebtisam Maraana (PARADISE LOST),
3 Times Divorced, has its international premiere on April 26 and screens again on April 29.
The Foreign Eye by Lúcia Murat (HOW NICE TO SEE YOU ALIVE and
SWEET POWER) has
its Canadian premiere
on April 27 and 29.
Jennifer Fox (BEIRUT:
THE LAST HOME MOVIE) screened her latest film from WMM's Production
Assistance Program, Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman on April 20, and
it will show again on April
29. Fox also participates in Hot Docs Talk: The Art of the Interview.
Several other filmmakers from our Production Assistance Program will be showing their
newest films
as well:
The Devil Came on Horseback by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern (who will also speak in Hot Docs Talk: What Makes It Political?) and
A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory by Esther Robinson. Cathryne Czubek will also be participating in the Toronto Documentary Forum and will be pitching her doc-in-progress,
A Girl and a Gun.
And we are also pleased to announce that WMM staffer Maya Mumma has a short documentary in competition.
Blind Faith: A Film About Seeing
screens April 28 with the other finalists from the International Documentary
Challenge, a timed documentary filmmaking competition.
Finally - look for WMM
Executive Director Debra Zimmerman at Hot Docs!
COUNCIL ON
FOUNDATIONS INVITES WMM PARTICIPATION AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE, AWARDS THE GRACE LEE PROJECT
Executive Director Debra Zimmerman has been invited by the Council on Foundations to
speak to members during their Annual Conference in Seattle, WA this month.
Zimmerman along with other panelists will brief grantmakers in film and electronic media on the state of the media field and about the impact funders are having on media policy.
At the COF Awards
Gala
THE GRACE LEE PROJECT will receive the Council on Foundations' Henry Hampton Award for Excellence
in Film & Digital Media,
as will Oscar-nominee My Country, My
Country from WMM's Production
Assistance program. Filmmaker Grace Lee will be honored at the Film and Video Festival Dinner and Screening,
and Laura Poitras will present My Country, My Country as part of the conference's "Meet
the Filmmakers" series. TROOP 1500: GIRL SCOUTS BEYOND BARS
also shows during the conference at the Film & Video Festival Screenings.
WMM
AT TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
WMM is pleased to announce that eight filmmakers from the WMM Production
Assistance Program will be showing their latest projects at the Tribeca Film
Festival in New York, April 25 - May 6.
Projects that were produced with assistance from the PA program include A
Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory by Esther Robinson,
screening as part of the World Documentary Competition and Tootie’s Last Suit
by Lisa Katzman, screening in the Showcase section.
WMM also congratulates the following filmmakers whose previous work came out of
the PA program:
Abigail Child with On the Downlow (Discovery
section),
Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg with The Devil Came on
Horseback (Showcase section),
Andrea Štaka with
Fraulein (Showcase section),
Vanessa Roth with The Third Monday in October
(Family section),
Lynne Sachs with
The Small Ones (Shorts section) and
Peggy Stern with The Moon and the Son (Encounters
section).
GRACED WITH GRACIES - WMM FILMS GARNER TOP AWARDS
The American Women in Radio & Television (AWRT) recently announced the 32nd annual
Gracie Award winners, and two WMM filmmakers will be honored this year. AWRT
celebrates programming created for, by and about women, as well as individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the industry. The Gracies
strive to encourage the realistic and faceted portrayal of women in
entertainment, commercials, news, features and other programs.
Congratulations to
Ellen Spiro with TROOP 1500: GIRL SCOUTS BEYOND BARS:
Individual
Achievement
Award, Outstanding Director
GOD SLEEPS IN
RWANDA: Outstanding Documentary, Short Format
TROOP 1500: GIRL SCOUTS BEYOND BARS:
Outstanding Documentary, Long
Format
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