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HIGHWAY COURTESANS
KEEP NOT SILENT:
ORTHO-DYKES
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JULY 2005
WMM|ENEWS
 WMM FILMMAKERS GET NATIONAL EMMY NOMS
HIGHWAY
COURTESANS AND IN THE MORNING AT NY AIFF
KEEP
NOT SILENT: ORTHO-DYKES AT THE CASTRO THEATER IN SF
WMM FILMMAKERS GET NATIONAL EMMY NOMS
Three WMM films were nominated for EMMY AWARDS in a recent announcement by the
National Television Academy.
AFGHANISTAN UNVEILED,
by Brigitte Brault and the AINA Women's Filming Group, which premiered on the
award winning PBS Series Independent Lens last season, was nominated for Best
Documentary. This remarkable doc follows the first women trained as
video-journalists in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban.
Kim Longinotto's 2002 film
THE DAY I WILL NEVER FORGET,
a gripping feature documentary that examines the practice of female genital
mutilation in Kenya, was nominated for Outstanding Cultural & Artistic
Programming, Long Form. The film screened on HBO's Cinemax. Longinotto's new
film SISTERS IN LAW, co-directed by Florence Ayisi, won two awards at its
recent Cannes premiere and will be touring festivals worldwide beginning this
fall. The only doc selected for Directors Fortnight in Cannes this year, this
totally fascinating and often hilarious film looks at the work of two
forward-thinking women in one small courthouse in Cameroon.
Finally, first-time director LisaGay Hamilton picked up a nomination for
Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Direction for her film
BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS,
a moving documentary biopic about the legendary actress and activist Beah
Richards that screened on HBO. Catch one of two free screenings of the award
winning film at the long-running Newark Black Film Festival on Wednesday, July
20 at 7pm and Thursday, July 21 at 7pm. The director will speak at both
screenings. For more information, visit
http://www.newarkmuseum.org/nbff/schedule.html.
From our Fiscal
Sponsorship Program, Tami Gold and Kelly Anderson's EVERY MOTHER'S SON is
up for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Direction. The film
screened on the PBS series POV.
Congratulations
to all!
HIGHWAY COURTESANS AND IN THE MORNING AT
NY AIFF
Two WMM new
releases will screen at the upcoming Asian American International Film Festival,
held July 15-31 at the Asia Society in New York City. Mystelle Brabbee's
acclaimed coming-of-age story, HIGHWAY
COURTESANS, screens Sunday, July 17 at 4:30pm. Nine
years in the making, this riveting doc chronicles the story of young women in
the Bachara community in rural India, the last holdout of a custom that started
with India’s ancient palace courtesans and survives today with the sanctioned
prostitution of every Bachara family's oldest girl. A Q&A with the
director follows the screening.
On Saturday July 16 at 5:15pm, the festival screens Danielle Lurie's
award-winning IN THE
MORNING in the "Growing Pains" program. In this daring short drama which
premiered at Sundance, a young Turkish woman is brutally attacked, and the
responsibility of restoring her family's lost honor is left in the hands of her
younger brother: a thirteen-year-old boy.
For tickets and
showtimes, visit
www.aaiff.org.
KEEP NOT SILENT: ORTHO-DYKES AT THE CASTRO THEATER IN SAN FRANCISCO
Off the heels of
two screenings (July 10 & 14) at
LA's Outfest, Ilil Alexander's
KEEP NOT SILENT:
Ortho-Dykes, winner of an Israeli Oscar and of multiple festival
audience awards, has a centerpiece screening at the San Francisco Jewish Film
Festival July 27 at the historic Castro Theatre. The film, which documents the
painful struggle of three Orthodox Jewish lesbians and their secret support
group, the Ortho-Dykes, screens again on July
31 at the Roda Theatre in Berkeley. Director Ilil Alexander will attend. For
tickets and showtimes, visit
http://test.sfjff.com/festival.
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