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JUNE 2005
WMM|ENEWS
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TO MARRIAGE & MAID IN AMERICA PREMIERE AT LAFF
WMM
TO ATTEND SUNNY SIDE; ZIMMERMAN ON DOC PANEL
NEW RELEASES SCREEN AT TOP LGBT FESTS IN NY & SF
MORE
ACCLAIM FOR WMM FILMS & FILMMAKERS
SENTENCED TO
MARRIAGE & MAID IN
AMERICA
PREMIERE AT LAFF
Two WMM New Releases have premieres at the
upcoming Los Angeles Film Festival, June
16-26.
Enjoying its US Premiere is acclaimed filmmaker Anat Zuria's
SENTENCED TO MARRIAGE, recently lauded
at Hot Docs as the Best Documentary in
the Israel National Spotlight Programme. This shocking documentary exposes the Kafkaesque process of divorce in Israel, where secular law does not exist,
and divorce is dealt with according to archaic and fundamentalist orthodox Jewish law.
The film screens Thursday, June 23 at 9:45 pm and Sunday, June 26 at 3 pm.
LA filmmaker Anayansi Prado's
MAID IN
AMERICA celebrates its hometown premiere
on Saturday,
June 18 at 11 am at the DGA Theater. Inspired by women she met on her daily
commute, Prado spent more than three years documenting the stories of
three Latina immigrants, just a few of the more than 100,000 domestic workers
working in Los Angeles today.
Both filmmakers will be in attendance at
the festival.
For more information, visit
http://www.lafilmfest.com/home.php
WMM TO ATTEND SUNNY SIDE; ZIMMERMAN ON DOC PANEL
Look for WMM Executive Director Debra Zimmerman representing WMM films at the 16th Annual Sunny
Side of the Doc Documentary Market, June 29 to July 2 in
Marseilles, France. On Wednesday June 29, Zimmerman will speak on the panel "Distribution in the US"
along with Jonathan Miller (Icarus/First Run), Richard Lorber (Koch Lorber
Films) and Diana Holtzberg (Films Transit). Moderated by ITVS's Claire Aguilar,
the panel will address the recent successes of US documentary distribution.
If you are planning to attend Sunny Side, and would like to set up a meeting,
please email dz@wmm.com as soon as possible.
Download our market flyer.
WMM NEW RELEASES SCREEN AT TOP LGBT FESTS IN NY & SF
WMM New Releases are featured in Gay & Lesbian Film Festivals on both
coasts. Ilil Alexander's acclaimed debut film,
KEEP NOT SILENT, which reveals the
struggles of three orthodox lesbians living in Israel, had its US Premiere at New
York's NewFest on June 9th. Tessa Boerman's film on lesbian boxing champ
Michele Aboro, A KNOCKOUT,
screened June 11th.
The upcoming San Francisco
International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, the world's oldest and largest
celebration of LGBT cinema, will show three WMM films.
TOMBOYS! FEISTY GIRLS AND
SPIRITED WOMEN screens June 19,
A KNOCKOUT on June
20 and GIRL WRESTLER
on June 22. For tickets and showtimes, visit
www.frameline.org/festival/29th/index.html.
Other
screenings:
The Atlanta Film Festival screens WMM's acclaimed new release
HIGHWAY COURTESANS
on Saturday, June 18.
TROOP 1500: GIRL SCOUTS
BEYOND BARS screened at the fest on June 14. For more info, visit
www.imagefv.org/aff2005.
Don't miss your
chance to see Ulrike Ottinger's 1979 classic post-modern masterpiece
TICKET OF NO RETURN,
featuring Tabea Blumenschein and cameos by Nina Hagen, Magdalena Montezuma, and
Eddie Constantine. The film screens June 18 at Millennium Film Workshop
in New York. For more info, visit
http://www.millenniumfilm.org/showing/showing.html
MORE LAUDS FOR WMM FILMS AND FILMMAKERS
WMM's newest release SISTERS IN LAW,
by internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto and co-directed by
Florence Ayisi
picked up two
awards at the recent
Cannes Film Festival: the Prix Art et Essai, one of the highest awards in the
Director’s Fortnight sidebar, as well as Special Mention Europa Cinemas.
LisaGay Hamilton's
BEAH: A BLACK
WOMAN SPEAKS
won a coveted Peabody Award, cited as giving "remarkable insight into her [Beah Richards'] life as an
actress, poet and teacher."
SUMMER OF THE SERPENT
filmmaker Kimi Takesue was recently awarded two prestigious grants: a
Guggenheim Fellowship and an Artists' Fellowship from the New York
Foundation for the Arts.
Emerging filmmaker Danielle Lurie's
IN THE MORNING
won
Best Short
Narrative at the
Nashville Film Festival.
LA CUECA SOLA
by veteran filmmaker Marilu Mallet
won the Audience Award at the Cine Las Americas Film Festival.
Tribeca Film
Festival Best Doc co-winner
THE MAN WHO STOLE MY
MOTHER'S FACE by Cathy Henkel picked up the
Audience Choice Award at the London
Australian Film Festival.
SHOUTING SILENT
filmmaker Xoliswa Sithole won a British
Academy Television Award (BAFTA) for her most recent film, Orphans of Inkandla.
Karin Michalski won the award for Most
Promising Newcomer at the Birds Eye View Film Festival for her film
PASHKE AND SOFIA.
SISTERS OF THE SCREEN
won an Honorable Mention at the Reel Women Film Festival held in Los
Angeles.
Congratulations to all of our filmmakers!
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