WMM’s 2006 Catalog Supplement is now available, featuring exciting New 2006 Releases, including Academy Award Nominee GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA, Kim Longinotto’s latest, SISTERS IN LAW and many more outstanding new titles. Click here to order a copy or download a PDF version from the web.
 

Following a highly successful screening at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, Martha Goell Lubell's QUEEN OF THE MOUNTAIN has its broadcast premiere on Philadelphia PBS station WHYY on Thursday, March 23 at 10pm and on New York's WNET Channel 13 Sunday, March 26 at 2pm. This fascinating bio pic tells the story of pioneering Jewish archaeologist Theresa Goell, who overcame a hearing disability and other personal obstacles to lead historic excavations at Nemrud Dagh, an isolated mountaintop in Southwestern Turkey. Read more.

NATIONWIDE TOUR OF ISRAELI FILMS COMES TO NEW YORK

As part of a nationwide tour in conjunction with the Israeli consulate, two award-winning documentaries by Israeli filmmakers will be shown in New York, both portraying Jewish women in Israel who are struggling with the confines placed on them by their religion. Showcase screenings include:

Friday, March 24th, Ilil Alexander’s KEEP NOT SILENT screens at the Pioneer Theater (East 3rd Street between Ave A & B) followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. Get tickets. Winner of multiple international awards, including an Israeli Oscar, this chilling film explores the plight of Orthodox Jewish lesbians fighting between faith and sexual identity. Sunday, April 2nd at 6:50, the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) presents KEEP NOT SILENT with SENTENCED TO MARRIAGE, from Anat Zuria, maker of award-winning film PURITY (Tehora), a shocking expose of the Kafkaesque process of divorce for Jewish women in Israel. More info and tickets

SISTERS IN LAW COMES TO FILM FORUM | New Yorkers: Help Spread the Word

WMM’s acclaimed new release, SISTERS IN LAW comes to NY's Film Forum for two weeks only April 12-25 followed by a nationwide rollout beginning with dates at Landmark theaters in Seattle and Boston. If you are in New York, help us spread the word by picking up postcards to pass out to your friends, bring to events you attend, and leave at your favorite café! Our office is located at 462 Broadway, 5th floor (at Grand St), so stop by between 10am and 6pm, Monday through Friday. Not a New Yorker? Stay tuned for more ways you can help spread the word—and catch this award-winning film at a theater near you.