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THE LOST TRIBE
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OCTOBER 2005
WMM|ENEWS
 HIGHWAY
COURTESANS TOURS FESTIVALS WORLDWIDE
WMM
ACQUIRES "THE LOST TRIBE" | PREMIERE SET FOR SEATTLE
WMM
FILMS MAKE A SPLASH AT FALL FESTIVALS
MARLO
PORAS WINS LARGEST PRIZE AT IFP MARKET
DESIRE
PREMIERE AT AFI TO BENEFIT NEW ORLEANS FEST;
FREE REPLACEMENT TAPES TO KATRINA VICTIMS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
| FALL WORKSHOPS & OFFICE SPACE
HIGHWAY COURTESANS TOURS FESTIVALS WORLDWIDE
WMM ACQUIRES "THE LOST TRIBE" | PREMIERE SET FOR SEATTLE
WMM is pleased to announce the acquisition of Rachel Landers'
THE LOST TRIBE,
which premieres at the upcoming
Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival on
Monday, October 17. This hilarious and
highly-charged film introduces us to
Ex-Mormon-lesbian-atheist Sue Ann Post, who has
molded a career as an award-winning stand-up comic from the lurid and toxic brew
of tales from her childhood and adolescence. When
this one-of-a-kind ex-Mormon travels to Salt Lake City to speak at a conference
for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Mormons, and learns
she has been officially ex-communicated, the outrageous and emotional roller
coaster begins.
Also
playing at the Seattle fest are 2005 Releases
KEEP NOT SILENT and
A KNOCK OUT.
For
more info,
visit
www.seattlequeerfilm.com/05/slgff_home.html.
WMM FILMS MAKE A
SPLASH AT FALL FESTIVALS
Look for WMM films at more than a dozen festivals throughout the US this
fall. Highlights include:
Chicago International Film Festival
 PHANTOM
OF THE OPERATOR
Sunday, October 9 at 1:00PM
Mill Valley Film Festival
Special Women Make Movies Program
HIGHWAY COURTESANS
Saturday, October 15, 3:00PM, Sunday, October
16, 7:30PM
BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS
Saturday, October 15, 12:30PM, Sunday, October
16, 5:15PM
TROOP 1500: GIRL SCOUTS
BEYOND BARS
Saturday, October 15, 7:15PM
Hamptons International Film Festival
Two US Premieres!
SISTERS IN LAW
Friday, October 21, 5:00PM, Sunday, October 23, 1:30PM
MY LAND ZION
Friday, October 21, 9:30AM, Sunday, October 23, 10:00AM
Also Screening:
HIGHWAY
COURTESANS
Friday, October 21, 11:00 AM
Hawaii International Film Festival
SISTERS IN LAW
October Sunday, 23,
12:15PM, Tuesday, October 25, 6:15PM
HIGHWAY
COURTESANS
Friday, October 21, 9:45PM
Margaret Mead Film Festival
SISTERS
IN LAW
Saturday, November 5 at 8:30PM
SENTENCED
TO MARRIAGE
Sunday, November 6 at 3:45PM, Sunday, November 13
at 12:30PM
MARLO PORAS WINS LARGEST PRIZE AT IFP MARKET
At this year's IFP Market , WMM filmmaker,
Marlo Poras (MAI'S
AMERICA) walked away with the Documentary Completion Award for her
work-in-progress THE CANDIDATE. The $31,500 award in goods and services is the
largest IFP prize.
For more information on the project visit:
http://www.marloporas.com. Congratulations Marlo!
DESIRE PREMIERE AT AFI TO BENEFIT NEW ORLEANS FEST;
FREE REPLACEMENT TAPES TO KATRINA VICTIMS
WMM is pleased to announce the World Premiere of
DESIRE by New
Orleans filmmaker Julie Gustafson at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles. Originally slated to
screen at the New Orleans Film Festival, which was cancelled by Hurricane Katrina,
the film had been pre-selected for three awards: Best Documentary, Best
Louisiana Film and the Grand Jury's prize for the festival.
Nearly a decade
in the making, this refreshingly honest film documents the lives of
a diverse group of young women from New Orleans—two from local housing
projects, a working-class single mother, and two girls from a prestigious
private high school—by letting them film their own stories. The resulting pieces
offer poignant and insightful perspectives on the complicated dynamics of race
and class in New Orleans. All proceeds from
screenings to benefit the New Orleans Film Festival.
Download a press kit for DESIRE at
http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/press/desire_presskit.pdf
REPLACEMENT TAPES FOR KATRINA
VICTIMS:
WMM would like to show our support to our New
Orleans and Mississippi customers by offering free replacement tapes for any of
our titles damaged by the hurricane. For more information, please contact
orders@wmm.com.
ANNOUNCEMENTS | FALL WORKSHOPS
& OFFICE SPACE
- FALL WORKSHOPS -
WMM's Fall
Media Workshops start next week and space is available for all
sessions.
Highlights include a case study with the producers of Miranda July’s celebrated feature, ME
AND YOU AND EVERYONE WE KNOW (Thursday, October 13th) and a documentary master class with THE
WEATHER UNDERGROUND
director/producer Sam Green (Tuesday, November 8th).
- OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT IN SOHO - 1200 sq. ft. loft office,
hardwood floors, high ceilings in classic building with a Broadway address.
We would love to have another media, arts or not-for-profit group on our
floor, so spread the word! Also coming up in the late fall:
Conference/screening room/meeting room to rent, affordable conference space
for small groups (less than 20). For more information, call:
212-925-0606. Or email info@wmm.com.
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