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WMM films are broadcast on television
and cable stations all over the world. In the US, our films
have been aired on the acclaimed PBS documentary programs
Independent
Lens and P.O.V.
as well as by many local PBS stations. You can also look for
our films on
HBO and HBO's
Cinemax, Sundance
Channel, and Oxygen
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Winter 2011/2012
SARABAH
Broadcast
on Link TV
January 15, 2012
Rapper, singer and activist, Sister Fa is hero to young women in
Senegal and an unstoppable force for social change. A childhood
victim of female genital cutting (FGC), she decided to tackle
the issue by starting a grassroots campaign, “Education Without
Excision,” which uses her music and persuasive powers to end the
practice. But until 2010 there’s one place she had never brought
her message – back home to her own village of Thionck Essyl,
where she fears rejection.
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BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN
SPEAKS
Broadcast
on
Doc Channel February 7, 2012
BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS, the directorial debut of actress
LisaGay Hamilton, celebrates the life of legendary African
American actress, poet and political activist Beah Richards,
best known for her Oscar nominated role in GUESS WHO'S COMING TO
DINNER. While Richards’ struggled to overcome racial stereotypes
throughout her long career onstage and onscreen in Hollywood and
New York, she also had an influential role in the fight for
Civil Rights, working alongside the likes of Paul Robeson, W.E.B.
DuBois and Louise Patterson.
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Fall 2011
PINK SARIS
Broadcast
on
HBO,
November 30, 2011
"A girl's life is cruel...A woman's life is very
cruel," notes Sampat Pal, the complex protagonist at the center
of PINK SARIS, internationally acclaimed director Kim
Longinotto's latest foray into the lives of extraordinary women. Sampat
should know - like many others she was married as a young girl
into a family which made her work hard and beat her often. But
unusually, she fought back, leaving her in-laws and eventually
becoming famous as a champion for beleaguered women throughout
Uttar Pradesh, many of whom find their way to her doorstep. Like
Rekha, a fourteen year old Untouchable, who is three months
pregnant and homeless or fifteen year old Renu, whose
father-in-law has been raping her. Both young women, frightened
and desperate, reach out for their only hope: Sampat Pal and her
Gulabi Gang, Northern India's women vigilantes in pink.
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SIN BY SILENCE
Broadcast
on
Investigation Discovery, October 17, 2011
Since 1989, Convicted Women Against Abuse, the first
inmate-initiated and -led group inside the US prison system, has
changed laws for battered women, raised awareness for those on
the outside, and educated a system that does not fully
comprehend the complexities of domestic abuse. From behind
prison walls, SIN BY SILENCE shatters misconceptions and reveals
the extraordinary lives of women who have killed their abusers
and now advocate for a future free from domestic violence.
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SISTERS IN LAW
Broadcast
on
ITVS, October 9, 2011 Festival favorite Kim Longinotto's latest work (co-directed with
Florence Ayisi) is a totally fascinating, often hilarious look at
the work of one small courthouse in Cameroon. With fierce
compassion, the tough-minded state prosecutor Vera Ngassa and Court
President Beatrice Ntuba handle cases of abuse with wisdom,
wisecracks and justice in fair measure. A cross between Judge Judy
and The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, SISTERS IN LAW has audiences
cheering when justice is served.
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THE LEARNING
Broadcast
on
POV,
September 20, 2011 THE LEARNING chronicles an
emotionally charged year in the lives of four Filipino women as
they leave their homeland to teach in Baltimore’s inner-city
schools. With their increased salaries, they hope to transform
their families’ impoverished lives back home. But the women also
bring idealistic visions of the teacher’s craft and of life in
America, which soon collide with Baltimore’s tough realities.
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Summer
2011
FAR FROM HOME
Broadcast
on the
Doc Channel, July 21, 2011
While busing is a rapidly-fading memory in most
American schools, it continues to be a reality for over 3,000
Boston students every year. Kandice is one of them, an
African-American teenager who has been bussed to a predominantly
white suburb since kindergarten. In this revealing doc, she
takes us inside her triumphs, struggles, and conflicted feelings
about traversing these two worlds. She also reveals her family’s
long history of integrated education and activism.
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GEORGIE GIRL
Broadcast on
KCET, Tuesday, June 14 at 10:00 pm.
Meet Georgina Beyer, the latest “it” girl of New Zealand
politics. A one-time sex worker of Maori descent turned public
official, Georgina stunned the world in 1999 by becoming the
first transgendered person to hold national office. Born George
Beyer, this unlikely politician grew up on a small Tarankai farm
and later became a small-time celebrity on the cabaret circuit
in Auckland. With charisma, humor and charm, Beyer
unapologetically recounts her fascinating life story, shares how
she overcame adversity and discloses the reasons she decided to
run for office in a mostly all white, conservative electorate.
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PINK SARIS

Broadcast on
TV Ontario, June 22 at 9pm
"A girl's life is cruel...A woman's life is very cruel,"
notes Sampat Pal, the complex protagonist at the center of PINK
SARIS, internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto's
latest foray into the lives of extraordinary women. (SISTERS IN
LAW, DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE, ROUGH AUNTIES) Sampat should know -
like many others she was married as a young girl into a family
which made her work hard and beat her often. But unusually, she
fought back, leaving her in-laws and eventually becoming famous
as a champion for beleaguered women throughout Uttar Pradesh,
many of whom find their way to her doorstep. Like Rekha, a
fourteen year old Untouchable, who is three months pregnant and
homeless or fifteen year old Renu, whose father-in-law has been
raping her. Both young women, frightened and desperate, reach
out for their only hope: Sampat Pal and her Gulabi Gang,
Northern India's women vigilantes in pink.
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Spring 2011
PUSHING THE ELEPHANT
Broadcast
on
PBS – Independent Lens, March 29, 2011
In the late 1990s, Rose Mapendo lost her family and home to the
violence that engulfed the Democratic Republic of Congo. She
emerged advocating forgiveness and reconciliation. In a country
where ethnic violence has created seemingly irreparable rifts
among Tutsis, Hutus and other Congolese, this remarkable woman
is a vital voice in her beleaguered nation’s search for peace.
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BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS
Broadcast
on the Doc Channel, March 29, 2011
BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS, the directorial debut of actress
LisaGay Hamilton, celebrates the life of legendary African
American actress, poet and political activist Beah Richards,
best known for her Oscar nominated role in GUESS WHO'S COMING TO
DINNER. While Richards’ struggled to overcome racial stereotypes
throughout her long career onstage and onscreen in Hollywood and
New York, she also had an influential role in the fight for
Civil Rights, working alongside the likes of Paul Robeson, W.E.B.
DuBois and Louise Patterson.
More.
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Winter 2011
MRS. GOUNDO'S DAUGHTER
Broadcast
on Afropop, PBS,
February 9, 2011
Mrs. Goundo is fighting to remain in the United States.
Threatened with deportation, her two-year-old daughter could be
forced to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), like 85
percent of women and girls in Mali. Using rarely cited grounds
for political asylum, Goundo must convince an immigration judge
that her daughter is in danger.
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Fall
2010
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TILLIE OLSEN: A HEART
IN ACTION
Broadcast
on FREE SPEECH TV, December 16, 2010
This revelatory documentary is an inspiring homage to Tillie
Lerner Olsen – a renegade, revolutionary, distinguished fiction
and non-fiction writer, feminist, humanist, labor organizer and
social activist. Politically active, class conscious, deeply
joined to the world, Tillie countered the very core of American
writing by immortalizing the lives of working class women and
single mothers. Her short stories “Tell Me a Riddle,” and “I
Stand Here Ironing,” galvanized the literary world and set in
motion an essential new perspective on the lives of ordinary
women. More.
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Summer
2010
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TO SEE IF I’M SMILING
Broadcast on LINK TV, September 19, 2010
Israel is the only country in the world where 18-year-old girls are drafted for compulsory military service. In this award-winning documentary, the frank testimonials of six female Israeli soldiers stationed in Gaza and the West Bank pack a powerful emotional punch. The young women revisit their tours of duty in the occupied territories with surprising honesty and strip bare stereotypes of gender differences in the military. The former soldiers share shocking moments of negligence, flippancy, immaturity and power-tripping as they describe atrocities they witnessed and participated in. More.
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THUNDER IN GUYANA
Broadcast on Global Voices, August 8, 2010
THUNDER IN GUYANA is the remarkable tale of Janet Jagan, a young woman from Chicago who married Guyanese activist Cheddi Jagan, and set off for the British colony to start a socialist revolution. For more than fifty years, the couple fought tirelessly to liberate the country from colonial rule and exploitation—despite battering by the international press, imprisonment and the intervention of world figures including Winston Churchill and John F. Kennedy. Free and fair elections were instituted in the early 90's, and Janet Jagan was elected president of Guyana in 1997, the first foreign-born and first woman to serve in the role. More.
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EL GENERAL
Broadcast on
PBS POV,
July 20, 2010
Past and present collide in this extraordinarily well crafted documentary when filmmaker Natalia Almada (ALL WATER HAS A PERFECT MEMORY), winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s US Directing Award for documentary, brings to life audio recordings she inherited from her grandmother. These recordings feature Alicia Calles’ reminiscences about her own father—Natalia’s great-grandfather—General Plutarco Elías Calles, a revolutionary general who became president of Mexico in 1924. In his time, Calles was called “El Bolshevique” and “El Jefe Máximo”, or “the foremost chief”. Today, he remains one of Mexico’s most controversial figures, illustrating both the idealism and injustices of the country’s history. More.
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Rough Aunties
Broadcast on
HBO,
May 19, 2010
Fearless, feisty and resolute, the “Rough Aunties” are a remarkable group of women unwavering in their stand to protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South Africa. This latest documentary by internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto follows the members of this outspoken, multiracial cadre as they wage a daily battle against systemic apathy, corruption, and greed to help the most vulnerable and disenfranchised of their communities. More.
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Fall
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Rough Aunties
Broadcast on
TVO,
December 6
Fearless, feisty and resolute, the “Rough Aunties” are a remarkable group of women unwavering in their stand to protect and care for the abused, neglected and forgotten children of Durban, South Africa. This latest documentary by internationally acclaimed director Kim Longinotto follows the members
of this outspoken, multiracial cadre as they wage a daily battle
against systemic apathy, corruption, and greed to help the most
vulnerable and disenfranchised of their communities. More.
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Señorita Extraviada, Missing Young Woman
Broadcast on
PBS Global Voices, September 6
Since 1993, more 400 young women have been raped and murdered in Juarez, Mexico. Authorities ignore pleas for justice, and evidence of government complicity remains uninvestigated as the killings continue to this day. SEÑORITA EXTRAVIADA is a haunting look at a heinous crime wave amid corruption in one of the world’s biggest border towns.
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Ella Es El Matador (She is the Matador)
Broadcast on
PBS P.O.V, September 1
So sacred was the bullfighter’s masculinity to Spanish identity that a 1908 law barred women from
the sport. This new release reveals the surprising history of the women who made such a law necessary,
and offers fascinating profiles of two female matadors currently in the arena, the acclaimed Maripaz Vega and neophyte Eva Florencia.
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Searching 4 Sandeep
Broadcast on
Logo, August 22 to 24
When Australian filmmaker Poppy Stockell decides to “research” a look at the lesbian Internet dating scene, she forges an unexpectedly deep online connection with an English woman, Sandeep Virdi. This uniquely modern love story follows the couple’s tumultuous relationship across two years and three continents, and is a touching examination of sexuality, religion, globalization, and culture.
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Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
Broadcast on
PBS P.O.V, July 28
Harrowing at one moment and heartwarming the next, this
recent release by preeminent documentarian Kim Longinotto is set
at England’s Mulberry Bush School, founded by Barbara
Dockar-Drysdale who developed unique methods for working with
children suffering through severe emotional trauma.
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Afghanistan Unveiled
Broadcast on
PBS Global Voices,
May 10
Filmed by the first ever team of women video journalists
trained in Afghanistan, this rare and uncompromising film
explores the effects of the Taliban’s repressive rule and recent
U.S.-sponsored bombing campaign on Afghani women. None of the
fourteen journalist trainees had ever traveled outside Kabul.
Except for one, none had been able to study or pursue careers
while the Taliban controlled their country.
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Arusi: A US-Iranian
Love Story
Broadcast on
PBS,
March 17
For filmmaker Marjan Tehrani and her brother Alex, growing up
Iranian-American has always meant being caught between two
worlds. With unique perspective and intimate storytelling,
Tehrani brings to life a compelling examination of US-Iranian
relations through the personal journey of her brother Alex and
his fiancée Heather’s trip to Iran to hold a traditional Persian
wedding—just as the filmmaker’s Iranian father and American
mother did at a time when Iran and the US were close allies.
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Leila Khaled: Hijacker
Broadcast on
Sundance Channel,
Feb. 2
In 1969 Palestinian Leila Khaled made history by becoming the first woman to hijack an airplane. As a Palestinian child growing up in Sweden, filmmaker Lina Makboul admired Khaled for her bold actions; as an adult, she began asking complex questions about the legacy created by her childhood hero. This fascinating documentary is at once a portrait of Khaled, an exploration of the filmmaker’s own understanding of her Palestinian identity, and a complicated examination of the nebulous dichotomy between "terrorist" and "freedom fighter."
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Hold
Me Tight, Let Me Go
Broadcast
on
CBC Newsworld, Nov. 16
Harrowing at one moment and heartwarming the next, this film is set at England’s Mulberry Bush
School, founded by Barbara Dockar-Drysdale who developed unique
methods for working with children suffering through severe
emotional trauma.
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Boy I
Am Broadcast
on HERE! TV, Available on demand from Sept. 12 to Oct. 9An important exploration of issues rarely touched upon by
most films portraying female-to-male (FTM) transgender
experiences, BOY I AM promotes understanding of transgender
issues for general audiences, while also encouraging
conversations heretofore unexplored among lesbian,
feminist, and transgender communities.
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Spring
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The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo
Broadcast on HBO, April 8
Shot in the war zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this extraordinary film shatters the silence that surrounds the shocking plight
of women and girls who, caught in this country’s intractable conflict, are being systematically kidnapped, raped, mutilated and tortured by soldiers
from both foreign militias and the Congolese army. More.
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Iron Ladies of Liberia
National broadcast premiere, March 18, on the PBS series Independent Lens
After surviving a 14-year civil war and a government riddled with corruption, Liberia is ready for change. On January 16, 2006, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was inaugurated
President – the first freely elected female head of state in Africa. As the filmmakers explore a historic transition from authoritarianism to democracy, the viewer is
treated to a joyous, inspirational testimony of the political power of women's leadership and diplomacy. More.
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Ferry Tales
Broadcast on Link TV, February 29
Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary short, this charming and often outrageous documentary reveals
a secret world in the powder room of the Staten Island Ferry – bringing together white-collar and blue-collar, sisters
and socialites in the feisty “ferry clique.” Broaching divorce, single motherhood and domestic violence, the film exposes
the realities facing working women today. More.
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Everyone Their Grain of Sand
Broadcast on Link TV, February 26, February 27
Beth Bird chronicles the struggles of the fiercely determined citizens of Maclovio Rojas, Tijuana, Mexico, as
they battle the state government's attempts to evict them from their land to make way for corporate development. Over a
three-year period, we follow the remarkably spirited and resourceful residents as they build a school by hand and persistently
petition the state for such basic services as running water and pay for their teachers. More.
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GIRL
INSIDE National broadcast premiere on MTV's Logo Channel, February 23
Following Madison during three years of her transition from male to
female, heartwarming GIRL INSIDE highlights Madison’s loving
relationship with her glamorous 80-year-old grandmother. Their
conversations raise profound issues about the nature of gender,
femininity, and sexuality. Sometimes funny, sometimes painful, this
sweet coming of age story is both a portrait and an exploration of
what it means to be a woman. More.
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The Sermons Of Sister Jane: Believing the Unbelievable
Broadcast on
Link TV, January 27 and February 1From Oscar and Emmy Award winning filmmakers Allie Light and Irving Saraf
comes their latest film - an engaging portrait that sparkles with the courage, wit
and humanity of Sister Jane Kelly, who combines her deep spiritual faith with her
equally powerful commitment towards resistance and change.
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