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Women Make Movies has a 50-year history of supporting women filmmakers and distributing artistically significant films to audiences with an intentional focus on uplifting the voices of underrepresented women and enriching society. With a mission of increasing gender equity in the film industry, we support women filmmakers with production assistance and tailored distribution strategies. We have a long history of supporting women of color, differently abled women, LGBTQIA people, and other communities too rarely represented both on-screen and behind the camera.
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SUGARCANE Nominated for Peabody Award
The Peabody Awards just announced its nominees in documentary, news, public service, and radio podcast categories for its 85th competition. We are happy to announce that out of over 1,000 submissions, SUGARCANE (dir. Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat), made with the support of WMM’s Production Assistance Program, is one of the nominees! SUGARCANE...
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WMM at Hot Docs 2025: Films Screening, Premiering, and Pitching
The 2025 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is coming up, and eight films made with the support of our Production Assistance Program will be premiering or screening at the festival, and five exciting new projects from our program will be participating in Works in Progress and Deal Maker. PREMIERING & SCREENING AT HOT DOCS...
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CPH:DOX Award Wins!
Two films made with support of Women Make Movies’s Production Assistance Program took home awards at CPH:DOX this year. 9 MONTH CONTRACT (dir. Ketevan Vashagashvili, prod. Anna Khazaradze, Nino Chichua, Martichka Bozhilova & Sylvia Nagel) won the Human Rights Award for its unflinching look at the surrogacy industry in Georgia. Told through the lens of...
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