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Four WMM filmmakers took home EMMY wins last week at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards! THE JANES (dir. Emma Pildes and co-directed by WMM Production Assistance Program alum Tia Lessin) Winner: Best Documentary and Best Social Issue Documentary Additional Nominations include: “Outstanding Research: Documentary,” and “Outstanding Direction: Documentary.” ART & KRIMES BY KRIMES (co-directed...
One in four American women has a loved one who has been incarcerated. Given this, we are eager to create more conversation around the loved ones who are directly affected. We have teamed up with the team behind the award-winning documentary and WMM release, A WOMAN ON THE OUTSIDE (dir. Zara Katz and Lisa Riordan Seville) to present two...
Great news for the WMM community! Two out of the three documentaries selected for the inaugural Dianne Weyermann Fellowship at Points North announced this week at the Camden International Film Festival, are WMM-sponsored projects: THE LAST NOMADS (dir. Biljana Tutorov, co-dir. Petar Glomazić) & THE PRODUCTION OF THE WORLD (dir. Brett Story). THE LAST NOMADS, a...
Debra Zimmerman recently returned from two weeks in Malawi and Zambia. She traveled as an envoy for the American Film Showcase, the premier American film diplomacy program that organizes screenings and workshops with American filmmakers and film experts. Almost 100 participants participated in the workshops she and filmmaker Tracie Holder presented in the Lliongwe, Kitwe...
The 24th edition of the Woodstock Film Festival kicks off Wednesday, September 27 and WMM filmmaker Katja Esson (SKYDANCER, POETRY OF RESILIENCE, LATCHING ON, and FERRY TALES) is showcasing her new film RAZING LIBERTY SQUARE. Made with the support of the WMM production assistance program, RAZING LIBERTY SQUARE is the urgent and clear-eyed portrait of...
We are delighted to announce that our friends at DCTV will be hosting two NYC public screenings of WMM new release ESTHER NEWTON MADE ME GAY (Dir. Jean Carlomusto) at Firehouse Cinema on Wednesday, September 6th, and Thursday, September 7th at 7 pm EST. After the showing on September 6th, there will be a special...
WMM release RUNNING WITH MY GIRLS (dir. Rebekah Henderson) will have its broadcast premiere on WORLD Channel’s America ReFramed on September 14th, 2023. RUNNING WITH MY GIRLS follows five diverse female activists who run for municipal office in Denver (one of the U.S.’s fastest gentrifying cities) because they are tired of watching their local government...
Out of a pool of 93 films representing 31 countries, two documentaries made with the support of WMM’s Production Assistance Program won both top awards for Best Feature Documentary at the 2023 BlackStar Film Festival, which highlights productions by Black, Brown, and Indigenous film and media artists.
Eleven WMM Filmmakers have been nominated for the 75th annual EMMY Awards, including two WMM releases: TIKTOK, BOOM. (dir. Shalini Kantayya, whose previous film CODED BIAS was also Emmy-nominated), nominated for a News & Docs EMMY in the “Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary” category; and APART (dir. Jennifer Redfearn), nominated for a News & Docs EMMY in the “Outstanding...
