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We are thrilled to announce that FAMILIAR TOUCH (dir. Sarah Friedland), made with the support of Women Make Movies’s Production Assistance Program, will open the prestigious 54th edition of New Directors/New Films, presented by The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center. This highly anticipated festival will run from April 2 to April...
Women Make Movies invites you to watch exciting upcoming broadcasts and streaming of some of our most powerful and thought-provoking films. STATELESS Directed by Michèle Stephenson Now Streaming on Criterion Channel STATELESS is a gripping documentary that traces the impact of state-sanctioned racism in the Dominican Republic. In 2013, the country’s Supreme Court retroactively...
After being Palestine’s entry to the 2024 Oscars and receiving nominations for Best Documentary in both the Film Independent Spirit Awards and the European Film Academy Awards, WMM Release BYE BYE TIBERIAS (dir. Lina Soualem) is now one of six films nominated for Best Documentary in the César Awards, the French equivalent to the Oscars....
CPH:DOX announced the projects in their 2025 FORUM and ROUGHCUT sections this week, and three films being made with the support of the WMM Production Assistance Program will be pitching. Two will be part of the CPH:FORUM: House No. 7 (dir. Rama Abdi; prod. Hazar Yazji). This project received special recognition from the documentary...
The jury’s selections are in from Park City! Three WMM Production Assistance Program films took home awards: U.S. Grand Jury Prize: Documentary SEEDS (dir. Brittany Shyne, prod. Danielle Varga) — An exploration of Black generational farmers in the American South, revealing the fragility of legacy and the importance of owning land. Danielle Varga also received...
WMM is excited to announce its presence at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival! Two new releases will screen: MY SEXTORTION DIARY (directed by Patricia Franquesa, produced by Patricia Franquesa and Mireia Graell), a gripping firsthand account of a woman fighting online blackmail after receiving a chilling threat demanding $2,400. MY STOLEN PLANET (directed by...
We’re thrilled to celebrate Roni Jo Draper, Ph.D.—an enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe (the largest in California) and a WMM Production Assistance (PA) Program filmmaker—on being selected for the 2025 Sundance Graton Fellowship for Artists from California-Based Tribes. Her short FIRE TENDER, made with the support of WMM’s PA Program, premiered last year on...
Congratulations to Women Make Movies filmmaker and Production Assistance Program Alum Rea Tajiri, who has been selected to be in the 2025 cohort of USA Fellows, a program of the national arts-funding organization United States Artists. Tajiri is an award-winning, longtime WMM filmmaker. Her groundbreaking film HISTORY AND MEMORY, a view into Japanese internment camps...
We’re excited to announce that four films from the WMM Production Assistance Program and notable WMM filmmakers and alum will premiere at this year’s SXSW. The festival runs from March 7–15, 2025, in Austin, TX. The following films were made with the support of our Production Assistance Program: ARREST THE MIDWIFE (Directed by Elaine Epstein,...
