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Congratulations to WMM Board Member Lisa Cortés on receiving the 2026 Black Film Space Visionary Award, a special honor given to prominent Black filmmakers and leaders who shape the landscape of film and television! The BFS Awards take place on Sept. 20, from 1–5 PM. A beloved member of the WMM community, Lisa has built...
Congratulations to Olivia Newman, former WMM intern and staff member, on her Primetime Emmy win! Olivia directed REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES, the 2026 Netflix drama starring veteran actress Sally Field, which won the Emmy for Outstanding Movie at the 78th Primetime Emmy Awards. Field made history as well, becoming the oldest actress ever to win Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. Adapted...
Congratulations to the Production Assistance films selected for the 2026 Gotham Week Project Market, taking place September 27–October 3: BAD GIRL MARCIA TUCKER (dir. Simone Estrin, prod. Mafe Simonsen) After being fired from NYC’s Whitney Museum for her radical exhibitions, feminist curator Marcia Tucker founded the New Museum in 1977 to champion marginalized artists. BAD GIRL MARCIA TUCKER...
WMM classic A PLACE OF RAGE (dir. Pratibha Parmar) will screen as part of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s Black on Screen: Century of Radical Visual Culture series. Join the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture on Tuesday, September 22, from 6:30–8:30 PM in New York, NY, for a screening of A PLACE OF RAGE (1991), a WMM release...
We’re excited to announce that LIKE MAGIC (dir. Melissa Saavedra Gil), made with the support of the WMM Production Assistance Program, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). In her debut feature film, Columbian filmmaker Melissa Saavedra Gil transforms a childhood tragedy into a powerful exploration of memory, truth, and healing. We are also...
The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF) has just revealed its lineup, featuring 5 WMM films and filmmakers. NO MONEY, NO HONEY (dir. Nicole Costa), made with the support of the Production Assistance Program, will have its world premiere in competition for the Cinematic Vision Award. The film is a portrait of Máxima, a sex worker in 90’s and early...
BARBARA FOREVER directed by Brydie O’Connor and made with the support of the WMM Production Assistance Program, will have its theatrical release this September! The film, which premiered at Sundance and won the prestigious Teddy Award for Best Documentary/Essay Film at the Berlinale, follows the legacy of experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer, a trailblazer among the feminist and queer movements of the 1970s. Women Make Movies...
The BlackStar Film Festival, now celebrating 15 years of Cinema for Liberation, returns August 6-9, 2026 in Philadelphia — and Women Make Movies is proud to have seven films connected to our organization screening at this year’s festival. ? A DIFFERENT IMAGE (1982, dir. Alile Sharon Larkin), long distributed by Women Make Movies and recently digitally preserved by UCLA Film & Television Archive, will be in the line-up. A foundational...
This month marks 36 years since the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This landmark legislation, signed on July 26, 1990, made disability-based discrimination unlawful and revolutionized the way we consider all people’s abilities. Today, disability rights activists are warning that recent federal actions could weaken decades of progress toward community integration and independent living. This moment demands that we revisit one of the central questions of disability...
