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Each year, the Library of Congress preserves twenty-five films to the National Film Registry that showcase the range and diversity of American film heritage, and we are honored to announce the selection of Women Make Movies’ release CHICANA (dir. Sylvia Morales) and THE WATERMELON WOMAN (dir. Cheryl Dunye)...
We are over the moon to see that about 62% of this year’s Sundance Film Festival’s Competition titles are directed or co-directed by women, and we are even more thrilled to see so many WMM filmmakers and program alum among them!
Women Make Movies has joined Peace Is Loud, Women and Hollywood, Oscilloscope Laboratories, Abigail Disney, rePRO, The Future of Film is Female, and others in the film industry in voicing our support for reproductive rights.
All the award nominations for the 2021 International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards have been announced and three films made with the support of our Production Assistance Program are among them!
Seven projects sponsored by WMM’s Production Assistance Program have been selected for DOC NYC’s Only in New York industry program! The program is an opportunity for filmmakers with works-in-progress to meet one-on-one with leading industry decision-makers.
The 2021 International Documentary Association (IDA) Awards have announced the shortlists for the Best Feature and Best Short categories and three films made with the support of our Production Assistance Program are among them! The IDA Awards are one of several awards organizations that help create momentum for documentary Oscar contenders.
Honoring the year’s leading achievements in nonfiction released in theaters, TV, and major digital platforms, the Critics Choice Association has announced their nominees for the Sixth Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards – and four WMM filmmakers are among them!
We are thrilled to announce that six WMM filmmakers, from both our Production Assistance and Distribution programs, will be premiering new films at the DOC NYC 2021 festival!
Congratulations to WMM filmmaker Brooke Pepion Swaney for winning two awards at the 22nd Annual Woodstock Film Festival! Swaney (Blackfeet/Salish) won the NYWIFT Award for Best Female Director and received a Special Mention for Best Emerging Filmmaker for her film, a new WMM release, DAUGHTER OF A LOST BIRD.
