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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!
The 33rd Annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival is back with a hybrid edition, and we are excited to co-present two films at this year’s festivals! Don’t miss 130+ new queer films, premieres and panels, both in theater in New York City and streaming at home anywhere in the United States, October 15-26.
The 42nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards honored WMM release BELLY OF THE BEAST (dir. Erika Cohn, prod. Angela Tucker, Nicole Docta, and Christen Marquez) with an Emmy Award for Outstanding Current Affairs Documentary! Selected from more than 2200 submissions, BELLY OF THE BEAST, which premiered on PBS’ Independent Lens in November 2020, was nominated in four categories.
Six films by WMM filmmaker Tracey Moffatt will be screening as part of the Spectacle Theater’s FILMS OF TRACEY MOFFATT program in Brooklyn, New York. The program kicks off on Friday, September 10th with an in-person and virtual screening of Moffatt’s 1993 stunning debut, and the first feature film directed by an Australian Aboriginal woman, BEDEVIL.
As the world watches the Taliban seize power in Afghanistan and women’s lives come under threat, we are making our Voices of Afghan Women film collection available to watch for free through September 12, 2021.
The New York State Council on the Arts and the New York Mayor’s Office are currently offering two funding opportunities to support filmmakers and artists to spur the revitalization of New York’s creative economy.
WMM release BELLY OF THE BEAST (dir. Erika Cohn, prod. Angela Tucker) has been nominated for four News & Doc Emmy Awards! The categories include Best Documentary, Outstanding Current Affairs: Documentary, Outstanding Direction: Documentary, and Outstanding Editing: Documentary.
WMM filmmaker Deeyah Khan (dir. WHITE RIGHT) has won a Peabody Award for her film MUSLIM IN TRUMP’S AMERICA, which investigates the rise in anti-Muslim hate groups, conspiracy theories and hate crimes during Donald Trump’s polarizing presidency.
Forthcoming WMM release AMERICA'S WAR ON ABORTION (dir. Deeyah Khan) has won a BAFTA TV 2021 award in the Current Affairs category.
