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Congratulations to WMM PA filmmaker Sarah Friedland, director of FAMILIAR TOUCH, which was made with the support of our Production Assistance Program! Sarah won the prestigious Lion Of The Future – ‘Luigi De Laurentiis’ Venice Award for a Debut Film and the Orizzonti Best Director award at the Venice Film Festival. FAMILIAR TOUCH delves into...
We are excited to announce that GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT, directed by Michéle Stephenson and Joe Brewster and made with the support of the WMM Production Assistance Program, has won the Creative Arts Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking! The Creative Arts Emmy Awards celebrate the technical and artistic achievements that...
We’re excited to share that five WMM-supported films and filmmakers will be screening at the 62nd New York Film Festival, including three from our Production Assistance Program: BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE (dir. Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich) – A beautiful art film about the intellectual, philosophical and emotional imprint left by Martinican anti-colonialist writer and Afro-surrealist pioneer Suzanne...
We are thrilled to announce that WMM releases BYE BYE TIBERIAS (dir. Lina Soualem) and MY STOLEN PLANET (dir. Farahnaz Sharafi) and Production Assistance Program film DAHOMEY (dir. Mati Diop) have all been shortlisted as part of the European Film Awards Documentary Film Selection 2024. This places these three films among an exclusive group of...
The Camden International Film Festival (CIFF), a premier platform for showcasing cutting-edge documentary films, has just revealed its lineup, featuring 12 WMM films and filmmakers. Three films made with the support of WMM’s Production Assistance Program will be screening at Camden: APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS (dir. Petra Costa) MOTHER VERA (dir. Cécile Embleton and Alys...
The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off September 2 and features five WMM films and filmmakers. Two films made with the support of the Production Assistance Program are in the line-up including the North American Premiere of RUSSIANS AT WAR (dir. Anastasia Trofimova); and the Canadian Premiere of THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CESAIRE (dir. Madeline Ehrlich). We...
Making It Work: Success and Sustainability Conversations with Award-Winning Filmmakers Thursdays, June 6 – June 27 | ZOOM This winter, in one of our most successful webinar series ever, we talked with and celebrated WMM filmmakers who were nominated for documentary Academy Awards. This Summer we will continue the conversation with a series of immersive...
A new bill passed by the Senate this week and signed into law by President Biden demands that its Chinese owners sell the social media app TikTok within a year or face a U.S. ban, underscoring the themes explored in WMM release TIKTOK, BOOM., directed by Shalini Kantayya (CODED BIAS). The film delves into the...
Cinephiles and women’s cinema history buffs, we have great news for you. The Criterion Channel recently licensed a number of important WMM titles, including a special selection of films made in the 80s and 90s through the London–based Sankofa Film and Video Collective, which produced experimental narrative and documentary works that examine Black life in...
