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Press Releases and Announcements

• A New Film About Restaurant Workers and Wage Structure (5/20)

   

• Women Makes Movies for the Virtual Classroom: Looking for Digital Options for Teaching? We’ve Got You Covered. (5/20)

• THE ARCHIVETTES: A must-see film about the Lesbian Herstory Archives (5/20)

   

• Supporting Women Filmmakers: Help Ensure that Women’s Voices are Heard in 2020 and Beyond (05/20)

   

• Virtual Film Festival Films for Your Classroom (4/20)

   

• Looking for Digital Options for Teaching? We’ve Got You Covered. (4/20)

   

• THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED: A New Film About Surveillance & Human Rights (4/20)

   

• Women’s History Month: You’re Invited to a Virtual Film Festival (03/20)

   

• Doc on Indigenous Land Rights Helps Preserve Shinnecock Hills Sacred Land (02/20)

   

• It’s All in Me: WMM Classics Screen in Black Heroines Series at MoMA (02/20)

   

• Motherhood, Gender and Heroism: Two Films from Director Kristy Guevara Now Available (02/20)

   

• Waging Change Now Available: An Essential Film for Understanding our Economy (02/20)

   

• January 2020 eNews: WMM’s Oscars Streak Continues and More (01/20)

   

• New Release MARCELINE. A WOMAN. A CENTURY Screening at Lincoln Center (01/20)

   

• Academy Award Nomination for Petra Costa’s THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY! (01/20)

   

• Want to See More Films by Women? Donate to Women Make Movies (12/19)

   

• The Films of Trinh T. Minh-ha December 6-22 at Anthology Film Archives (12/19)

   

• New Acquisition Now Available: #FEMALE PLEASURE: Five Cultures. Five Women. One Story. (12/19)

   

• WMM at Sundance and News from our Staff (12/19)

   

• Do Something Amazing Today: Support Women Filmmakers for Giving Tuesday! (12/19)

   

• Education and Awareness on World AIDS Day: Explore Powerful Films NOTHING WITHOUT US, LOVESICK and More (12/19)

   

• Resilient Women Stand Up to Violence: Screen These Films for 16 Days of Activism (11/19)

   

• The Battle to Reclaim Sacred Lands in One of America’s Wealthiest Zip Codes: New Acquisition CONSCIENCE POINT Now Available for Preorder (11/19)

   

• #FEMALE PLEASURE: Five Cultures. Five Women. One Story: New Acquisition Now Screening Around the Country (11/19)

   

• “The documentary on size discrimination everyone needs to see” – New Release FATTITUDE About Weight Bias Now Available (11/19)

   

• December 1st is World Aids’ Day: Related Films for Screening (11/19)

   

• A NORMAL GIRL: The Struggle for Intersex Human Rights: New Release Featuring Intersex Activist Pidgeon Pagonis (11/19)

   

• Women Make Movies | November E-News: Upcoming Screenings, New Releases, Awards and More (11/19)

   

• WMM Re-Releases Two Digitally Remastered Early Feminist Classics from Sally Potter: THE GOLD DIGGERS and THRILLER Now Available (10/19)

   

• New Release THE CANCER JOURNALS REVISITED: “An Ode to the Breaking of Silence”: Revisiting Audre Lorde’s Classic Memoir (10/19)

   

• WMM at NewFest 2019: ALL WE’VE GOT and THE ARCHIVETTES at NY’s LGBTQ Film Festival (10/19)

   

• Domestic Violence Hotlines Receive Over 20,000 Calls a Day: HOME TRUTH and More Films for Domestic Violence Awareness Month (10/19)

   

• The Women Fighting to Preserve Lesbian Herstory: New Release THE ARCHIVETTES Chronicles the Lesbian Herstory Archives (10/19)

   

• The Shocking Case of Korey Wise of The Central Park Five and More Explored in FALSE CONFESSIONS (10/19)

   

• “A powerful argument for how necessary it is to watch the watchers” – An Arab American Community’s Surveillance by the FBI Before 9/11 (9/19)

   

• Climate Change is a Feminist Issue: FEED THE GREEN and More Films for Climate Week (9/19)

   

• New Release FALSE CONFESSIONS About the Dark Side of the American Justice System (9/19)

   

• Sally Potter’s Essential Early Feminist Films- Now Digitally Remastered (9/19)

   

• You’ve Spoken, We’ve Listened: New Site, New Pricing, New Ordering (9/19)

   

• Tune In Next Week for the Broadcast Premiere of COUNCILWOMAN (9/19)

   

• Webinars are back! Kick off the season with our Fundraising 101 Series (9/19)

   

• August E-News, Upcoming Screenings, New Releases, Awards and More (8/19)

   

• Two Films Exploring White Supremacy in America: WHITE RIGHT and EXIT and the Resurgence of Extremism (8/19)

   

• THE REST I MAKE UP and More New Releases Now on Kanopy (7/19)

   

• THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Gentrification in One of America’s Cities (6/19)

   

• Celebrate Pride: Stonewall and 50 Years of LGBTQI Liberation: New Release for Pride Month: Alexis Clements’ ALL WE’VE GOT (6/19)

   

• Production Assistance Newsletter – June 10, 2019 (6/19)

   

• The War Against Women: Films About the Fight for Reproductive Freedom (6/19)

   

• We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Used to It! Stonewall and 50 Years of LGBTQI Liberation (6/19)

   

• MARCELINE: Portrait of Filmmaker and Holocaust Survivor Marceline Loridan-Ivens (5/19)

   

• Acclaimed Films Now Streaming on OVID: Oscar Nominated and Sundance Winning Documentaries and Classic Fiction (5/19)

   

• Chicken & Egg + SXSW Join Us for Two In-depth June Webinars (5/19)

   

• THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD: Gentrification in One of America’s Largest Black Middle Class Communities (5/19)

   

• WMM News and Upcoming Workshops & Webinars: This Week – Self-Distribution: Two Case Studies (5/19)

   

• THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED on the Big Screen (5/19)

   

• New Release HOME TRUTH: “Essential viewing” – The Boston Globe (5/19)

   

• New Release- FEMINISTA: A Journey to the Heart of Feminism in Europe (5/19)

   

• New Releases Now on Kanopy (5/19)

   

• New Release: I AM THE REVOLUTION: Women Fighting for Justice in Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq (5/19)

   

• A THOUSAND GIRLS LIKE ME Wins at Full Frame (5/19)

   

• Announcing the new WMM.com (5/19)

   

• BIRTH ON THE BORDER:The Complexities of Life and Birth on the U.S.-Mexico Border (03/19)

   

• Films for Women’s History Month Now on Kanopy (03/19)

   

• HOME TRUTH: A Mother’s Fight for the Rights of Domestic Violence Victims (03/19)