"When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!"- Agnès Varda
We'll miss you, Agnès. Thank you for everything.
#AgnesVarda
Announcing our 2018 FilmCraft and FilmWatch grant recipients, including three international film archives impacted by recent natural disasters. We admire the work that you do.
What does it mean to
#VoteLikeBlackWomen
? African-American women have long been one of the most reliable Democratic voting blocs. Black women led the way in the Civil Rights movement, a compelling story told in the doc STANDING ON MY SISTERS’ SHOULDERS:
Watch
@AbigailDisney
grapple with America's inequality crisis, exploring systemic injustices via her family's story in WMM-sponsored
@amerdreamdoc
. It's the movie Disney doesn't want you to see. In theaters and on digital September 23.
#AmericanDreamDoc
1. On this dark day, we want to restate our commitment to supporting women filmmakers who champion feminist perspectives, document issues of abortion access, address unjust laws, advocate for women’s bodily autonomy, and expose how women of color and poor women are
The WMM Virtual Film Festival now has more than 1000 attendees in 48 countries. A warm welcome to our new attendees from Israel, Peru, Romania, Thailand, and the Czech Republic. Reach across virtual distance. Join us:
Congratulations to Chloé Zhao for becoming the first woman of color to win top honor at the Directors Guild Association Awards! She is also the second woman to earn the honor.
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Behind the Lens Spotlight
1. Meet Marion Konwennénhon Delaronde!
Marion Delaronde (Mohawk) is an animator from the territory of Kahnawake. Receiving a Bachelor in Fine Arts with a Major in Film Animation from Concordia University, Marion has ...
Read this fascinating article about gender + media representation and then check out GEEK GIRLS + GREAT UNSUNG WOMEN OF COMPUTING, two WMM documentaries that address the significant accomplishments as well as the challenges of women in
#STEM
@GDIGM
Women Make Movies is currently hosting a Virtual Film Festival to celebrate
#WomensHistoryMonth
! This is a perfect way for filmmakers and film enthusiasts to watch FREE films by and about women from around the globe! Follow this link to register:
As states roll back abortion access nationwide, we are making a selection of films available to watch for free that shed light on the history of
#reproductiverights
in the U.S. and set forth exactly what is at stake. Sign up to watch now through May 31:
Are you a documentary filmmaker seeking funding through
@IDAorg
? Our next webinar is just for you! Join
@pohsi
and
@dana_merwin
for an inside look at IDA's various funding programs. They will cover the Enterprise, Pare Lorentz and Logan Elevate Funds.
In a community outside of Chicago, hundreds of Muslim families believe they've been under surveillance for years. Filmmaker & journalist
@assuss
uncovers one of the largest counterterrorism investigations pre-9/11. Watch
@BeingWatchedDOC
on
@POVdocs
.
#AAHM
Congratulations to
@shalinikantayya
and her team behind
@CodedBias
for receiving the
#SIMA2021
Awards for Best Director, Best Sound Design and Jury Prize for Transparency in the Documentary Feature Category! We are honored to distribute your work.
@SIMAawards
Exciting news! Ayoka Chenzira's HAIR PIECE: A FILM FOR NAPPYHEADED PEOPLE was added to
@librarycongress
's
#NatFilmRegistry
! Learn more about the film here:
.
@LeonardMaltin
speaks with director Ayoka Chenzira about her film HAIR PIECE: A FILM FOR NAPPYHEADED PEOPLE ('84), which was just added to
@librarycongress
's
#NatFilmRegistry
See it and other films that were added to the National Film Archive this year starting tonight @ 8pm ET
A year ago, Muslim filmmaker
@Deeyah_Khan
found herself in the middle of the Unite the Right Rally in
#Charlottesville
meeting face-to-face with neo-Nazis as she filmed WHITE RIGHT, an urgent look at race wars in America:
#FemaleFilmmakerFriday
When MIT Media Lab researcher
@jovialjoy
discovers that many facial recognition technologies misclassify women and darker-skinned faces, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms. Celebrate
#LoveData22
week with
@CodedBias
.
Nobel Prize-winning journalist
@mariaressa
cites
@jovialjoy
’s investigation into algorithmic bias in WMM’s
@CodedBias
on a new podcast episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour!
@WNYC
Listen here:
"In the midst of the political tumult and our fear for women’s lives and rights, it’s important for all of us to know more about the country and the lives of women who live there...” Watch our VOICES OF AFGHAN WOMEN collection, free through August 31.
Are you looking for $100k to fund your next documentary? If so,
@IDAorg
’s Enterprise Fund might be for you! Join
@womenmakemovies
for a webinar with Director of Funds
@pohsi
and Program Officer
@dana_merwin
for an insider’s perspective. Register to attend:
In support of the thousands of Afghan women whose lives will undoubtedly change – many fear, for the worse – with the ascent of the Taliban, we are making available nine films on women from Afghanistan for free until September 12, 2021.
@trtworld
A recent study from The Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film finds that
#documentary
films continue to employ higher percentages of behind-the-scenes women than narrative features.
#WomenMakeMovies
#WomeninFilm
"
@CodedBias
is an impressively extensive documentary on how racism and sexism creep into the unseen algorithms that control our lives, told by women activists who’re fighting the big tech companies that hold the code." -
@dailymaverick
on
#CodedBias
.
"For a long time Black women have led the way in the cause of equality and justice. The subject of Abby Ginzberg’s spirited documentary
@truthpowermovie
has been doing so for five decades." -
@BostonGlobe
. This WMM new release opens in theaters August 20!
We're excited to announce that a selection of some of our newest and most acclaimed titles are now available to stream on
@Kanopy
! Visit our page to browse our launch collection and check back as new titles are released:
Women are creating new tech that is more ethical, accountable and inclusive. But the tech industry keeps trying to erase their work from the history books. MIT
@techreview
explores the leaders, like
@CodedBias
's
@timnitGebru
, who will not be silenced.
Commemorate
#ArabAmericanHeritageMonth
with WMM release THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED. In this film, filmmaker and journalist Assia Boundaoui uncovers the story of her community’s surveillance by the FBI long before 9/11. Watch on
@Kanopy
:
TODAY @ 6pm ET/3pm PT: Join us for "A Women's Story," a conversation about
@OnceVzlafilm
with WMM Executive Director Debra Zimmermann and Dir.
@anapalupza
, EP Claudia Lapage and Co-Writer Marianela Maldonado. RSVP to this free event:
ACTION ALERT: Please call (518) 474-8390 and urge
@NYGovCuomo
to sign the nation's first TV diversity bill which incentivizes the hiring of women and people of color to write and direct television in New York.
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Join the
@SayNO_UNiTE
#16Days
campaign and get inspired to help end one of the world's most widespread human rights violations with two films about resilient women:
#HearMeToo
Though the fight for diversity and inclusion in Hollywood has been long and challenging, Black filmmakers have consistently paved the way. We are proud to see our filmmakers
@JulieDash
Dee Rees at the forefront alongside so many changemakers!
#BHM