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Production Assistance Program alum Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi's film FREE SOLO was nominated for a Best Documentary Oscar! Our Academy® Award streak continues: films and filmmakers from our programs have been nominated or won for the last 12 years.
See the complete list of nominees here.
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 WMM AT SUNDANCE
Congrats to the teams behind our Production Assistance Program films screening at Sundance: THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY (Director: Petra Costa; Producers: Joanna Natasegara, Shane Boris, Tiago Pavan), THE INFILTRATORS (Directors: Alex Rivera, Cristina Ibarra; Producers: Cristina Ibarra, Alex Rivera, Darren Dean) and SISTER AIMEE (Directors: Samantha Buck, Marie Schlingmann; Producers: Bettina Barrow, David Hartstein, Katherine Harper)! We're also proud that WMM filmmakers Kim Longinotto, Jessica Devaney and Gurinder Chadha and Production Assistance Program alums Alma Har'el and Anya Rous are also at the fest with their new projects.
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WMM ACQUIRES MARCELINE. A WOMAN. A CENTURY
After a fantastic World Premiere at IDFA, WMM has acquired Cordelia Dvorák's MARCELINE. A WOMAN. A CENTURY, a fascinating portrait of the persevering French filmmaker, writer, and Holocaust survivor Marceline Loridan-Ivens.
Marceline was fifteen when she and her father were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She survived but her father didn't, and she had to find radical and unconventional ways to heal. In 1961, she appeared in Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin's landmark film CHRONICLE OF A SUMMER, which gave birth to the term cinema verité. Later she and her husband, the legendary Dutch director Joris Ivens, co-directed films such as 17th PARALLEL and HOW YUKONG MOVED MOUNTAINS. Filmed as she was nearing 90 years old, MARCELINE spans the broad arc of her life from survivor to political activist to combatively critical filmmaker. Looking back on the momentous events she experienced and filmed such as the Vietnam War and the Cultural Revolution, MARCELINE is a thought-provoking chronicle of a remarkable witness of the 20th century.
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ACCLAIM FOR THE REST I MAKE UP
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NEW GRANTS FOR PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE
PROGRAM FILMS AND FILMMAKERS
Seven films from our Production Assistance Program
were
selected as 2018
Catapult Film Fund
grantees (over one third of the total grants awarded): COLOUR OF THE WIND (Director: Claire Sanford, Producer: Adam Pajot Gendron),
GHOST WIVES (Director: Eva Weber), JOONAM (Director: Sierra Urich), PRAY AWAY (Director: Kristine Stolakis, Producer: Jessica Devaney), RAZING LIBERTY SQUARE (Director: Katja Esson, Producer: Ann Bennett), TOUR GUIDE (Director: Kimi Takesue), and UNTITLED CRIMINAL JUSTICE/HIGH SCHOOL PROJECT (Director: Maisie Crow, Producer: Heidi Reinberg).
WMM Production Assistance Projects MILISUTHANDO/Working Title (Director: Milisuthando Bongela),
#MICKEY (Director: Betzabé García),
PATHS OF FIRE AND WATER (Director: Viviana Gómez Echeverry), SILENT BEAUTY (Director: Jasmin López), PRAY AWAY (Director: Kristine Stolakis, Producer: Jessica Devaney) and SARA: A FEARLESS DREAM (Directors: Sara Khaki, Mohammad Reza Eyni) were chosen as
Chicken & Egg (Egg)celerator Lab grantees. Additionally, Production
Assistance Program filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal and Program alum Lana Wilson were announced as recipients of the
2019 $50,000
Chicken & Egg Award (previously known as the Breakthrough Filmmaker Award.)
Two WMM filmmakers, Ramona S. Diaz (UNTITLED RAMONA S. DIAZ FILM) and Michèle Stephenson (CHANGING SAME: THE UNTITLED RACIAL JUSTICE PROJECT), and one former WMM staff member, Daresha Kyi (MAMA BEARS) received 2019 Creative Capital Awards.
Congratulations to all the filmmakers!
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UPCOMING
WEBINARS AND WORKSHOPS
WEBINAR: STRATEGIC DOCUMENTARY FUNDRAISING WITH DEBRA ZIMMERMAN on 1/30
Join WMM's Executive Director Debra Zimmerman as she leads us through a webinar on how to raise money for your film. This vital information session will offer an overview of fundraising sources including foundations, government, corporate, crowdsourcing and individual donors as well as strategies to maximize your success. This webinar is invaluable whether you have a new project or need ideas to jump start a project that has stalled. Register here>
WEBINAR: MEET THE INDUSTRY- MEREDITH VIEIRA PROD. WITH AMY RAPP on 2/7
Last year Meredith Vieira Productions (MVP) announced a new Documentary Initiative to empower female directors. Partnering with This Is Just A Test, which will finance development and oversee production in collaboration with MVP, the new program is for women filmmakers seeking development funding for both doc features and series. Head of MVP, Amy Rapp, will speak about what they're looking for, how they work with filmmakers and will answer questions about how to make a successful pitch. Register here>
WORKSHOP: UNDERSTANDING AND DRAFTING CONTRACTS WITH NICOLE PAGE on 2/13
Nicole Page is a top entertainment attorney as well as WMM's Board President. In this workshop she'll walk us through the fundamental elements of contracts, co-production agreements, deal memos and much more. While every contract is different depending on your project, she will review ways to draft agreements that work to your advantage and things to keep in mind when negotiating. Register here>
WEBINAR: MEET THE INDUSTRY- NYTIMES OP DOCS WITH LINDSAY CROUSE & ANDREW BLACKWELL on 2/19
Op-Docs is The New York Times editorial department's award-winning forum for short, opinionated documentaries. They accept submissions for short, interactive and virtual reality documentaries by both renowned and emerging independent filmmakers and artists. Op-Docs producers and curators, Lindsay Crouse and Andrew Blackwell join WMM to discuss this successful series, discuss how to submit your film and present a selection of recent works. Register here>
FREE INFORMATION SESSION: NYSCA WITH ARIAN BLANCO on 2/20
The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) will soon be accepting funding applications for Film, Media and New Technology Production by individual media makers based in New York State. Arian Blanco, NYSCA Program Director, will lead this information session and answer questions to help you navigate the application process. Register here>
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WMM FILMS IN THE NEWS
In a trending article in Vox last weekend, WHITE RIGHT: MEETING THE ENEMY filmmaker Deeyah Khan explains how she sat down face-to-face with neo-Nazis and jihadists and what she discovered along the way about the nature of extremism. Read more>
A recent piece by the
New York Times' Editorial Board
"Can a Corpse Give Birth?" shares the story of the Muñoz family- subjects of Rebecca Haimowitz's deeply moving
62 DAYS- and examines America's new pregnancy exclusion laws.
Read more>
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About WMM:
For more than 45 years, Women Make Movies (WMM) has helped elevate diverse women directors and producers and improved equity in the film industry. The largest distributor of films by and about women in the world, WMM also supports hundreds of independent filmmakers each year with our highly successful Production Assistance Program.
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Women Make Movies gratefully acknowledges the support of our funders: The National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. The Andy Warhol Foundation, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and the Nathan Cummings Foundation with the encouragement of Rebecca Gregg.
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