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ENEWS is sent regularly to customers and other associates of Women Make Movies to announce the latest news about WMM films, filmmakers, programs, events and broadcasts.
View online at wmm.com/news/enews.shtml
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MY TOXIC BABY AND EL GENERAL: WMM ANNOUNCES NEW ACQUISITIONS
WMM is thrilled to announce the acquisition of MY TOXIC BABY at the Toronto International Film Festival. In this timely, compelling, and intimate documentary, award-winning filmmaker Min-Sook Lee (TIGER SPIRIT) searches for safe, sane, and affordable ways to raise her baby
daughter in an environment that has become increasingly full of toxic
threats. Described by the Toronto International Film
Festival as "urgent, emotional, and highly personal," MY TOXIC BABY takes a startling look at the numerous toxins exposed to infants.
WMM also recently acquired EL GENERAL by Natalia Almada (ALL WATER HAS A PERFECT MEMORY), winner of the US Directing Award: Documentary
at the Sundance Film Festival. Called "an extraordinarily courageous way to devle into the origins from which you come" by Paper Magazine, EL GENERAL brings to life audio
recordings Almada inherited from her grandmother—reminiscences about the filmmaker's great-grandfather General Plutarco Elías Calles, a
revolutionary general who became president of Mexico in 1924.
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WMM FILMS SCREENING AT URBANWORLD
Watch WMM films this month at the Urbanworld Film Festival in New York City! Nirit Peled's SAY MY NAME, a global tour of unstoppable female hip-hop lyricists, makes it New York premiere, screening Thursday, September 24 at 9pm; Friday September 25 at 8pm; and Saturday, September 26 at 11:45am. In a hip hop and R’n’B world dominated by men, these female emcees speak candidly about class, race, and gender in pursuing their passions.
Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater's MRS. GOUNDO'S DAUGHTER,which follows a West African mother’s fight for asylum in the U.S. to protect her two-year old daughter from female genital cutting, screens on September 24 at 10am and September 25 at 1:15pm. OFF AND RUNNING, by WMM Production Assistance participant Nicole Opper, will also screen on September 24 at 6pm.
Go here to view a full festival schedule and buy tickets.
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MEET WMM STAFF AT THE NATIONAL MEDIA MARKET
 WMM's Sales & Marketing Manager Julie Whang and Educational Sales & Marketing Coordinator Stephanie Houghton will be attending the National Media Market (NMM) in Lexington, Kentucky from October 4-8.
Stop by room 305 for information about WMM's 2009-10 new releases, which cover a diverse range of topics for K-12 and university classrooms and public libraries, and get special offers, discounts, and screenings.
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WMM ON THE ROAD: REYKJAVIK, OSLO, AND INDIANAPOLIS
 Executive Director Debra Zimmerman will be traveling internationally in the next month. Zimmerman will attend Nordisk Panorama in Reykjavik, Iceland (September 25-30) and speaking on the panel Distribution is Not for Dummies on September 27.
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ULRIKE OTTINGER FILM RETROSPECTIVE IN NYC
 Watch new and classic films by German cinema legend and WMM filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City.
Get more information on the screenings here.
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WMM ASIAN AND ASIAN AMERICAN NEW RELEASES SCREENING NEAR YOU
Catch WMM Asian and Asian American new releases screening next month near you. The San Diego Asian Film Festival (Octber 15-29) will be screening Min Sook Lee's TIGER SPIRIT, Kimberlee Bassford's PATSY MINK: AHEAD OF THE MAJORITY, and Marjan Tehrani's ARUSI PERSIAN WEDDING. Get tickets and more information here.
Join Arizona List on October 11 for a program honoring Women Make Movies, featuring a special screening of PATSY MINK at the Loft Cinema in Tucson, Arizona. WMM Sales & Marketing Manager Julie Whang will be in attendance. Get tickets for the screening here.
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About Women Make Movies
Women Make Movies is the world's leading distributor of independent films by and about women. For the third year in a row, films from WMM took home top prizes at Sundance. This year, ROUGH AUNTIES by acclaimed filmmaker Kim Longinotto won the World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize; and last year, THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO received the Special Jury Prize in Documentary. Additionally, WMM's well-established Production Assistance (PA) Program helps American women directors get their stories to the screen. Recent films of note from the Production Assistance Program include Oscar-nominated NERAKHOON (THE BETRAYAL) by Ellen Kuras and EL GENERAL, by Natalia Almada, winner of the Sundance Directing Award in U.S. Documentary. For more, visit our website at www.wmm.com.
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