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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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THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO LAUNCHES WORLD TOUR
Sundance Special Jury Prize winner, THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO by Lisa F. Jackson begins its world tour with stunning success on the opening night of the One World Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague. The film, produced in association with HBO Documentary Films and the Fledgling Fund, played to a packed, standing-room-only audience for both its screenings. In a show of outstanding generosity, the festival's organizer, People in Need – founded by Václav Havel – is donating $10,000 to rape survivors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and will be sending a humanitarian expert to the DRC. With the assistance of the Czech Delegation to the EU, they will also organize a screening of the documentary in Brussels for the European Commission. This is an extraordinarily powerful launch of the film's world tour. In the next two months, THE GREATEST SILENCE will screen at prestigious festivals and in front of important policymakers in a global effort to raise awareness about the ways in which sexual violence is used as a weapon of war.
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NEW RELEASE IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA BROADCASTS ON PBS
Women Make Movies recently acquired IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA, part of the Why Democracy? Project. The filmmakers Siatta Johnson and Daniel Junge were granted exclusive, behind-the-scenes access during the historic, inaugural year of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first freely elected female head of state in Africa. The resulting film is a joyous, inspirational testimony of the political power of women's leadership and diplomacy.
Making its national broadcast premiere on the Emmy-Award® PBS series, Independent Lens, IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA will air on March 18 at 10 pm. Check local listings.
“How do you reconstruct a country after fourteen brutal years of war? This film has one good answer: let women lead.”
- Cameron Bailey, Toronto Int’l Film Festival
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WMM ACQUIRES AWARD-WINNING FILM, TO SEE IF I’M SMILING
TO SEE IF I’M SMILING by Tamar Yarom, winner of both the Audience Award and the Silver Wolf Award at the International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA) has just been acquired by Women Make Movies. A film that powerfully explores the darker side of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict through the testimonies of six female soldiers about their compulsory military service in the Occupied Territories, TO SEE IF I'M SMILING will debut in North America next month. It screens at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival and Hot Docs International Documentary Festival along with other brand-new WMM releases. “A brave and powerful testimony to the corrosive effect of power.”
- Silver Wolf Jury, Int’l Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA)
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WHITNEY BIENNIAL AND OTHER SCREENINGS IN NY
* WMM congratulates Natalia Almada (ALL WATER HAS A PERFECT MEMORY) on the inclusion of her feature-length documentary AL OTRO LADO in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. AL OTRO LADO was produced with the assistance of WMM’s Production Assistance Program. It screens daily at the Whitney on Mondays - Thursdays at 11:20 and Fridays at 1:20, through June 1.
* Social Edit, a suite of three films – LIP, ARTIST and DOOMED – by Australian video pioneer Tracey Moffatt, is currently screening at Location One in SoHo. The show runs through April 19, with an opening reception on March 12 from 6 - 8 pm and an artist-curator talk and book signing on March 25 at 7 pm.
* LOVE & DIANE – a groundbreaking, searingly honest and moving examination of poverty, welfare and drug rehabilitation in the United States today – screens at the Maysles Institute (343 Lenox Avenue) on March 20 at 8:30 pm. Filmmaker Jennifer Dworkin will attend the screening and conduct a post-show Q&A.
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About Women Make Movies
Women Make Movies is the world's leading distributor of independent films by and about women, with a focus on cutting-edge documentaries that give depth to today's headlines, as well as artistically and intellectually challenging works in all genres. Our films are showcased in prestigious exhibition venues and festivals both nationally and internationally. Our Production Assistance Program serves both emerging and established women directors with Fiscal Sponsorship, a bi-annual filmmaker Workshop Series, and Information Services. For more information, visit www.wmm.com.
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