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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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WMM ACQUIRES ARUSI PERSIAN WEDDING, COURTING JUSTICE & SALATA BALADI (AN EGYPTIAN SALAD)
WMM is pleased to announce several new acquisitions for 2009, including Marjan Tehrani's ARUSI Persian Wedding, Ruth Cowan and Jane Thandi Lipman's COURTING JUSTICE, and Nadia Kamel's SALATA BALADI (AN EGYPTIAN SALAD). Already off to a busy start, ARUSI,
about one couple's journey to discover Iran on its own terms, will screen at the 9th Annual Santa Fe Film Festival in December. It
will also be airing on Independent Lens in early 2009 accompanied by several Community Cinema screenings across the U.S. You can catch a trailer here.
COURTING JUSTICE, an essential film about transformation in South Africa's new legal system, has been received with enormous enthusiasm on its current East Coast
tour. It recently screened at Harvard Law's Charles Hamilton Houston
Conference to an audience that included Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and
Archbishop Desmond Tutu. And
SALATA BALADI, a profound doc about Egyptian identity from filmmaker
Nadia Kamel, has a busy festival schedule all across Europe including
Berlin, Leipzig, and Lisbon. For more information about other 2009 WMM releases please visit www.wmm.com.
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GIRL INSIDE WINS CANADIAN GEMINI AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTION
Congratulations to Maya Gallus, winner of the prestigious Gemini Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Program for her groundbreaking film GIRL INSIDE. The Gemini Awards celebrate the very best in Canada's English-language television. GIRL INSIDE follows 26-year-old Madison through her transition from male to female, in a beautiful film that tracks her emotional, intellectual, physical, and spiritual journey of self-discovery. For more information about GIRL INSIDE please visit here.
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WMM FILMS ON TOUR WITH THE HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INT'L FILM FEST
The highlights from the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (HRWIFF) London and New York take to the road in the HRW Traveling Film Festival each year. This time WMM is proud to have released three of the ten films chosen to tour including: HRWIFF Nestor Almendros Prize winning SARI SOLDIERS by Julie Bridgham; the IDFA Silver Wolf winning TO SEE IF I'M SMILING by Tamar Yarom; and the Sundance Special Jury winner THE GREATEST SILENCE: RAPE IN THE CONGO by Lisa F. Jackson. For full dates and locations please visit here.
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GUCCI TRIBECA & CINEREACH AWARD WMM FISCALLY SPONSORED PROJECTS
Two notable film projects being produced through the WMM Production Assistance Program
recently received exciting new awards. Laura Poitras' film RELEASE was
chosen from over 450 filmmakers from 28 countries as one of seven
recipients of the first ever Gucci Tribeca Documentary Finishing Fund,
which offers finishing funds to feature-length documentaries that
promote social change and highlight critical issues absent from
mainstream media. Another funder, Cinereach, awarded $10,000 to Karin William's SISTER SURFERS,
a film about female surfers that was featured at Tribeca All Access earlier this year.
Cinereach offers grants in three categories - Media for Social Change,
Issue Awareness, and Film Community Infrastructure. For more information about WMM PA Program please visit us here.
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WMM STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS & NEWS
Merrill Sterritt, formerly
Executive Assistant, has been promoted to the post of Production
Assistance Program Coordinator. Working with Merrill is longtime WMM
consultant Tracie Holder, who will be supporting the WMM PA
Program with fundraising and filmmaker consultations. Joining WMM is
Publicity and Publications Manager Teri Duerr, who brings more
than a decade of publishing and communications experience to WMM across
media platforms including print and web. WMM also welcomes Stephanie Houghton, who hails from a communications-media studies background, as Educational Sales and Marketing Coordinator.
Executive Director Debra Zimmerman will be serving as one of five film professionals chosen to serve on the International Jury for Documentary Film at the 51st International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film at the end of this month.
Congratulations also to former WMM staffer, Christie George,
who was recently awarded the £10,000 Saïd Prize for outstanding
academic achievement and a wider contribution to the social, sporting,
and intellectual life of the Saïd Business School.
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WMM OPPORTUNITY: WMM has just opened applications for winter interns. For more information please visit us 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, 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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