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Women Make Movies has extended our Virtual Film Festival until May 31
You're Invited to the Virtual Film Festival
Women Make Movies has extended our Virtual Film Festival until May 31! Will you join us?
We are currently running the Films, Interrupted series, which showcases WMM films that had their film festival and public screenings cancelled due to COVID-19.
Additional titles from the Women Make Movies collection are being added on a rolling basis.
Check out the selections below and sign up!
The Films, Interrupted Series
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ALL WE'VE GOT | Streaming April 6-12
A film by Alexis Clements
A personal exploration of LGBTQI women’s communities, cultures, and social justice work through the lens of the physical spaces they create, from bars to bookstores to arts and political hubs.
"A beautiful rumination on community, resilience, and resistance." - Jaime Harker, University of Mississippi
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THE ARCHIVETTES | Streaming April 6-12
A film by Megan Rossman
The Archivettes explores the origins of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, which has combated lesbian invisibility by literally rescuing history from the trash.
"'The personal is political,' resonates loud and clear in Rossman's sensitive, discerning chronicle." - Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter
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A NORMAL GIRL | Streaming April 6-19
A film by Aubree Bernier-Clarke, Shawna Lipton & Pidgeon Pagonis
A Normal Girl brings the widely unknown struggles of intersex people to light through the story of intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis.
"If you only watch one documentary this year, let it be this beautiful film...share it with your children, parents, partners, and medical providers." - Georgiann Davis, PhD, author Contesting Intersex | Assoc. Prof., Sociology, University of Nevada
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CONSCIENCE POINT | Streaming April 11-19
A film by Treva Wurmfeld
CONSCIENCE POINT unearths a deep clash of values between the Shinnecock Indian Nation and their elite Hamptons neighbors, who have pursued development of sacred land.
"A masterpiece of a documentary."
- Shelter Island Reporter
"A worthwhile place to start discussing some of the darker aspects of American history."
- Newsday
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SISTERS RISING | Streaming April 17-19
A film by Willow O'Feral & Brad Heck
Through the intimate stories of six Indigenous women, Sisters Rising exposes the epidemic of sexual violence against Native American women in the U.S.. While placing the personal violence in the context of structural racism, gender discrimination, and criminal jurisdiction, its concluding message is one of courage and resilience.
"Shines an unflinching and ultimately uplifting light onto righting injustice on both an individual and systemic level." - Big Sky Documentary Film Festival |
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WAGING CHANGE | Streaming April 17-26
A film by Abby Ginzberg
Waging Change shines a light on an American struggle hidden in plain sight: the women-led movement to end the federal tipped minimum wage for restaurant workers.
"An essential film for understanding the way our economy really works, and who wins and loses in the process." - John Torpey | Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for Internt'l Studies Graduate Center, City University of New York |
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YOURS IN SISTERHOOD
Streaming April 10-30
A film by Irene Lusztig
A performative, participatory documentary inspired by the breadth and complexity of letters that were sent in the 1970s to the editor of Ms.- America's first mainstream feminist magazine.
"A kind of living time capsule putting the past into a dialogue with the present."
- New York Times
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OVARIAN PSYCOS
Streaming April 10-30
A film by Joanna Sokolowski, Kate Trumbull-LaValle
Riding at night through streets deemed dangerous in Eastside Los Angeles, the Ovarian Psycos use their bicycles to confront the violence in their lives.
"...equal parts revolution and jubilation, showing that solidarity and strength in numbers are the best ways to protect your community while enacting progressive change."
- NBC News
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GIRL FROM GOD'S COUNTRY
Streaming April 10-30
A film by Karen Day
The untold story of the first female independent filmmaker and action-adventure heroine, Nell Shipman (1892-1970), who left Hollywood to make her films in Idaho.
"Dovetails into a bigger examination of women in film, past, present and future; and audiences will leave with a call to action to support more women filmmakers.”
- Boise Weekly
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