A WOMAN ON THE OUTSIDE (dir. Zara Katz & Lisa Riordan Seville) shines light onto the lives of women who must struggle with having their spouses and loved ones behind bars. Continue watching their stories. It is available to book or purchase now! https://www.wmm.com/catalog/film/a-woman-on-the-outside/
A WOMAN ON THE OUTSIDE (dir. Zara Katz & Lisa Riordan Seville) introduces Kristal Bush, a social worker and founder of Bridging the Gap, a van service that drives families to visit loved ones in faraway prisons. This heartfelt documentary is available to book and purchase now! https://www.wmm.com/catalog/film/a-woman-on-the-outside/
Today the Supreme Court begins hearing arguments in Brackeen v. Haaland, which could overturn the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 and have far-reaching impacts on federal protections for Native American tribes. WMM release, DAUGHTER OF A LOST BIRD (dir. Brooke Pepion Sweeney), tells a closely related story of Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, a Native woman adopted into a white family who reconnects with her Native identity and begins to view herself as a living legacy of U.S. assimilationist policy.
TIKTOK, BOOM. | Trailer | Independent Lens
Explore the power and complexity of technology through the lens of TikTok and the Gen Z influencers who know it best. Watch WMM new release TIKTOK, BOOM. on Independent Lens | PBS ’ and the PBS Video app starting October 24. https://to.pbs.org/3p3V9Qd
STATELESS | Clip | Rosa Iris
This #HispanicHeritageMonth, discover STATELESS (Apátrida-Stateless) (dir. Michèle Stephenson), which explores the complex politics of immigration and race in the Dominican Republic and Haiti using a combination of magical realism and hidden camera techniques. https://bit.ly/WMM_Stateless
WAYS OF BEING HOME | Trailer
Celebrate #HispanicHeritageMonth with WMM's WAYS OF BEING HOME (dir. Cecilia Cornejo). The film explores the experience of Mexican immigrants living and working in rural America, contrasting that life with the agricultural town of Maltrata in Veracruz, Mexico. Available for puchase or to book for screenings: https://bit.ly/WMM_WaysofBeingHome
Breach of Trust | Trailer | Local, USA
At the University of Southern California, women students and faculty challenge the higher education institution after experiencing decades of sexual abuse, harassment and dismissal. WMM release BREACH OF TRUST (dir. Mishal Mahmud) airs on WORLD Channel's Local, USA. Available on TV, online and in the PBS app: https://bit.ly/LUSA_BreachofTrust
#trustoncampus #sexualassault Los Angeles Times
THE AMERICAN DREAM AND OTHER FAIRY TALES | Trailer
Watch Abigail Disney grapple with America's inequality crisis, exploring systemic injustices via her family's story in WMM-sponsored The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales. It's the movie Disney doesn't want you to see. In theaters and on digital September 23. #AmericanDreamDoc
ANNAH LA JAVANAISE | Trailer
New Release! ANNAH LA JAVANAISE (dir. Fatimah Tobing Rony) is an animated reimagining of the life of Annah, a 13-year-old Javanese girl brought to France in 1893 to serve as a maid and model to the famous painter Paul Gauguin. Now available for purchase and to book for screenings: https://bit.ly/WMM_Annah
DYING TO DIVORCE | Trailer
WMM new release DYING TO DIVORCE (dir. Chloë Fairweather) takes viewers into the heart of Turkey’s gender-based violence crisis and the recent political events that have severely eroded democratic freedoms. Now available to purchase and book for screenings: https://bit.ly/WMM_DyingtoDivorce
The R-Word | Trailer
July is Disability Pride Month! Learn about the long-reaching history and lasting implications of derogatory language used to describe people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in WMM's The R-Word: A Documentary Film (dir. Amanda Lukoff). https://bit.ly/WMM_RWord
FANNIE LOU HAMER'S AMERICA | Clip | The Brutality in Winona, MS
On a return trip from a voter education workshop, Fannie Lou Hamer and several other civil rights activists were arrested for sitting at a "whites only" counter and beaten while in police custody. She suffered permanent injury as a result of her activism.
This Disability Pride Month, learn more about one of the Civil Rights Movement's greatest leaders in WMM new release Fannie Lou Hamer's America. Now available to purchase or book for screenings: https://bit.ly/WMM_FLHA
FLY SO FAR | Clip | Our Right to Freedom
"We have the strength and the courage to keep fighting." - Teodora Vásquez. At a women’s prison in El Salvador, Teodora becomes the spokesperson for The Seventeen, a group of working-class women who were all incarcerated after having miscarriages. Hear their stories in WMM release Fly So Far. Available to watch now for free in our virtual screening room: https://bit.ly/WMMReproChoiceFilms
FANNIE LOU HAMER'S AMERICA | Clip | Is This America?
“Nobody’s free until everybody’s free." These are the words coined by one of the Civil Rights Movement's greatest leaders, Fannie Lou Hamer. Learn more about her in her own words and songs in WMM new release Fannie Lou Hamer's America (dir. Joy Davenport, prod. Monica Land). https://bit.ly/WMM_FLHA
FANNIE LOU HAMER'S AMERICA | Clip | Growing Up in Mississippi
"Being one of twenty children...I know what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to be without clothes." Hear Fannie Lou Hamer's story in her own words, in WMM release Fannie Lou Hamer's America. Available for purchase or to book for screenings: https://bit.ly/WMM_FLHA
This June, join New York Int'l Children's Film Festival (NYICFF) alumni filmmakers, cultural organizers, and industry leaders from around the world for FREE virtual conversations on a more inclusive kids' media landscape at the third annual Industry Forum. RSVP today: nyicff.org/industry
A NORMAL GIRL | Trailer
This #PrideMonth, witness Pidgeon's remarkable fight for bodily self-determination and learn about the human rights abuses on intersex people in the U.S. and around the world in WMM release A NORMAL GIRL (dir. Aubree Bernier-Clarke). Watch on Docuseek2: https://bit.ly/WMM_ANormalGirl
All We've Got | Trailer
Celebrate #Pride with ALL WE’VE GOT (dir. Alexis Clements), a personal exploration of #LGBTQIA+ women’s communities, cultures and social justice work through the lens of the physical spaces they create. Add the film to your collection during our annual end-of-year sale or host a screening: http://bit.ly/AllWeveGot
Clip: "I had been intentionally sterilized" | Belly of the Beast
"I had been intentionally sterilized." - Kelli Dillon, a survivor of illegal sterilization. Hear her story in WMM release Belly of the Beast, available to watch now in our Reproductive Choice virtual film series. https://bit.ly/WMMReproChoiceFilms
FLY SO FAR | Trailer
As states increasingly roll back abortion access nationwide, WMM's Fly So Far is a grave warning of just how far state control of women's bodies can go. This brave exposé about the criminalization of miscarriage in El Salvador is available to watch (for free!) in our Reproductive Choice virtual film series.
Sign up to watch now through the end of May: https://bit.ly/WMMReproChoiceFilms