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Women Make Movies Women Make Movies 2015/16 Catalog NEW RELEASES CLOSING NIGHT DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION CLOSING NIGHT GALA FUSION CENTERPIECE WOMEN OF THE WORLD SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL INSIDE OUT OUTFEST FESTIVAL (WOW) LONDON FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL TORONTO LOS ANGELES LGBT FILM FESTIVAL Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth A film by Pratibha Parmar US, 2013 | 84 min | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | # L15116 3 ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH tells the compelling story of an extraordinary woman. Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her ground- breaking novel, The Color Purple. Her early life unfolded in the midst of violent racism and poverty during some of the most turbulent years of profound social and political changes in North American history during the Civil Rights Movement. Mixing powerful archival footage with moving testimoni- als from friends and colleagues such as Howard Zinn, Angela Y. Davis, Gloria Steinem, Beverly “An intimate, exquisitely Guy-Sheftall, Quincy Jones, Steven Spielberg and rendered portrait of one of Danny Glover, ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH the great artists of our time.” offers audiences a penetrating look at the life Ava DuVernay, Filmmaker & Founder of AAFRM and art of an artist, intellectual, self-confessed renegade and human rights activist. “Parmar’s powerful new film… masterfully presents Alice Walker’s revolutionary story as • Napa Valley Film Festival, Jury Prize for Best Documentary integral to American history.” • Qfest Philadelphia, Jury Prize for Best Documentary Heidi Hutner, Prof. of English & • QReel, Audience Award for Best Documentary Dir. of Environmental Humanities • African Diaspora Int’l Film Festival, Public Award for Best Film Directed by a Woman of Color Program, Stonybrook Univ. “…a perfect piece of film­ Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth is a co-production of Kali 8 making. Worthy of the sold­ Productions LLC and Kali Films Limited and the Independent out screening and standing Television Service (ITVS), with funding provided by the ovations it received.” Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). The Huffington Post Photo: Arthur Mann 2 VISIT WWW.WMM.COM FOR OUR COMPLETE CATALOG NEW RELEASES Regarding Susan Sontag A film by Nancy Kates “That director Nancy Kates US, 2014 | 100 min | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | # L151153 manages to hit so many important pivot points in REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is an intimate and Sontag’s life and career in a nuanced investigation into the life of one of the most cinematically engaging way influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th feels like a small miracle.” century. Endlessly curious, passionate and gracefully Vulture outspoken throughout her career, Susan Sontag “Serious­minded and aes­ became one of the most important literary, political thetically ambitious…does justice to a hard­to­pigeon­ and feminist icons of her generation. This beautifully hole intellectual.” constructed documentary tracks Sontag’s life through The Hollywood Reporter evocative experimental images, archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as well as her own words as read by Patricia Clarkson. From her early infatuation with books to her first experience in a gay bar; from her early marriage to her 15-year relationship with legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz, REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG is a fascinating look at a towering cultural critic and writer whose works on photography, war, illness, and terrorism continue to resonate today. Photo: Sophie Bassouls, Corbis OFFICIAL SELECTION OFFICIAL SELECTION OFFICIAL SELECTION OFFICIAL SELECTION OFFICIAL SELECTION FRAMELINE SEATTLE TRIBECA IDFA SHEFFIELD INTERNATIONAL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AMSTERDAM FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014 2014 2014 2014 2014 212.925.0606 X 360 [email protected] 3 NEW RELEASES OFFICIAL SELECTION SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL - 2014 - OFFICIAL SELECTION HOTDOCS FILM FESTIVAL - 2014 - OFFICIAL SELECTION TRUE/FALSE FILM FESTIVAL - 2014 - OFFICIAL SELECTION Private Violence FULL FRAME A film by Cynthia Hill DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL US, 2014 | 77 min | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | # L151151 - 2014 - PRIVATE VIOLENCE, which premiered at Sundance, explores a simple but deeply disturbing fact of American “There have been many life: the most dangerous place for a woman in America documentaries on this is her own home. Through the eyes of two survivors — topic...none can touch the power, sensitivity, Deanna Walters, a mother who seeks justice for the and explanatory skill of crimes committed against her at the hands of her this one.” estranged husband, and Kit Gruelle, an advocate who Vulture seeks justice for all women — PRIVATE VIOLENCE begins “PRIVATE VIOLENCE to shape powerful, new questions that hold the potential begins to shape power­ to change our society: “Why does he abuse?” “Why do ful, new questions that hold the potential to we turn away?” “How do we begin to build a future with- change our society...” out domestic violence?” Human Rights Watch Film Festival • Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights • Dallas Int’l Film Festival, Silver Heart Award 4 VISIT WWW.WMM.COM FOR OUR COMPLETE CATALOG NEW RELEASES India’s Daughter A film by Leslee Udwin “Ms. Udwin’s film has UK/India, 2015 | 62 min | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | # L151161 increased worldwide awareness of attitudes INDIA’S DAUGHTER by BAFTA winning filmmaker that beget sexual violence Leslee Udwin, is the powerful story of the brutal against women.” gang rape on a Delhi bus of a 23 year old medical The New York Times student, who later died from her injuries. Banned in “The film reveals the shock­ India even before its BBC broadcast, the film has ing but ingrained cultural ignited an international fury with more than 50 million norms that continue to per­ sist among some men and social media posts and tweets. The film pays tribute women in our society, and to a remarkable young woman and lays bare the way it paints with vivid detail in which societies around the world and their patri- the thought processes of archal values have spawned such acts of violence the perpetrators who com­ mit these crimes.” against women. A must-see film and an impassioned Cindy Dyer, VP of Human plea for change. Rights, Vital Voices “The culture of victim­ blaming is explored, it is a topic that is just as much a Western debate as it is an Indian one and makes this documentary so much more than just an ‘Indian problem’.” The Independent 212.925.0606 X 360 [email protected] 5 NEW RELEASES Nada’s Revolution A film by Claudia Lisboa The Netherlands/Sweden/Egypt, 2014 | 60 min | Sale $350 | Rental $125 | # L15116 4 A coming-of-age story in the wake of the Arab Spring, NADA’S REVOLUTION is an intimate portrait of a young, post-revolution Egyptian woman fighting for her freedom and independence in a society caught between old traditions and modernization. Amidst the political turmoil that has “The story beautifully illustrates… paralyzed Egypt for almost three years, we follow the daily life of a young­ Nada’s struggle to establish herself as an inde- spirited woman in today’s pendent woman and theater professional as she Cairo, post­Mubarak.” sets out to make her old dream come true: to work NRC (Netherlands) with children’s theater. It Was Rape A film by Jennifer Baumgardner US, 2013 | 60 min | Sale $350 | Rental $125 | # L151150 U.S. sexual assault statistics are startling—and have remained unchanged for decades. The latest White House Council on Women and Girls report reveals that nearly one in five women experiences U.S. sexual assaultrape or statisticsattempted rape in her lifetime.are Among startling—and college student victims, who have some of the highest rates of sexual assault, just 12 percent report incidents to law enforcement officials. In earlier have remained unchangedstudies, 15% of sexual assault for victims decades. were younger than 13; The93% latest of juvenile victims knew their attacker. White House CouncilIT WAS RAPE on gives humanWomen faces and voices and to statistics, Girls breaking report through the silence, denial and victim blaming that allow an reveals that nearlyepidemic one to thrive. in Eight five women of differentwomen backgrounds, experiences ages and ethnicities relate personal stories of surviving sexual assault in their younger years, as well as their struggles toward healing, rape or attemptedempowerment, rape andin finally her speaking lifetime. out. By award-winning IT WAS RAPE feminist author, filmmaker and activist Jennifer Baumgardner, this strikingly relevant documentary will engage all audiences in gives human facesneeded and dialogue aboutvoices the prevalence to of sexualstatistics, assaults in the break- U.S., at our schools and colleges, and the elements promoting rape ing through the silence,culture on and off denialcampus. IT WAS andRAPE is a crucialvictim resource forblaming colleges and communities to meaningfully address Title IX issues that allow an epidemicaround sexual violence.to thrive. Eight women of “IT WAS RAPE is one of the best US, 2002, 96 MINUTES, COLOR & B/W different backgrounds, ages and ethnicities relate documentaries I’ve seen on this issue. A must­see for any personal stories of surviving sexual assault in their – Katha Politt, “Subject to Debate” columnist, The Nation classroom discussing the issue younger years, as well as their struggles toward of rape.” healing, empowerment, and finally speaking out. Kelly Finely, Women’s & Gender This strikingly relevant documentary will engage all Studies, Univ. North Carolina audiences in needed dialogue about the preva- Charlotte lence of sexual assaults in the U.S., at our schools and colleges, and the elements promoting rape culture on and off campus. 6 VISIT WWW.WMM.COM FOR OUR COMPLETE CATALOG NEW RELEASES Life After Manson A film by Olivia Klaus US, 2014 | 25 min | Sale $250 | Rental $75 | # L15116 0 LIFE AFTER MANSON is an intimate portrait of one of the world’s most infamous crimes and notorious killers.
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