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Women Make Movies 2016/17 Catalog 212.925.0606 X 360 [email protected] Iran & Afghanistan Asian American & S. DRAWING THE TIGER SONITA A film by Amy Benson, Scott Squire and Ramyata Limbu A film by Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami Shot over seven years, DRAWING THE TIGER takes a sweeping view of one Nepalese SONITA, which won both the Audience Award and the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, tells family’s daily struggle to survive off of subsistence farming. Eat, pay their debts, stay alive— the inspiring story of an 18-year-old Afghan refugee in Iran, Sonita Alizadeh, who claims that’s their day-to-day reality. But when their bright daughter receives a scholarship to study Michael Jackson and Rihanna as her spiritual parents and dreams of becoming a big-name in Kathmandu, the family’s prospects suddenly improve by leaps and bounds overnight. They rapper. For the time being, her only fans are the other teenage girls in a Tehran shelter. And rest their hopes and dreams on her narrow shoulders, but will the weight of their expectations her family has a very different future planned for her: As a bride she’s worth $9,000. crush her? Can she really break the cycle of poverty and redefine their collective destiny? This intimate portrait of creativity and womanhood is fueling an international campaign to She seems eager to try, promising to return and free her family from their hand-to-mouth end child marriage. Iranian director Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami (GOING UP THE STAIRS) existence. But when she doesn’t come home, the family is forced to face their fate. Is their poignantly shifts from observing Sonita’s story to participating, challenging expectations about future set in stone or sand; is it solid or ever-shifting? DRAWING THE TIGER is a powerful the role of a documentarian. The result is a personal, joyful portrait of a powerful young artist, portrait of pressure and the price one family pays for their golden opportunity that reminds us highlighting the rarely seen intricacies and shifting contrasts of Iranian society. of what we can and cannot change. —Angie Driscoll, Hot Docs Programmer Germany/Iran/Switzerland, 2015 | 91 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161180 US/Nepal, 2015 | 96 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161195 • Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize • Film South Asia UNCEF Award HHHHH Triumphant documentary... A quietly powerful film that will stick with & Audience Award – World Documentary Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami’s absorbing portrait • CAAM Fest Documentary Award “ “viewers long after it ends. • IDFA, Audience Award and DOC U Award of a refugee in Iran is endlessly surprising... • Sebastopol Special Jury Mention - Andrew Parker, Toronto Film Scene • True/False Film Festival, True Life Fund - Nigel M. Smith, The Guardian • Northwest Film Forum Best Feature Award ” Award ” The filmmakers’ unwavering commitment • Hot Docs • Full Frame, Center for Documentary Inspiring…a certified crowdpleaser. • Margaret Mead Film Festival to truthful storytelling achieves a rare, Studies Filmmaker Award nonjudgmental“ respect for the lives of the “- Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter • Camden Intl Film Festival • Sarasota Intl Film Festival, Audience ” people they observe. Award, Best in World Cinema • Woodstock Film Festival - Chanel Kong, CAAMFest” ************************************************************ ************************************************************ WINNING GIRL SLAYING THE PLAYING WITH GOING UP THE A film by Kimberlee DRAGON: FIRE: STAIRS: Bassford RELOADED Women Actors of Portrait of an Unlikely Afghanistan Iranian Artist Award-winning filmmaker A film by Deborah Gee Kimberlee Bassford and Elaine H. Kim A film by Anneta A film by Rokhsareh follows a teenage judo Papathanassiou Ghaem Maghami Two lenses on media and wrestling In the wake of the Taliban, representations of Asian A warm, inspiring and phenomenon from theater in Afghanistan is and Asian American surprisingly funny portrait Hawai‘i, Teshya Alo, on resurgent — but women women: SLAYING of an outsider artist in her four-year journey to at the forefront face dire THE DRAGON covers Iran, Akram. Illiterate at become the youngest risks. PLAYING WITH stereotypes since the 50 years old and married Olympic gold medalist in FIRE introduces six silent era, RELOADED focuses on change in since she was 8, Akram must get permission from two different sports in one year. women who brave Islamic fundamentalism and recent decades and what we can still hope for. her conservative husband to attend her first art patriarchal traditions to follow their passions. exhibition in Paris. 68 mins | Sale $350 | Rental $125 | #L161165 88 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L16041 58 mins | Sale $350 | Rental $125 | #L161147 52 mins | Sale $295 | Rental $90 | #L161083 2 VISIT WWW.WMM.COM FOR OUR COMPLETE CATALOG 212.925.0606 X 360 [email protected] 3 Popular Culture Women & Technology #1 Video for 2015, American Library Association GREAT UNSUNG WOMEN OF COMPUTING: LOVE BETWEEN THE COVERS Booklist Choice! The Computers, The Coders and The Future Makers A film by Laurie Kahn Romance fiction outsells all other genres of writing, from crime to science fiction, combined. A 3-part series by Kathy Kleiman, Jon Palfreman and Kate McMahon So why is the genre so often dismissed as frivolous “scribble”? Could it be that it’s because Women are not only vastly underrepresented in STEM fields — they are vastly under- the overwhelming majority of writers and readers are women? This funny and inspiring look recognized for their game-changing contributions. This short series, highlighting female into a billion dollar industry turns up trailblazers who push the discussion on gender, race, pioneers who revolutionized the computing and Internet technology we use today, seeks sexuality and diversity at the front lines of the biggest power shift in publishing. to change the ratio. THE COMPUTERS features never-before-seen interviews with some of the earliest computer programmers: six women who created the world’s first modern, Emmy Award® Winning director Laurie Kahn (TUPPERWARE!) turns her insightful eye programmable computer, ENIAC, as part of a secret WWII project. THE CODERS highlights towards another American pop culture phenomenon: the romance industry. Creating online two extraordinary women who invented technologies, Java and Flash, that revolutionized empires and inventing new markets are authors like Beverly Jenkins, a pioneer of African the Internet as we know it today. And in THE FUTURE MAKERS, we see a glimpse of the American romance, Len Barot (aka Radclyffe, L.L. Raand), a surgeon and lesbian-romance future in the work of Andrea Colaço, the young MIT PhD student who won MIT’s $100K legend who started her own publishing house, and the incomparable Nora Roberts. This Entrepreneurship Prize for inventing 3D gesture-recognition technology. These short films will documentary offers fascinating insights into the history and popularity of this female-centric help female students to believe that careers in programming and tech lie within their grasp. literary world. Resource Guide available at: www.lovebetweenthecovers.com/resource-guide-intro Photo courtesy of University of Pennsylvania Archives. US, 2015 | 86 mins | Sale $395 | Rental $150 | #L161173 US, 2016| 48 mins | Sale $ 350 | Rental $125 | #L161181 • Hot Docs HHH ...Recommended… Laurie Kahn’s lively documentary • Seattle Intl Film Festival History’s female programmers will no longer be forgotten… • Los Angeles Film Festival LOVE BETWEEN“ THE COVERS makes a solid case for an • Inspirefest Dublin “Kleiman is building a future that looks different from a history • DOC NYC appreciation of a much maligned genre. - Video Librarian that’s been airbrushed to look more male than it really was. • Hot Springs Documentary - Readwrite.com Film Festival If you want to understand what makes” the most popular ” “of popular genres tick, hurry up and watch Love Between the … an eye opening experience for all of us… these women Covers. A refreshingly smart look at romance fiction today, paved the way for the next generation. yesterday, and tomorrow. “ - Professor Samir Khuller, University of Maryland” - Professor William Gleason,” Princeton University ************************************************************ ************************************************************ THE GENDER ATOMIC MOM MISS AMERICA LET’S GET THE CHIP PROJECT A film by M.T. Silvia A film by Lisa Ades RHYTHM A film by Helen De Michiel A film by Irene Chagall ATOMIC MOM reveals As relevant now as when What is it like to be a the intimate story about it premiered at Sundance A delightful homage young woman training in one of the few female and aired on PBS’s to the ancient, global college for a career in the scientists working on American Experience, tradition of hand-clapping high stakes professions the testing of the atom MISS AMERICA combines games, guided by three of science, technology, bomb in Nevada. From rare archival footage, eight-year-olds. Rich engineering and math exploring her family his- interviews with Gloria material for Anthropology (STEM)? This important tory to traveling to Japan, Steinem, Margaret Cho and Sociology courses, documentary is a must see M.T. Silvia examines the and Isaac Mizrahi to show with archival footage for those concerned with complex legacy of atomic warfare through a female how the pageant became collected by Alan Lomax the challenge of increasing the number of women in perspective. a battleground and a barometer for the changing and observations by ethnomusicologists