Women Make Movies (WMM) Continues Award Streak

Posted Tuesday 08 Feb 2011

Women Make Movies is a US-based multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organisation which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women. WMM films continue to garner awards and nominations. For the fifth year in a row, a WMM film has won an award at Sundance - Dee Rees' Pariah, produced through the Women Make Movies Production Assistance (PA) Program, took home the Excellence in Cinematography Award, Dramatic Film, and has now been picked up for distribution by Focus Features. Also, for the fifth time in the past six years, a WMM film has been nominated for an Academy Award� with Jennifer Redfearn's Sun Come Up, in Best Documentary, Short Subject. Films from WMM's internationally recognized distribution program that are Sundance winners include Rough Aunties, 2009 World Cinema Jury Prize and El General, 2009 Excellence in Directing, Documentary. In addition, God Sleeps in Rwanda, part of WMM's catalogue, was an Academy Award nominee in 2005 for Best Documentary, Short Subject.