The Women Make Movies Collection
The Women Make Movies Collection is a classic selection of films from Women Make Movies — comprised of major-award winning films, including both new releases and films never available for streaming before.
For over 45 years, Women Make Movies has been championing women filmmakers and their stories, supporting women producers and directors from the beginning and planting the seeds for a diverse and inclusive filmmaking landscape. As the world’s leading distributor of independent films by and about women, Women Make Movies amplifies historically ignored voices and challenges the mainstream media.
The Women Make Movies Collection collection includes the following titles:
62 Days62 DAYS is an urgent examination of a growing trend of laws that seek to control a pregnant woman's body.
93Queen93QUEEN chronicles the creation of the first all-female Hasidic ambulance corps in New York City.
A Better ManFrom Executive Producer Sarah Polley, A BETTER MAN follows a series of intimate conversations between a woman and her former boyfriend when she confronts him about their history of domestic abuse.
A Boy Named Sue Julie Wyman's compelling documentary chronicles Theo's transformation from a woman to a man over the course of six years.
A Crushing LoveA CRUSHING LOVE, Sylvia Morales’ sequel to her groundbreaking history of Chicana women, CHICANA (1979), honors the achievements of five activist Latinas—labor organizer/farm worker leader Dolores Huerta, author/educator Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez, writer/playwright/educator Cherrie Moraga, civil rights advocate Alicia Escalante, and historian/writer Martha Cotera - and considers how these single mothers managed to be parents and effect broad-based social change at the same time.
A Different ImageAn extraordinary, poetic portrait of a beautiful young African American woman attempting to escape becoming a sex object and to discover her true heritage
A Girl Like HerFrom 1945-73, 1.5 million unmarried young American women, facing enormous social pressures, surrendered babies to adoption. Lacking sex education and easy access to birth control, they were forced into hiding while pregnant and then into “abandoning” their infants. In her latest film, Ann Fessler, Professor of Photography at Rhode Island School of Design, reprises the subject of her award-winning The Girls Who Went Away (National Book Critics Circle; Ballard Book Prize), which Ms. readers named an all-time best feminist book.
A Jury of Her PeersThis riveting feminist classic probes the notion of women’s victimization and justifiable homicide and opens the possibility for the creation of an alternate, feminist justice and judgment.
A Kiss on the MouthFrom the Lilith Video Collective comes this sensitive and sympathetic examination of female prostitution in urban Brazil.
A Normal GirlA NORMAL GIRL brings the widely unknown struggles of intersex people to light through the story of intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis.
Visit the title page to preview any of the titles above.
