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ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA
SCREENS AT NY MOMA’S DOCUMENTARY FORTNIGHT

WMM new acquisition GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA is one of four docs nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Documentary Short. Hailed as "illuminating" by LA WEEKLY, and winner of numerous festival awards, Kimberlee Acquaro and Stacy Sherman's powerful new doc is an amazing story of hope in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide. Don’t miss your opportunity to catch this film at MoMA’s prestigious Annual Documentary Fortnight, screening Friday, 3/10 at 6pm, with an introduction by the filmmaker.

For more information, visit the NY MoMA site.

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STARS OF SISTERS IN LAW VISIT U.S. FROM CAMEROON PRIOR TO APRIL RUN AT NY'S FILM FORUM

Traveling from their Cameroon courthouse to the Big Apple, state prosecutor Vera Ngassa and Court President Beatrice Ntuba are the two feisty women featured in Kim Longinotto’s award-winning documentary, SISTERS IN LAW. WMM is pleased to welcome Ngassa, Ntuba and filmmaker Kim Longinotto to New York City for several sneak preview screenings of this highly acclaimed doc before its opening at NY's Film Forum April 12-25 for two weeks only.

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WMM PARTNERS WITH GIRLS SCOUTS USA TO PROMOTE TROOP 1500 Broadcast Premiere on PBS Series INDEPENDENT LENS March 21

WMM is partnering with Girl Scouts USA on a seven-city screening tour of TROOP 1500, the powerful film featuring Girl Scouts Beyond Bars, a groundbreaking national program that brings girls into prisons to meet with their inmate moms. The tour includes a special event at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, targeting legislators, lawmakers and members of the criminal justice reform community. The tour also includes Seattle, Chicago, Boston, New York and Hartford. The film premieres March 21 on Emmy-award winning series Independent Lens on on most PBS stations. For more information and local schedules, visit the ITVS website at pbs.org

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HIGHWAY COURTESANS SCREENS AT IFC CENTER IN NYC ON MARCH 14th

Mystelle Brabbee's award-winning coming-of-age story, HIGHWAY COURTESANS screens at the IFC Center in New York City as part of Thom Power's "Stranger than Fiction" series on Tuesday, March 14, followed by Q&A with the filmmakers, and continuing conversation at the IFC bar. Called “complex and emotional” by Utne magazine and screened at festivals from Austin to Thessaloniki, this riveting doc follows a young woman struggling against a centuries-old tradition of prostitution in rural India. The IFC Center is located at 323 Sixth Ave (at 3rd St). Tickets and passes can be purchased at the box office or buy online.

HIGHWAY COURTESANS will have its theatrical release this fall starting October 13 at the QUAD Theater in New York City. Details to come.

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WMM STAFF TRAVEL AROUND THE WORLD IN MARCH

Michelle Coe, Administrator of WMM's Production Assistance Program will be attending the 7th annual National Alliance of Independent Producers (NALIP) Conference, held in Huntington Beach California March 9-12. She will be participating on the Latin Media Market and on a Documentary Pitch Evaluation panel. Christie George, Broadcast and Theatrical Manager, is off to Finland March 8-12 to attend the Tampere Film Festival, one of the leading short film festivals in the world. Christie will be presenting a special program of WMM films including IN THE MORNING, TROOP 1500 and FERRY TALES. That same week, Debra Zimmerman, Executive Director, will be attending the Miami International Film Festival where she will moderating a panel on women's filmmaking and speaking on two other panels on distribution and marketing. She then travels to the Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival in Greece.

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