What else can we do to help women filmmakers and see eye-opening films?

Rent movies made by women

Movies By Women has compiled a list of movies made since 2000: www.moviesbywomen.com/moviesbywomenfilms.htm

You can also rent great, hard-to-find movies by women from Women Make Movies ( www.wmm.com ), the premiere distributor of films by women directors. Rent several and invite your friends over for a Do It Yourself film festival or get your school or community group to rent or buy these films!

Go to the movies!

Here's a list of movies by women that may be showing on a big screen near you
compiled by Movies By Women:

Feature Films

•   Bride and Prejudice directed by Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha
•   A Love Song for Bobby Long directed  by Shainee Gabel
•   The Woodsman directed by Nicole Kassell
•   D.E.B.S. directed by Angela Robinson
•   Easy directed by Jane Weinstock
•   Solitude directed by Pi Ware and Susan Kraker
•   Virgin directed by Deborah Kampmeier
•   Whore directed Maria Lidon
•   You, I Love directed by Olga Stolpovskaja and Smitry Troitsky
•   The Wedding Date directed by Clare Kilner

Documentaries

•   Army of One directed by Sarah Goodman
•   Born Into Brothels directed by Zana Briski & Ross Kauffman
•   In the Realms of the Unreal directed by Jessica Yu
•   The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill directed by Judy Irving
•   Sunset Story directed by Laura Gabbert
•   Empathy directed by Amie Siegel
•   Knock Off: Revenge on the Logo directed by Anette Baldauf and Katharina Weingartner

Buy tickets for the opening weekends of films by women!

It's especially helpful to go on opening weekend, proving there is an audience for films by women. Sign up for the First Weekenders newsletter at: www.moviesbywomen.com to find out what's opening each weekend.

Use the WomenArts Network to Find Artists in Your Community.

Ruth Sergel, Kagendo Murungi, and Sheila Margaret Sofian are just three of the 150 filmmakers on the WomenArts Network. And more join every day! Search the WomenArts Network at www.WomenArts.org to discover filmmakers and other artists in your region who are doing great work. Then contact her directly to ask about screenings, her films in progress, and how you can help!

Got other tips for how readers can support women artists?

Email them to our Associate Director Sarah Browning at browning@WomenArts.org

 

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