One of my passions is to find stories I love and share them with different audiences across the globe. I started working with documentaries because I strongly believe that film has the power to effect positive change.
At Women Make Movies I was part of the marketing, acquisition and distribution teams. WMM has transformed the landscape of filmmaking for women directors and producers, bringing the issues facing women around the world to screens everywhere.
WMM is the largest distributor of films by and about women in the world. Women Make Movies. By Women. About Women. For Everyone.
Now, with more than 600 films in our catalog, including Academy®, Emmy®, Peabody and Sundance nominees and award winners. Films from WMM filmmakers have been nominated or won Academy Awards in 10 of the last 12 years.
I coordinated and executed marketing campaigns for social issue documentary films. I have worked directly with filmmakers on grassroots outreach plans & social impact campaigns for HBO/Showtime/BBC documentaries.
I also screened and evaluated incoming films for possible acquisition and further identified target markets for each. I am proud to have worked with great films that cover topics such as global warming, migration, women's rights, health and politics.
These are some of the films I worked with:
Featuring the following 2018 films:
Atomic Homefront: Currently on HBO
Yours in Sisterhood
93Queen
White Right: Meeting the Enemy: EMMY and BAFTA Award Winning Film
The Rest I Make Up: One of the best 2019 films by the New Yorker
https://vimeo.com/177123874
This is one of my favorite films from our 2017 collection. Geek Girls is about nerdy women - the "hidden half" of fan culture - who open up about their lives in the world of conventions, video games, and other rife-with-misogyny pop culture touchstones. While geek communities have recently risen to prominence, very little attention is paid to geek women.
The film features a feminist geek blogger, a convention-trotting cosplayer, a professional gamer, a video-game designer, and a NASA engineer. Through their personal experiences in the rich cultural explosion of nerdom, Geek Girls shows both the exhilaration of newfound community and the ennui of being ostracized. These women, striving in their respective professions and passions, face the cyberbullying, harassment, and sexism that permeate the culture and the industry at large.
Riding at night through streets deemed dangerous in Eastside Los Angeles, the Ovarian Psycos use their bicycles to confront the violence in their lives. At the helm of the crew is founder Xela de la X, a single mother and poet M.C. dedicated to recruiting an unapologetic, misfit crew of women of color. The film intimately chronicles Xela as she struggles to strike a balance between her activism and nine year old daughter Yoli; street artist Andi who is estranged from her family and journeys to become a leader within the crew; and bright eyed recruit Evie, who despite poverty, and the concerns of her protective Salvadoran mother, discovers a newfound confidence.
The film Ovarian Psycos rides along with the Ova’s, exploring the impact of the group’s activism, born of feminist ideals, Indigenous understanding and an urban/hood mentality, on neighborhood women and communities as they confront injustice, racism, and violence, and take back their streets one ride at a time
YOURS IN SISTERHOOD is a performative, participatory documentary inspired by the breadth and complexity of letters that were sent in the 1970s to the editor of Ms.- America's first mainstream feminist magazine. The film documents hundreds of strangers from around the U.S. who were invited to read aloud and respond to these letters written by women, men and children from diverse backgrounds. Collectively, the letters feel like an encyclopedia of both the 70s and the women's movement- an almost literal invocation of the second-wave feminist slogan "the personal is political." The intimate, provocative, and sometimes heartbreaking conversations that emerge from these performances invite viewers to think about the past, present, and future of feminism.
Two-time Sundance Film Festival award winner SONITA tells the inspiring story of Sonita Alizadeh, an 18-year-old Afghan refugee in Iran, who thinks of Michael Jackson and Rihanna as her spiritual parents and dreams of becoming a big-name rapper. For the time being, her only fans are the other teenage girls in a Tehran shelter. And her family has a very different future planned for her: as a bride she's worth $9,000. Iranian director Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami (GOING UP THE STAIRS) poignantly shifts from observer to participant altering expectations, as Sonita's story unfolds in this personal and joyful portrait. An intimate portrait of creativity and womanhood, SONITA highlights the rarely seen intricacies and shifting contrasts of Iranian society through the lens of an artist who is defining the next generation.
For India's Daughter (2015), I conducted all research for multi-channel, impact campaigns and identified key partners for each individual campaign. For this documentary I also compiled an extensive outreach partner and press lists. FInally, I assisted Director of Acquisition on its marketing plan.
For Dreamcatcher (2015) I conducted all research for multi-channel, impact campaigns and identified key partners for its campaign. For this documentary I also compiled extensive outreach partner and press lists and assisted Director of Acquisition on its marketing plan.
It was a great pleasure to work on a film about one of my favorite authors and intellectuals, Susan Sontag. For this film released on 2014, I did an extensive outreach research to identify key organizations and institutions that could be interested in acquiring the film.
Private Violence (2015) is a documentary film and audience engagement campaign that explores a deeply disturbing fact of American life: the most dangerous place for a woman in America is her own home. During the time I worked with the film, it sold to over 100 universities and it became part of their permanent curriculum. More important to the mission, the film has been placed in over 200 domestic violence shelters nationwide and the list is still growing. Through my research, I connected with the National Alliance of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault and the film is now part of a permanent educational tool database for advocates nationally.
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth (2013) is a feature documentary film which tells the compelling story of an extraordinary woman's journey from her birth in a paper-thin shack in cotton fields of Putnam Country, Georgie to her recognition as a key writer of the 20th Century.