Women Make Movies
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:
Geek Girls
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.
Sonita
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.
India's Daughter
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.
Dreamcatcher
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.
Regarding Susan Sontag
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
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
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.