Women Make Movies is a non-profit feminist media arts organization based in New York City. Founded by Ariel Dougherty and Sheila Paige with Dolores Bargowski, WMM was first a feminist production collective that emerged from city-wide Women's Liberation meetings in September 1969. They produced four films by 1973. Dougherty and Paige incorporated the organization in March 1972 as a community based workshop to teach film to everyday women. A distribution service was also begun as an earned income program. In the mid-1970s a membership was created that screened and distributed members' work.[1][2] In the early 1980s focus shifted to concentrate on distribution of independent films by and about women.[3] WMM also provides production assistance to women filmmakers.
The Academy Film Archive houses the Women Make Movies Collection, which includes prints, videotape masters, and original film elements of dozens of features, documentaries, shorts, and informational films made by and about women.[10]
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^"Feminist Media Part of Life_Next 40 Yrs". Scribd. Retrieved 2015-12-01.
^White, Patricia (2013). ""Women Make Movies at 40"". Camera Obscura. 1 (82): 147–155. doi:10.1215/02705346-2016996. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
^"Debra Zimmerman and Women Make Movies - Featured Artists". Center for Social Media. 2002.
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