Classes are conducted by a range of highly experienced and successful women in the independent film and video industry. Popular courses include Getting Your First Project Off The Ground, Production Management, Distribution and Promotion, The Business Side of the Business, Television Co-Production and Sales, and many more. These workshops are designed to help filmmakers map out a strategy, create and effective proposal with budgets and sample reels, or create individual donor appeals and benefit events that work. In 1998 WMM launched a Director's Master Class , inviting women directors to share their insights and experience including everything from Dos and Don'ts to candidly revealing what worked for them to get financing, producers and distributors on board. Recent Master Class Instructors have included Alex Sichel, whose debut feature film All Over Me was released theatrically by Fine Line Features, and Jennifer Fox, whose ten part documentary series American Love Story was funded by American Playhouse and debuts theatrically prior to a national PBS airdate.
Advanced registration is required.
To support the Production Assistance Program and participants, Women Make Movies issues a biannual newsletter. This publication provides an opportunity for Women Make Movies to offer exciting news about the world of feminist media and the work of independent women media artists. In it, we offer resources and information about discounts for participants, and share exciting information about awards, grants, acknowledgments to and contributions made by makers in the field and in the program. Issued each Spring and Fall, the Newsletter is a link to the Media Workshop Series, and to other programs including recent releases from the Distribution Department. Information services for the Production Assistance Program include semi-regular electronic announcements to fiscally sponsored projects about upcoming grant opportunities, award nominations, screenings and premiers, etc.