Women Make Movies
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Grants
10
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Total Awarded
$1,065,000
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Years
1992 - 2023
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Categories
Grants
2023 (2 years 2 months)
$220,000
the bomb
Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization that facilitates the production, distribution, and exhibition of independent films by and about women. This award supports the bomb: University Tour, a project of Women Make Movies, which will bring the critically acclaimed exhibition version of the film to multiple universities across the United States. This project extends MacArthur’s initial investment in the creation of the bomb film. Intended outcomes include increased awareness about the grave threat of nuclear weapons through reaching new audiences.
2017 (2 years 7 months)
$150,000
Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization that facilitates the production, distribution, and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women. Women Make Movies produces a smaller scale, mobile version of the bomb, a MacArthur-funded installation experience that raises public awareness about the grave threat that nuclear weapons still pose today, and which received significant attention at the Tribeca Film Festival. The mobile version exhibits at museums around the United States and internationally, thus extending the reach and impact of the bomb and MacArthur’s initial investment.
2016 (1 year 4 months)
$280,000
Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization that facilitates the production, distribution, and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women. Women Make Movies produces and promotes the bomb, an installation experience that raises public awareness about the grave threat that nuclear weapons still pose today. It draws on footage from MacArthur-funded Command and Control, a documentary film on the management of America’s nuclear arsenal by Eric Schlosser. This grant provides supplemental funding to allow the bomb to open as a standalone performance piece at TriBeCa in April 2016.
2015 (1 year 3 months)
$200,000
Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization that facilitates the production, distribution, and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women. Women Make Movies produces and promotes the bomb, an installation experience that raises public awareness about the grave threat that nuclear weapons still pose today. It draws on footage from the MacArthur-funded Command and Control, a documentary film on the management of America’s nuclear arsenal by Eric Schlosser. Opening as a standalone performance piece late in the fall of 2015, the bomb commemorates the 70th anniversary of three transformative events that occurred during the summer of 1945: the test of the first nuclear device in the New Mexico desert and the destruction of two Japanese cities by atomic bombs.
2000 (1 year)
$20,000
To exhibit and distribute documentary films and videos on the global economy's effect on women.
2000 (1 year)
$20,000
To exhibit and distribute documentary films and videos on the global economy's effect on women.
1996 (1 year)
$25,000
In support of general operations and to market films on women's history.
1993 (1 year)
$50,000
To expand distribution services and outreach (over two years).
1992 (1 year)
$25,000
To support the membership campaign of this organization, which assists in the production and distribution of independent films and videos.
1992 (1 year)
$75,000
To produce a documentary film biography of Margaret Sanger, an early advocate of birth control and the founder of Planned Parenthood.
