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10/28/2026

Only a few days remain in Dwarfism Awareness Month, but there’s still time to join the conversation! 🎬

Women Make Movies and ReelAbilities invite you to watch a FREE, on-demand panel featuring filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman and artist, performer, and filmmaker Sofiya Cheyenne, moderated by ReelAbilities Director of Engagement Lawrence Carter-Long.

Together, they discuss WMM release THE TALLEST DWARF (dir. Julie Forrest Wyman, executive produced by Sofiya Cheyenne) and HOW WE LOOK, a series of shorts they co-directed. The conversation explores representation, belonging, and what it means to give Little People agency in how their stories are told.

🎬 Want to see the film? THE TALLEST DWARF is available to stream on Gathr through November 30, with FREE access for Little People of America members!

The panel includes ASL interpretation and open captions.

🔗 WATCH THE FREE PANEL and STREAM THE FILM on Gathr. Links in bio!

ReelAbilities New York 🎥 Sofiya Cheyenne Julie Wyman The Tallest Dwarf Doc

WATCH THE PANEL (FREE):
https://bit.ly/dwarfism-awareness-month-2026_

STREAM THE FILM:
https://gathr.com/vod/7c959eca/the-tallest-dwarf/

LPA MEMBER ACCESS & MORE:
https://www.wmm.com/landing-pages/dwarfism-awareness-month/

10/23/2026

Why does LOUD ENOUGH: SURVIVING JUSTICE matter? In this clip from her conversation with Jeannine Luby on Uncorked with Funny W**e Girl, director Hilary Klotz Steinman shares what drew her to the film. The criminal justice system is incredibly hard for survivors to navigate, and Madison’s unique legal strategy for seeking justice shows what else is possible. The film also speaks across generations, as younger people coming forward help survivors of all ages heal from years of shame and blame.

🎬 WMM release LOUD ENOUGH: SURVIVING JUSTICE (dir. Hilary Klotz Steinman, prod. Heidi Reavis, Steve Engel, and Hilary Klotz Steinman) is a powerful reckoning with sexual misconduct and the fight for justice. Book a screening or purchase the film today.

Loud Enough - Surviving Justice Hilary Klotz Steinman Jeannine Luby

10/22/2026

Selena’s legacy lives on in the people who loved her. On Wednesday, October 28, catch WMM release CORPUS: A HOME MOVIE ABOUT SELENA (dir. Lourdes Portillo) at BAM in Brooklyn.

Pioneering filmmaker Lourdes Portillo travels to Selena’s hometown of Corpus Christi, TX, to talk with her family, friends, and neighbors. Their stories are intercut with a conversation among prominent Latina writers, scholars, and artists, including Sandra Cisneros, about what Selena meant and still means to us.

It screens alongside WHEN I GET HOME (dir. Solange Knowles) as part of Area Coded: American Regionalism in Film.

BAM Film Get your tickets now:
https://www.bam.org/film/2026/area-coded-when-i

10/20/2026

This month, join Women Make Movies and ReelAbilities for a free, on-demand panel in honor of Dwarfism Awareness Month! 🎬

Filmmaker Julie Forrest Wyman and artist, performer, and filmmaker Sofiya Cheyenne, moderated by Lawrence Carter-Long, Director of Engagement at ReelAbilities, discuss WMM release THE TALLEST DWARF (dir. Julie Forrest Wyman, executive produced by Sofiya Cheyenne) and HOW WE LOOK, a series of shorts co-directed by Forrest Wyman and Cheyenne. The panelists reflect on belonging, representation, and their collaborative approach to documentary filmmaking, which centers Little People’s perspectives and gives them agency in how their stories are told.

Stream THE TALLEST DWARF on Gathr through November 30. Little People of America members watch free. The panel includes ASL interpretation and open captions.

WATCH THE PANEL (FREE):
https://bit.ly/dwarfism-awareness-month-2026_

STREAM THE FILM:
https://gathr.com/vod/7c959eca/the-tallest-dwarf/

LPA MEMBER ACCESS & MORE:
https://www.wmm.com/landing-pages/dwarfism-awareness-month/

10/15/2026

Today is the last day of National Hispanic Heritage Month, but celebrating Hispanic heritage is an everyday practice. With immigration and education still at the center of the national conversation, WMM release ESCUELA (dir. Hannah Weyer) feels as urgent as ever. The film follows Liliana Luis, a Mexican American teenage farm worker starting high school as her family moves between Texas and California’s fields. More than 20 years later, its questions still hang over classrooms and farms alike: who gets a stable education, and what does it cost the families who feed the country?

ESCUELA is available through WMM. Take 25% off DVD or Digital Site License purchases through October 31 with code NHHM26.

https://www.wmm.com/catalog/film/escuela/

10/14/2026

What happens when a family’s grief is tangled up in secrets, faith, and shame? This National Hispanic Heritage Month, explore one of WMM’s latest releases, MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART (dir. Cecilia Aldarondo), a 2016 Tribeca Film Festival nominee for the Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature. Twenty-five years after her uncle Miguel dies of AIDS, Aldarondo searches for his estranged partner, now a Franciscan monk, uncovering a family history shaped by the stigma surrounding the AIDS crisis. Through home movies, letters, and intimate interviews, the film reckons with the stories families leave untold.

🎬 Book or purchase MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART through WMM and save 25% with code NHHM26 through October 31.

https://www.wmm.com/catalog/film/memories-of-a-penitent-heart/

Cecilia Aldarondo

10/13/2026

Congratulations to ON THE SEA ROAD, directed Fitnat Waked, winner of the Women Make Movies Award at the 2026 Durban FilmMart! 🎉

The award recognizes the best pitch by a woman filmmaker and comes with acceptance into WMM’s Production Assistance Program, including fiscal sponsorship, fundraising and distribution consultations, rough cut feedback, and more.

ON THE SEA ROAD follows two young Palestinian women, one in Yafa and one in Gaza, whose friendship grows through cameras and WhatsApp calls amid the war, exploring solidarity, womanhood, and the search for freedom.

Congratulations to Fitnat and the whole team!

Fitnat Waked
Durban FilmMart

10/09/2026

With the 2026 midterms less than a month away, the economy, cost of living, and immigration are shaping the national conversation. On October 8, Pew Research Center found that 84% of registered voters consider the economy very important to their midterm vote, while 59% say the same about immigration. This National Hispanic Heritage Month, RUNNING WITH MY GIRLS highlights why women of color must have a voice in shaping policies that affect their communities. Follow five women in Denver as they challenge the political establishment through grassroots campaigns.

🎬 Book or purchase WMM release RUNNING WITH MY GIRLS and save 25% with code NHHM26.

https://www.wmm.com/catalog/film/running-with-my-girls/

10/06/2026

🎬 Three powerful films made with the support of WMM’s Production Assistance Program are playing at DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema this month:

🎬 AMERICAN DOCTOR (dir. Poh Si Teng) is currently screening at DCTV Firehouse Cinema through October 8. The film follows three American physicians, Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian, who volunteer in besieged hospitals in Gaza. It is also playing in theaters nationwide. AMERICAN DOCTOR
🎬 A PLACE OF ABSENCE (dir. Marialuisa Ernst) opens October 16 at DCTV Firehouse Cinema. The lyrical documentary follows the Caravan of Mothers, Central American women searching for their disappeared migrant children across Mexico, alongside the filmmaker’s own family history of loss. A Place of Absence / El Lugar de la Ausencia
🎬 THE GYMNASTS OF FISHERMAN COLONY (dir. Habiba Nosheen) opens October 23 at DCTV Firehouse Cinema, following three teenage girls in a marginalized Karachi fishing community who find freedom and possibility through gymnastics. The Gymnasts of Fisherman Colony

And there’s more to see in theaters now: BARBARA FOREVER (dir. Brydie O’Connor), GIVE IT A SHOT (dir. Vaishali Sinha), and TAKE ME HOME (dir. Liz Sargeant) are continuing their theatrical runs in NYC and select theaters nationwide. Catch them while they’re on the big screen! barbaraforeverfilm Take Me Home Film

10/05/2026

When the storm passed, the real disaster began. Hurricane María devastated Puerto Rico, but as the grid collapsed and federal aid faltered, investors arrived to profit from the crisis. This National Hispanic Heritage Month, WMM release LANDFALL (dir. Cecilia Aldarondo) is our Movie of the Month, and Cecilia Aldarondo is our Filmmaker of the Month. Her intimate, lyrical portrait of trauma, resilience, and resistance exposes Puerto Rico’s fraught colonial relationship with the United States and asks: when disaster strikes, who profits, and who is left to rebuild?

LANDFALL is available through WMM. Take 25% off through October 31 with code NHHM26 at check out: https://www.wmm.com/catalog/film/landfall/

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