Special Program: Women Make Movies Workshop Films: Community Women at Women Make Movies Tell Universal Cinematic Stories

In 1969, filmmakers Ariel Dougherty and Sheila Paige founded Women Make Movies, a non-profit organization that established a community media workshop for women in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. Secretaries, housewives, and retirees came to the WMM workshop to make movies,short black-and-white films, shot without sound on a wind-up Bolex. The stories presented are personal yet universal, reflecting the women’s varied experiences.