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The Women In Film Foundation’s Film Finishing Fund (WIFF FFF) supports films by, for or about women by providing cash grants of up to $15,000 and in-kind services.The 2012 Grant Cycle opens on January 30, 2012.
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ABILITY: A FILM PORTRAIT OF JUDY FINELLILisa Denker, Albany, CA The life and work of a remarkable woman, MoMA Retrospective Honoree Elizabeth Murray, whose paintings established her as a veritable iconoclast of the "mainstream" 20th Century art world. denkerfilmworks.com 
EVERYBODY KNOWS . . . ELIZABETH MURRAYKristi Zea, Valley Cottage, NY The life and work of a remarkable woman, MoMA Retrospective Honoree Elizabeth Murray, whose paintings established her as a veritable iconoclast of the "mainstream" 20th Century art world. everybodyknowselizabethmurray.com 
FUTURE WEATHERJenny Deller, Philadelphia, PA Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures. futureweathermovie.com 
I AM NASRINETina Gharavi, South Shields, Tyne+Wear, UK This intimate journey of self-discovery set in modern day Tehran and the UK, follows the paths of Nasrine and Ali, a sister and brother who embark on a reluctant exile after a run-in with the police that holds more punishment than they bargained for. iamnasrine.com 
KUSAMA: PRINCESS OF POLKA DOTSHeather Lenz & Karen Johnson, Irvine, CA The life story of avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama who rivaled pop legend Andy Warhol for press attention while living in NY in the 60s and has spent the last 30 years producing art from a Tokyo mental institution. kusamadocumentary.com 
NAKEDRoynn Lisa Simmons, Middletown, CT A warm and revealing portrait of a woman confronting death who has chosen to make her story a lesson for living fully and with joy, her body an art project, and her suffering a political force for improving health care for women with breast cancer. thenakedproject.com 
SEEKING ASIAN FEMALEDebbie Lum, San Francisco, CA Two strangers, an elderly American man and a young Chinese woman, pursue a marriage brokered by the Internet. They get more than they bargained for when she moves across the Pacific to start a new life with him in America, in this intimate and quirky, personal documentary about modern love. seekingasianfemale.com 
ZERGÜTNatasha Subramaniam & Alison Lapidus, Los Angeles, CA Within a refrigerator, a battle ensues as moldy foods forgotten in the back rise up against the fresh ingredients that reside in the front. These confrontations escalate as foods morph, explode, and become a textural display of color and form culminating in a finale sequence that results in their obliteration. zergutfilm.com |
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