For the last 20 years filmmakers from WMM’s programs have won or been nominated for Academy Awards, including last year’s To Kill a Tiger. Zimmerman is in great demand around the world as a jury member, speaker, panelist and mentor. She is on the board and selection committees for numerous organizations including Cinema Tropical and Docs Barcelona. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including NY Women in Film and Television’s Changemaker Award and Hot Doc’s Doc Mogul Award, given to those who have made an essential contribution to the creative vitality of the documentary industry, both in his or her home country and abroad.  She is a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences. 

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For more than 50  years, Women Make Movies, a non profit organization, has transformed the filmmaking landscape for diverse women directors and producers, helping to bring issues facing women around the world to light. Our Production Assistance Program assists women directors with their productions from concept through completion with fiscal sponsorship, consultations, workshop and webinars and other technical assistance. Films and filmmakers we have supported have been nominated for or won Academy® Awards for the past 20 years. As the world’s leading distributor of independent films by and about women, we amplify the voices of people historically ignored by the mainstream media.