U.S.-based non-profit Women Make Movies is one of thousands of organizations hit by President Donald Trump’s cuts to federal humanities grants. Variety spoke to executive director Debra Zimmerman at Swiss documentary film festival Visions du Réel, whose program included two Wmm-supported films: Amber Fares’ “Coexistence, My Ass!” and Sarvnik Kaur’s “Disruption.”Women Make Movies is one of thousands of U.S.-based organizations impacted by the Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of federal humanities grants.
Recent cuts targeted the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency that supports museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media projects across all 50 states. According to Zimmerman, the move has left many filmmakers out of pocket and unsure how to move forward.
Sarvnik Kaur’s “Disruption” was one of the projects pitched at Visions du Reel
“The cuts represent a total loss of $1.2 million. That’s money that should go directly to filmmakers,…
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