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Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Film Industry

December 28, 2022

Pleased to be named in the 2022 Association of Women Film Journalists’

Outstanding Achievements by a Woman in the Film Industry!

* Nina Menkes and Maria Giese for making Brainwashed, analyzing and illustrating the misogynistic representation of women in Hollywood movies.

* Viola Davis for getting The Woman King made as her lifetime passion project and creating opportunities for other women creatives.

* Domee Shi for being the first woman to direct a film for Pixar and for becoming Pixar’s VP of Creative.

* Jacqueline Stewart for ongoing advocacy of the underrepresented and becoming president of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

* Michelle Yeoh – lifetime achievement award.

TEN BEST LISTS AND MORE AWARDS

December 27, 2022

Brainwashed has been listed on numerous

TEN BEST OF 2022 LISTS INCLUDING:

FILM COMMENT

ROGER EBERT

ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

IMDB

SCREEN SLATE

PINNLAND EMPIRE

Our Awards include:

SOFEE SEAL of FEMALE EMPOWERMENT -CRITICS CHOICE ASSOCIATION AWARDS

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT -ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS AWARDS

BEST OF FESTS- IDFA

BEST OF FEST- ALEXANDRIA FILM FESTIVAL

Nomination-OUTSTANDING SCORE by SHARON FARBER

Society of Composers and Lyricists

Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian: BRAINWASHED “Fierce and Focused”

October 16, 2022

Here is what Peter Bradshaw wrote in The Guardian today “ … a fierce and focused polemic reviving the subject of the “male gaze” for the #MeToo era…. Menkes shows us that the way the camera looks at women, and everything else, is not a transparent, value-free business. On the contrary: with men so overwhelmingly in charge, it is an activity of coercion and imposition, determined by gender politics. And sexuality as it appears on screen is not the natural, unmediated free expression of equal pleasure, but deeply embedded in male power relations……‘Brainwashed’ is a bracing blast of critical rigour.”   Oct 15, 2022

 

NEW ‘BRAINWASHED’ TRAILER!- In theaters Oct 21st

October 5, 2022




TIX NOW AVAILABLE IN NYC AND LA

OCT 21-28

Great Review in BUST for “Brainwashed”

Thank you Violet Lucca for this wonderful review of “Brainwashed” in the Fall 2022 print edition of BUST.

“(Menkes) calls for a radical reinvention of how shots and film grammar are formulated. Crucially, Menkes’ documentary is not calling for cancellation. Viewers are meant to wrestle with this film, not passively consume a simple message–and they’ll leave invigorated.”

BUST_FILM REVIEW_

BRAINWASHED @ Karlovy Vary INTL FILM FEST

June 20, 2022

We are thrilled that BRAINWASHED has been invited to the fabulous 2022 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic, one of the top film fests in Europe! Our festival resume includes:

  • Sundance, USA
  • Berlinale, Germany
  • CPH:DOX, Denmark
  • Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival, Czech Republic
  • Thessaloniki Int’l Film Festival, Greece
  • Jeonju Int’l Film Festival, Korea
  • Doc Aviv, Israel
  • Frameline Int’l Film Festival, USA
  • Encounters Documentary Film Festival, South Africa
  • Peongchang Int’l Peace Film Festival, Korea
  • Beldocs Int’l Film Festival, Serbia 
  • UnderHill Int’l Film Festival, Montenegro
  • Brussels Int’l Film Festival, Belgium
  • and many more coming soon!