Debra Zimmerman

Debra Zimmerman has been Executive Director of Women Make Movies since 1983. During her tenure, WMM has grown into the largest distributor of films by and about women the in world and their Production Assistance Program has helped its filmmakers complete more than 1000 films and raise $90 million in funding. During the last 20 years, films from WMM have won or been nominated for Academy Awards, including this year’s To Kill A Tiger. She is in great demand around the world as a speaker on independent film distribution, marketing and financing. She is the Board Chair of Cinema Tropical, which supports Latin American filmmaking. She has was given a Hot Doc’s Doc Mogul Award, given to those who “over the course of their career has made an essential contribution to the creative vitality of the documentary industry, both in his or her country or abroad.” She recently was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Documentary Branch.