Founded in 2007 by Abigail E. Disney and Gini Reticker, Fork Films began with the feature film Pray the Devil Back to Hell, followed by Emmy-winning The Armor of Light, The Trials of Spring, and the five-part PBS series Women, War & Peace. In addition to its original productions, Fork has funded over 100 documentary films including Cameraperson, Trapped, 1971, Hot Girls Wanted, and the Academy Award®-nominated films Strong Island, The Square, Sun Come Up and The Invisible War. Fork Films is committed to promoting peace, lifting marginalized voices, and building bridges across divided communities. In partnership with our sister organization Peace is Loud, we enrich every project we make with lasting impact campaigns.
What (Not) To Doc says Disclosure Documentary director Sam Feder "presents a thought-provoking tour through the history of mainstream entertainment, tracking how much things have – and have not – changed, and the power and influence images have on us all."
DISCLOSURE: TRANS LIVES ON SCREEN Sam Feder explores the representation of transgender lives in film and television. Festival Section: Documentary Premieres
"The message of SB 37 is simple: Greed is never good. Equality and fairness are patriotic." Check out this op-ed by our co-founder Abigail Disney and Nancy Skinner in support of a California Senate Bill addressing income inequality.
While the wealth of each of our families was very different, we both grew up during a time when most families could live comfortably on what they took home after working a 40-hour-a-week job. In those days, a middle-class salary could cover a household’s needs. And the company boss didn’t make t...
"The academy leaders stress that when 'creators are denied the opportunity of full recognition of their work and interaction with their respectful peers,' their message is 'suppressed.'" 🗣 Hear, hear.
UPDATED: In a rare joint action, both TV academies have banded together and sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, asking him to act on journalists and documentarians “being denied …
Our co-founder Abigail Disney and Patriotic Millionaires are back in the news, testifying "before the California State Senate in support of a bill that would raise the state's corporate income tax rates while incentivizing firms to curb CEO pay." via CNN
Disney heir Abigail Disney testified Wednesday before the California State Senate in support of a bill that would raise the state's corporate income tax rates while incentivizing firms to curb CEO pay.
CRIP CAMP tells the story of a summer camp for teens with disabilities. It's part of Higher Ground's slate of films that Barack & Michelle Obama are bringing to Netflix. It's also a Fork Films grantee and it world premieres in just one week at Sundance Film Festival!
No one at Camp Jened could’ve imagined that those summers in the woods together would be the beginnings of a revolution. Just down the road from Woodstock, Camp Jened was a camp for disabled teens. Directors Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht (a former Jened camper himself) deliver a rousing film abo...
Fork Films grantee Cooked: Survival by Zip Code is coming to Independent Lens | PBS next month, and BroadwayWorld has the news!
The new feature documentary COOKED: Survival by Zip Code, a searing exploration into the politics of “disaster,” blends investigative reporting about the deadly 1995 Chicago heat wave with a potent argument that the best preparation for a disaster may start with investing in racial and economic ...
"Featuring more than 100 years of footage, Sam Feder & Amy Scholder’s documentary explores the history of transgender people and cross-dressers as portrayed in movies and on television." NewNowNext can't wait for Disclosure Documentary!
From Ryan Murphy's "The Boys in the Band" to a gay Valentine's Day rom-com, here are the films we already can't stop talking about.
Congrats to all of the filmmakers included in today's SXSW announcement, especially to Fork Films grantees 9to5: The Story of A Movement and Lights Camera Uganda, both of which will have their world premieres in Austin this March!
Explore the 2020 SXSW Film Festival Features and Episodic Premieres lineup!
“The world is watching. Your mothers, your sisters, your daughters and I want to be unequivocally clear that there is only one way to spell equality: E-R-A.” - Delegate Jennifer Carroll Foy at today's historic vote. #ERANOW (via Ms. Magazine
The decision by Old Dominion state lawmakers makes Virginia the 38th and final state needed to make the ERA part of the Constitution.
Our co-founder Abigail Disney is about to testify for the CA legislature in support of SB37, a new bill that would create an incentive for corporations to rein in excessive CEO pay and increase the state's corporate income tax. Watch live! https://t.co/cVvp8Q5gS7?amp=1
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Imagine a documentary with appearances by Laverne Cox (also EP!), Lilly Wachowski, Yance Ford, MJ Rodriguez, Jamie Clayton and Chaz Bono.
Well, it's called Disclosure Documentary directed by Sam Feder. World premiering two weeks from today, at Sundance Film Festival!
This unprecedented documentary offers an eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Leading trans thinkers and creatives, including Laverne Cox, Lilly Wachowski, Yance Ford, M...
Going to #Sundance? Don't miss the Marketing, Movement Building, and Meaningful Representation panel, featuring Jamie Dobie (Peace is Loud), Sue Obeidi
(Muslim Public Affairs Council - MPAC) and Darcy Heusel (NEON), moderated by Sonya Childress (Firelight Media)!
Monday, January 27, noon–2:00 p.m.Kimball Art Center, 1401 Kearns Blvd.We all know it—stories create impact. It’s now up to us—filmmakers, impact producers, advocates, funders, and distributors—to work together to fuel sustainable social and cultural change. Join Sue Obeidi from the Muslim...
"I hope to see characters with disabilities move to the center of the narrative in both fiction and documentary. I think filmmakers with disabilities should be at the front of the line for directing those films," - Rodney Evans, director & Sundance fellow
Founded by Robert Redford, Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization that actively advances the work of independent storytellers in film and theatre.
IndieWire calls One Child Nation "a triumphant synthesis of first-person storytelling and historical reckoning that shows how the policy continues to ripple through Chinese life" on its list of 35 must-see films you can stream. Watch it!
Here are the must-see 2019 movies you can stream right now on Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, and more.
Writer Sheelah Kolhatkar appeared on NPR to discuss the Patriotic Millionaires, Abigail Disney and income inequality. Have a listen!
NPR's Noel King talks to journalist Sheelah Kolhatkar, who profiles Abigail Disney for The New Yorker, about Disney trying to reduce income inequality and getting the rich to pay higher taxes.
Can't make it to Sundance but still want to see CRIP CAMP? If you're in NYC, some great news - it was just announced as the opener for MoMA The Museum of Modern Art #DocFortnight!
The Museum of Modern Art has unveiled its full festival lineup of 28 features and shorts for Doc Fortnight 2020, its annual showcase of the best of nonfiction film, on Monday. The list includes the…
"No one at Camp Jened could’ve imagined that those summers in the woods together would be the beginnings of a revolution.""
Two weeks from tonight is the world premiere of CRIP CAMP at the Sundance Film Festival!
No one at Camp Jened could’ve imagined that those summers in the woods together would be the beginnings of a revolution. Just down the road from Woodstock, Camp Jened was a camp for disabled teens. Directors Nicole Newnham and Jim LeBrecht (a former Jened camper himself) deliver a rousing film abo...
Check out the list of films that Talkhouse Film contributors chose as their favorites from 2019. One Child Nation and Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops make an appearance!
Find out what Talkhouse Film's contributors chose as their favorite movies of the past 12 months.
Mark our words: you're going to be hearing a lot about Fork Films grantee Crip Camp. It's about to premiere at Sundance Film Festival on opening night and it got a shoutout on the Netflix Film Twitter feed. Exciting times!
Netflix officially bossed 2019 with their original movies, and now the popular streaming service is teasing another 29 original films for 2020. Netflix shared the news over a long Twitter thread teasing several different films; from a Taylor Swift documentary and a new Tyler Perry thriller, to seque...
And the accolades continue to roll in... Galeca: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics has announced the nominees for the Dorian awards 2020 and Fork Films grantee One Child Nation is on the list!
Hustlers Little Women Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Pain and Glory Parasite Portrait of a Lady on Fire
The #DGAAwards were just announced. Congrats are in order to Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, directors of One Child Nation, on being nominated in the documentary category!
Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert American Factory (Netflix)
Proud of Yance Ford,, director of Fork Films grantee Strong Island who hosted the Cinema Eye Honors last night and encouraged attendees to hold our own industry accountable. "“Silence is powerful, but the best weapon to fight this silence is to break it."
The ceremony also included an emotional moment for "American Factory" director Julia Reichert, who is currently fighting cancer.
"Gone are the days of holding up young, white, heterosexual men as the ‘ideal’ consumers. Now, moviegoers of all backgrounds want to see themselves represented on the silver screen," says Harper's Bazaar UK. YEP!
As we begin a brand-new decade, Bazaar’s entertainment writer surveys the cinematic landscape
Be Natural restored Alice Guy-Blache's place as the rightful #MotherOfCinema and ignited a conversation that continues to this day, as evidenced in this great Bustle piece on the cinematic pioneer.
In 1895, a 22-year-old secretary at a French camera company rises through the ranks to become the first female director in history. It sounds like a fun pitch for an alternate reality story, but it actually happened. Her name was Alice Guy-Blaché,…
Congrats to Independent Lens | PBS who've just announced their fantastic winter lineup, which includes Fork Films grantees Leftover Women, Cooked: Survival by Zip Code and One Child Nation!
Independent Lens, the Emmy-winning PBS series, will feature a lineup of buzzy documentaries during the first three months of 2020 that will include everything from deep-dives into racial injustice …
Looking for some good news? You can thank Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. Thanks to their research, Good Morning America covered a topic close to our hearts, women in film! And with some positive stats: female directors ARE on the rise! But we have a long way to go.
However, we still have a way's to go to reach gender parity in Hollywood.
Happy New Year from Fork Films! 2019 was an incredible year of change-making through documentary film. And there's so much more to come, including an announcement in early 2020 about our next round of grantees, as well as news on our original production, Women In Blue. Subscribe to our mailing list for updates about Fork Films! http://bit.ly/ForkFilmsEmailSignup
In #MidnightTraveler, when the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee the country with his wife and two young daughters. It airs tonight on POV! to.pbs.org/2CWeLOf
When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Fazili shows firsthand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum…
Fork Films grantee Disclosure Documentary directed by Sam Feder, has its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival exactly four weeks from today!
This unprecedented documentary offers an eye-opening look at transgender depictions in film and television, revealing how Hollywood simultaneously reflects and manufactures our deepest anxieties about gender. Leading trans thinkers and creatives, including Laverne Cox, Lilly Wachowski, Yance Ford, M...
We are so proud of our co-founder Abigail Disney who is featured today in The New Yorker profile of The Patriotic Millionaires. What a great way to close out 2019!
In an age of historic disparity, Abigail Disney and the Patriotic Millionaires take on income inequality.
Midnight Traveler is "a work of uncommon immediacy and raw emotional power." - Hammer to Nail
Don't miss this award-winning documentary, airing Monday 12/30 on POV! #MidnightTravelerPBS
When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Fazili shows firsthand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum…
"In December 2015, Hawkins had decided to pursue “embodied solidarity” with Muslims by wearing a hijab during Advent, the Christian season leading up to Christmas." And things were never the same again.
Great piece in Chicago Tribune on Dr. Larycia Hawkins and Same God Film.
Larycia Hawkins' story is the subject of a documentary film, “Same God,” which begins airing nationally Friday on PBS.
"In showing such a personal, unmeditated view of the global migration crisis through one family's story, Midnight Traveler is a timely, essential film." - Washington Post
See it on POV one week from tonight! #MidnightTravelerPBS
When the Taliban puts a bounty on Afghan director Hassan Fazili’s head, he is forced to flee with his wife and two young daughters. Fazili shows firsthand the dangers facing refugees seeking asylum…
Fork Films grantees The Invisible War and Cameraperson made The Wrap's list of the 10 best documentaries of the decade!
Decade in Review: "The Grand Bizarre" and "Cameraperson" rank among the highlights of the decade
One Child Nation director Nanfu Wang talked with KCRW about what it was like to return to her home country to film her personal yet political film about China's one-child policy. Listen now!
Nanfu Wang talks about returning to her home country, and discovering things she never knew about China’s one-child policy at large and within her own family.
"When acting as an industry, and with unconscious complicity, the industry consistently takes actions that result in women having a harder time than men."
How often are women hired in key film departments? StephenFollows.com crunched the numbers.
Share this December 14, 2019 How often are women hired in key film departments? In the most recent issue of The Hollywood Reporter, they covered the efforts being made to increase the representation of women in below-the-line roles. As part of this coverage, I was asked to crunch the data on the num...
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Meet the directors who are writing women into history -- and the future! Join us for a Facebook Live with Gini Reticker, Executive Producer of 'Women, War & Peace' and Director of 'The Trials of Spring'; Geeta Gandbhir, Director of 'A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers'; and Julia Bacha, Director of 'Naila and the Uprising'.
NOW STREAMING! Don't miss four untold stories of women peacemakers from around the world with Women, War & Peace | PBS! Watch all four films today on psb.org/womenwarandpeace #WomenWarPeacePBS
Conflict is inevitable. Violence is a choice. Four untold stories of global women changemakers, all available on the PBS Video App. Stream or watch Women, War & Peace | PBS today! #WomenWarPeacePBS
Watch an all-women Bangladeshi police unit embark on a risky year-long UN peacekeeping mission into Haiti when Women, War & Peace | PBS film A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers premieres on March 26 PBS! #WomenWarPeacePBS
Did you know a non-violent women’s movement formed the heart of the Palestinian struggle for freedom during the 1987 uprising? Learn more when Naila and the Uprising premieres as part of the Women, War & Peace | PBS series, Mar 26 on PBS. Check out the trailer! #WomenWarPeacePBS
Meet three Egyptian women who put their lives on the line fighting for justice and freedom during the Arab Spring when the Women, War & Peace | PBS film The Trials of Spring premieres on March 25 on PBS! #WomenWarPeacePBS
On March 25, Women, War & Peace | PBS film ‘Wave Goodbye to Dinosaurs’ premieres on PBS. Go behind the scenes with the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition at the peace talks that led to the Good Friday Agreement! #WomenWarPeacePBS
Meet Gini Reticker, director of The Trials of Spring! Find out why college activist Hend Nafea is at the center of the film, and why Gini believes that stories about women choosing to be changemakers are timeless stories to tell. The Trials of Spring will air on PBS in March as part of Women, War & Peace | PBS #WomenWarPeacePBS
Get ready to meet three Egyptian women who put their lives on the line fighting for justice and freedom during the Arab Spring when The Trials of Spring premieres on March 25 as part of Women, War & Peace | PBS! #WomenWarPeacePBS
Women weren’t written out of history, they were never written in — until now. Learn about the incredible women you never learned about in history class when Women War Peace II premieres on PBS March 25 and 26, 2019!
If women's rights really are human rights... then vote! #BecauseItMatters
GUN NEUTRAL, an initiative to offset the portrayal of guns on screen and stage by destroying 10 real-world guns for every 1 gun used in a production, just launched! Let’s use Hollywood’s influence on culture and society for the greater good. We stand in solidarity with Level Forward's bold initiative, and we're proud to announce that our film The Armor of Light will become one of these GUN NEUTRAL properties. READY. AIM. HIGHER. For more information go to - https://www.levelforward.co/gunneutral #GunNeutral #Peace #ChangeTheNarrative
"This should be a rallying call to say those things that matter to us, those social justice issues that are important to us - we are going to continue to work on them with renewed vigor." - Leymah Gbowee in conversation with Abigail Disney
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