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.
"Knowing that there are other voices similar to yours out there creating content matters. There is no reason for us to feel alone anymore." Creator Melody Cade talked to Out Magazine about her queer Black women in entertainment brunch.
Creator Melody Cade discusses her Queer Black Women in Entertainment Brunch.
Great new The New York Times op-ed about the need for more critics of color.
"The conversation about our collective imagination has the same blind spots as our political discourse," say Elizabeth Mendez Berry and Chi-hui Yang, who are aiming to change that.
Conversations about our monuments, museums, screens and stages have the same blind spots as our political discourse.
"There's incredible strength in stepping into conflict on behalf of others. It's the right thing to do." -Abigail Disney, who was JUST named one of InStyle's 50 Badass Women! #InStyleBadassWomen
Meet the women who are leading the way toward a better world.
In Washington, DC? Check out the free screening of Naila and the Uprising, the story of one remarkable woman's nonviolent peacekeeping efforts, happening 7/15 at The Jerusalem Fund & Palestine Center followed by a Q&A with Just Vision Media's Emma Alpert.
Looking for something great to watch tonight? Support marginalized voices telling important stories about social justice. PJ Raval's CALL HER GANDA and Nancy Shwartzman's Roll Red Roll Doc are both streaming now on POV! https://www.pbs.org/pov/
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"What I've watched over the last 30 years is rich people going from terribly rich to awfully rich to obscenely and insanely rich. And we have to draw a line." - Abigail Disney on NPR All Things Considered. ICYMI, you can hear the whole interview here.
Abigail Disney is among the superrich speaking out against income inequality. When Disney workers told her they were rationing insulin and sleeping in cars, she says, she felt an indescribable rage.
One week until Judith Helfand's film COOKED redefines the world of disaster preparedness, opening in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Got your tickets yet?
Film Series: Runs & Limited Engagements Cooked: Survival by Zip Code 2018, Judith Helfand, USA, 82 min. BUY TICKETS Show Times Fri, Jul 12th 2:00pm Fri, Jul 12th 8:15pm Sat, Jul 13th 5:00pm Sun, Jul 14th 2:00pm Mon, Jul 15th 6:00pm Tue, Jul 16th 7:45pm Wed, Jul 17th 6:00pm Thu, Jul 18th 8:00pm Fri,....
“When voters have the opportunity to vote for women of all races and men of color, they choose them at the same rates as white men.”
⬇️ Facts! ⬇️
“There’s a common assumption that white men are the more electable candidates ― but our research found the opposite,” the research group's director said.
"On July 4th, we need to make the conscious decision to remember the plight of thousands of people in America whose oppression is hiding under this presumptuous promise of independence."
Vital words from Peace is Loud's Emily del Carmen Ramirez.
As an American whose identity has been historically marginalized, I must radically imagine what freedom looks like for people like me in the United States.
Leymah Gbowee won a Nobel Peace Prize for igniting a movement and last week, she talked to Ms. Magazine about bravery, healing, and how to “stop being politely angry.”
'If I was to give advice to my 17-year-old self, I would say: you go girlânow go teach others.'
In CALL HER GANDA, PJ Raval "tells a story that demands our attention and, more importantly, our respect," declares The Young Folks. Stream it now on POV!
When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case—an activist attorney (Virgie Suarez), a transgender journalist…
"Nothing in history ever moved forward just because people advocated for their own interests. Things really change when people are traitors to their class, and my class needs some really good traitors these days." - Abigail Disney, interviewed by NPR All Things Considered
Abigail Disney is among the superrich speaking out against income inequality. When Disney workers told her they were rationing insulin and sleeping in cars, she says, she felt an indescribable rage.
What are you doing at 5:20 eastern today? ⏰📻 Tune into NPR All Things Considered and you'll hear an interview with Fork Films founder Abigail Disney!
Hear the All Things Considered program for June 27, 2019
Did you miss PJ Raval's terrific film CALL HER GANDA, the documentary about Filipina transgender woman Jennifer Laude, at Frameline, Tribeca, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival or Inside Out LGBT Film Festival? No worries, it premieres July 1st on POV! 📺 #CallHerGandaPBS https://t.co/3m3ySnhW7m
When Jennifer Laude, a Filipina trans woman, is brutally murdered by a U.S. Marine, three women intimately invested in the case—an activist attorney (Virgie Suarez), a transgender journalist…
"62 percent of Americans say they have become more supportive of transgender rights... when it comes to specific policies that would improve the lives of trans people, Americans’ stances have hardly changed."
It's time to walk the walk, folks. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/06/more-people-than-ever-say-they-support-trans-rights-but-do-they-support-the-policies/"
A new study suggests attitudes are evolving, until you read the fine print.
"Suddenly, documentaries have a chance at becoming the cinematic equivalent of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos." Fabulous Washington Post piece about how docs are gaining in popularity with young people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/at-afi-docs-audiences-seem-younger-than-ever-is-it-a-trend/2019/06/20/d32f8d10-92a0-11e9-aadb-74e6b2b46f6a_story.html?utm_term=.cccddbb5e0eb
Congrats are in order to Johanna Hamilton, co-producer of Pray The Devil Back To Hell, on her new short THE TRIAL, which just screened at AFI Docs. She spoke to them about challenges, takeaways and more.
THE TRIAL plays as part of the Shorts Program at AFI DOCS at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring, MD on Saturday, June 22 and at the Landmark E Street
Global peacefulness improves for the first time in five years, but the world continues to be less peaceful than a decade ago, says The Global Peace Index. http://visionofhumanity.org/indexes/global-peace-index/ #visionofhumanity
Global peacefulness improves for the first time in five years, but the world continues to be less peaceful than a decade ago
To Do:
✅ Acknowledge and celebrate these gains
✅ Keep pushing the envelope. We can do better; we must.
A new study released by San Diego State University finds that women in indie films have made historic gains behind the scenes, but are still outnumbered.
“I don’t talk much about being Orthodox. I don’t want that to be what defines me. What defines me is my art,” says Paula Eiselt. director of Fork grantee doc 93Queen, interviewed by The Forward
The film industry wasn’t ready for a film about empowered religious women, says Paula Eiselt, the filmmaker behind ‘93Queen’.
"Women were also in front. They just weren't being recognized for this role, and they weren't being credited."
Four years ago, CNN aired this interview Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker did with Fareed Zakaria all about the untold stories of the women in the Arab Spring. Revisit the video now and never forget their vital stories. https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/06/22/exp-gps-women-arab-spring.cnn
Fareed talks to filmmakers Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker about "Trials of Spring" and hears about the untold stories of the women in the Arab Spring.
San Francisco! You can celebrate the unsung #MotherofCinema Alice Guy-Blaché by seeing Be Natural plus director Q&A at select theaters this weekend! More at their website. https://benaturalthemovie.com/in-theaters/
"We are becoming a more and more polarized society, and documentaries can take an audience on meaningful journeys that can illuminate topics and expand our thinking and sometimes our hearts." Ernie & Joe the Film director Jenifer McShane via AFI Docs 🙌🏼 http://blog.afi.com/the-afi-docs-interview-ernie-joe-with-director-jenifer-mcshane/
Ernie Stevens and Joe Smarro are not typical police officers. Dressed in polo shirts and slacks, guns out of view, the two approach each emergency call with th
Great news from the COOKED team: they're opening in Chicago at Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago on July 12th and they just released their trailer! Congrats Kartemquin Films, Judith Helfand and Fenell Doremus.
American pubcaster PBS will provide the broadcast television premiere of Peabody Award-winning director Judith A. Helfand‘s feature-length documentary Cooked: Survival by Zip Code when it debuts across its long-standing doc ...
Fantastic list of documentaries to watch for #PrideMonth, International Documentary Association Thrilled to see Yance Ford and Strong Island included!
Pride Month is here and queer, which means it's the perfect time to watch these LGBTQ+ documentaries! These films represent just a taste of our vibrant community and the intersectional stories we have to share.
If you've recently watched HBO's powerful miniseries Chernobyl, don't miss the award-winning Fork Films grantee The Babushkas of Chernobyl, about three unlikely heroines living in the most toxic place on earth. Now streaming. https://thebabushkasofchernobyl.com/watch-the-film
"The Akron Beacon Journal — working with Akron police and local groups helping sex assault survivors — is hosting a free showing of “I Am Evidence,” a 2017 documentary about the backlog of hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits."
The Akron Beacon Journal — working with Akron police and local groups helping sex assault survivors — is hosting a free showing of
The Sheffield Doc/Fest awards have been announced and we're thrilled to share news from two Fork Films grantees.
One Child Nation won the the Tim Hetherington award & Midnight Traveler got a special jury mention. Congrats to both truly remarkable documentaries.
Luke Lorentzen’s Midnight Family won the grand jury award at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest, which held its closing ceremony last night (June 11). The Sundance premiere follows a family trying to m…
Tune in TONIGHT to PBS for the broadcast of Roll Red Roll Doc, the true-crime thriller that goes behind the headlines to uncover the deep-seated and social media-fueled “boys-will be-boys” culture at the root of high school sexual assault in America.
At a pre-season party in small-town Steubenville, Ohio, the now-infamous sexual assault of a teenage girl by members of the beloved high school football team took place. Roll Red Roll is a true-crime…
"Everyone gets outraged when we talk about CEO pay disparity. But is it the responsibility of a company to close the gap or does the government need to take a bigger role?" Watch the full video of Abigail Disney & Martin Whittaker of JUST Capital on MSNBC.
Everyone gets outraged when we talk about CEO pay disparity. But is it the responsibility of a company to close the gap or does the government need to take a bigger role? Filmmaker and activist Abigail Disney and CEO of Just Capital, Martin Whittaker, join Stephanie Ruhle to break it down.
Roll Red Roll Doc "is a supremely resonant story, and director Nancy Schwartzman skillfully tells it with a profound sense of social conscience," raves The Baltimore Sun See it tomorrow night on PBS! https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/columnists/zurawik/bs-fe-zontv-roll-red-social-media-20190611-story.html
Toxic masculinity taught, learned and writ large under Friday Night lights and in drunken Saturday night parties ending in rape. All social media amplified.
"What is 'pro-life' about putting a woman in a situation where she must risk pregnancy without proper medical, social and emotional support?"
Don't miss Rev. Rob Schenck's powerful op-ed on how his views on reproductive justice have changed over the years.
Overturning the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision would not be “pro-life.” It would be destructive of life.
Midnight Traveler won a special jury prize at Sundance Film Festival and it's coming to Film Forum in September. Mark your calendar now!
SEPTEMBER 18 – OCTOBER 1 2 WEEKS 12:30 2:20 4:10 6:00 7:50 9:45 MIDNIGHT TRAVELER DIRECTED BY HASSAN FAZILI PRODUCED, WRITTEN, AND EDITED BY EMELIE MAHDAVIAN USA / QATAR / UK / CANADA 2018 90 MINS. IN ENGLISH AND PERSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES OSCILLOSCOPE LABORATORIES “A documentary that feels ...
Ebert Voices calls One Child Nation "a stirring look at a nation that seeks to control the bodies of its women, while seeing them as second-class to men."
See it today & tomorrow at Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Film at Lincoln Center! Plus Q&A with director Nanfu Wang.
“‘We are fighting a population war’ was a common slogan used by the government during the One Child Policy. China started a war against population growth, but it became a real war against its own people.”– Nanfu Wang, Co-director, One Child Nation
IndieWire calls One Child Nation "a brilliant combination of cultural reporting and interpersonal reckoning." See it tomorrow & Saturday at Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Film at Lincoln Center! Plus Q&A with director Nanfu Wang. https://ff.hrw.org/film/one-child-nation?city=New%20York
“‘We are fighting a population war’ was a common slogan used by the government during the One Child Policy. China started a war against population growth, but it became a real war against its own people.”– Nanfu Wang, Co-director, One Child Nation
Mark Whittaker and Fork Films founder and CEO Abigail Disney were on MSNBC with Stephanie Ruhle earlier this week, talking about how companies that do right by their employees generate higher returns. See the research done by JUST Capital: https://justcapital.com/reports/just-business-better-margins/
“I especially crafted this film for men to be affected by it and for young men especially to take a look at it and see themselves." - director Nancy Schwartzman on her essential film Roll Red Roll Doc airing on PBS POV June 17th at 10/9c.
When social media “boys will be boys”, and vigilante justice collide, Steubenville, Ohio will never be the same. Official selection of Tribeca Film Festival, this documentary goes beyond the headlines. Directed by Nancy Schwartzman.
The New York Times says Be Natural is "long overdue and just in time, given the present-day reckoning with Hollywood’s stubborn traditions of behind-the-scenes (and onscreen) sexism."
🎥 In theaters now! 🎥
https://benaturalthemovie.com/in-theaters/
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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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