AFRICA
- ETHIOPIA
African Training and Research Centre for Women (ATCRW)
P.O. Box 3001
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
tel. 447-200
contact: Mary Tadesse
Agri-Service-Ethiopia
P.O. Box 2460
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
tel. 444-811
- KENYA
Communication Training Centre
All African Churches
Waiyaki Way
P.O. Box 14206
Nairobi
Kenya
- MOZAMBIQUE
Centro de Formacao Fotografica
Avenida Josina Machel 1071
Maputo
Mozambique
- SENEGAL
Environment and Development Action in the Third World
BP 3370
Dakar
Senegal
tel. 216-027 or 224-229
telex: 579 IDEP/ENDA S
- ZIMBABWE
Federation of African Media Women
c/o Zimbabwe Inter-Africa News Agency
P.O. Box 8166
Causeway, Harare
Zimbabwe
Inter-Africa News Agency
P.O. Box 8166
Causeway, Harare
Zimbabwe
Doe Mayer
2510 4th Street / C
Santa Monica, California 90405 USA
film can be requested from:
Zimbabwe Adult Education College
P.O. Box 1880
Harare, Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Women's Bureau
Munndix House 2nd Floor
98 Cameron Street
Harare
Zimbabwe
ASIA
- BANGLADESH
Women for Women
Video Film Group
44/A-1 Azimpur Road
Dhaka 5
Bangladesh
Women for Women is a research organization established in 1973 to promote research into all areas of women's life and to focus on the specific problems obstructing their integration into development. The organization has played a prominent role in creating awareness among people and policy planners about the need to improve the status of women in Bangladesh. In addition to publishing over a dozen books and research reports, the organization has also produced five short films on different aspects of women's lives.
- HONG KONG
Christian Industrial Committee
57 Peking Road
14/F Kowloon
Hong Kong
Documentation for Action Groups in Asia (DAGA)
57 Peking Road
5/F Kowloon
Hong Kong
- INDIA
Astha
Xavier Institute of Communications
Mahapalika Marg, Bombay 400 001
India
Astha is a unit of the Xavier Institute of Communications which produces slide-tape shows to support development and women's issues. It also publishes a quarterly news bulletin in English with a section in Marathi called Concern-Astha.
AVEHI, Audiovisual Education Resource Centre
c/o Indian Education Society
Hindu Colony, Napoo Road
Dadar, Bombay 400 014
India
tel. 451-317
Centre for Development of Instructional Technology (CENDIT)
D-1, Soami Nagar
New Delhi 110017
India
tel. 654291
CENDIT is a non-profit society concerned with the role of communication in development. In addition to general video programs on development, the group has produced several programs on women's issues. It has been actively associated with the use of media in women's actions and provides training to activists in video production, poster making, slide-tape show production, etc.
Communication Department
Ishwani Kendra
Pune 411014
India
Divya Jain / Govind Nivas
Sarojini Road
Vileparle (West)
Bombay 400 056
India
Tel: 514-3617
Film and Television
Institute of India
Law College Road
Pune 411 004
India
Film Division
Government of India
- Deshmukh Marg
Bombay 400 026
India
Jagori
c/o Abha Bhaiya
B-5, Housing Cooperative Society
South Extension - Part I
New Delhi 110 049
India
Sujata Madhok or Prabha Krishnan
4/3 Shanti Niketan
New Delhi
India
Vimochana - Forum for Women's Rights
P.O. Box 4605
Bangalore 560 046
India
contact: Madhu Bhusham
Vimochana works with women in the unorganized sector of Indian society, organizing poster exhibits, street plays, films, slide shows, seminars and educational programs. The group also publishes a newsletter in Kannada and a bulletin in English called Sangharsh.
Women's Studies and Research Unit
S.N.D.T. University, Marine Lines
Bombay 400 020
India
contact: Mrs. Neera Desai
Yungatar
4 Jairam Avenue
Shastri Nagar, Madras 600 020
India
Yugantar is a group of four people (three women, one man) who have been making films on various popular struggles and women's organizations. So far, Yugantar has made four films on the oppression and organization of women domestic workers in Pune, the struggle of women tobacco processors, domestic violence and women's efforts to halt deforestation in Uttar Pradesh, India.
- JAPAN
Audiovisual Department
The Japan Foundation
c/o Park Building
3 Kioi-cho
Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102
Japan
HKW Video Workshop
3-27-10 Matsunoki
Suginami-ku, Tokyo 166
Japan
tel. (03)311-7674
contact: Haruko Watanabe
A video production and media research institute, HKW trains women in professional video production and collaborates with international media and women's studies organizations.
Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning (JOICFP)
JOICFP News 6th Floor
Hoken Kaikan Bekkan
1-1 Sadohara-cho, Ichigaya
Shinjiku-ku, Tokyo 162
Japan
National Women's Education Centre
728 Sugaya
Ranzan-machi
Hiki-gun, Saitama 355-02
Japan
The Centre was established in 1979 under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture in Japan and is organizing various programs for women. They have audiovisual teaching aids: about 180 16 mm films, 100 videotapes, etc. They have produced 43 videotapes which have recorded their own programs. Most of these are in Japanese and may be used free of charge in the Centre.
Soshiren
c/o Joki 3 F Nakazawa Bld.
23 Arakicho, Shinjuku
Tokyo
Japan
- KOREA
Korean Women's Development Institute
C.P.O. Box 2267
Seoul
Korea
Mass Communications Section
Research Institute for Developing Countries
Chingang University
Heuksuk-Dong
Youngdongpu-ku, Seoul
Korea
Offers seminars and training programs in mass media and social development and utilization of mass media in developing countries. The group also maintains a regional training office in Fiji.
- PHILIPPINES
Asian Social Institute (ASI)
1518 Leon Guinto Street
Ermita, Manila
Philippines
Established in 1962 to train rural leaders, ASI is a graduate school that grants degrees in sociology, economics, and social work. It also has a research department, a family life bureau and a communication training department.
Center for Women Resources
Room 400 Dona Victoriana Building
New York Street, corner E. de los Santos Avenue
Cubao, Quezon City
Philippines
CWR was founded in 1982 by women concerned with the struggles of women peasants, industrial and service workers and women from all other sectors of Philippine society. It provides information on the situation of women in the Philippines, develops educational programs for groups and institutions, conducts research on women's issues, trains speakers on women's issues, links up women's groups in the country, builds contacts with women abroad and supports their campaigns for equality and emancipation.
Communications Foundation for Asia
4226 Old Santa Mesa Street
Manila 2806
Philippines
Offers short courses in communications techniques including filmaking, radio and television production, script writing, low-cost media production, soap operas and puppetry.
Development Education Media Service Foundation (DEMS)
89-B Jacinto Street
Davao City
Philippines
contact: Luz C. Ilagan
DEMS is a non-profit foundation organized to meet the audiovisual needs of grassroots groups.
Kahayag: The Foundation for Development Support Communication
121 University Avenue
Juna Subdivision
Matina, Davao City
Philippines
Kahayag carries out a number of consciousness-raising and action programs on issues of health, consumer rights, energy, the environment and community organization and development. It has a special consciousness-raising program for Muslim women which helps them consider their attitudes and those of their communities towards women's participation in development. The Foundation also produces and distributes written and audiovisual resources which raise critical questions about various development issues, including the use of western medical systems, housing and the forced relocation of squatters, the sale of imported consumer goods and nuclear power.
Women's Studies and Resources Center
Room 303 Francisco Building
San Pedro Street
Davao City
Philippines
The Center maintains a reading and viewing room for print and audiovisual materials on women.
- THAILAND
Asian Cultural Forum on Development (ACFOD)
P.O. Box 2930
Bangkok 10501
Thailand
ACFOD is an organization that brings together people and groups from all countries of the Asian and Pacific Region in a movement for balanced and democratic Third World development.
Women's Information Centre
P.O. Box 7-47
Bangkok 10700
Thailand
AUSTRALIA AND THE PACIFIC
- AUSTRALIA
Cine-Matrix Inc.
57 A High Street
Fremantle, Western Australia 6160
Australia
tel. 335-7774
contact: Noelene Harrison
Women in film and television, in existence since April, 1983, provides information on film-making, production, theory, employment, and a library of film listings and journals.
Community Video
445 Oxford Street
Paddington, New South Wales 2021
Australia
Feminist Film Workers (FFW)
1 Rose Street
Chippendale, New South Wales 2008
Australia
tel. (02) 818-2302
contact: Carole Kostanich
FFW is a group of women who have been making and distributing films for the women's liberation movement since 1970. The group works as part of the Sydney Women's Film Group developing and distributing a comprehensive feminist film collection. It also offers assistance to women renting and making films.
Red Hearts Pictures Pty. Ltd.
P.O. Box 431
Broadway, New South Wales 2007
Australia
Ronin Films
P.O. Box 1005
Civic Square
ACT 2601
Australia
tel. (062) 480-851
Rose St. Films
Box 278, Broadway
Sydney, New South Wales 2007
Australia
tel. (02) 818-2302
contact: Carole Kostanich
A small independent film production business concerned primarily with the production and distribution of feminist films.
Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative Ltd.
179 Harris Street
P.O. Box 229
Pyrmont, New South Wales 2009
Australia
tel. (02) 660-8999
contact: Jennifer Scott
Sydney Filmmakers Co-operative is a body of independent filmmakers who distribute the work of the Sydney Women Filmmakers and other independent women filmmakers. They distribute documentaries, dramas, comedies, features and animated films dealing with issues such as women's health, sexuality, birth, nuclear war and power, work and prison conditions, many of which are accompanied by bibliographies to aid discussion.
- FIJI
Communications Training Center
South Pacific Commission
P.O. Box 5082
Raiwaqa, Suva
Fiji
Offers short courses to train teachers in audiovisual production and resource development.
Ofis Blong Ol Meri (Women's Office)
Box 623
Nadi
Fiji
contact: Diane Goowillie
A Service project of the World YWCA set up in 1981 to assist women in the western Pacific. The major purpose of Ofis is to facilitate better communications between one group and another, and one way of doing this is through its newsletter.
- NEW ZEALAND
Gaylene Preston Productions
26 Roxburgh Street
Wellington
New Zealand
Media Women
1 Waitui Crescent, Lower Hutt
Wellington
New Zealand
A group of women in all branches of media working to eliminate stereotypes about and open up opportunities for women. Members conduct workshops and management seminars for women and women's groups.
Media Women's Action Group
22 Warwick Street
Wellington
New Zealand
Women's Community Video
c/o Mary Debrett
30 Bellwood Avenue
Mount Eden, Auckland
New Zealand
A group of women seeking to democratize television and simultaneously to develop women's communication skills. Women's Community Video holds workshops and makes and distributes productions on women's issues.
Women's Community Video
c/o Outreach
Ponsonby Road
Auckland
New Zealand
YWCA of New Zealand
P.O. Box 9315
Wellington
New Zealand
- PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Gavien Women's Development Group - East Sepik Council of Women
C1 - P.O. Box 3
Angoram, East Sepik Province
Papua New Guinea
A grassroots organization, since 1979, The Gavien group has been working with village-based women's organizations to promote improved food cropping, self-help health, applied development communication and consciousness-raising among women, and currently belongs to a network of approximately 120 village women's organizations.
EUROPE
- AUSTRIA
Filmladen
Mariahilfer Strasse 58/7
1070 Vienna
Austria
tel. 934-479
- BELGIUM
Videobus de Bruxelles
Rue Royale Sainte Marie 113
1030 Brussels
Belgium
tel. (02) 216-8039
cable 068-0547570-32
Founded in 1975, Videobus is a resource center offering multiple services in the field of alternative communications and audiovisual production to cultural and community groups and to film and video producers throughout Belgium. These services include technical advice, provision of screening facilities and training sessions in video production. In addition, the group produces documentaries on social, political, economic and cultural issues (mostly in 3/4 inch video form) designed to appeal to both local and international audiences. Videobus distributes its materials through a variety of channels, including television, international film festivals and by depositing its materials at the film archive of the French Community in Belgium (Mediatheque de la Communaute Francaise de Belgique).
- DENMARK
Eyeland
Norbanejade 4
DK-2200 Copenhagen N
Denmark
- ENGLAND
Alliance for Fair Images and Representation in the Media
c/o Women's Art Alliance
10 Cambridge Terrace News
London NW1
England
Jane Balfour Films Ltd.
163 Gloucester Avenue
London NW1
England
tel. (01) 586-3443 or 722-5050
telex. 24224 ref. 2544
or: Greta Schiller
170 West 89th Street n. 1-C
New York, New York 10024
USA
BBC Enterprises Ltd.
Woodlands Wood Lane
London, W12 OTT
England
tel. (01) 743-5588
telex. 934678
Cinegate
87 Notting Hill Gate
London W 11
England
Cinema of Women
27 Clerkenwell Close
London EC1R OAT
England
tel. (01) 251-4978 or 251-4878
Cinema of Women is a collective of women filmmakers who are committed to making feminist films available to broader audiences in England, Europe, North America and Australia. The films they distribute are designed to raise questions about women's subordinate role in society and to promote social change through discussion and conscientization. Among the topics they address are the family, marriage and domestic violence, prostitution, women in prison, health, child care, racism, sexual harassment in the streets and on the job, the image of women in the media, women's music and lesbian motherhood.
Circles: Women's Film & Video Distribution
113 Roman Road
London E2 OH4
England
tel. (01) 9816828
Feminist distribution company set up in 1980 to promote women's film and video.
Concord Films Council Ltd.
201 Felixstowe Road
Ipswich, Suffolk IP3 9BJ
England
tel. (0473) 715754
A 16 mm educational film and video library specializing in documentary and television programs on contemporary problems, Concord Films distributes its own audiovisuals. In addition, it distributes and provides information on materials for charities and other organizations.
Four Corners Cinema
113 Roman Road
London E2
England
The Guild Organization
Guild House
Oundle Road
Peterborough PE2 9P2
England
tel. (0733) 63122
International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF)
18-20 Lower Regent Street
London SW1Y 4PW
England
King's Cross Women's Centre
71 Tonbridge Street
London WC1
England
Leeds Animation Workshop
45 Bayswater Row
Leeds 8, West Yorkshire LS8 5LF
England
tel. (0532) 484997
Leeds Animation Workshop is a women's collective founded in 1976 to produce and distribute animated films on social issues.
Liberation Films
2 Chichile Road
London NW2 3DA
England
tel. (01) 450-7855/6
Jenny Lovell & Gwyn Kirk
7 Oxford Gardens
London W10
or: 12 Regent Square
London WC1
England
The Other Cinema
79 Wardour Street
London WIV 3TH
England
tel. (01) 734-8508
Past and Future Trading
42 Queen Square
London WC1N3AJ
England
Pictures of Women
245 A Coldharbour Lane
Brixton, London SW9
England
A cooperative working to counteract the sexist imagery of the media by making their own videotapes.
Riverfront Pictures
F4 Warehouse, New Crane Wharf
Garnett Street
Wapping, London E1 9QT
England
Sheffield Women's Co-op
34 Psalter Lane
Sheffield 11
England
Women and Television
Helen Baehr
18-22 Riding House Street
London SW1A 2HA
England
A group meeting regularly to discuss how women can intervene in television program-making and to explore the possibilities of setting up a women's television production company.
Women's Film, Television & Video Network (WFTVN)
23 Frith Street
London W1V 5TS
England
tel. (01) 434-2076
Feminist group working for greater access of women to all aspects of film, TV and video production, and the positive portrayal of women in the media.
Women's Workshop
499 Hibiscus Avenue
London, N6H 3P2
England
WUS Women, Education and Development Campaign
20 Compton Terrace
London N1 2 UN
England
The group's aim is to heighten the awareness of students and academics in the United Kingdom about the crucial, but often unrecognized contribution that Third World women make to the survival and development of their communities, and the key role that education can play in improving the quality of their lives.
- FRANCE
Agences Femmes Information
104 Boulevard Saint-Germain
75006 Paris
France
Assia Films
23-25 Rue de Berri
75008 Paris
France
tel. 562-4169
Atelier Video Saint Roch (TVSR)
Mas Drouville 66400
Ceret
France
tel. (68) 872-677
contact: Teresa Valls
Bernard Baissat
3, Allee des Hauts Bois
93160 Noisy le Grand
France
tel. 303-4191
Centre Audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir
32 rue Marie Ripoche
75014 Paris
France
tel. 542-2143
Founded by three women filmmakers, the center is an important clearinghouse for feminist independent and commercial audiovisuals. Financed in part by audiovisual and equipment rentals and in part from grants from the French government, it currently houses approximately one hundred videos and films made primarily by or about women in Europe and North America, with some materials from developing countries as well. It also carries numerous documentaries and interviews with leaders of the women's movement, as well as photographs, tapes and slides made by both professionals and amateurs. The center also provides multiple services such as equipment rental, facilities for dubbing, screening and montage, and maintains an audiovisual archive complete with a card catalog, headphones and televisions for private viewing. Members of the center's staff have and continue to produce audiovisuals about social, political and cultural issues affecting women and organize screenings and debates aimed at publicizing and promoting their and other filmmakers' work in these areas.
Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou
75191 Paris CEDEX
France
Cinema et Action Tiers Monde
Cimade
176 rue de Grenelle
75007 Paris
France
Cinematheque de L'Enseignement
31, rue de la Vanne
92541 Montrouge
Cedex
France
tel. 657-1117
Delegation Generale du Quebec
Service Culturel
117 rue du Bac
75007 Paris
France
Les Filministes
Maison des Femmes
8 Cite Prost
75011 Paris
France
tel. 348-2491
Les Films de la Tour
30, avenue de Messine
75017 Paris
France
Les Films du Danou
9, rue Danou
75002 Paris
France
tel. 261-5212
contact: Denise Petit-Didier
Films de l'Equinoxe
18 Galerie Vero-Dodat
75001 Paris
France
tel. 233-9645
Gaumont
30, avenue Charles de Gaulle
92200 Neuilly
France
tel. 758-1140
or: 1 Via Luciani
Rome, Italy
tel. (06) 361-2159
Grain de Sable
206, rue de Charenton
75012 Paris
France
tel. 344-1672
Informelles
3, rue Moulot
93800 Epinay sur Seine
France
tel. 270-9037, 241-7534 or 820-1478
Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
40, avenue Jean Jaures
93170 Bagnolet
France
tel. 362-1212
ISKRA
74, Rue Albert
75013 Paris
France
tel. 583-1118
contact: Chris Marker
A production and distribution group, ISKRA maintains a large archive of materials on the history of workers' movements and popular struggles worldwide, and has produced a number of videos on the French labor movement.
Ministere de l'Emploi
Maison de la Promotion Sociale
V. de Grenoble III
Grenoble
France
Mouvement Francais pour le Planning Familial
4, rue Saint-Irenee
75011 Paris
France
tel. 807-2910
or: 36, rue de Lesdiguieres
3800 Grenoble
France
tel. (76) 879-461
Based in both Paris and Grenoble, MFPF is a family planning group that maintains a documentation service complete with books, journals and audiovisuals dealing with sexuality, contraception, abortion, the feminist movement, adult education and other issues.
United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
7, Place de Fontenoy
75007 Paris
France
Video Out SARL
Production Video et Recherche Documentaire Audiovisuelle
32 Rue Maurice Ripoche
75014 Paris
France
tel. 5408232
Visuelles
c/o La Petite Ecurie
5, rue Guitard
94500 Champigny
France
tel. 881-8363 or 898-2618
- GREECE
Greek Film Center
10 Panepistimiou Avenue 106
71 Athens
Greece
tel. 363-1733
telex. 222614GFC
- ITALY
Archivio Storico Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio
Via Francesco S. Sprovieri 14
00152 Rome
Italy
tel. (06) 589-6698
Centro Culturale Virginia Woolf
Piazza San Paolo alla Regola 16/A
Rome
Italy
contact: Carla Cotti
Known as the 'women's university', each year the center sponsors a series of approximately two month-long seminars on women's studies topics in literature, feminist theory, economics, sociology and psychology. Taught by leading intellectual figures in the Italian feminist movement (journalists, historians, writers, playwrights, etc.), the courses are run informally and are complemented by occasional meetings and conferences on women-related topics of general cultured and political interest.
Centro Documentazione Ricerca e Iniziativa delle Donne
Via Galliera 4
Bologna 40121
Italy
tel. (051) 233-863
contact: Raffaella Lamberti, Gianpaola Partarini, Mina Fischetti
Founded in 1982, the center promotes research on women's issues. It maintains a small but growing feminist library with books and periodicals and film screenings and is the central clearinghouse for a recently created national network of women's centers, feminist documentation centers and other women's groups. It also periodically publishes monographs on issues such as women and film, women and oral history and other topics of cultural or scholarly interest. Financed in part by the city of Bologna and the region of Emilia, the center's activities are overseen by a group of approximately 33 women including university professors, unionists and feminist activists and has a permanent full time staff of five women.
Stefano Chiarini
Il Manifesto
Via Tomacelli 146
00186 Rome
Italy
Tel. (06) 6790151
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00100 Rome
Italy
tel. (06) 5797
A specialized agency of the United Nations dealing with agriculture, food issues and rural development, FAO has a great impact on the development of rural areas through its policies and programs. Although women are the majority of the world's food producers, it is only since International Women's Year in 1975 that FAO has given significant attention to the needs and situations of rural women. Most programs and research on women have been, and continue to be, channeled through the nutrition division, which has made considerable efforts to aim its programs toward women and to improve their access to the food. The Freedom from Hunger Campaign/Action for Development is another FAO program which has given attention to women and produced useful material on this issue.
Gaumont
30, avenue Charles de Gaulle
92200 Neuilly
France
tel. 758-1140
or: 1 Via Luciani
Rome, Italy
tel. (06) 361-2159
Gruppo Comunicazione Visiva - Florence
Via Galliano 81
Florence
Italy
tel. (055) 356-667
contact: Antonella Campanella
Founded in September 1983, the group distributes and screens women's videos, including both feminist and political productions and videos of a more artistic and expressive nature.
Gruppo Comunicazione Visiva - Genoa
Vico San Marcellino 10
Genoa
Italy
tel. (010) 297-747
contact: Maria Romano
Founded in 1978, the group is a cultural association dedicated to the production and distribution of women's films and videos. Working as volunteers, members of the group see their work as part of a broader effort to expand and redefine our notions of women's culture and artistic production and to create a solid support network for women film and video makers in Italy and abroad. The group organizes an annual international women's film festival and conducts regular screenings.
Isis International
Via Santa Maria dell'Anima 30
Rome 00186
Italy
tel. (06) 656-5842
Kaisahan Ng Mga Manggagawang Pilipino Sa Italya (KAMPI)
c/o FILIF
114 Via IV Novembre
Rome
Italy
Laboratorio Immagine Donna
Via Aretina 98
Florence
Italy
tel. (055) 671-852
contact: Rita Monaco, Paola Paoli, Maresa d'Arcangelo
Founded in 1977, the group promotes women's audiovisuals by means of annual international film festivals (covering western and eastern Europe, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, North Africa, etc.), meetings and debates with filmmakers and producers, screenings and a variety of other activities. In addition to serving as a clearinghouse for information on women and audiovisuals, the group works to make inroads into the traditional bastions of cinematic production and distribution by introducing women's films into commercial moviehouses and by pressuring regional authorities in the province of Tuscany to provide feminist and women producers with greater attention, publicity and financial support.
Maria Eugenia Jelincic
c/o Isis International
Via Santa Maria dell'Anima
Roma 00186
Italy
tel. (06) 656-5842 or 503-5355
Movimento Laici America Latina
Piazza Pasquale Paoli 3
Roma 00186
Italy
tel. (06) 656-4351
audiovisual division. (06) 386-957
contact: Giuseppina Dante
- THE NETHERLANDS
Cineclub
Oistbus 1626
1000 BP Amsterdam
Netherlands
tel. (020) 250045 or 250057
Cinemien
Amstel 256A
1016 EV Amsterdam
Netherlands
tel. (020) 258357
contact: Phil van der Linden
Fugitive Cinema Holland
van Hallstraat 52
Amsterdam
Netherlands
tel. (020) 867-690 or 867-663
Kaktus Vrouwenvideokollektief
c/o Melissa de Vreede
Gerard Doustraat 234 I
1073 XC Amsterdam
Netherlands
tel. (020) 714-001
A five-woman collective, Kaktus produces audiovisuals on a number of women's issues.
Kijkhuis
Noordeinde 140
The Hague
Netherlands
tel. (070) 651-880
Media-Vrouwen
Vrouwenhuis
Nieuwe Herengracht 95
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Onderzoeks-en Documentatiecentrum Vrouwen en Ontwikkeling ICA
Stationsplein 10
2312 AK Leiden
Netherlands
tel. (071) 148-333
Ver. Nederlands Filminstituut (VNFI)
Postbus 515
1200 AM Hilversum
Netherlands
tel. (035) 17645
Voorlichtingsdienst Ontwikkelingssamenwerking (VDO)
Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken
The Hague
Netherlands
tel. (070) 614-941
Vrouwen Voor Filippijnen (VVF)
(Women for the Philippines)
c/o Filipino People's Committee
Admiral van Genstraat 26 bis
3572 XL Utrecht
Netherlands
tel. (030) 719-226
VVF is a women's group promoting solidarity with the Filipino women's movement among people in the Netherlands, especially among women's groups. It organizes rallies and campaigns, issues publications, and produces audiovisuals.
Wilma de Jong Productions
Agamenonstraat 19 hs
1076 LN Amsterdam
Netherlands
- NORTHERN IRELAND
Derry Film and Video Collective
c/o Brid Brownlee
9 Saint James' Place
Belfast 12 6EH
Ireland
tel. 222-577
Women in Media
7 Winetavern Street
Belfast
Northern Ireland
tel. (0232) 225-426
contact: Marilyn Hyndman
Producers literature, video and photography on and for women in Northern Ireland.
- WEST GERMANY
Aktion Klartext
Gleichstelling der Frauen in der Medien
Am Ehrenkamp 15
4800 Bielefeld 12
West Germany
Basis Film Verleih GmbH
Guntzelstrasse 60
1000 Berlin 31
West Germany
tel. (030) 853-3035 or 853-3037
Cine International
Filmvertrieb GmbH & Co.
Leopoldstrasse 18
8000 Munich 40
West Germany
Eginhart Hillenbrand
Brienner Strasse 11
8000 Munich 2
West Germany
Filmveriag der Autoren GmbH
Rambergstrasse 5
8000 Munich 40
West Germany
tel. (089) 380-9451
telex. 52115637
Gustav-Muller Strasse 17
1000 West Berlin 62
West Germany
tel. (030) 782-6004
Frauen and Film
c/o Rotvuch Verlag
Potsdamerstrasse 98
1000 West Berlin
West Germany
Jutta Bruckner Filmproduktion
Goltzstrasse 35
1000 Berlin 30
West Germany
tel. (030) 215-5851
Munich Films
Friederich-Herschel Strasse 17
8000 Munich 80
West Germany
tel. (089) 983-003
telex. 52 16374
contact: Francine Brucher
Tivoli-Film GmbH
Sendlinger Tor Platz
8000 Munich 2
West Germany
tel. (089) 554-865
Transocean International
Film und Fernseh-Gesellschaft MbH
Briennerstrasse 1
8000 Munich 2
West Germany
tel. (089) 225-681
telex. 522280
cable. TRANSOEXPORTFILM
Ula Stockl Film
Hohenzollernstrasse 49
8000 Munich 40
West Germany
tel. (089) 332-803
or: Huber-Konig
Mommenstrasse 11
1000 Berlin 12
tel. (030) 323-2348
- SCOTLAND
YWCA Scottish Council
7 Randolph Crescent
Edinburgh EH3 7th
Scotland
- SPAIN
Centre de Documentacion de la Dona
c/o Centre Civic «La Sedeta»
Via Sicilia 321
08025 Barcelona
Spain
tel. 257-4578
Instituto de la Mujer - Taller Audiovisuales
Almagro, 36
28010 Madrid
Spain
Union de Mujeres Feministas
Apartado de Correos 311
Madrid
Spain
tel. 467-2032
Founded in 1981, the group produces a monthly journal called «La Mujer Feminista» and organizes workshops to discuss sexuality and provide counseling to women.
- SWEDEN
Biofem
Nordiska Kvinnofilmdistributionskollektivet
Kyrkogatan 32
41115 Goteborg
Sweden
tel. (031) 110-954
Biofem is a non-commercial women's film distribution collective. Its objectives are to distribute films made by women, challenge traditional stereotypes about femininity and "women's place" and to increase the production of more and better quality women's films.
Anders Birkeland
Filmstallet
Bellinansgaton 17
11547 Stockhohn
Sweden
tel. (8) 449-440
KvinnoBion
Gamlestadstorget 12
Goteborg
Sweden
tel. (031) 184-469
contact: Anette Brogren
KvinnoBion organizes screenings of women's and feminist films in the local women's center in Goteborg. Members of the audience are invited to discuss both the contents and the technical aspects of the films shown. The group also helps organize seminars and film festivals.
Stina Helmersson
Fargardstorget 30
11643 Stockholm
Sweden
tel. (8) 714-8478
Tjejfilm
Prinsgatan 8A
41305 Goteberg
Sweden
tel. (031) 127-038 or 822-307
A film production collective, Tjejfilm is dedicated to eliminating sexual discrimination and promoting social change through the use of film. The group also seeks to provide alternative images and role models for women as a way of fighting patriarchal and economic oppression.
- SWITZERLAND
Swiss Film Center Foundation
Munstergasse 18
8001 Zurich
Switzerland
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
- ANTILLES
Union de Mujeres Antillanas
Esperanzaweg 51
Curacao
Antilles
- ARGENTINA
Asociacion Mutualistica de Ayuda a la Mujer
Fray Cayetano Rodriguez 64
1406 Buenos Aires
Argentina
contact: Maria Jose Navarro
A low-income working mothers' cooperative, the Association provides its members with a communal living situation complete with day-care facilities.
Centro Evangelico de Accion Social
Juan Bautista Alberdi 2240
1406 Buenos Aires
Argentina
tel. 631-761y
contact: Adelina Gonnet
The group works with single or abandoned mothers from Buenos Aires' poor urban areas, providing them with a daytime drop-in center, workshops and medical and psychological counseling.
Narcisa Hirsch
Valentin Vergara 1263
(or Vicente Lopez 1638)
Buenos Aires
Argentina
tel. 791-5605
- BOLIVIA
Audiovisual Educativo Boliviano
General Acha 0150
Casilla 2938
Cochabamba
Bolivia
Centro de Servicios para el Desarrollo (CENSED)
Casilla 1862
Cochabamba
Bolivia
tel. 49608 or 49000
contact: Maria Elena Canedo
The center provides grassroots and poor peoples' groups with educational support and distributes written and audiovisual materials for work in adult popular education.
- BRAZIL
Agencia F4
Rua Botucatu 94
CEP 04023
Sao Paulo
Brazil
tel. (011) 35710
or: Praia de Botafogo, 210
Sala 1003
CEP 22250
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
tel. 551-2848
A commercial photo agency, Agencia F4 carries photographs and slides dealing with women's and other social issues in Brazil.
Associacao de Mulheres de Mato Grosso
Rua Baltazar Navarro 231
Bandeirante 78000 Cuiba
Mato Grosso
Brazil
contact: Marilza Ribeiro, Lucia Palma
A grassroots women's group that works with women living in poor urban neighbourhoods, the Association produces audiovisuals, organizes daycare centers and conducts other activities.
Aurora Filmes
Rua Amalia de Moronha 268
Pinheiros 05411
Sao Paulo SP
Brazil
contact: Ines Castilho, Eliane Bandeira
Founded in 1984, Aurora is a production group made up of women filmmakers.
B-A, BA Audiovisual
C.P. 1934
2900 Vitoria-ES
Brazil
Irene Cardoso
Viaduto Jacarei, 5 andar, sala 514
Sao Paulo, SP
Brazil
tel. 259-8388
Casa da Mulher do Nordeste
Avenida Coxanga 108 1 andar
50 000 Recife PE
Brazil
contact: Angela de Freitas and Helena Pessoa
A feminist group that promotes social and self-awareness among women in the northeastern region of Brazil.
Centro de Estudios de Trabalho
Rua Jose Brandao 564
Caixa Postal 50
30000 Belo Horizonte
Brazil
tel. (031) 333-586
Centro Informacao Mulher (CIM)
Caixa Postal 11399
05499 Sao Paulo SP
Brazil
Cinema Distribucao Independente (CDI)
Rua 13 de Maio 489
CEP 01327 Sao Paulo SP
Brazil
tel. (011) 288-4694
A distributor managed by filmmakers, CDI was founded with the objective of promoting independent film. The films it carries deal with a broad range of topics including politics, popular movements and culture, the problems of indigenous peoples, the women's movement, the black movement and a number of experimental and artistic themes.
Colectivo de Mulheres de Rio de Janeiro
Caixa Postal 331144
22442 Rio de Janeiro RJ
Brazil
tel. 259-9226
contact: Eunice Gutman, Danda Prado
Founded in 1979, this group has recently conducted an innovative campaign to promote the legalization of abortion in Brazil.
Embrafilme
Rua Mayrink Veiga 28
CEP 20090
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
tel. 253-9992
telex (021) 23743/22896 EBFL-BR
contact: Edyala Yglesias
or: Rua Vitoria 28
CEP 01210
Sao Paulo SP
Brazil
Eunice Gutman
Rua Assuncao 411, ap. 201
22251 Rio de Janeiro RJ
Brazil
tel. 259-9226
Fundacion Carlos Chagas
Colectivo de Mulheres
Avenida Profesor Francisco Morato 1565
05513 Sao Paulo SP
Brazil
contact: Fulvia Rosemberg
A collective of women researchers from the Fundacion Carlos Chagas who study women's issues.
Grupo Femenino de Pesquisa Cinematografica
c/o Leilany Fernandes Leite
Rua General Mariante 108, Apartado 202
22221 Rio de Janeiro RJ
Brazil
The group is currently trying to organize an archive of short films made by and about women, and to increase distribution of alternative and non-commercial productions generally not known to the public. Each year, it organizes film festivals and screenings in various major Brazilian cities.
Grupo Maria Bonita
c/o Sylvia Cavasin
Rua Dr. Costa Junior 385/401
05002 Sao Paulo SP
Brazil
tel. (011) 571-6025 or 572-4189
Made up of six women, the group is currently planning to set up a non-profit organization to produce audiovisuals dealing with women's issues, and is now making an audiovisual on violence against women in Brazil.
Instituto de Acao Cultural (IDAC)
Rua Visconde de Piraja 550, s. 1404
22410 Rio de Janeiro RJ
Brazil
tel. 239-7146
An organization specializing in adult education, IDAC distributes audiovisual material to grassroots groups.
Marcia Meireles
Avenida Arruda Botelho 446 piso 6
Sao Paulo
Brazil
Rita Moreira
rua Francisco Moraes, 239
Chacara, Santo Antonio
04714 Sao Paulo
Brazil
Maria Clotilde Rossetti Ferreira
Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciencias e Letras de Ribeirao Preto
Avenida Dos Bandeirantes s/no.
14100 Ribeirao Preto
Brazil
SOS-CORPO, Grupo de Saude da Mulher
Rua do Hospicio 859/14
Recife, Pernambuco 50 000
Brazil
tel. 221-3018
contact: Angela Maria Texeira De Freitas
Since 1980, this group of ten women has been carrying out educational work among women in the outskirts of the cities of Recife and Olinda and among groups of middle class women, with special emphasis on the field of women's health. Among the issues addressed by the group are: anatomy, the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, medical care, alternative medicine, sexuality, abortion and contraception. The group also carries out research, produces documentation and educational materials and organizes debates and discussion groups.
Telemil Filmes
Rua Joaquim Antunes 747
CEP 05415
Sao Paulo
Brazil
tel. (011) 280-2822
- CHILE
Ana Maria Arteaga
Jose Zapiola 8010
Casa 2, Santiago
Chile
Centro de Estudios de la Mujer (CEM)
Purisima 353
Santiago
Chile
Cine Mujer - Chile
Bellavista 0547
Santiago
Chile
Educacion y Comunicacion (ECO)
Concha yToro 51
Santiago
Chile
tel. 61847
A communication center that works in the field of popular education, ECO organizes workshops and seminars, conducts research projects and produces printed and audiovisual materials.
Filmocentro
Carmen 340
Santiago
Chile
tel. 222-5680 or 222-6826
Filmocentro is a production and distribution company working in cinema and television.
Tatiana Gaviola
Carmen 340
Santiago
Chile
Patricia Mora
contact: Isis Internacional
Casilla 2067, Correo Central
Santiago
Chile
tel. 490271
Programa de Estudios y Capacitacion de la Mujer Campesina e Indigena (PEMCI)
Purisima 353
Santiago
Chile
A group that promotes grassroots organization among peasant and indigenous women through training and the production of educational materials, including audiovisuals.
Programa Mujer Campesina, del Grupo de Investigaciones Agrarias
Ricardo Matte Perez 0342
Santiago
Chile
tel. 223-064
contact: Maria Soledad Lago
A group of women who conduct and organize research on the condition of peasant women, the group is currently in the process of producing a video on the organization of rural women from an historical point of view.
Promujer
Apatatacal 2012 (Pudahuel)
Santiago
Chile
tel. 220-8606
contact: Carolina Lehman
Promujer works to improve the standard of living for poor women in Santiago. Among its various activities, it organizes training classes and conducts workshops on mental health.
Servicios de Informacion Naciones Unidas
Casilla 179-D
Santiago
Chile
SUR Profesionales - Programa de la Mujer Pobladora
Roma Diaz 199
Santiago
Chile
tel. 497-908
SUR is a research and action group that works with poor people in the city of Santiago. Founded in 1982, its Program for Poor Women (Programa de la Mujer Pobladora) is run by a team of four social workers who organize research and training workshops for and with women in the city's poor neighborhoods.
Unidad de Comunicacion Alternativa de la Mujer
Casilla 16-637
Correo 9
Santiago
Chile
Created in 1981 as part of the Latin American Institute of Transnational Studies, the Women's Unit counteracts stereotypical and sexist images of women in the traditional media. Its publications and activities include: Mujer-Ilet, a monthly publication of news clippings and features from Fempress; Mujer-Especiales, a quarterly dossier that collects articles of specific interest to women; Women's Alternative Media Collection; pamphlets about women's alternative media in Latin America; and Radio Network, a collection of radio programs produced by Latin American women. The Women's Alternative Communications Unit also has information about audiovisual resources.
- COLOMBIA
Centro de Documentacion Mujer-Nino de la Union
Ciudadanas de Colombia
Carrera 64 no. 50-32
Apartado Aereo 054150
Medellin
Colombia
tel. 230-5516
A non-profit organization that aims to promote and improve the role of women, the Center gathers information about women, children and the family (including some audiovisuals) and makes it available to users in the community.
Centro para el Desarrollo de la Educacion No Formal (CEDEN)
Calle 44 no. 14-60, 2° piso
Bogota
Colombia
Centro Popular para America Latina de Comunicacion (CEPALC)
Carrera 16A n. 46-23
Apartado Aereo 28462
Bogota
Colombia
tel. 245-284
contact: Amparo Beltran
CEPALC serves as a training center for community groups, teaching them a variety of communication skills including audiovisual production, journalism, theater, graphic art, music and photography. Starting in 1986, CEPALC will also conduct a series of workshops dealing exclusively with women's issues at the grassroots level.
Cine Mujer - Colombia
Apartado Aereo 2758
Bogota
Colombia
contact: Sara Bright
A non-profit foundation, Cine Mujer was founded in 1978 as a collective of women filmmakers whose principal goal was and remains the production and distribution of non-sexist films, audiovisuals and other educational or informational materials dealing with the condition and status of women in Colombia and Latin America. Given the major role played by the media in shaping the public's views, Cine Mujer tries to supply an alternative image of women, analyzing the obstacles they face in trying to participate fully in the process of development, publicizing portraits of women whose achievements are normally undervalued, educating women by using films made by and about women and providing positive images and role models for women of all ages to identify with.
Fundacion para la Educacion Permanente en Colombia (FEPEC)
Calle 44 n. 14-60, 2° piso
Apartado Aereo 53372
Bogota
Colombia
tel. 287-4842 or 287-4857
contact: Rene Hauzer
FEPEC is a private non-profit organization that plans and promotes a wide range of educational activities and services in the field of health, formal and non-formal education for women, communications, pre-school programs for children and their families and public health.
Servicio Colombiano de Comunicacion Social
Apartado Aereo 24910
or: Carrera 16 no. 39A-78
Bogota D.E.-1
Colombia
tel. 287-1287
Si Mujer
Fundacion de Servicios Integrales para la Mujer
Calle 19 Norte N 3n-50
Apartado Aereo 2932
Cali
Colombia
tel. 621-091
A research group that provides women with information on gynecology, fertility, family planning, abortion, psychology, sex education and legal advice. The foundation also conducts courses and workshops on women's health issues not dealt with in traditional class-room situations.
Union de Mujeres Democratas
Colon
Seccion Cali
Apartado Aereo 25727
Cali
Colombia
- DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Centro de Investigacion para la Accion Femenina (CIPAF)
Benigno Filomeno Rojas 307
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
contact: Angela Hernandez
An organization that conducts research on women's issues from a women's point of view, CIPAF places its research materials and resources at the disposal of the women's movement and grassroots organizations. A member of the national organization Movimiento Feminista, the group also provides professional counseling services, organizes workshops, seminars and courses in response to requests from, and in conjunction with outside groups.
Centro Dominicano de Estudios de la Educacion (CEDEE)
Santiago 153
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
tel. 682-3302
contact: Maribe Arregui
CEDEE is a popular education center that works primarily with peasants, workers and women. It also operates a women's program directed at peasant and working-class women living in the Dominican Republic's free-trade zone, and carries six audiovisuals dealing with women's issues. In addition, CEDEE owns and distributes a number of other audiovisuals materials for use among poor people.
Mujer-Tec
Apartado Postal 284-9
Los Rios, Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
An action and advocacy group, Mujer-Tec promotes community action through the media. It aims to train women in non-traditional jobs in communications and to encourage research that analyzes, evaluates and recommends changes in the field of communications so as to promote women's struggle for equality in Dominican society. The group also produces its own audiovisual materials.
Mujeres en Desarrollo Dominicano Inc. (MUDE)
Avenida Maximo Gomez 70
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
tel. 685-8111-14
telex. ITT0597
cable. MUDE
contact: Luz Maria Abreu
MUDE is a non-profit organization that promotes social and economic development for poor women and seeks to improve the quality of life both for them and the communities they live in. Members of MUDE work to insure that women participate in and benefit from the development process in the Dominican Republic through a wide range of grassroots activities.
United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW)
P.O. Box 21747
Avenida Cesar Nicolas
Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
- ECUADOR
Centro de Accion de Mujeres (CAM)
Velez 1919 y Carchi
Apartado Aereo 1021
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Founded in 1981 by a group of women from different classes of Ecuadoran society, CAM serves as a women's center and clearinghouse for a number of women's and feminist activities ranging from consciousness-raising groups to research projects, debates, conferences and workshops. Among its many activities, the group runs courses in sex education, alternative medicine, literacy, journalism and crafts, publishes a monthly bulletin and monographs on women's issues, operates a day-care center and small library, organizes national and international meetings and supports the organizing initiatives of grassroots women's groups in the Guayaquil area.
Centro de Planificacion y Estudios Sociales
Avenida Los Shyrris 247 y Eloy Alfaro
Casilla 6127 C.C.I.
Quito
Ecuador
tel. 242-907
contact: Lucia Carrion
Corporacion Ecuatoriana para el Desarrollo de la Comunicacion (CEDECO)
Casilla 906-A
Quito
Ecuador
tel. 233-154
contact: Denis Garcia
A non-profit organization working in the field of popular communication and education, CEDECO organizes training workshops and produces written and audiovisual materials to support initiatives by outside groups.
- JAMAICA
Sistren Theatre Collective
100 Hope Road
Kingston 6
Jamaica
West Indies
tel. 927-8800
- MEXICO
Centro de Mujeres para la Produccion Audiovisual
Leonardo da Vinci 82
Mixcoac, Mexico 19 D.F.
Mexico
Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematograficos (CUEC)
Adolfo Prieto 721
Colonia del Valle DF
Mexico 03100
contact: Marcela Fernandez Violante
Cine Mujer - Mexico
c/o Angeles Necoechea
May be contacted
through Centro de Mujeres para la Produccion Audiovisual (see).
Comunicacion, Intercambio y Desarrollo Humano en America Latina (CIDHAL)
Apartado Aereo 579
Cuernavaca, Morelos
Mexico
tel. 25714
contact: Julia Garcia
- NICARAGUA
Maria Jose Alvarez
Instituto Nicaraguense del Cine
Apartado Aereo 4660
Managua
Nicaragua
- PERU
Asociacion Amauta
Apartado 982
Cusco
Peru
contact: Marcia Roeder
A private, non-profit organization, Asociacion Amauta is working to organize the poor people of the city of Cusco. In addition to its activities with women, the group also devotes much of its time to working with children, youth clubs, peasants' and poor peoples' organizations and other groups and institutions involved in popular education.
Centro de Informacion Estudios y Documentacion (CIED)
Proyecto Mujer Nuevo Despertar
Jr. Angaraes 810
Lima 1
Peru
tel. 235-831
contact: Rosa Guillen
Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristan
Avenida Arenales 601
Lima
Peru
tel. 248-008
contact: Pilar Cantella
Founded in 1979, since 1980, members of the center have been working to develop new approaches to grassroots organizing among Peruvian women. Among their activities, they provide legal aid and advice, help resolve problems with housing and public services, initiate research projects and conduct various cultural and communication-oriented initiatives.
Centro de Servicios de Pedagogia Audiovisual para la Capacitacion (CESPAC)
Osa Mayor 118
Urbanizacion Los Granados
Monterrico, Surco
Lima
Peru
Founded in 1975, CESPAC produces low-cost educational audiovisuals. Designed for a largely rural audience, the materials are for the most part brief and informative, providing technical tips on topics ranging from soil reclamation and fertilizer use to animal husbandry and farm machinery repair. CESPAC also produces audiovisuals on nutrition, maternal and child health, sanitation, vaccination and other women's and public health issues. It also runs a number of workshops and intensive courses on educational audiovisual production, including classes on communications in rural development, equipment maintenance, sound and photography.
Chasqui
Calle Leon Velarde 1064
Lince, Lima
Peru
Colectivo Nueva Imagen
Apartado Aereo 2211
Lima 1000
Peru
An organization that works with poor women, helping them to produce audiovisuals that express their own lives and condition. The group is currently in the process of setting up advanced level audiovisual courses.
Movimiento Hacia una Nueva Mujer
Avenida J. Pardo 154, piso 3
Lima
Peru
A grassroots women's organization that helps defend the rights of poor women in the city of Lima.
Revista Mujer y Sociedad
Jr. Trujillo 678
Magdalena del Mar
Lima
Peru
tel. 612760
Taller de Capacitacion e Investigacion Familiar (TACIF)
Avenida Arenales 483 Departamento 701
Jesus Maria
Lima
Peru
Union de Mujeres Trabajadoras
Ayacucho y Chile 206
Quito
Peru
- TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Starr Production Ltd.
95 PAR 3 Lane Fairways
Maraval, Port of Spain
Trinidad and Tobago
West Indies
- VENEZUELA
Centro al Servicio de la Accion Popular (CESAP)
San Jose del Avila a San Isidro
San Jose del Avila
Caracas
Venezuela
or: Apartado Aereo 4240
Caracas 1010-A
Venezuela
Grupo Feminista Miercoles
Apartado Aereo 47659
Caracas 1041
Venezuela
tel. 752-0016 or 211-770
contact: Franca Donda, Josefina Acevedo
Made up of women from different professions in the film industry, the group was founded in 1978 to produce short films about women and women's issues in Venezuela.
NORTH AMERICA
- CANADA
Amelia Productions
c/o Ellen Frank
1774 Grant Street, Apt. 3
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
Canadian Filmmakers' Distribution Centre
299 Queen Street West, Unit 204A
Toronto, Ontario M5V 1Z9
Canada
tel. (416) 593-1808
contact: Lori Keating
or: 525 West Pender Street
Suite 1
Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 3B6
Canada
Cine Contact
826 Est de la Gauchetiere
Montreal, Quebec H2L 2N2
Canada
tel. (514) 849-6294
telex 05-25134 MTL Cine Contact
A film company making films on women and women's issues. Many of the films are on women and development and deal with a particular country, including Japan, India, Brazil, China and Botswana. Among the themes dealt with are the effect of technology on women, women's reproductive choices, militarism, access to credit and Third World organizing strategies.
Cross Cultural Communication Centre (CCCC)
1991 Dufferin Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
The Development Education Centre (DEC)
427 Bloor Street West
Toronto
Ontario M5S 1X7
Canada
tel. (416) 964-6901
DEC was established in 1971 as a non-profit educational charitable corporation. It quickly grew from a small staff organizing workshops to a major resource center producing and distributing materials on Canadian and Third World issues which provide an important alternative to the information available through the conventional media.
Groupe Intervention Video (GIV)
718 Gilford
Montreal, Quebec H2J 1N6
Canada
tel. (514) 524-3259
Founded in 1975, GIV is a non-profit women's collective dedicated to the distribution and production of videos. Since its beginning, GIV has tried to guarantee the widest possible circulation of progressive productions for use in animation and education, many of which are made by GIV members using jointly-owned equipment or by other Quebec or foreign groups. Recently, GIV has begun to concentrate on distribution rather than production. Currently, the group operates as an all-woman collective.
International Development Education Resources Association (Idera Films)
2524 Cypress Street
Vancouver, British Columbia V6J 3N2
Canada
tel. 738-8815
Manitoba Action Committee on the Status of Women (MACSW)
100 133 - 10th Street
Brandon, Manitoba R7A 4E7,
Canada
tel. 725-2955
A voluntary, non-profit organization, this group engages in political action and public education to change the public's attitudes toward women and to redress sexual inequality. The group has been producing a regular program on Access 12, a local television channel, entitled Women Alive, which explores issues of concern to the local community. They have also produced tapes on topics such as women and art, pornography, women's health and feminism.
Marlin Motion Pictures Ltd.
211 Watline Avenue
Mississauga, Ontario
Canada
tel. (416) 272-4100
contact: Mr. Les Modolo
Mobius International
175 King Street E
Toronto, Ontario M5A 1J4
Canada
National Film Board of Canada
P-43 P.O. Box 6100
Montreal, Quebec H3C 3H5
Canada
tel. (514) 333-3265
in New York:
1251 Avenue of the Americas
16th Floor
New York, New York 10020
USA
in Paris:
Delegation Generale du Quebec
Service Culturel
117 rue du Bac
75007 Paris
France
Office National du Film du Canada
Address given under National Film Board of Canada above.
The Participatory Research Group
29 Prince Arthur Avenue
Toronto, Ontario M5R 1B2
Canada
The Participatory Research Group is a non-profit collective of adult educators and researchers working for progressive social change. Since 1976 they have produced a range of analytical and popular education materials. They also produce a twice-yearly newsletter, maintain a resource center in Toronto and organize workshops and conferences. They have worked with labor, native, community, women's and public interest groups in popular and adult education, organizational development research and evaluation.
One Sky, The Saskatchewan Crosscultural Centre
134 Avenue F South
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7M 1S8
Canada
tel. (306) 652-1571
A resource center that provides information on Third World development and other international issues, One Sky publishes a quarterly report, each issue of which provides an in-depth look at a specific development issue. The group also publishes occasional pamphlets and books, and operates a film rental and periodical library.
Steelworkers National Office
55 Eglinton Avenue E
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Video Femmes
10 Rue Mc Mahon
Quebec G1R 3S
Canada
tel. (418) 692-3090
contact: Nicole Bonenfant
A collective which produces and distributes films and videotapes regarding womens's conditions.
Womanspirit Art Research and Resource Centre
359 Dundas Street
London, Ontario N6A 1V5
Canada
A non-profit organization, funded publicly and through private donations, Womanspirit was formed in 1977 as a research group. Since then, it has grown to include a wide range of activities related to women in the arts. It now functions as a research and resource centre, conducting historical research into the lives and works of Canadian women artists and aims to publish a catalogue of their art. The centre also has a growing slide collection of contemporary North American women artists as well as women of other nationalities, to which it actively encourages all women artists to contribute by submitting slides of their work.
Women in Focus Arts and Media Centre
Suite 204-456
West Broadway
Vancouver, British Columbia V5Y 1R3
Canada
tel. (604) 872-2250
contact: Gillean Chase or Brenda Ingratta
Women in Focus Arts and Media Centre was founded in September 1974 to produce feminist video and film and to provide an alternative to male-defined images of women. After producing a series of videotapes, members of the group established a distribution system throughout Canada and the USA designed to make feminist audiovisuals accessible to the public at large. In 1978, the centre began to distribute videotapes by women outside the group, and in 1981, added a number of films by women artists to their collection. The centre also organizes other events related to women and the arts such as workshops and presentations, performances, video and film screenings, and exhibits using many other visual art forms.
Working Women's Centre
1072 A Bloor Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
YWCA of Canada
Resource Centre
571 Jarvis Street
Toronto, Ontario M4Y 2JL
Canada
- USA
Adelphi University Multidisciplinary Center On Aging
Garden City, New York 11530
USA
tel. (516) 486-4530
The center was established in 1975 to strengthen and expand the university's commitment to gerontological education, research and services. It is committed to a multidisciplinary approach to gerontology and promotes a holistic understanding of the field. All of the audiovisual and printed materials produced and distributed by the Center address issues of common concern to older persons, their families and service providers.
AFL-CIO Education Department
815 16th Street NW
Washington DC 20006
USA
American Friends Services Committee (AFSC)
2161 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140
USA
tel. (617) 661-6130
AFSC has a large video library of social issues including materials on women.
Appalshap
P.O. Box 943 A
Whitesburg, Kentucky 41858
USA
Suzanne Arms Productions
4370 Alpine Road
Portola Valley, California 94025
USA
tel. (415) 851-8604
Eugenia Balcells
73 Calyer Street
Brooklyn, New York 11222
USA
tel. (718) 389-9760
Jane Balfour Films Ltd.
163 Gloucester Avenue
London NW1
England
tel. (01) 586-3443 or 722-5050
telex. 24224 ref. 2544
or: Greta Schiller
170 West 89th Street N.1-C
New York, New York 10024
USA
Bethune Museum-Archives Inc.
1318 Vermont Avenue NW
Washington DC 20005
USA
contact: Gaye Williams
Bethune Museum Archives is dedicated to the promotion, preservation, and documentation of black women's history. They produce permanent and travelling exhibitions, educational publications and organize cultural events.
Black Filmmakers' Foundation
1 Center Street
New York, New York 10013
USA
C.D. Film Workshop
28 Fisher Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02120
USA
CALA Productions
731 State Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53703
USA
California Newsreel
630 Natoma Street
San Francisco, California 94103
USA
tel. (415) 621-6196
Calliope Film Resources Inc.
35 Granite Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
USA
Cambridge Documentary Films, Inc.
P.O. Box 385
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
USA
Cambridge Documentary Films is a non-profit filmmaking and distributing organization serving as an alternative media resource for libraries, schools, universities, and social change groups.
Center for Southern Folklore
1216 Peabody Avenue
P.O. Box 4081
Memphis, Tennessee 38104
USA
The Cinema Guild
1697 Broadway, Room 802
New York, New York 10019
USA
tel. (212) 246-5522
Cinema-5
595 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10022
USA
Clarity Educational Films
P.O. Box 315
Franklin Lakes, New Jersey 07417
USA
Clover Beach Productions
16 Hamlet Street
Somerville, Massachusetts 02143
USA
tel. (617) 666-4637
contact: Nancy Clover
Production company which combine video and still photography to document women's issues.
Commission on Women, Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
1884 Randolph Avenue
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55105
USA
The Commission of Women was established in 1979 for the archdiocese of the cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. Its goal is to promote justice and equality for women in the church, assist the archbishop in the implementation of Pastoral letters, facilitate the use of talents of women in the church and collaborate with persons, agencies and organizations concerned with the role of women in society and in the church within and beyond the archdiocese.
Committee for a New Korea Policy
221 Central Avenue
Albany, New York 12206
USA
Community Media Productions
215 Superior Avenue
Dayton, Ohio 45406
USA
Education Development Center
Distribution Center
Newton, Massachusetts 02160
USA
tel. (617) 969-7100
Educational TV and Film Center
1747 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington DC
USA
contact: Lorraine Gray
Feminist Productions
23 Whalers Cove
Babylon, New York 11702
USA
Film Images
17 West 60th Street
New York, New York 10023
USA
Filmmakers' Library
133 East 58th Street
New York, New York 10022
USA
Five Point Films Inc.
915 Highland View, N.E. Suite B
Atlanta, Georgia 30306
USA
tel. (404) 875-6076
contact: Jed Dannenbaum
Future Education Films
1414 Walnut Street N. 4
Berkeley, California 94709
USA
tel. (415) 540-0324
contact: Theresa Jollini
George Washington University
Department of Medical and Public Affairs
Airlie, Virginia 22186
USA
Godmother Productions
1042 Murray Street
Berkeley, California 94710
USA
High Hopes Media
932 12th Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98122
USA
tel. (206) 322-9010
High Hopes Media is an independent video and audio production team that has been working collectively since 1977 to create audiovisuals that are both educational and entertaining.
Humanity Productions
1639 Ninth Avenue
San Francisco, California 94122
USA
ICAP
625 Broadway
New York, New York 10012
USA
Ideas and Images
P.O. Box 5354
Atlanta, Georgia 30307
USA
Independent Documentary Group
394 Elizabeth Street
San Francisco, California 94114
USA
contact: Judy Irving
A non-profit organization of filmmakers who produce films on human rights, women's and environmental issues.
Third World Women's Project
Institute for Policy Studies
1901 Q Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
USA
Institute of Industrial Relations
Labor Occupational Health Program
University of California
Berkeley, California 94720
USA
International Women's Tribune Center, Inc.
777 United Nations Plaza
New York, New York 10017
USA
tel. (212) 687-8633
The Center began in 1976 as a follow-up to the International Women's Year Tribune in 1975. Its purpose was to respond to the requests for information generated by the Tribune on development projects, United Nations activities and future plans. It has since developed a resource center, a number of publications and audiovisual materials, and other services aimed especially at women involved in development projects.
Iris Feminist Collective Inc.
P.O. Box 5353
Berkeley, California 94705
USA
tel. (415) 549-3192
Contact: Liz Stevens
Iris Films is a feminist film production and distribution house which owns and lends 16 mm equipment and conducts workshops, panel discussions and classes on filmmaking and film theory.
Kartemquin Films
1901 West Wellington
Chicago, Illinois 60657
USA
tel. (312) 472-4366
Kartemquin Films has produced and distributed social issue documentaries since its founding in 1967. The films address problems such as health care, urban renewal, women's self-defense, and labor issues.
Gloria Kaufman
305 Wakewa Avenue
South Bend, Indiana 46617
USA
tel. (219) 234-9648
Learning Corporation of America
1350 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10019
USA
Light-Saraf Films
131 Concord Street
San Francisco, California 94112
USA
Local Vision
Video Consulting and Production
309 Pleasant Street
Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387
USA
tel. (513) 767-7590
contact: Liz Mersky
Longbow Group, Inc.
4205 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
USA
Lucerne Films Inc.
37 Ground Pine Road
Morris Plains, New Jersey 07950
USA
tel. (201) 538-1401
Martha Stuart Communications, Inc.
147 West 22 Street
New York, New York 10011
USA
tel. (212) 255-2718
Martha Stuart Communications produces and distributes half-hour videotapes on a broad range of subjects. It gets together groups of people who share common experiences for discussion. The tapes are designed to stimulate discussion and allow people to arrive at their own solutions. The group also organizes workshops on how to use videos.
Linda Mather
Department of Higher Education
225 West State Street
CN 542 Trenton
New Jersey 08625
USA
Doe Mayer
2510 4th Street / C
Santa Monica, California 90405
USA
film can be requested from:
Zimbabwe Adult Education College
P.O. Box 1880
Harare, Zimbabwe
Media Network
Information Center
208 West 13 Street
New York, New York 10011
USA
tel. (212) 620-0877
contact: Martha Wallner
Media Network is a clearinghouse for information on films, videotapes and slideshows on a wide range of issues including all aspects of reproductive rights, women's and health issues. The Center provides information on specific audiovisuals as well as programming ideas and contact with others who have used media to address similar themes.
Men's Resource Center
3534 S.E. Main
Portland, Oregon 97214
USA
tel. (503) 235-3433
Michigan Media
400 Fourth Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103
USA
tel. (313) 764-5360
Midwest Women Films
P.O. Box 1129
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106
USA
tel. (313) 487-1823
contact: Pam LeBlanc
Mountain Moving Picture Company
P.O. Box 1235
Evergreen, Colorado 80439
USA
tel. (303) 838-6426
New Day Films
22 Riverview Drive
Wayne, New Jersey 07417-3191
USA
tel. (201) 633-0212
Founded in 1972 as a distribution cooperative for films about women, the group sees films as a major force for social change. As feminists, their goal is to transform everything from daily relationships between people to social, political, and economic institutions with the help of progressive media.
Northwest Women's History Project
P.O. Box 5692
Portland, Oregon 97228
USA
tel. (503) 236-1808 or 249-1957
Oxfam America
115 Broadway
Boston, Massachusetts 02116
USA
Oxfam America is an international relief and development agency that works in 26 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America funding small-scale community development projects aimed at improving self-reliance and promoting empowerment. It also educates Americans on the process of Third World development and the causes of hunger and poverty in the world. It produces films on these issues which generally are good consciousness-raisers.
Pandora Educational Film Center, Inc.
1697 Broadway, Suite 1109
New York, New York 10019
USA
tel. (212) 581-3208
contact: Bonnie Friedman
Social change films on women.
Point of View Productions
2477 Folsom Street
San Francisco, California 94110
USA
tel. (415) 821-0435
contact: Karil Daniels
Produces videos for public, educational and cable television. They address primarily women's issues such as health alternatives, gentle birth, anti-nuclear.
Reid/Stevens Productions
P.O. Box 5353
Berkeley, California 94705
USA
tel. (415) 549-3192
contact: Frances Reid and Liz Stevens
Film producers, directors, consultants. Conducts workshops on feminist film and filmmaking for conferences, festivals, etc. They make available to women 16mm productions/post production equipment at reasonable rates.
The Resource Center
P.O. Box 4506
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87196
USA
tel. (505) 266-5009
The Resource Center is a non-profit organization which has been producing educational materials on a variety of topics for the last five years. Many of the center's projects investigate the activities of the U.S. government and multinational corporations in Central America and the Caribbean.
Santa Cruz Women's Media Collective
The History of Consciousness Department
Kresge College
The University of California
Santa Cruz, California 95060
USA
tel. (408) 426-0962
contact: Chela Sandoval
A group whose current concern is with feminist film theory and criticism. They also produce video documentaries.
Save the Children Federation, Incorporated
54 Wilton Road
Westport, Connecticut 06880
USA
Serious Business Company
1145 Mandana Boulevard
Oakland, California 94610
USA
tel. (415) 832-5600
Shapiro Entertainment
3884 Fredonia Drive, Suite B-14
Los Angeles, California 90068
USA
tel. (213) 851-2952
telex. 677109 BURX LSA
contact: Alan Solomon
State of the Art
1736 Columbia Road NW
Washington DC 20009
USA
Sterling Educational Films, Inc.
241 East 34th Street
New York, New York 10016
USA
tel. (212) 683-6300
Studio D
16th Floor
1251 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10020
USA
Studio D is a branch of the National Film Board of Canada's English division. Founded in 1974, the Studio is publicly funded. Although the studio includes male filmmakers as well, its main objective is to bring a woman's perspective to social issues and to act as a catalyst for social change through the medium of film. Many of the films made by the Studio explore the position of women in society and examine the nature of male-female relations.
Third Eye Films
12 Arrow Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
USA
Third Image
1735 Grove Street
Berkeley, California 94709
USA
Third World Newsreel
160 Fifth Avenue, Suite 911
New York, New York 10010
USA
Tomato Productions Incorporated
P.O. Box 1235
Evergreen, Colorado 80439
USA
tel. (303) 838-6426
Founded in 1973, Tomato Productions Inc. is a women's filmmaking company that produces films by, about, starring and for women. Tired of the sexism manifested towards them at the local educational television station, members of the group have committed themselves to promoting feminist productions and to creating an intelligent, non-sexist and supportive working environment.
Tricepts Productions
22 West 12th Street
New York, New York 10011
USA
tel. (212) 675-1318
Tricepts Productions creates, develops and produces social issue audio-visual materials including films, slideshows and videotapes on women's issues, health and the elderly. These materials are distributed to television and to general and educational markets.
Tricontinental Film Center
333 6th Avenue
New York, New York 10014
USA
or: PO Box 4430
Berkeley, California 94705
USA
The United Methodist Church (UMC)
Women's Division
475 Riverside Drive
New York, New York 10115
USA
The Women's Division of the UMC has a special program on women in development and produces materials on women food producers.
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
866 United Nations Plaza
New York, New York 10017
USA
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Room C301, UN Plaza
New York, New York 10017
USA
United Nations Information Center
Room 807
United Nations Plaza
New York, New York 10017
USA
University of Illinois Film Center
1325 South Oak Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
USA
tel. (800) 252-1357 or 367-3456
University of Texas Film Library
Box W
Austin, Texas 78712
USA
tel. (512) 471-3571
Video Women
1150 Greenfield Avenue
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania 15217
USA
tel. (412) 521-8512
contact: Katholeen Kampke
Villon Films
P.O. Box 14144
Seattle, Washington 98144
USA
contact: David Messenbring
Washington Peace Center
2111 Florida Avenue NW
Washington DC 20008
USA
Women in Communications Inc.
Dallas Chapter
5215 Homer Street
Dallas, Texas
USA
tel. (214) 826-3863 or 748-7742
Women in Film
8489 West Third Street
Los Angeles, California 90048
USA
tel. (213) 651-3680
contact: Lisa Mason
Women in Film serve as a support group and act as a clearinghouse and resource of information for qualified professional women in the entertainment industry.
Women in Film
P.O. Box 52726
Atlanta, Georgia 30355
USA
contact: Kathy Hardegree
A group of local women filmmakers who work to develop industry involvement and recognition of women filmmakers.
Women Make Movies, Inc.
19 West 21st Street - 2nd floor
New York, New York 10010
USA
tel. (212) 926-6477
contact: Debra Zimmerman
Founded in 1972 to teach, produce and distribute media related to the history and experiences of women, Women Make Movies is one of the leading feminist media organizations in the United States. Their nationwide distribution service of more than seventy-five films and tapes is utilized by schools, women's organizations, community groups and many others for discussion, film programs and grass-roots organizing. Their collection includes documentary, experimental, narrative and animated works produced by Women Make Movies and other independent film and video makers.
The Women's Access Coalition
6 Bowdoin Park
Dorchester, Massachusetts 02122
USA
tel. (617) 282-7777
contact: Catherine Russo
Greater Boston group of women's organizations and individuals lobbying for locally produced women's programming.
Women's Cable Television Clearinghouse
c/o Marcia Boruta
1604 1/2 Monroe Avenue
San Diego, California 92116
USA
tel. (619) 299-5315
or: c/o Grace Goodeagle
224 B Missouri Avenue NW
Washington DC 20011
USA
tel. (202) 723-7759
The Women's Cable Television Clearinghouse monitors and disseminates information on the development of women's cable access coalitions around the country. It also facilitates videotape exchange.
Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press
3306 Ross Place, NW
Washington, DC 20008
USA
tel. (202) 966-7783
Publishes Index / Directory of Women's Media.
The Women's Media Network, Inc.
Box 111
Hope, Maine 04847
USA
tel. (207) 763-3187 or 763-3838
A non-profit organization that makes videos available to women and which uses it to bring women's issues to the attention of the local community.
Women's Music Archives
208 Wildflower Lane
Fairfield, Connecticut 06430
USA
An organization devoted to the collection, preservation and sharing of materials related to women's music including records, tapes, songbooks, periodicals, concert programs and photographs.
Women's Self Defense Collective
Office of Residential Education
Stanford University
311 Old Union Street
Stanford, California 94305
USA
Women's Video Collective
P.O. Box 1609
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02238
USA
tel. (617) 492-2126
contact: Libba Ingram
The collective produces videos and photographs of women as they strive to become a more powerful force for social change.
YWCA
Rape Crisis Center
601 South Jefferson
Davis Parkway
New Orleans Louisiana 20008
USA