August 9, 2023
The Roxbury International Film Festival awards The Five Demands the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking at ROXFILM2023!
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Director Greta Schiller (right) poses with Elizabeth Wood (middle) and Catharine Stimpson (left) on the set of “Love Letters.” The documentary will be shown at the Cascadia International Women’s Film Festival in April. Courtesy of GOOD DOCS.
April 19, 2024
Ask director Greta Schiller what she thought of the audience at last month’s Bellingham premier of her newest work, the 39-minute documentary “Love Letters,” and you’ll get an enthusiastic response. “Oh God, are you kidding?” Schiller said in a phone call with the Bellingham Herald. “It was just incredible.”
March 9, 2024
Through love letters and a challenging custody case, a lesbian couple's legacy lives on through film, archives and continued work. A new documentary, “Love Letters,” is the story of Catharine Stimpson's and Elizabeth Wood’s life, love and custody case during the rise of feminism in the 1970's, supported by a community of women who made it possible for them to do nearly impossible: for lesbians to achieve custody of their kids.
March 4, 2024
The film premiere of “Love Letters,” directed by Greta Schiller, will be held at Western Washington University on Friday, March 8. The film tells the love story of a lesbian couple and their fight for custody of one of the women’s children...
March 4, 2024
Why did you make Before Stonewall?
It was my first feature documentary. Back then, there were a few documentaries being made about women’s history but we had nothing about gay [and] lesbian history. So it seemed like a good idea to make something and I was very young and I had no idea what I was getting into. So we — Andrea Weiss, who is now my wife, and I — wrote a proposal to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and we got the money. We couldn’t believe it...
February 19, 2024
“A city with a fading pulse” – Clyde Haberman, New York Times
“One of the most fertile periods of filmmaking in cinematic history” – Robert Levin, amNew York
These quotes about New York City in the mid 1970s at first seem paradoxical. But I lived and thrived in the city then, so I know both are true...
January 23, 2024
Screening of 'Love Letters' follows the remarkable love story of professor, feminist scholar and Bellingham native Catharine R. Stimpson and musicologist Elizabeth Wood...
February 14, 2023
Our new film "The Five Demands" is premiering in Los Angeles in the 31st Pan-African Film Festival, February 17-18, 2023! For more information...
November 8, 2021
Thank you to The Library of Congress and The Better Angels Society for honoring our film “The Five Demands” as one of six finalists for The Library of Congress Lavine/ Ken Burns Prize for Film 2021...
May 10, 2021
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