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The Baltimore Film Summit is May 29–31 at the Parkway Theatre 🎬

Join us Saturday (May 30th) at 1pm for the BWMA Shorts Block — a great chance to connect with local filmmakers and see incredible work from across the city. Special thanks to Rée , Lauren Scott, Samantha Mitchell, and Jenna Cipolloni for curating such an amazing block featuring films by Marly Hernández Cortés, Jena Burchick, Cathy Cook, Kalima Young, Lynn Tomlinson, and Jamyla Krempel.

The summit highlights the best of Baltimore filmmaking from the past decade, featuring Baker Awardees, Saul Zaentz Fellows, SXSW winners, and more.

🎟 All-Access Pass: $50 (access to all screenings + events) and tickets to individual blocks of films are available at the link in our bio.

Last meet up before our little summer break! Hope to see you there!

🎬 BWMA x Maryland Film Festival 🎬

BWMA is proud to be a community partner for two incredible films screening at this year’s Maryland Film Festival. Join us and save 20% with code bwma20!

✨ HONEYJOON
Directed by Lilian T. Mehrel

“In this light-and-dark comedy, June and her Persian mom Lela take a trip to the romantic Azores islands for a grief anniversary, with contrasting ways of coping. A charming surfer takes them on a tour as they (and we) surf the waves of life, loss, flirting… an unforgettable ride.”

🗓 Wed, Apr 8 @ 9:00 PM
🗓 Thu, Apr 9 @ 5:00 PM

🎟 link in bio for tix. 20% off with code: bwma20

🎬 BWMA x Maryland Film Festival 🎬

BWMA is proud to be a community partner for two incredible films screening at this year’s Maryland Film Festival. Join us and save 20% with code bwma20! First up:

✨ STEALING CARS
Directed by Marly Hernández Cortés & Stephen Schuyler

“Matías was four years old when his mother, Isa, stole him away from his abusive, alcoholic father. Now, as a teenager, he is a seasoned car thief, living with her in a Virginia Beach public housing complex. But, after Isa’s sudden and unexpected death, Matías is sent back to Baltimore to live with the father they ran away from over a decade earlier. Returning to the locations of a forgotten childhood, Matias is forced to confront the reemergence of repressed trauma, while coming to terms with his own inability to protect her.”

🗓 Fri, Apr 10 @ 2:45 PM — Parkway 3
🗓 Sat, Apr 11 @ 9:15 PM — Fred Lazarus IV Auditorium

🎟 link in bio

🎟 20% off with code: bwma20

🎬 27th Maryland Film Festival 🎬

April 8–12, 2026

STEALING CARS
📅 Friday, April 10, 2026 at 2:45 PM — Parkway 3
📅 Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 9:15 PM — MICA Lazarus Building
Directed by: Marly Hernández-Cortés, Stephen Schuyler

Community Partners are Tola’s Room 🇵🇷 and the Baltimore Women’s Media Alliance 🎞️

Mati is portrayed as a full, real person — tender and appealing. After his mother’s unexpected death, teenage car thief Matías is sent to live with the abusive father they ran away from thirteen years earlier. Stealing Cars is about the determination of personal identity within the wreckage of a shattered American dream.

What the programming team says:
Having its world premiere at the Maryland Film Festival, Stealing Cars brings us a raw Baltimore story with real, relatable, and complex characters who are handled with care — and who are guaranteed to steal your heart. 🎬✨

🎬 27th Maryland Film Festival 🎬

April 8–12, 2026

STEALING CARS
📅 Friday, April 10, 2026 at 2:45 PM — Parkway 3
📅 Saturday, April 11, 2026 at 9:15 PM — MICA Lazarus Building
Directed by: Marly Hernández-Cortés, Stephen Schuyler

Community Partners are Tola’s Room 🇵🇷 and the Baltimore Women’s Media Alliance 🎞️

Mati is portrayed as a full, real person — tender and appealing. After his mother’s unexpected death, teenage car thief Matías is sent to live with the abusive father they ran away from thirteen years earlier. Stealing Cars is about the determination of personal identity within the wreckage of a shattered American dream.

What the programming team says:
Having its world premiere at the Maryland Film Festival, Stealing Cars brings us a raw Baltimore story with real, relatable, and complex characters who are handled with care — and who are guaranteed to steal your heart. 🎬✨

Calling all women and nonbinary screenwriters! ✍️✨
Join us for a supportive, creativity‑fueling Screenplay Feedback Workshop at the SNF Parkway Theatre on Sat, March 28 • 4–6 PM.
Live one‑page reads, small‑group feedback circles, and a chance to connect with fellow writers + readers.
Writers: submit up to 10 pages.
Readers: sign up to give thoughtful feedback.
Limited spots — sign up through the event page at the link in our bio
Deadline: March 19

Happy New Year! Tis the season for hunkering down to work on scripts/grant apps/proposals/etc. For our January meetup, bring whatever you’re working on, grab a hot beverage and we’ll work alongside each other and catch up.

Another gathering to pencil into your busy December calendar :) See you there! ✨✨✨

MDFF 2025 @mdffparkway starts today! We wanted to highlight some films by BWMA members!

Jena Burchick’s ‘what it felt like’ is a short, self-reflexive documentary chronicling an autobiographical year in four trimesters through the visceral experience of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum in a post Roe V. Wade era.
Screens: Saturday, November 8th in the Baltishorts Program.

Jonna McKone produced ‘The Tallest Dwarf ‘- a documentary about director Julie Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. As Julie unpacks the rumors of “partial dwarfism” in her family she finds that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. She joins forces with a group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of being tokenized and put on display.
Screens: Friday November 7th at 4:30pm and Saturday, Nov 8 at 12:30pm

In Amy Oden’s short doc ‘Weird’, high schooler Bronwyn discusses what it’s like to feel weird in two very different towns.
Screens: Friday, November 7th and Saturday, November 8th in the Family Dynamic shorts program.

Camila De Ilhéus and Samantha Mitchell directed ‘Bay to Baltimore’ - a documentary about ultramarathon open water swimmer and painter Katie Pumphrey’s hopes to become the first person to swim 24 miles from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Baltimore’s newly swimmable Inner Harbor.
Screens: Friday, November 7th at 4:15pm and Sunday, November 9th at 11:00am

MDFF 2025 @mdffparkway starts today! We wanted to highlight some films by BWMA members!

Jena Burchick’s ‘what it felt like’ is a short, self-reflexive documentary chronicling an autobiographical year in four trimesters through the visceral experience of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum in a post Roe V. Wade era.
Screens: Saturday, November 8th in the Baltishorts Program.

Jonna McKone produced ‘The Tallest Dwarf ‘- a documentary about director Julie Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. As Julie unpacks the rumors of “partial dwarfism” in her family she finds that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. She joins forces with a group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of being tokenized and put on display.
Screens: Friday November 7th at 4:30pm and Saturday, Nov 8 at 12:30pm

In Amy Oden’s short doc ‘Weird’, high schooler Bronwyn discusses what it’s like to feel weird in two very different towns.
Screens: Friday, November 7th and Saturday, November 8th in the Family Dynamic shorts program.

Camila De Ilhéus and Samantha Mitchell directed ‘Bay to Baltimore’ - a documentary about ultramarathon open water swimmer and painter Katie Pumphrey’s hopes to become the first person to swim 24 miles from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Baltimore’s newly swimmable Inner Harbor.
Screens: Friday, November 7th at 4:15pm and Sunday, November 9th at 11:00am

MDFF 2025 @mdffparkway starts today! We wanted to highlight some films by BWMA members!

Jena Burchick’s ‘what it felt like’ is a short, self-reflexive documentary chronicling an autobiographical year in four trimesters through the visceral experience of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum in a post Roe V. Wade era.
Screens: Saturday, November 8th in the Baltishorts Program.

Jonna McKone produced ‘The Tallest Dwarf ‘- a documentary about director Julie Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. As Julie unpacks the rumors of “partial dwarfism” in her family she finds that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. She joins forces with a group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of being tokenized and put on display.
Screens: Friday November 7th at 4:30pm and Saturday, Nov 8 at 12:30pm

In Amy Oden’s short doc ‘Weird’, high schooler Bronwyn discusses what it’s like to feel weird in two very different towns.
Screens: Friday, November 7th and Saturday, November 8th in the Family Dynamic shorts program.

Camila De Ilhéus and Samantha Mitchell directed ‘Bay to Baltimore’ - a documentary about ultramarathon open water swimmer and painter Katie Pumphrey’s hopes to become the first person to swim 24 miles from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Baltimore’s newly swimmable Inner Harbor.
Screens: Friday, November 7th at 4:15pm and Sunday, November 9th at 11:00am

MDFF 2025 @mdffparkway starts today! We wanted to highlight some films by BWMA members!

Jena Burchick’s ‘what it felt like’ is a short, self-reflexive documentary chronicling an autobiographical year in four trimesters through the visceral experience of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum in a post Roe V. Wade era.
Screens: Saturday, November 8th in the Baltishorts Program.

Jonna McKone produced ‘The Tallest Dwarf ‘- a documentary about director Julie Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. As Julie unpacks the rumors of “partial dwarfism” in her family she finds that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. She joins forces with a group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of being tokenized and put on display.
Screens: Friday November 7th at 4:30pm and Saturday, Nov 8 at 12:30pm

In Amy Oden’s short doc ‘Weird’, high schooler Bronwyn discusses what it’s like to feel weird in two very different towns.
Screens: Friday, November 7th and Saturday, November 8th in the Family Dynamic shorts program.

Camila De Ilhéus and Samantha Mitchell directed ‘Bay to Baltimore’ - a documentary about ultramarathon open water swimmer and painter Katie Pumphrey’s hopes to become the first person to swim 24 miles from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Baltimore’s newly swimmable Inner Harbor.
Screens: Friday, November 7th at 4:15pm and Sunday, November 9th at 11:00am

MDFF 2025 @mdffparkway starts today! We wanted to highlight some films by BWMA members!

Jena Burchick’s ‘what it felt like’ is a short, self-reflexive documentary chronicling an autobiographical year in four trimesters through the visceral experience of pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum in a post Roe V. Wade era.
Screens: Saturday, November 8th in the Baltishorts Program.

Jonna McKone produced ‘The Tallest Dwarf ‘- a documentary about director Julie Wyman’s quest to find her place within the little people (LP) community at a moment when dwarf identity is poised to radically change. As Julie unpacks the rumors of “partial dwarfism” in her family she finds that hers is the last of a body type she has inherited. She joins forces with a group of dwarf artists to confront the legacy of being tokenized and put on display.
Screens: Friday November 7th at 4:30pm and Saturday, Nov 8 at 12:30pm

In Amy Oden’s short doc ‘Weird’, high schooler Bronwyn discusses what it’s like to feel weird in two very different towns.
Screens: Friday, November 7th and Saturday, November 8th in the Family Dynamic shorts program.

Camila De Ilhéus and Samantha Mitchell directed ‘Bay to Baltimore’ - a documentary about ultramarathon open water swimmer and painter Katie Pumphrey’s hopes to become the first person to swim 24 miles from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Baltimore’s newly swimmable Inner Harbor.
Screens: Friday, November 7th at 4:15pm and Sunday, November 9th at 11:00am

Who’s coming? November meet up @galleryca !

Next meet up! Hope you can make it. We’re trying to get a little more outdoor time before it gets too cold so we will meet out back. Come grab a drink and catch up. 🍂

Premiering October 11th @mdffparkway! DAMN Y’ALL FINE (2025) is a journey into the self-stylings of Baltimore’s Black, queer and trans artists and activists. A Rooted Collective Production directed by Dr. Kalima Young @kyoungteacher and Ti Malik Coleman @__tiology .

Reserve your ticket today at damnyallfine.eventbrite.com!