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She is the Executive Director of Wild West Women, Inc., a non-profit company she cofounded to produce films about women in order to provide positive role models for women and girls. Martha Wheelock is the filmmaker for the Justice Bell Foundation's documentary, "Finding Justice."
MW: My name is Martha Wheelock. I’ve been an English women’s studies and ethics teacher for forty-seven, eight years and I’m now retired, and I have been making documentary films for, oh, since 1978, before most of you were born.
Thom Hallock interviews documentary film maker Martha Wheelock about her film "Inez Milholland: Forward Into Light" about suffrage movement icon Inez Milholl...
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Martha Wheelock. Martha has combined education and filmmaking for over three decades when she discovered that there were so very few films about women and women’s history for the “new” subject area – Women’s Studies.
Martha Wheelock. “We Hold the History of Progress, of Learning, of How to Break Down Barriers and Unequal Rights.”. Producer, Director, Filmmaker, Educator. Founded Wild West Women Films (originally Ishtar Films) in 1976 to create films and media for women’s studies programs, and to educate women and men about women’s place in history ...
“ In “Inez Milholland ~ Forward Into Light”, director/writer Martha Wheelock accomplishes a visually interesting, moving and inspiring film which tells the story of the young and unknown to most of us, suffragist. After viewing this documentary, Inez Milholland, certainly qualifies as an American icon and an unsung hero, prompting one to ...