Dear Ms., A Revolution in Print

A film that relays the founding and impact of Ms. magazine, the first magazine about feminist issues written, edited and ultimately owned by women.

2025 | Running Time: 1 Hour 50 minutes | Rating: NR

Using archival materials, interviews with the magazine’s founders and contributors, and conversations with new voices, we will create a series/film that explores how such a unique workplace came to be, the significance of the magazine, and why its coverage 50 years ago is still so relevant today. Ms. was a magazine that changed the world – not only for those intimately involved with it and the issues it covered, but for those who wouldn’t realize until much later how paramount the women’s movement was to social change for all of us. Ms. launched the language around domestic violence (initially called battered women’s syndrome), uncovered post-Roe back-alley abortions, codified the language around and the experience of Sexual Harassment, and mostly, empowered individuals to realize that individual actions today would lead to culture shifts tomorrow. Filmmaker: Amy Richards and Dyllan McGee

“Ms. opened up unprecedented national conversations on everything from domestic abuse to pornography, all while its staff internally grappled with its own evolving ideals.”

—Tribeca Film Festival