Since its inception, the Production Assistance Program has assisted in the completion of hundreds of projects, including Oscar-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR by Laura Poitras, Oscar nominee STRONG ISLAND by Yance Ford, and Sandi Tan’s SHIRKERS, which won the World Cinema Documentary Competition Award for Best Directing at Sundance in 2018. In the last 5 years, WMM’s PA Program has helped 136 films reach completion and assisted filmmakers in raising more than $28,000,000 from government, foundation, corporate or individual, and crowd-funded sources.
Below you can browse, learn more about, and support select films fiscally sponsored through our Production Assistance Program. You can take part in helping women’s visions reach the screen by making a tax-deductible donation to any of the projects featured here. With your help, we can continue to see advancements in feminist filmmaking every day. Hopefully, with our collective efforts to support these artists, more opportunities and celebrated accomplishments will continue to flourish.
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Morenita
Morenita is a genre-mixing visual poetry experience that digs into the bridges and barriers of language, womanhood, ancestral curses and assimilation through the friendship of two Latina immigrants in the US.
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Lawrence Weiner: Writing on the Wall
Lawrence Weiner: Writing on the Wall is an intimate documentary film about the trailblazing artist Lawrence Weiner, who as one of the founders of Conceptual Art helped to revolutionize and democratize the art world in the 1960s by taking his artwork out of the galleries and into the streets.
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Moving Stories
Six diverse dancers from an acclaimed New York dance company travel the world to work with at-risk youth, teaching them the tools of choreography so that they can tell their stories through dance. In the process, they heal trauma, build bridges across cultural borders and experience profound connections.
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999: The Extraordinary Young Women on the First Official Transport to Auschwitz
“66% of millennials cannot say what Auschwitz was” even fewer know that the first Jewish transport to Auschwitz was 999 teenage girls and young women. Discover the truth behind this historical #MeToo moment and meet three survivors of the first transport, who are in their 90s, and their families.
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Warrior Women
“Warrior Women” is the story of mothers and daughters fighting for indigenous rights in the American Indian Movement of the 1970s. The film unveils not only a female perspective of history, but also examines the impact political struggles have on the children who bear witness.
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Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack
Octogenarian artist Audrey Flack has always been a trailblazer. Now, she returns to her canvas for the first time in decades, revealing her longtime struggles as an artist and mother of two children, one of whom is severely autistic, to find her rightful place in the art world pantheon.
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Hear, Eat, Home
New York-based Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh and other immigrant artists part of the Silkroad Ensemble, tell stories of home, identity and overcoming adversity through music and food.
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One Person, One Vote?
One Person, One Vote? is an illuminating documentary that examines the long and contentious history of the Electoral College and contemplates where our democracy goes from here — should one person equal one vote in America?
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Grounders
Grounders takes an intimate look at the Prospect Park Women's Softball League in Brooklyn, New York. This documentary explores the history of the league and the community it has created. Getting to know the players, fans, and umpires we understand what happens when women take the field to play.
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Hispaniola
Hispaniola takes audiences on a cinematic journey through the day-to-day lives of people directly impacted by the 2013 Dominican Republic Supreme Court decision that strips Dominican birthright citizenship from individuals of Haitian heritage born in that country.
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LISTEN TO MY HEARTBEAT
Washington, D.C. is the political epicenter, but residents beyond Capitol Hill have long battled socioeconomic disparity. As the city gentrifies, black residents are pushed out, along with their folkloric music: Go-Go. LISTEN TO MY HEARTBEAT examines a changing city and the future of the music that gave it a voice.
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I Am, But I'm Not
Born as one, raised as another; Transracial adoptees have to navigate their multiple identities.
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A Woman's Work
Football and feminism collide in a feature documentary that follows a group of former NFL cheerleaders battling their teams and the NFL to end 50 years of wage theft and illegal employment practices. Their fight for wage and gender equality embodies the challenges faced by working women across all industries.
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Jacinta
JACINTA (working title) follows a young mother in and out of prison in Maine, while exploring the relationship between trauma and love within a family fractured by a cycle of addiction and incarceration.
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The Living Saint of Thailand
VENERABLE MAE CHEE SANSANEE STHIRASUTA, a former top Thai model, abandons material success, becomes a Buddhist nun and creates an oasis and refuge for women in the middle of bustling Bangkok.
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In Balanchine's Classroom
Balanchine’s former dancers reveal startling new facets of the legendary choreographer as they open the door to his private classroom - his laboratory, set against their present-day efforts to keep his legacy alive.
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A Place of Absence
A Place of Absence follows filmmaker Marialuisa Ernst’s search to find meaning and connection with Anita and Leticia, two Central American women traveling to Mexico as part of the Caravan of Mothers of Missing Migrants. As the group searches for sons and daughters who vanished en route to the U.S.
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Julia Scotti: Funny That Way
Transgender comedian Julia Scotti’s vibrant comeback. Last seen 20 years ago as Rick Scotti (on bills with Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld) she comes out on network TV, her children return after a long estrangement, and we watch her triumphant homecoming as she delivers a truth that breaks down walls.
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