While fiscal sponsorship is a component of the program, unlike other sponsoring organizations, we also provide a suite of support services such as tailored consultations, discounts to our workshops and webinars with leading industry professionals, and other essential resources.
In the last 5 years, WMM’s Production Assistance Program has helped 194 films reach completion and assisted filmmakers in raising more than $46,000,000 from government, foundation, corporate or individual, and crowd-funded sources. Since its inception, the program has been a part of raising more than $100,000,000 and helping more than 1,000 films to completion.
Films and filmmakers we have supported have been nominated for or won Academy Awards for the last 22 years, including Oscar-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR by Laura Poitras, STRONG ISLAND by Yance Ford, SUGARCANE by Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat, TO KILL A TIGER by Nisha Pahuja, THE ETERNAL MEMORY by Maite Alberdi and THE BARBER OF LITTLE ROCK by John Hoffman and Christine Turner, the last two of which were directed by PA alum. The program has also supported critically acclaimed fiction features like FAMILIAR TOUCH (dir. Sarah Friedland), Dee Rees’ PARIAH, I CARRY YOU WITH ME (dir. Heidi Ewing, prod. Mynette Louie), FAREWELL AMOR (dir. Ekwa Msangi, prod. Huriyyah Muhammad, Sam Bisbee, Josh Penn), and THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL (dir. Marielle Heller). We’re thrilled to continue to have a large presence at the Sundance Film Festival, including GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT (Dir Michèle Stephenson), LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING (dir. Lisa Cortés), Sandi Tan’s SHIRKERS, which won the World Cinema Documentary Competition Award for Best Directing, and most recently SEEDS (dir. Brittany Shyne, prod. Danielle Varga), which won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. In addition to Sundance, films supported by our program premiere at major festivals like Berlin, Tribeca, CPH:DOX, and SXSW.
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In the house and Bab Touma -isolated from reality- witness the diary of the girls’ lives and their journey of self-discovery. A close relationship forms between them, darkness and power outages make for the ritual of staying up by candlelight and exchanging conversations about sensitive subjects none of them dares bring up beyond the walls of house No.7, finding solace and companionship within the walls of the house as the world outside rages with conflict and chaos.
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Her fondness for photographic relics and her seemingly self-imposed loneliness, intensify this sense of loss and isolation. Through a voyeuristic pastime - taking pictures of the building across from hers every night - she creates a routine that helps her maintain some sort of human connection.
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The life of a successful yet isolated photographer changes as she learns how to cope with a rare visual disease.
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Learn more
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[text] => ‘Milisuthando’ is a portrait of me and South Africa, growing up together in the aftermath of apartheid. The moment one realizes they are black in the world is always traumatic. This film is the scenic route of my coming down from that moment. In it, I am tracing who I was before I entered the white world, who I became when I was inside it, and finally, what kind of human being can I be outside of its bounds? Throughout, I am exploring whether it is possible to live out the meaning of my name, Milisuthando (be the love where there is none), in a society where the laws have changed but people’s hearts remain locked in racial conditioning. The film takes place in Three Universes. Over Three Decades. Exploring Three Selves. Driven by my exploratory narrative voice and a compelling cast of my family, friends, foes, and some historical figures, the film braids these universes across time in a non-linear manner, meditating on difficult questions about power, fear, love and unrequited grace. Sometimes observational, sometimes verite, the story unfolds inside my own subjectivity, memory, and the relationships and spaces I share with the people in these universes.
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[text] => The Gender Project (working title, aka “TGP”) will explode perhaps our deepest misperception: that biological sex is neatly binary. This dualistic thinking affects everyone, causing myriad harms ranging from the invisible miasma of strict gender we all breathe to the urgent epidemic of violence against trans women worldwide.
The fundamental structure of TGP is based on the storylines of three scholar-activists who deliver intriguing scientific exposition in a unique and intimate manner. Each of them is as engaged in their social justice activism as their science: Karissa Sanbonmatsu PhD, a trans multiracial structural biologist researching genetic sex development at Los Alamos Labs; Pidgeon Pagonis, a nonbinary intersex activist exploring their Mexican lineage via the pre-colonial history of a third gender in Oaxaca; and Brandon Ogbunu PhD, a straight cis ally evolutionary biologist who contemplates the role race has played in his academic career after he’s pulled over for driving while black. Each explores science that reveals that biological sex is a magnificent spectrum, and that gender is as much a social construct as race is.
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[text] => Washington, D.C. may be the political epicenter of the world, but residents beyond Capitol Hill have long battled socioeconomic disparity and fought to have their voice heard. As the city gentrifies, black residents have been pushed to the outskirts, along with their homegrown folkloric music: Go-Go.
We follow: TOB, a popular Go-Go band with a large youth following. TOB is fighting the erasure of Black people and culture through music. LIL CHRIS is the conductor of the twelve-piece band and, as the “lead mic,” he tells the crowd what is going on. FLIP, LIL CHRIS’s older brother, creates harmonizing melodies that blend with his little brother’s lyrics. People of all ages stand in line in anticipation of hearing TOB, dancing and to have their neighborhood stamped. Stamping is when a Go-Go band shouts out the name of a neighborhood, as if to say you were here and you mattered. In the face of housing gentrification and cultural erasure, this is one of a few places where Black Washingtonians are seen, recognized, and celebrated. This is one of a few places that reflects the old D.C. As the city gentrifies, many of those neighborhoods no longer exist.
While TOB fights to keep the essence of Go-Go alive many of their concerts are shut down. We follow TOB as they go from being musicians to activist fighting to save Go-Go music.Through the film we discover there have been different methods of shutting down Go-Go concerts and even tracking Go-Go bands. These methods have been pushed through local government, micro laws / bills and even noise violations.
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After years of contention between the Go-Go community, local politicians and new residents in the Spring of 2019 the story of Go-Go and Gentrification goes viral. Central Communications is a cellphone store and Washington, D.C, Go-Go landmark. The store has been playing Go-Go music outside of its store since 1990’s. The store is one of the last places in the city where you can still hear Go-Go music being played. After new residents complained about the store playing Go-Go music, a campaign / rallying cry named #dontmutedc went viral, and a change.org petition started. We follow TOB as they take to the street to protest the shutting down of the store. As TOB performed on the street, more than 3,000 people gathered to protest with the band. The protest caused Go-Go lovers and Black residents to protest and get politically active. Here we see the inception of TOB as activist.
TOB and TRAYON work alongside each other, and through their shared story we show the intersection of music, activism and politics. Amid the film we see Trayon go from community activist to politician, and we see TOB go from musicians to Go-Go activists.
LISTEN TO MY HEARTBEAT highlights the culture of Go-Go and its significance to the foundation of Washington, D.C. The film investigates the politics, the over-policing and the gentrification that have led to the displacement of the poor and working-class residents of the city and their music. This is a story of resistance. We tell the story of a community fighting for their humanity, their community, their sound and their…heartbeat.
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[text] => When Martina Radwan, an accomplished cinematographer, meets sixteen-year old Baaskaa on a film shoot about homeless kids in Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar, she decides to intervene. She sets him up with a foster family and supports him financially. Initially successful in helping Baaskaa, Martina takes on two more teens, Nasaa, a girl, and Vanni, a boy. Unprepared, but determined, she becomes the teen’s unofficial, long-distance surrogate mother and advocate, encouraging them to heal and change. Despite their language barrier, cultural differences and physical separation, this unlikely family by choice develops a deep, intimate bond.
With the iconic steppes of Mongolia as the background, the film will delve deep into the country’s rich culture, social issues, and the youths’ gains and painful losses. As Martina evaluates her successes and failures, the film will not only explore the question of how to support neglected, underprivileged and underrepresented children, but also when and how to act as a human and global citizen.
One doesn’t have to travel far to find teens like Baakaa, and Nasaa and Vanni. This film allows the young powerful voices, which are generally ignored, to be heard and to inspire us to overcome boundaries, personal as well as cultural ones and to broaden our definition of community and family within the global world we are living in.
The Roar of a Lion Club, a personal documentary, is told mostly chronologically, to cover an eight-year period of this coming of age story, employing a three-act structure, using primarily verité scenes.
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[text] => While the media focuses on police brutality and prison abolition, we don’t hear about the seven million people that are arrested and held in jail each year. THE DEAD ZONE is a groundbreaking feature documentary that exposes this unknown pipeline to prison, the pretrial detention system, humanizing a raging national debate about crime, public safety and freedom.
Duane Lake spent six years in jail before he was acquitted, but by then, he had already lost his house, his family, his livelihood. Two years after release, he is still rebuilding while using his story to help “tear the system down.” Like Duane, public defender Chris Routh spent a year in jail, which motivated him to become a lawyer. As he fiercely defends his clients, Chris fundraises to recruit new lawyers in Jackson, Mississippi, where the state doesn’t pay for public defense. On the other side of the courtroom, District Attorney Steve Mulroy is implementing a series of reforms in Memphis, TN, a city at the top of the nation’s worst crime list, while the nation’s eyes are on him as he prosecutes the police for the murder of Tyre Nichols. In Houston, Judge Genesis Draper fights a massive misinformation campaign against bail reform’s link to rising crimes while also working to reduce the city’s overcrowded jail, where 25 people died in 2022 alone.
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Every day, half a million forgotten Americans languish in THE DEAD ZONE, the limbo between arrest and conviction. Innocent people die in jail and can be held for years because of the profit motivated pretrial detention system. But four extraordinary people are trying to offer a blueprint for change.
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[text] => Manish grew up in the crowded chaos of Mumbai, known in India as the city of dreams. He is athletic, handsome, a dutiful son, and he fantasizes about living the life of a military or Bollywood action hero. He has no desire to go to the business school that his overworked father has saved for day and night. Manish astounds audiences as a self-taught break-dancer, but a passion is born when he discovers classical ballet at an inner-city dance school. He comes under the tutelage of Yehuda, an aging ballet master who recently arrived in Mumbai. He devotes himself to an art form that is virtually unknown in India and struggles to prove to his family that he can beat the odds and make it as a world-class professional dancer.
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When a hip-hop dancer accidentally walks into a ballet class in Mumbai, his world opens up and a passion is born. The tough ballet master recognizes his talent and dares him to fulfill his dreams of dancing professionally - giving him the courage to defy family, culture and poverty.
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The archival based film is crafted through rich materials from Marcia’s professional and personal archives. These include never-been-seen-before interviews, home videos, photographs, Marcia’s performances as a stand-up comedian and singer, complemented by contemporary interviews.
Born in Brooklyn in 1940, Marcia grew up in a Jewish immigrant household with no family wealth or status. Feeling like an outsider from an early age, she found solace in art. BGMT traces her defiant ascent into the male-dominated artworld, which she irrevocably changed by creating the New Museum.
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[text] => The vivid and deeply personal stories at the heart of "Unlocked" have not been heard before. Because of the power and diversity of these stories, we believe Unlocked has the authenticity and breadth of vision to inspire the deep shift in values and attitudes needed to realize a healthcare system rooted in principles of recovery.
Accounts are shared from very different perspectives. Former patients, people of lived experience, peers, family members, direct care staff, clinicians, administrators, inmates, law enforcement, and corrections personnel share markedly different realities. Seen together, these varied points of view provide an overview that supports better understanding and open dialogue. Even the most painful stories offer hope.
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[text] => FIRE TENDER tells the story of Yurok tribal members returning to traditional fire ways. Margo Robbins is a grandmother, cultural educator, healer, and Indigenous fire practitioner who is fighting for the Yurok Tribe’s return of fire sovereignty—the right to utilize fire for tribal land stewardship outlawed by settlers. Margo works to overturn one hundred years of environmentally devastating anti-fire policies that have put Yurok lands at risk and prevented access to the natural resources needed for clean water, foodstuff, and materials needed for traditional lifeways.
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Fire Tender
Yurok Tribal Members return fire to the land toward cultural and ecological healing.
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[text] => Homecoming, a character-driven documentary shot in verité style tells the intergenerational story of two women, Johnny Frisbie and Amelia Borofsky, as they cross the Pacific to return to their remote childhood home of Pukapuka. The film follows their riveting return to this spiritual, animistic atoll. Homecoming takes 86 year-old Johnny and 40 year-old Amelia not only on a physical voyage across the Pacific, but also on a spiritual journey to find what is most true in their lives in the land itself and the Pacific ocean that unites them. In Pukapuka, the film shows them walking barefoot on the sunken reef, trolling for diminishing tuna, sinking their feet in the taro patches, and reconciling time with memories. Located in the Cook Islands, Pukapuka follows a Polynesian way of life lost to other Pacific islands. Pukapukans here have survived with nature for centuries despite the threat of sea level rising. The community has little contact with outsiders or tourists. Homecoming tells the viewer to a unique place where time is circular. The past and present collide. Dreamtime and reality intersect. The quest of each character – to reconcile different worlds and cross spiritual dimensions – binds them together, and provides the dramatic arc of the film. Interwoven in visual metaphor the film follows Johnny and Amelia’s journey over three acts – the film opens with both women already landed on their magical childhood atoll, both in their element tracing the past. The beginning of Homecoming dives into the personal journeys of
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[text] => Arrested at 16 for robbery and sentenced to life without parole, Terrence Graham fought his way to the Supreme Court and won a chance at freedom. In a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled in Graham v. Florida that children convicted of crimes other than murder could not be sentenced to life without the chance of parole. The decision changed sentencing of young people across the country and Terrence himself was re-sentenced: he wouldn’t die in prison. But even as thousands of people were released off his case, Terrence remained locked up for 20 years. It wasn’t until February 15, 2024, that Terrence Graham walked out of the Duval County Jail at 37 years old.
THE PRISON OUTSIDE is an autobiographical film about Terrence’s next chapter. It’s about the freedom he won in Graham v. Florida and the freedom he still does not have.
On strict probation, Terrence has to complete two years of house arrest and GPS monitoring while finding his footing in a world he has never experienced as an adult. Any mistake could send him back to prison.
Success not only requires Terrence to make it through probation—he also has to mature into adulthood, revisiting memories of childhood and incarceration to unlock the freedom he fought so hard to get.
Borrowing extensively from the visual language and storytelling devices of narrative film, THE PRISON OUTSIDE seeks to immerse audiences in the intimate, everyday experiences of what the prison system does to people and families impacted by the carceral state—one in every two families in America. The film puts a magnifying glass up to the little moments of freedom that Terrence and his family experience so we can all savor their joy. And it cuts through those moments with the very real fear and oppression they continue to face while he is on probation. Through Terrence’s story, told in his words, from his perspective, this film makes the case that the chance of freedom should never be taken from a young person, showing how the rules of probation, house arrest, and ankle monitors can create a prison in the free world.
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The Prison Outside
Sentenced to life for crimes committed as a child, Terrence Graham fought his case all the way to the Supreme Court and won, transforming the nation's juvenile justice system. After 21 years, he's finally getting out - but is life outside just another prison?
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