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.
FIND PROJECTS AND FILMMAKERS TO SUPPORT
Extreme Animal Transport
What does it take to move wild animals across international borders? Every move has a story. We follow the journey to a new life.
Learn more
Cancer: A Love Story (Working Title)
Cancer: A Love Story is an autobiographical documentary about my battle with cancer, confronting sexual assault, and the crazy things I did to heal myself. It’s a survival story, but also a story of mothers and daughters, and the intimacies of women’s bodies.
Learn more
THE SUM OF OUR PARTS
While supporting her partner Kelly in his gender confirmation surgery, Roseanne is triggered by her sexual trauma and faced with an unexpected opportunity to pursue legal action against her abuser. THE SUM OF OUR PARTS follows the couple on a quest to reclaim their identities and help each other heal.
Learn more
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.
Learn more
Broken Harmony
Hua Ze, a Chinese activist, was abducted and illegally jailed in China for her human rights activities. She now lives in exile in the U.S. Despite the odds, she remains resolute in her efforts to work towards a democratized China where human rights abuses no longer exist.
Learn more
Homecoming
Homecoming follows two women Johnny Frisbie and Amelia Borofsky who, after decades away, return to their beloved childhood atoll of Pukapuka in the South Pacific. The film reveals a unique story of love, survival and indigenous resiliency in the midst of rising tides and migration.
Learn more
Pat Steir: Artist
Pat Steir: Artist is an intimate, poetic film about a truly groundbreaking woman artist. In an emotionally moving personal recounting, the documentary offers a perceptive and original portrait of the great painter Pat Steir, who candidly shares stories and insights about her life that have never been captured on film.
Learn more
Gowanus Current
GOWANUS CURRENT is a hybrid observational documentary and tone poem chronicling rapid changes to a notoriously polluted neighborhood in Brooklyn. It explores the textures of its transforming landscape and the struggles of its stakeholders, asking what is truly valuable in a community.
Learn more
The Rest I Make Up
Maria Irene Fornes is one of America's greatest playwrights and most influential teachers. When she stops writing due to dementia, a friendship with a young writer reignites her visionary creative spirit, triggering a film collaboration that picks up where the pen left off.
Learn more
EYES TO SEE
Why are there still so few women scientists? ‘The Uprising’ follows three extraordinary scientists-turned-activists who are not only trying to understand what keeps women scientists down, but advocating for a more diverse and inclusive future for all.
Learn more
Break the Game
Alone in her studio apartment, Narcissa Wright sets video game world records and live streams nearly every minute of her life. But when her tightly-controlled digital existence begins to crack, she must stage a dramatic comeback and search for true love.
Learn more
Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
In search of her authentic self, a South Carolinian Geechee girl wakes up in Paris another starving writer living at the Beat Hotel; after a failed marriage and work as a Moon Goddess with Sun Ra Arkestra, her best-selling cookbook changes how the world talks about women, race and food.
Learn more
"ACOSTA DANZA, CUBA!"
"ACOSTA DANZA, Cuba!" is a documentary short profiling 6 dancers from the newly founded, world-renowned classical ballet company, ACOSTA DANZA, founded in 2016 in Havana Cuba, and currently taking the world by storm. Aside from the dancer's storied the themes of access to arts education and race are explored.
Learn more
Decade of Fire
As a kid in the South Bronx in the 1970s, Vivian Vazquez watched her tight-knit community become a burned-out ruin. In DECADE OF FIRE, Vivian returns looking for answers, and uncovers a story of injustice, survival and hope that is vital for communities on the brink today.
Learn more
Picture Character
PICTURE CHARACTER explores the complex, conflict-prone, and often hilarious world of the creators, lovers, and arbiters of emoji, our world’s newest pictorial language.
Learn more
SOORA – Breaking the Silence
Men can abuse, apply force on, humiliate, rule over and speak for women in Iran – legally. Five female activists run a one-year campaign to stop domestic violence against women – the director being one of them. They face resistance from society, religion and state, but believe in one goal: passing a law to make domestic violence a crime.
Learn more
Changing Same: The Untitled Racial Justice Project
Changing Same is an immersive, room-scale virtual reality experience where the participant travels through time and space to witness the connected historical experiences of racial terror in America. It’s a respectful, haunting, story infused with magical realism and afrofuturism about the uninterrupted cycle of white racial oppression throughout history.
Learn more