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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Haunted by the recovery of a collection of unopened childhood letters addressed to her mother Hazel in Montreal, Staceyann begins an investigation into the past of a woman whose absence has shaped her poetry, politics, and her relationship with her own daughter, Zuri. Every path she takes uncovers shocking revelations about Hazel’s past, sends Staceyann deeper into a web of dismay around her mother’s choice to leave her behind in Jamaica.
While processing what she’s learned about her mother, Staceyann tries to balance the pain she still carries as Hazel’s wounded child and the joy she has for being Zuri’s mother. Excerpts from the mother-daughter duo’s popular web series punctuate intimate vérité snapshots of Staceyann’s unconventional approach to motherhood. The turmoil of Staceyann's life without a mother contrasts with the joy she takes in being a mom.
As the pieces of Hazel’s story come together and fall apart, Staceyann boards a plane to Germany. With Zuri always by her side, the pair travels to Hazel’s nursing home in Cologne, where three generations converge for the first time in nearly a decade. The final vignette speaks poignantly to the complexities of motherhood - Staceyann flanked by the daughter she’s still learning to mother and the mother she’s perhaps still learning to forgive.
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A Mother Apart (formerly MITM)
A Mother Apart (formerly MITM) is part mother-daughter buddy film, part investigative saga that follows Brooklyn's most outspoken poet-activist Staceyann Chin, as she navigates being a mom while discovering the truth about her own mother who abandoned her as an infant.
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[title] => As Prescribed
[text] => Xanax, Klonopin, Valium, Ativan, Restoril. All belong to a class of drugs known as benzodiazepines (benzos). Entertainment media portray them as innocuous medications that relax nerves and take the edge off. And news media talk about them in terms of addiction and as an adjunct to the opioid crisis. As Prescribed tells a more accurate story — one about an unrecognized epidemic that has more in common with traumatic brain injury and severe autoimmune disease than with lifestyle management or drug addiction.
Though living in different parts of the country, “benzo warriors” Geraldine, Matt, Amy, and Leigh are joined in a battle to expose the benzodiazepine scourge. All are victims of prescribed-drug injury and are part of a grassroots army that helps other victims and strives to prevent harm to a new generation. Following these heroic subjects, As Prescribed tells the under-the-radar story of benzodiazepines, tracking their catastrophic impact on human health worldwide, offering a moving narrative and a timely argument for change.
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[title] => Untitled Women and Mushrooms Film
[text] => THE QUEENDOM (WT) is a study of entanglements: between women and mushrooms, mycelia and forests, humans and non-humans, and generational knowledge and modern science.
Eliseete and Julieta are young, scientifically-trained indigenous women in the forests of Oaxaca and Mexico State. They face discrimination, poverty, deforestation, climate change, and violent territorial conflicts, but they envision a different future.
THE QUEENDOM (WT) introduces Eliseete and Julieta in their daily lives and traces their connections to mushrooms and the obstacles they face as indigenous scientists. As they work on their parallel projects, the women come together to share knowledge and explore visions of how fungi can reshape the future. These imagined possibilities are brought to life by sci-fi inspired sequences. Interwoven throughout the film are intimate moments with the Mycelium that expand our perception of the natural world and allow us to connect with the inconspicuous beings that we share the planet with.
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[text] => Apple pie, homecoming games and golden leaves. Autumn evokes an American identity that is rooted in wholesomeness, celebration, and change. In 2024, as summer days wane, the presidential election looms. Scrolling social media or watching the news, there is a palpable sense that we are an angry, divided nation. A filmmaker sets off on a cross country trip to discover what unites us.
On the road we’re dropped into the sights and sounds of everyday Americans’ lives: a cranberry harvest in Massachusetts, visiting a cranberry harvest in Massachusetts, a Thanksgiving reenactment in Virginia, a welder’s garage in Arkansas, a second line in New Orleans, a barbershop in Phoenix where driverless cars navigate the city, and more.
The film explores our nation at a pivotal moment when people are struggling to understand the complex global forces shaping their realities, and in the midst of fear and uncertainty, still finding joy in their communities.
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American Fall
A road trip through the U.S. in the fall of 2024 to discover what unites us.
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[text] => John Pilger was a journalistic legend. One of the world’s most celebrated foreign correspondents, he made over 60 films, wrote eight best-selling books and thousands of newspaper articles. Over five decades, he broke an endless stream of high-profile stories; from Pol Pot's Cambodia to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, to many, he was an iconic hero. However, to his critics, in government and the press, he was nothing more than a left-wing agitator and distorter of the truth. This feature documentary will tell the definitive and remarkable story of this journalistic icon. Not simply a tribute to a glittering career, but a headlong dive into the controversies and battles that defined him.
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Tell Me No Lies: The Real John Pilger
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[title] => LEE: We Are Our Times
[text] => 1970s NYC was a city in crisis. From the ashes of its lawless streets sprang an art movement that would resonate around the world. ‘Graffiti’ covered the subway trains, instigated by teenagers, who felt they had no voice. They were hunted and criminalized. Yet buoyed by their impact on the city, they pushed forward with their urgent messages.
Lee Quiñones, grew up on the Lower East Side. From a very young age, he knew he was an artist. He overcame challenging circumstances as the city’s neglect brought drugs, AIDS, and devastating loss to his Puerto Rican neighborhood.
Starting at age 13, Lee stole into the tunnels and painted trains. He was on the MTA’s most wanted list by age 16. Millions of people witnessed his cars. Lee understood his power to reach an audience and felt his paintings were a gift of New York City. Lee, always the activist philosopher, painted his city bright, bold, and full of ideas and imagination. By 1981, Lee was celebrated in museums and European galleries, becoming one of the most acclaimed NYC street artists, a pioneer in the genesis of hip-hop culture.
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[text] => As Palestinian filmmaker Hala Gabriel grew up in America to refugee parents, trying to assimilate into American society, the questions about her birthplace as well as that of her parents became more persistent. The result of those questions is a thirteen-year journey of documentation and discovery, that led to the production of One Night in Tantura, named after her family’s village in Palestine.
Hala’s family and former neighbours from Tantura paint a picture of a beautiful village with good relations with their Jewish neighbours which nonetheless was attacked. She confronts the commanders of the Israeli force that occupied Tantura and who candidly admit to killing over seventy people before expelling everyone else. She hears painful stories about massacres, mass graves, and internment camps where her father (aged fifteen at the time) and others found themselves for months at the start of a journey of being stateless which has transcended multiple generations to this day.
The Israeli narrative for the establishment of the state conveniently neglects to mention the Palestinian people, to the extent of saying Palestine was a land without people for a people without a land. Through the story told by survivors of one coastal village, this film dispels that narrative.
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[title] => The Rabbis' Intifada
[text] => American filmmaker Heather Tenzer embarks on a journey to find out why a group of devout New York and Jerusalem rabbis are engaged in an intifada (Arabic for ‘uprising’) against Israel and in support of Palestinians.
Founded 80 years ago in Jerusalem, Neturei Karta is the only religious Jewish group publicly speaking out in support of Palestinian rights. As a result of their activism, they’re regularly beaten on the streets.
This feature-length documentary, equal parts memoir, investigative, and historical, combines narration, home movies, interviews, and archival films to tell the story of Tenzer’s journey into Neturei Karta’s community.
Tenzer first encounters Neturei Karta when she is a teen marching in New York’s Israel Parade. “Free Palestine!” they chant. “Just ignore them!” the rabbi of her school urges. For many years, she does.
Tenzer reunites with Neturei Karta years later in Jerusalem. What’s motivating these socially conservative Yiddish-speaking religious men to protest Israel’s bombing of Gaza?” she wonders. Intrigued, she attempts to unravel the mystery of their activism, where it comes from – a story she never learned in religious school.
She follows four activists inside their Jerusalem and New York communities and on their travels to Gaza. Through the lens of their diverse, intergenerational voices, the rabbis share compelling stories, offering a nuanced narrative about their unique history.
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Why is a group of Orthodox rabbis supporting Palestinians and calling for Israel's dismantlement? An American Jewish woman struggles to unravel the mystery of their activism.
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[text] => Devi Khadka is leading a quiet resistance. As she travels around Nepal, listening to stories of wartime rape survivors, and creating a unified voice for justice, she knows that she’s poking a hornet’s nest. Nepal’s leaders want to bury the shameful truth of wartime rape. As the only public face of survivors, Devi has decided that she can no longer stay silent. But her hip-hop-loving teenage daughter just wants her to be a mum.
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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.
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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.
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[text] => Gabriela's mother and grandparents left their home violently and suddenly during the Chilean dictatorship. Her grandfather was against the regime, and he was imprisoned and tortured several times. If they didn't flee, it would cost him his life.
Gabriela was raised in Spain, and grew up listening to her mother’s stories about Valparaíso: a port city, where she had a magical childhood. Then, darker stories originated: the dead thrown into the ocean, the forced disappeared and the survivors of the tyranny - like her grandfather. Gabriela always believed that the night the military raided their house to take her grandfather, they also took something inexplicable from her mother.
Following the traces of an inherited trauma, Gabriela travels back to Chile and reopens the doors of a house that remained silent for five decades. While many layers of wallpaper are removed, Gabriela tries to recover the memories of her aging grandparents that had returned years ago.
Gabriela is a witness to large social protests in the country. The brutal repression awakens the traumas of her grandfather, who ends up hospitalized. In turn, his absence awakens his wife's traumas. Gabriela begins to understand her place in this country, in this family history, and why it all still hurts so much.
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Gabriela's family escaped the Chilean dictatorship when her grandfather's life was in serious danger. 50 years later, Gabriela, who has inherited the trauma despite her being raised in Spain, returns to reopen the doors of the home they left behind.
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[text] => Filmed over two years across the UK, Europe and the US, this documentary follows 76 year-old retired builder, John Shipton’s tireless campaign to save his son, Julian Assange.
The world’s most famous political prisoner, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has become an emblem of an international arm wrestle over freedom of journalism, government corruption and unpunished war crimes.
Now with Julian facing a 175 year sentence if extradited to the US, his family members are confronting the prospect of losing Julian forever to the abyss of the US justice system.
This David-and-Goliath struggle is personal – and, with Julian’s health declining in a British maximum-security prison and American government prosecutors attempting to extradite him to face trial in the US , the clock is ticking.
Weaving historic archive and intimate behind-the-scenes footage, this story tracks John’s journey alongside Julian’s fiancee, Stella Moris as they join forces to advocate for Julian. We witness John embark on a European odyssey to rally a global network of supporters, advocate to politicians and cautiously step into the media’s glare - where he is forced to confront events that made Julian a global flashpoint.
Ithaka provides a timely reminder of the global issues at stake in this case, as well as an insight into the personal toll inflicted by the arduous, often lonely task of fighting for a cause bigger than oneself.
[logline] => This film is a project of Documentary Australia and is sponsored by Women Make Movies as part of our ongoing partnership in support of independent filmmakers.
The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an father's fight to save his son.
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This film is a project of Documentary Australia and is sponsored by Women Make Movies as part of our ongoing partnership in support of independent filmmakers.
The campaign to free Julian Assange takes on intimate dimensions in this documentary portrait of an father's fight to save his son.
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[text] => #WhileBlack follows citizen journalists like Diamond Reynolds and Darnella Frazier who shared horrifying police brutality videos via social media. Millions have seen their videos, but few realize how sharing them came at a great cost. Diamond, Darnella and others went into hiding to escape online trolls, invasive media and police surveillance. This film reveals how Big Tech exposes racism, but also exploited both the witnesses behind the camera and millions of online viewers. This film asks us to examine how we as a nation view Black death. We think of it as productive. It produces hashtags that people follow, like #DrivingWhileBlack or #SwimmingWhileBlack; it produces a viewership. #WHILEBLACK follows witnesses and their families as they fight against the system turning their pain into profit.
[logline] => Witnesses who filmed the deaths of George Floyd, Philando Castile, and others, step forward in this ground-breaking documentary about the police brutality videos igniting global movements. Few realize how witnesses must battle online trolls, surveillance firms, and exploitative social media platforms turning their pain into profit.
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Learn more