WMM | FOR FILMMAKERS | SPONSORED PROJECTS

Now you can learn more about – and contribute to – select film projects that are currently fiscally sponsored through our Production Assistance Program. The Program has assisted in the completion of hundreds of projects, including Academy Award nomintated films WHICH WAY HOME by Rebecca Camissa (Best Documentary ’09) and NERAKOON by Ellen Kuras, (Best Documentary ’08; Sundance Award winning films like THE OATH by Laura Poitras and EL GENERAL by Natalia Alamada as well as fiction features like BOYS DON’T CRY and DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST. . Over the last 5 years WMM has helped more than 100 films reach completion and channeled more than $10,000,000 to filmmakers.

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		NEW BURLESQUE A film by Beth B. It’s satire, it’s parody, it’s a populist blend of performance art and entertainment that combines striptease, comedy, cutting-edge satire, pageantry and music into a truly shocking and scintillating stage show. The subculture of contemporary, groundbreaking burlesque performers in NYC today challenges traditional notions of gender, politics and sexuality. The performers range from professional actors to librarians and fashion buyers; their body types from statuesque to transgender. Many of the performers promote new visions of their transgressive attitudes toward identity and gender. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		NO JOB FOR A WOMAN: THE WOMEN WHO FOUGHT TO REPORT WORLD WAR II A film by Michele Midori Fillion and Jeanne Houck Dickey Chapelle wanted to be so close to the action she would fell bullets whizzing by her head. Ruth Cowan wanted to be in a war zone to write the first draft of history. Martha Gellhorn wanted to change the course of history. But the WWII military and journalism establishment wanted the story of the "woman's angle" -- a story about women's war work by women reporters for American women. "No Job For a Woman", a one-hour television documentary, will tell the story of these women's struggle to do their job against the constraints imposed on them, and how this lead them to find a new way to tell Americans about war. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		ONCE A MERMAID (FORMERLY ONCE A MERMAID… TAILS OF WEEKI WACHEE) A film by Sara Dionne and Frederick Olsen The World’s only underwater theater submerged in a natural spring setting, filled with live mermaids somersaulting and back flipping in sequined tail fins, is the immediate focus of “Once a Mermaid…Tails of Weeki Wachee.” The story is a Florida – based, feature-length documentary. Through the enchanting surrealism of its subject, mixed with females athleticism, the project highlights a unique theme park, still operating and whose name in the Seminole Indian language means “Winding River.” Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		ONE FAMILY UNDER GOD A film by Anne Barliant One Family Under God tells the story of an American family on the home front of the culture wars. Eight brothers and sisters, united by love and the memories of their childhoods, divided by divergent values, religions, and politics, struggle to maintain their family ties in the 21st century. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		OSCAR'S COMEBACK: FESTIVAL OF THE UNCONQUERED A film by Lisa Collins and Mark Schwartzburt The small, 99% white, rural town of Gregory, South Dakota recognizes its most famous citizen--a black man from the early 1900s--through the annual Oscar Micheaux Book & Film Festival. It celebrates the works of Micheaux: homesteader-turned-novelist-turned-filmmaker. Although far from a household name, he is arguably ‘the most prolific indie filmmaker to date’. Micheaux’ visionary idealism, race conscious-raising agenda and his endless struggle to leave his mark are all paralleled by this eclectic, ambitious, fledgling festival on the prairie. A candid, edgy and humorous look at the current state of race and “achieving the American Dream” is told through the eyes, minds and hearts of the Festival scholars, attendees and the very colorful locals of Gregory. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		OUTSIDE THE GIARDINI A film by Alysa Nahmias Outside the Giardini examines the future of architecture through interviews with its foremost practitioners, theorists and thinkers. Understanding the current global financial crisis as an opportunity to re-position the future of architecture, this film asks leading architects from around the world the question: “What are architects good for?” Against the backdrop of the 2010 Venice Biennale, the architects walk around Venice as they articulate diverse and visionary ideas about shaping the physical and social structures of our future. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		PARIAH A film by Dee Rees Afraid of losing her best friend and destroying her family, a Bronx teenager juggles conflicting identities in a desperate search for sexual expression. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		A PERSISTENT DESIRE A film by Lenn Keller A Persistent Desire is a 90 minute documentary film celebrating and affirming butch and femme identities and dynamics from a feminist perspective. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		PHILIP PEARLSTIEN: NAKED VISION (FORMERLY NOT MADE IN HEAVEN) A film by Sarah Bauer and Jen Dietrich Ironic, imperturbable, mischievous and fascinating, Philip Pearlstein's controversial creative vision continues to drive him forward, upstream against time and art history. In depth interviews with famous art world figures, Chuck Close, Richard Armstrong, Robert Storr, Pearlstein and others, help to reveal what is behind the man and his paintings. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		PROMISED LAND A film by Yoruba Richen Promised Land takes viewers inside the critical issue of race and land in South Africa. It follows the story of a black community removed from their land during apartheid and now trying to get it back from the current white owners. It also follows the first white farm expropriation in the country. Through these stories, viewers will see why the land issue is a ticking time bomb that could destroy the fragile racial compact post-apartheid South Africa was built upon. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		RESILIENCE A film by Tammy Chu Tolle A one-hour documentary film critically examines the issue of South Korea's international adoption system through the perspective of birth mothers. Lack of social welfare, women's rights and exploitation by adoption agencies have forced these women to give up their children, as well as the thousands of other children relinquished for adoption every year. For the first time, despite strong discrimination from their own society, birth mothers bravely come forward to tell their stories of loss, struggle, and ultimately, of courage and strength. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		SARAH JOSEPHA HALE AND THE GODEY GIRLS A film by Dr. MJ Lewis The documentary features Sarah Josepha Hale as editor of America's most popular 19th-century magazine for women, Godey's Lady's Book, known as the "Victorian Bible of the Parlor," and famous for its colorful hand-painted fashion plates. Hale's fifty-year editorial campaign for women's improvement promoted higher education, professionalism and social reform. The film will feature landmarks significant to Hale, listed in the United States Department of the Interior, National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		THE SARI SOLDIERS A film by Julie Bridgham "The Sari Soldiers" is a feature-length documentary that follows six Nepalese women on the forefront of the civil war in Nepal and the escalating instability and violence that is engulfing the country. Over the course of a year, we follow these women on the different sides of the conflict and witness the challenges they face as women taking such a strong role in a male dominated society, and why they are willing to risk their lives to make a difference in Nepal. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		A SILENT STORY: AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN BATTLE THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC A film by Richelle F. Rogers "A Silent Story" is a comprehensive look at the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African-American women -- an already disenfranchised segment of the U.S. population. The disease is the No. 1 killer of African-American women between the ages of 25-34, and many of these women are mothers. We talk about the HIV/AIDS numbers in Africa and China, but we have a silent epidemic in our own backyard -- especially in Washington, D.C., and the Deep South where one AIDS expert says the numbers "rival areas of Africa." And yet, no one is talking about it. "A Silent Story" finally gives these women a voice. The film examines the issue with an in-depth look into the lives of women who are carrying this burden in a society where the disease is still highly stigmatized and explores the socio-economic, medical and inter-personal implications associated with the disease. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		SPERM DONOR X A film by Deirdre Fishel SPERM DONOR X looks at the very personal stories of four diverse women, including the film's director, who are making the decision to parent solo using donor sperm. The truth is that right now in this country, only 6% of children will spend their childhood in a "traditional family," meaning two straight people who marry first, have children and don't separate. SPERM DONOR X takes the viewer on a deeply moving trip from the strange, humor of picking the genetic material of one's child over the internet to the creation of joyous alternatives families (of both biological and adopted children). On the way it looks at changing paradigms of why women are getting married, challenging nostalgic images of what makes a family. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		STAGESTRUCK: CONFESSIONS OF A THEATER FAMILY A film by Liz Argo Ever wonder what it would be like to live with 30 temperamental young actors and actresses with only 2 bathrooms? Add to that the daunting task of raising three children while going through a grueling divorce onstage and offstage. Now add the glamorous grind of creating and delivering a different professional theatrical production every week and you’ve got “Stagestruck: Confessions of a Theater Family”. Liz Argo recreates the world she grew up in as the oldest child of a dramatically determined entrepreneurial mother. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		STRIKE DICE! BETTING ON MY FATHER (AKA POKER DADDY) A film by Natalie Picoe Strike Dice! Betting on my Father is the moving story of a daughter’s search to find her father -- an addicted gambler -- when he is reported missing in Las Vegas. With little information to go on, she eventually finds him, but he bears little resemblance to the father she once knew. Homeless, gaunt, and unwashed, he lives day-to-day on the streets of Las Vegas, and despite her best efforts, he is unwilling to acknowledge his addiction and accept the help he needs. Strike Dice!... chronicles director Natalie Picoe’s struggle to get her father off the streets and back into society, and to find acceptance with a less than perfect father, who still, nonetheless, is her one and only Dad. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		STRONG! A film by Julie Wyman "Strong!" follows super-heavyweight Cheryl Haworth, Americas top-ranked weightlifter, in her quest to become the strongest woman in the world, beginning at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and ending at Beijing-2008. Tracking the triumphs, injuries, and new sense of identity that emerge as Haworth faces the end of her athletic career, Strong! challenges our notions of power, strength, beauty, and health, portraying the paradoxical experience of a body which is both celebrated within the sport and shunned by mainstream culture. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		SUN COME UP A film by Jennifer Redfearn Sun Come Up is a lyrical documentary that follows the relocation of the first indigenous culture to lose their ancestral land to climate change – the Carteret Islanders, a community of 3,000 people living on a chain of low-lying islands in the South Pacific Ocean. For centuries, the islanders have lived simply by the sea without roads, electricity or running water. Now, however, a modern crisis has intruded upon them, and their idyllic community is faced with extinction. Climate change is destroying this far-flung island chain, and the islanders face three urgent problems: the islands are shrinking, the population is increasing, and access to food and water is decreasing. This is a story about the human face of climate change and a people faced with the loss of a land in which their identity rests. It’s a portrait of a community and a critical moment in history. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		SUPPLY AND DEMAND: UNCOVERING BREASTFEEDING IN AMERICA A film by Beth Poague SUPPLY AND DEMAND: UNCOVERING BREASTFEEDING IN AMERICA is a feature length documentary film that explores the medical, political, economic and cultural issues of breastfeeding in society today. Interwoven throughout the film, we will reveal the intimate stories of breastfeeding women and the people who support them Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		SWEATSHOP CINDERELLA A film by Suzanne Wasserman Sweatshop Cinderella is a short documentary about an extraordinary woman, born at the end of the 19th century, who led an extraordinary life. Using archival stills, footage from the 1922 silent film Hungry Hearts, letters, newspaper clippings and a tape-recorded interview, this film will tell the story of the award-winning Jewish immigrant writer, Anzia Yezierska. Yezierska’s work brought to life the experience of growing up on the Lower East Side from her unique perspective as an independent young woman. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		SWEET FEET A film by Jackie Pare Make way, hip-hop. America’s hottest new cultural export is tap dance. With this new generation of artists, tap has tossed aside the top hat and tails and taken a gritty and glorious turn. Its appeal transcends dance: tap is music and math and history. Witness the innermost rhythms and struggles - and the electrifying performances - of three of the world’s most gifted hoofers on a mission to restore tap to the limelight. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		TALES OF THE WARIA A film by Kathy Huang In the largest Muslim country in the world, Indonesia, lives a transgender population known as the waria. These biological men live openly as women, date “straight” men, and are a surprisingly visible presence in a culture normally associated with strict gender divides. TALES OF THE WARIA follows three waria over the course of a year as they reconcile issues of love, family, and faith. The final result is a moving, unexpected portrait of a community that dares to live differently from the norm, despite what tragic consequences may await them. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		TALLER THAN THE FUTURE INSTEAD/ GROWING UP IN THE TENDER AGE OF PAKISTAN A film by Susan Ricketts TALLER THAN THE FUTURE INSTEAD/ GROWING UP IN THE TENDER AGE OF PAKISTAN is a 90-minute documentary that paints a realistic portrait of Pakistan though the lives of college-aged students from different economic classes and educational institutions in Lahore. as they strive to bring their dreams to adulthood. They struggle mainly with an unchanging culture, steeped in ancient beliefs and traditions. The stories of the individual students reveal the human struggle of a country at a dangerous crossroad. Will our students’ hopes and dreams for themselves, and for Pakistan, survive? Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		TAPESTRY…TRANSJOURNEYS A film by A film by Cindi Creager and Ranie Cole A 90 minute documentary about people who are breaking gender norms. The film exposes the deep-rooted bias against the transgender community and attempts to dispel the most common misconceptions about gender variant people. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		TESTING HOPE: GRADE 12 IN THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA A film by Molly Blank "Testing Hope" tells the story of students in Nyanga township, who started school the year that Mandela was elected president, as they prepare for their crucial Matric exams which one student calls, "the decider." The film considers what's at stake if students pass or fail and how they envision their future in this evolving democracy. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		THREE WOMEN A film by Lisa F. Jackson "Three Women: The Hidden Face of Colombia’s War" follows for almost 3 years the intertwined lives of Rosa, Sandra and Marcela, three unforgettable women living through one of this century’s most forgotten conflicts. They are all survivors of this war, displaced and starting over in a new city, helping each other fight for dignity and empowerment in the face of violence and fear and testing the limits of a system that holds out the promise of justice. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		THROUGH THE EYES OF A MOTHER A film by Alexa Oona Schulz Character-driven documentary that centers on two Los Angeles Latina mother’s intimate journey to overcome overpowering feelings of guilt and shame after learning that their teenage sons are murderers incarcerated for life. On a second level the film investigates how the once innocent and sweet kids could transform into gang-banging criminals. The story explores the hidden face of incarceration, and presents an unprecedented maternal perspective on the world of gang violence. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		THE TIGER NEXT DOOR A film by Camilla Calamandrei, Edited by Bernadine Colish Experts estimate that there are currently 7,000-10,000 domestically bred tigers being kept by private individuals in the United States. This means that there are more tigers eating frozen turkey, and living in road-side zoos, in this country than there are roaming the wilds of Asia and India combined. Twenty-four of them live in Dennis H's backyard in Flat Rock, Indiana. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		THE TOUCH (AKA FLEETING) A film by Jane Clark "Fleeting" is based on a 1906 romance between Renee Vivien, a lesbian poet and Kerime, a married Muslim woman. In her study, Renee struggles to write about the last time they were together. Outside, the sun dapples the garden, bringing her back to that day in the park. Her poem, “The Touch” accompanies their moment of intimacy on screen. Before their kiss, Kerime’s husband calls. She flees. Back in Renee’s study, a tear drops, the poem finished, the memory preserved. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		TRANSFEMINISM A film by Sam Feder, Jules Rosskam, Taylor Casey Transfeminism follows the activism of four transgender women working for progressive change. Radical, fierce, and in command of their own lives, the subjects of this documentary are not the usual “victims” of stigma and exclusion. They work tirelessly and are succeeding in improving the lives of trans and gender variant people across the country. Transwomen have invaluable insights contributing to the continuation and growth of feminism and social and economic justice Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		THE TRANSHUMANIST PROJECT A film by Dina Guttmann and Toby Shimin Our most universal fears are losing loved ones, aging badly, and dying painfully. The Transhumanist Project is a 90-minute documentary about the ability to accelerate human evolution through technology. The film focuses on The Transhumanists, a group of people who believe that current and future technologies should be used to augment the existing human condition and push humans into their next phase of evolution: greater mental ability, greater physical ability, and longer, perhaps eternal life-spans. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		TRUST WOMEN: THE STORY OF TWO AMERICAN ABORTION DOCTORS A film by Martha Shane and Lana Wilson After the murder of Dr. George Tiller last June, there are only a few American doctors left who provide late abortions for women who need them. TRUST WOMEN will paint a vivid portrait of the lives of two of these physicians—Dr. LeRoy Carhart and Dr. Warren Hern—who have become the new number-one targets of the “pro-life” movement, yet continue to risk their lives every day to protect a woman’s right to choose. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		TULSI, QUEEN OF HERBS (FORMERLY DHANWANTRI AND EARTH DEMOCRACY) A film by Tish Streeten 'Dhanwantri' is a one hour documentary portrait of three women healers in India who are struggling against pharmaceutical companies and industrial development to regain control over their herbal medicines and the lands in which they grow. Almost every one of India's 7,000 species of medicinal plants is now either endangered, contaminated or has been patented. Without rights to their natural resources, traditional healers can not fulfill their obligations to their communities or to the spirit and natural worlds. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:
		TWIGA STARS: TANZANIA'S SOCCER SISTERS (FORMERLY MPIRA) A film by Nisha Ligon TWIGA STARS: Tanzania's Soccer Sisters follows the Twiga Stars, Tanzania’s national women’s football (i.e. soccer) team as they go through team selections and intensive training camps, and finally travel across the continent to Nigeria to meet the toughest competition they’ve ever faced. An energetic and intimate portrait of talented young women trying to make it as footballers in one of the world’s poorest countries. Visit the filmmaker's website. Click to add to Favorites (bookmark this title) Donation Amount:

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