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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The Cow That Sang a Song About The Future
Cecilia and her gender-fluid son Tomás travel to her aging father’s dairy farm after he nearly dies of a heart attack. Back in her childhood home, the past comes to life, and Cecilia must reckon with the pain of her mother’s suicide and the mysterious circumstances surrounding her family’s land.
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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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The Hottest August
A film about climate change, disguised as a portrait of collective anxiety, The Hottest August offers a window into the collective consciousness of the present.
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Dermalian
The Dermalians, an alien culture long after humans, discover the ruins of the New York Public Library, and enamored of human culture, they establish the NYPL as an archaeological site for the study of why humans became extinct.
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MACHTAT
The daily life chronicle of Fatma and her daughters Najeh and Waffeh, wedding musicians in a small town in Tunisia.
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Happy Birthday, Marsha!
Happy Birthday, Marsha! commemorates Black trans activist and performer Marsha "Pay It No Mind" Johnson and her role in instigating the 1969 anti-policing riots at the Stonewall Inn, a watershed event for the gay liberation movement.
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Most Dangerous Women
A century of women’s activism and leadership towards peace and equality in the United States and across the globe encourages both contemplation and action, at a time many among us search for personal purpose and new ways of being.
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BEBA
Part documentary, part memoir, BEBA is an ode to the complex experience of a first generation Afro-Latina artist, on the backdrop of New York City during a time of racial and political unrest.
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This is Brighton
THIS IS BRIGHTON is a coming of age story through the lens of an Olympic hopeful. Two-time World Champion and back-to-back X-Games Gold Medal skateboarder, BRIGHTON ZEUNER explores her personal identity while grappling with teenage turmoil as she fights to stay on top of her sport.
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Haenyeo · Ama: Korean & Japanese Sea Women
The documentary explores the ancestral tradition of free diving sea women who make their living by harvesting the ocean floor. It captures this unique, semi-matriarchal society and its fast disappearing practices, using poetic visual cinematography to chart the women’s personal stories, collective shamanistic rituals, and songs of the sea.
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Milisuthando
‘Milisuthando’ is a coming-of-age personal essay film on love and what it means to be human in the context of race, explored through the memories of Milisuthando – who grew up during apartheid but didn’t know it was happening until it was over.
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Reproductive Choices: Revisiting La Operacion
A documentary challenging the long-held belief that the U.S. government forced Puerto Rican women to be sterilized; the truth is more complex and examining the evidence from the women themselves casts a whole new light on this story.
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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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Shudderbugs
Upon return to her childhood home after her mother’s sudden death, a woman’s grief spirals down a rabbit hole of suspicions and misconceptions, ultimately leading her to an unexpected awakening.
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As I Want
An auteur-driven, documentation-of-self, the film depicts an Arab woman’s personal process of self-emancipation in a revolutionary struggle against the odds.
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Hard Hatted Woman
In an industry that is over 97% male-dominated, women in blue-collar construction trades are confronting gender stereotypes entrenched not only among carpenters and crane operators but also in our culture at large. Theirs is a fight to reshape the labor movement and overcome the most enduring economic barriers for women.
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Salt Sisters
Caught in the midst of a struggling coastal economy impacted by global warming, female lobsterman, Colleen Francke attempts to get ahead of the inevitable changes to her industry and return to a dream she thought she lost during years of alcohol abuse - building the largest seaweed farm in Maine.
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