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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Jacinta
JACINTA (working title) follows a young mother in and out of prison in Maine, while exploring the relationship between trauma and love within a family fractured by a cycle of addiction and incarceration.
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Driving with Selvi
Selvi, a former child bride, escapes her violent marriage and goes on to become South India’s first female taxi driver. This is the ten-year journey of a charming, strong, and courageous young woman who defies patriarchal expectations and creates a new life.
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Radical Landscapes
A deep dive into 1960s-70s Italian art and architecture through a personal journey of a daughter’s love and loss. Director Elettra Fiumi illuminates eternal questions of parental legacy and mysteries while taking us on a wild fun ride that rediscovers ideas about the planet that speak with renewed urgency today.
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Ex Libris, or The Bookplate Project
EX LIBRIS is an animated documentary film tracing the vanished world of the ex libris collection my grandfather Marco Birnholz commissioned, created and lost in Vienna, Austria between the two world wars. EX LIBRIS will explore the intimate, intricate, universe, parallel to his everyday life as a neighborhood pharmacist.
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Recovery City
Recovery City is an intimate, unflinching portrait of four bold women who refuse to let themselves or their community give in to the stigma and despair of addiction.
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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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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.
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PERSIS
PERSIS is a documentary film exploring the legacy of the unheralded model-turned-actor Persis Khambatta.
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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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Queen of Hearts: Audrey Flack
Octogenarian artist Audrey Flack has always been a trailblazer. Now, she returns to her canvas for the first time in decades, revealing her longtime struggles as an artist and mother of two children, one of whom is severely autistic, to find her rightful place in the art world pantheon.
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The Source of Life (Te Puna Ora)
As the climate crisis threatens Tahiti, an alliance of women embarks on a sacred journey to protect their island home.
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The In Between
The in Between is a portrait of a unique community that follows the exceptional but very normal lives of the citizens of the sister cities of Eagle Pass, Texas and Piedras Negras, Coahuila along the U.S. / Mexico border, offering an intimate look into the heart of Mexican-American identity.
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The Living Saint of Thailand
VENERABLE MAE CHEE SANSANEE STHIRASUTA, a former top Thai model, abandons material success, becomes a Buddhist nun and creates an oasis and refuge for women in the middle of bustling Bangkok.
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Own It! Louis Kelso’s Macroeconomic Fix
Does capitalism work better if everyone owns some capital? In this one-hour, for-PBS documentary, we see how lawyer Louis Kelso’s ownership plans, championed by Senator Russell Long, gave the country enough opportunity to find out.
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How To Power A City: Stories from the front lines of the clean energy revolution
Citizens from all walks of life, fed up with government bureaucracies and Intransigent fossil fuel providers, fight to bring clean power to their cities and homes. Who will prevail — those seeking a cleaner future, or those with a death grip on the fossil fuel past?
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Taking Venice: The Rauschenberg Factor
Against a background of danger, challenge and change in America, this is the untold story of the intrigue and events that converted one artist from Cold War pawn into outspoken international champion of free expression and social change.
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Aftermath
AFTERMATH revisits the wrenching, highly-publicized hate crime documented in Emmy-nominated THE BRANDON TEENA STORY, 25 years later. Through the eyes of a community grappling with the impact of Brandon’s life and death, the film explores loss, growth and life for LGBTQ individuals in Heartland America.
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This Body, Too/ Y Este Cuerpo Tambien
Face with the decision to replace my expired breast implants or have them removed, I grapple with the concepts of femininity and gender norms as a Dominican immigrant and an intersex-woman.
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