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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No Human Involved
NO HUMAN INVOLVED: a woman is destroyed by a 27-month prison sentence for prostitution in Arizona, the tenacity of those who fight for justice in her name.
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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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The Art of Survival
The Art of Survival will follow a collection of artists around the globe, in their quest to come to terms with a history of sexual abuse, serving as an intimate study of the relation between art and catharsis in survivors of childhood trauma.
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SORORITY CONFIDENTIAL
SORORITY CONFIDENTIAL tells the unexamined story of racial discrimination in one of the largest and most exclusive private clubs in America: white college sororities.
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Okinawa Documentary
The construction of a U.S. military base sharply divides the residents of Okinawa, a tiny island crammed with U.S. facilities. Tensions boil over when a young woman is brutally murdered by an American. Okinawa Documentary is both an evolving political drama, and a meditation on nature, indigenous heritage and imperialism.
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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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Being BeBe | The BeBe Zahara Benet Documentary
The intimate journey and unpublished backstory of BeBe Zahara Benet – a charismatic drag performer originally from Cameroon, and the very first winner of the culture-changing phenomenon, RuPaul’s Drag Race. With over a decade of unprecedented access, we observe BeBe’s struggles with celebrity, authenticity, success, and failure.
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BEBA
Set in New York City, and trapped in the mind of an Afro-Latina poet, activist, and daughter of immigrants, “Beba” shares her emotional process of becoming a thriving young black woman in America.
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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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Maestra
Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. MAESTRA explores this story through the personal testimonies of the young women who went out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island - and found themselves deeply transformed in the process.
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Hyde Park
Hyde Park is a character-driven documentary that follows an African-American community over 18 years as they struggle to fight environmental racism in Augusta, Georgia.
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It's Not Who I Am
Women are going to jail and prison at rates that have increased by 700% since 1980, a rate 50% higher than men. When they are released, they have expectations of starting life anew, however, in their re-entry journey, they are often confronted with an unforgiving society.
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From Here
Set in Berlin and New York, FROM HERE is a hopeful story of four young artists and activists from immigrant families redefining belonging in an era of rising nationalism globally.
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Work While You Have the Light
Work While You Have the Light is a feature documentary by a multi-generational directing team that examines professional women who are over seventy-years-old and still working.
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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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LISTEN TO MY HEARTBEAT
Washington, D.C. is the political epicenter, but residents beyond Capitol Hill have long battled socioeconomic disparity. As the city gentrifies, black residents are pushed out, along with their folkloric music: Go-Go. LISTEN TO MY HEARTBEAT examines a changing city and the future of the music that gave it a voice.
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the other side of the river
Northern Syria. Hala, a young Arab woman, flees her hometown of Manbij to escape the IS. After some months, Hala returns with women of the Kurdish movement to her hometown to help build a free society. But she encounters resistance on all sides, even her own liberation movement.
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