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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Hear, Eat, Home
A lyric portrait of how—through art, friendship, music, and food—New York immigrant musicians and artists understand the upheavals they faced in their home countries and answer new challenges that emerge as they make the US their home.
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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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Feed Me A Story
Feed Me a Story is a transmedia project - film, interactive and performative - that embarks on a community-based multicultural journey through food. The project explores the concept of what it means to be an American and incorporates the quintessential American road trip with cultural history and contemporary influences.
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PERSONHOOD
PERSONHOOD tells a different reproductive rights story – one that ripples far beyond the right to choose and into the lives of every pregnant person in America.
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THE BENGALI
Crossing many borders, one woman travels from the African-American community of New Orleans, the city of her birth, to Bengali India, where her grandfather came from. The untold story of ties between South Asians and African-Americans in the U.S.
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The Martha Mitchell Effect
She was once as famous as Jackie O. And then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: a Republican cabinet wife who was discredited by the Nixon Administration in 1972 to keep her quiet. Until now.
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My Mis-Education in 3 Graphics
My Mis-Education in 3 Graphics documents the filmmaker’s darkly humorous journey through the mind-boggling constructs of mainstream economics. Critics offer some clear-sighted alternatives to the dominating economists' beliefs.
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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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COAST
16-year-old Abby’s small town trappings and her mother’s unlived dreams are closing in on her when she falls in love with the lead singer of a punk rock band who introduces her to a world of possibility and self-expression.
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The Kindertransport Journey Project (Working title)
On July 1, 2019, four former unaccompanied child refugees, now between 83 and 92 years old, arrive in Vienna, Austria, to begin a trip retracing the route they took 80 years ago, as Kindertransport children, traveling alone, without parents, fleeing to save their lives.
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SuperD!ville
We are creating a web series for public schools focusing on social and emotional learning for children with dyslexia and attention issues. Our mission is to help kids succeed in school and life because of, and not in spite of, their learning differences.
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1946: THE MISTRANSLATION THAT SHIFTED CULTURE
A journey which unveils the mystery of how theology, history, culture, and politics led to a Biblical mistranslation, the man who tried to stop it, and the impassioned academic crusade of the LGBTQIA+ Christian community-driven to discover the truth.
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untitled ALL ARTS PBS Series
In real conversations, our host (TBD) explores how artists work: their unique processes, materials, the intricacies of each artist's work; and how artists live: their neighborhoods, gentrification, the economy, politics, navigating a career and personal life.
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Smile4Kime
A grieving young filmmaker struggling with mental illness communes with the spirit of her vibrant friend with whom she shared an unbreakable bond to discover how even beyond death, their friendship lives on.
Smile4Kime is an experimental and autoethnographic documentary that uses animation to tell a story of friendship.
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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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Cancer: A Love Story (Working Title)
Cancer: A Love Story is an autobiographical documentary about my battle with cancer, confronting sexual assault, and the crazy things I did to heal myself. It’s a survival story, but also a story of mothers and daughters, and the intimacies of women’s bodies.
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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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