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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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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A Photographic Memory
A daughter attempts to piece together a portrait of her mother, a daring journalist, and a woman she never knew. Uncovering the vast archive Sheila Turner-Seed produced, including lost interviews with iconic photographers, the film explores memory, legacy and stories left untold.
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Fire Through Dry Grass
On a tiny island 500 yards from Gracie Mansion, five men who use wheelchairs and write poetry about running the streets take on the city, the system, and the virus to stay alive and protect 500 vulnerable nursing-home residents.
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Beautiful Something Left Behind
When a child loses a parent, their world turns upside down. Death may come suddenly or slowly, violently or peacefully, but it leaves a pain that the child has never felt before. At Good Grief in New Jersey, groups of children come to understand how to live with their grief.
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Hear, Eat, Home
New York-based Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh and other immigrant artists part of the Silkroad Ensemble, tell stories of home, identity and overcoming adversity through music and food.
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Wisdom Gone Wild
WISDOM GONE WILD is an intimate documentary presenting a new look at dementia and caregiving. Rather than a portrait of loss, dementia is seen as a wisdom that has “gone wild.”
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The Place That Makes Us
Among the abandoned industrial ruins of Ohio, a new generation is determined to rebuild home.
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The Sky Is Red
From 1968 to present day, the strange counterculture world of ultimate frisbee has been a backdrop for incredible change. In The Sky Is Red, five underrepresented and marginalized individuals push for racial, class, and gender equity in the sport.
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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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Tomboy
TOMBOY shines a light on four women drummers, making their mark in a field that was once the exclusive domain of men. The narratives of these trailblazing musicians interweave, launching a dialogue on gender and artistry, which extends far beyond the musical sphere.
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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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1001 Paper Cranes
A fourth-generation Japanese American travels across the United States to all ten Japanese American Incarceration Camps, scattering 1001 paper cranes as an offering, a tribute, a wish of peace and a promise— never again.
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ALIS (working title)
Eight teenage girls who lived on the unforgiving streets of Bogota, close their eyes and dream up Alis, a fictional character. Their soulful narrative reveals amazing perseverance to break the cycle of violence and embrace a better future.
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On The Divide
ON THE DIVIDE follows the story of three Latinx people living in McAllen, Texas who, despite their views, are connected by the most unexpected of places: the last abortion clinic on the U.S./Mexico border. As threats to the clinic and their personal safety mount, these three are forced to make decisions they never could have imagined.
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On Three Wheels
On Three Wheels is a feature-length documentary that brings to light the challenges families raising children with physical disabilities face on a day-to-day basis, and how the gift of a tricycle- taking them from four wheels to three- helps transform their lives.
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