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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Coded Bias
Merging cinema vérité and graphic visual elements, the film captures MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini’s startling discovery that most facial recognition software does not accurately see dark-skinned faces. Through Joy’s transformation from scientist to tireless advocate, Coded Bias sheds light on the impacts of AI on civil rights.
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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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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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Break the Game
Alone in her studio apartment, Narcissa Wright sets video game world records and live streams nearly every minute of her life. But when her tightly-controlled digital existence begins to crack, she must stage a dramatic comeback and search for true love.
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DEAR THIRTEEN
13 is a poetic exploration of the lives of thirteen year olds across the globe, each facing distinct geographical and personal challenges while balancing the universal uncertainty inherent in growing up. Presented as a series of intimate vignettes artfully woven together, 13 offers a unified glimpse into a new generation.
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Send Us Your Brother
Send Us Your Brother is a feature-length documentary about Masculinity. Filmed over two and a half years, the documentary is a rich, and deeply intimate look at what it means to be male in India today.
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Fire Tender
Yurok Tribal Members return fire to the land toward cultural and ecological healing.
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Grounders
Grounders takes an intimate look at the Prospect Park Women's Softball League in Brooklyn, New York. This documentary explores the history of the league and the community it has created. Getting to know the players, fans, and umpires we understand what happens when women take the field to play.
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My Name Is Andrea
A cinematic evocation of key moments from the life of feminist outlaw Andrea Dworkin, maverick thinker and intellectual genius of the 20th Century. Through innovative use of archival footage and expressionistic dramatizations, the film pushes the creative boundaries of biographical documentary to challenge the current narratives on gendered violence.
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FROM HERE
From the epicenter of today's migration debates, FROM HERE follows four young people over the better part of a decade who capture a generation fight for belonging against the global rise of nationalism.
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GETTING THE GET
In a quest for freedom and faith, Orthodox Jewish women lead a new movement against abuse in religious divorce.
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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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You Lucky You Got A Mama
You Lucky You Got A Mama is a visual love letter that affirms the stories and lived experiences of pregnant Black women and trans/non-binary birthing people who all have one thing in common: they intend to not only survive. but thrive.
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The Good Relative
THE GOOD RELATIVE is the story of Faith Spotted Eagle, an internationally renowned and revered elder of the Yankton Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, as she confronts the State of South Dakota to protect their tribal water rights.
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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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Bought/Broken
“Bought/Broken” is an interactive experience that examines the relationships and violence of abuse through the lens of objects bought, broken and repaired, evoking memories through objects and exploring the idea of gain and loss. I have been compositing the experiences and stories of domestic violence survivors.
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Little Sallie Walker
In LITTLE SALLIE WALKER, four black women from across the generations recount how they once discovered pleasure, refuge, and power in childhood play. As they continue to navigate a less than idyllic American landscape, each contemplates if play is magical enough to save them now.
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