While fiscal sponsorship is a component of the program, unlike other sponsoring organizations, we also provide a suite of support services such as tailored consultations, discounts to our workshops and webinars with leading industry professionals, and other essential resources.
In the last 5 years, WMM’s Production Assistance Program has helped 194 films reach completion and assisted filmmakers in raising more than $46,000,000 from government, foundation, corporate or individual, and crowd-funded sources. Since its inception, the program has been a part of raising more than $100,000,000 and helping more than 1,000 films to completion.
Films and filmmakers we have supported have been nominated for or won Academy Awards for the last 22 years, including Oscar-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR by Laura Poitras, STRONG ISLAND by Yance Ford, SUGARCANE by Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat, TO KILL A TIGER by Nisha Pahuja, THE ETERNAL MEMORY by Maite Alberdi and THE BARBER OF LITTLE ROCK by John Hoffman and Christine Turner, the last two of which were directed by PA alum. The program has also supported critically acclaimed fiction features like FAMILIAR TOUCH (dir. Sarah Friedland), Dee Rees’ PARIAH, I CARRY YOU WITH ME (dir. Heidi Ewing, prod. Mynette Louie), FAREWELL AMOR (dir. Ekwa Msangi, prod. Huriyyah Muhammad, Sam Bisbee, Josh Penn), and THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL (dir. Marielle Heller). We’re thrilled to continue to have a large presence at the Sundance Film Festival, including GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT (Dir Michèle Stephenson), LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING (dir. Lisa Cortés), Sandi Tan’s SHIRKERS, which won the World Cinema Documentary Competition Award for Best Directing, and most recently SEEDS (dir. Brittany Shyne, prod. Danielle Varga), which won the U.S. Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. In addition to Sundance, films supported by our program premiere at major festivals like Berlin, Tribeca, CPH:DOX, and SXSW.
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[text] => My uncle Peter Zak Valentine was born on Valentine’s Day 82 years ago and died in his basement in August of 2022. Long ago diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic but choosing to live his life unmedicated, Peter lived independently, riding the edge between mental illness and magic. Peter was an eccentric, beloved, and respected local legend of the city of Cambridge.
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The MIT story brings in many larger conversations and questions which are woven throughout the film, specifically around themes of gentrification, rent control, and the increased, looping level of housing shortage that cities such as Cambridge face.
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Girls from Qatar, Lebanon, Egypt, UK, and Ukraine comprise the school’s “Professional Team”. Envisioned by Russian former rhythmic gymnast Tatiana (28), her Bangladeshi husband Manzoor (30), and Qatar investor Haya (late 30’s), their school is dedicated to girls’ development and opportunity.
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Qatar Stars presents a four-year story of girlhood in all its joys and growing pains, through intimate access to a multinational rhythmic gymnastics school in Doha Qatar, led by a former Russian gymnast.
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[text] => “Machtat” follows the lives of three women musicians, Fatma and her two daughters, Najeh and Waffeh. They live in Bir Beranek, in the small town of Mahdia, Tunisia.
In the winter, they take care of the house and work in the fields. They plant, pick, or weed olives and potatoes. At night, they stay home, exhausted. In the summer, they are “Machtat”, or traditional musicians. They go from one wedding to the other, to celebrate and bless the marriages of young women, to guide them and get them prepared for their new lives as wives.
Fatma has been working for 40 years as a Machtat. It is the only thing that brings little freedom to her life. In the summer, she sings all day long and she earns money like no other time of the year. But Fatma is exhausted and little by little passes her Machtat knowledge to Najeh.
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The daily life chronicle of Fatma and her daughters Najeh and Waffeh, wedding musicians in a small town in Tunisia.
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[text] => Her name is Vena. She lives on a small patch of land with fourteen volcanos. Vena walks through a mellow-paced visceral dream, a tropical journey. Thriving despite gender-based violence and guided by her ecofeminist beliefs, Vena nurtures a boundless relationship with water and land.
In Vena’s world, the sense of time is fluid and place is experienced in a collage of landscapes, festivals, sacred grounds, water rituals, eco-social unrest, and memories of collective environmental trauma. Vena’s story holds space for the nuances of womanhood and family life, and her personal reflections of key moments throughout her life confronting perilous environmental moments in Salvadoran history.
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In a tender mosaic of El Salvador, women reveal the joys and perils of their lives, deeply bonded with water and land. Vena Acuática is shaped by the relationships among women who defend a landscape haunted by environmental negligence and forced migration.
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[text] => The Road to Independence plans to explore Vietnamese veterans’ personal stories, creative problem-solving, and combat experiences in their struggle for autonomy during the Vietnam-American war. Along with serving as a primary source historical record, this film connects history and present by asking both veterans and youth about their impressions of the war and hopes for the country’s future. At least 50% of all subjects in the film will be female voices.
It’s rare in the United States to see a film exclusively showcasing the Vietnamese experience of the Vietnam War. The Road to Independence will cover a side of the war that hasn’t been examined by most Americans. We’ve gotten many versions that seem to omit the greatest question - what was it all about? Vietnam has a long record of fighting for its autonomy, from China, Mongolia, France, Japan, and America. Vietnam stands out as a country without monetary resources that has been able to gain independence from some of the most powerful empires in the world. It’s a David and Goliath story. It’s a story that should be told from the voices of the people that lived and fought there.
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[text] => Our relationship with fire is out of balance, leading to catastrophic wildfires. FIRELIGHTERS follows Yurok and Karuk burning rights activists as they share their knowledge and provide solutions to this global problem.
Between lightning strikes and Indigenous burns, most landscapes in North America were shaped by fire for centuries. Indigenous people had, and still have, deep knowledge of the art of using fire. For most of the 20th century, U.S. federal fire policy was guided by a strategy of fire suppression, which has been one of the main causes of current catastrophic fires. Native Americans face persecution and penalty when they try to use fire in line with their traditions—even on public lands where they often hold treaty rights to hunt, fish and gather.
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A 10-year film about one extraordinary artist’s work to reimagine life for the queer diaspora based on compassion, beauty and celebration. From underground pride parties in Kampala to the drag shows of Fire Island to her own Bushwick studio, this film follows her building online community and constructing incredible totemic sculpture work, shown in some of the most celebrated spaces of the international art world.
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With the iconic steppes of Mongolia as the background, the film will delve deep into the country’s rich culture, social issues, and the youths’ gains and painful losses. As Martina evaluates her successes and failures, the film will not only explore the question of how to support neglected, underprivileged and underrepresented children, but also when and how to act as a human and global citizen.
One doesn’t have to travel far to find teens like Baakaa, and Nasaa and Vanni. This film allows the young powerful voices, which are generally ignored, to be heard and to inspire us to overcome boundaries, personal as well as cultural ones and to broaden our definition of community and family within the global world we are living in.
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In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the “right to die,” igniting a national debate about autonomy and the value of disabled lives. After years of courtroom battles, Bouvia vanished from public view. Sundance-winner Davenport embarks on a personal investigation to find out what really happened to Bouvia and reveal why her story is disturbingly relevant today.
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In 1997, seventeen-year-old Devi, was arrested, accused of being a rebel, tortured, and raped in custody. A civil war had just begun. Rebel leaders revealed her as a rape ‘victim’. Tagged with this shameful taboo, Devi battled depression, social ostracism, joined the rebel frontlines, and rose through the ranks, even serving as a member of the parliament when the war ended.
Shot as an immersive verité, the film travels with Devi, as she consolidates the voices of survivors. As Devi confronts her former lawyer and her counselor, the film dives into deeply intimate and vulnerable moments. Through her diary, supported by archives and sweeping images, Devi reconstructs history erased to rewrite her new destiny.
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…And so begins the first sentence of Sandy Stone's groundbreaking 1987 Manifesto, describing Morocco, one of the few places in the world to get a "sex change" in the early 1970s. The Girl Island film begins at the same time, but in a San Francisco hospital, where Sandy languished for months with 27 broken bones after a car accident. Sporting a bushy beard while taking female hormones, she shocked the staff, who wouldn't give her pain meds until The Byrds musicians David Crosby and Graham Nash arrived, yelling, "Do you know who this is? This is one of our best sound engineers!"
Girl Island is a documentary film featuring animation about Allucquére Rosanne 'Sandy' Stone, one of the world's visionaries who pioneered Digital Art & Theory and Trans Studies. Sandy's incredible journey intersects with America's most iconic moments in rock music, technology, feminism, trans history, philosophy, and art, straddling history as it moved from the avant-garde era to the digital age. Not your usual talking heads documentary, Girl Island unites these threads through exciting storytelling from the inside out by mixing the dreamy, fantastical animation of Bishakh Som with archival material, recent vérité, and live interviews by the people who were actually there.
Partway through production, we are fundraising to finish filming and complete the animation!
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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 slave master dies, but his surviving kin have other plans for Diana and Cornelia and put out a warrant for their capture. Diana must use all of her resources to avoid the sorrow her mother suffered and keep her promise to Cornelia: that they will not be separated.
Hope of Escape takes the audience through a new chapter of antebellum slavery that depicts the “above-ground railroad” or the raising of money to free enslaved loved ones. A star-studded “cast” of historic characters include abolitionist Julia Williams; famous orator Henry Highland Garnet, and renowned abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Lewis Tappan. Now a rescue effort that involves hundreds of people, the countdown begins for Diana and Cornelia’s escape.
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[text] => Razing Liberty Square follows three female protagonists fighting for the soul of one of the last African-American neighborhoods in Miami, historic Liberty Square. Best known as the real-life location for the Oscar-winning film Moonlight. A fiery principal of a school that grew out of necessity for at-risk kids who can’t attend public school, she is saving them one by one, keeping her ideals and refusing to sell out. An 86-year old preservationist who will not give up the last tangible piece of Miami’s black history and a single-mom turned housing activist who won’t be bought or intimidated out of her home. They are defending their community against the onslaught of ‘Climate Gentrification’ since their neighborhood literally sits on the highest and driest land in Miami, a city under threat of rising sea levels due to Global Warming. And now after years of neglect by the city, developers are circling the neighborhood like buzzards. With Miami being one of the most diverse but also most segregated cities in the country, Razing Liberty Square encapsulates the past and future of public housing, putting human faces on the housing crisis. Their success and failures speak to one of the biggest questions of our time: is fair housing in our cities a basic human right?
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Razing Liberty Square
Razing Liberty Square is a feature documentary about the development, decline and redevelopment of Liberty Square, Miami, the oldest segregated public housing community in the history of the United States. Best known as setting for the Oscar-winning movie Moonlight.
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