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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The Source of Life (Te Puna Ora)

As the climate crisis threatens Tahiti, an alliance of women embarks on a sacred journey to protect their island home.
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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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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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The In Between

The in Between is a portrait of a unique community that follows the exceptional but very normal lives of the citizens of the sister cities of Eagle Pass, Texas and Piedras Negras, Coahuila along the U.S. / Mexico border, offering an intimate look into the heart of Mexican-American identity.
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Counted

"Counted" exposes the horrifying experience that incarcerated pregnant women endure and follows the advocates, doulas, and doctors on a mission to end prison birth.
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SEEDS

SEEDS is an ethnographic portrait of a centennial African-American farm in Thomasville, Georgia. Using lyrical black and white imagery this meditative film examines the decline of generational black farmers and the significance of owning land.
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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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Rembetika Blues

Music has no borders.
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PERSIS

PERSIS is a documentary film exploring the legacy of the unheralded model-turned-actor Persis Khambatta.
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Paper City

Paper City tells the story of three survivors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Tokyo as they launch one final campaign to leave behind a record of this forgotten tragedy—before the last of them passes away.
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COUNTED

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The Hottest August

A film about climate change, disguised as a portrait of collective anxiety, The Hottest August offers a window into the collective consciousness of the present.
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Marianne

Seven French Muslim women take back the narrative of their lives, defying the uniform idea of the “oppressed Muslim woman” created by the French media and politicians. In a national context of increasingly intolerant secularism, they push the viewer to question their own assumptions on liberty, feminism, identity and secularism.
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Milisuthando

‘Milisuthando’ is a coming-of-age personal essay film on love and what it means to be human in the context of race, explored through the memories of Milisuthando – who grew up during apartheid but didn’t know it was happening until it was over.
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Mama Gloria

Before Janet Mock and Laverne Cox, there was Gloria Allen. MAMA GLORIA is an intimate portrait of a trailblazing 73-year-old black transgender woman who transitioned before Stonewall, started a charm school for transgender youth in her 60s and is aging with joy and grace.
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Sono

The untold story of the first Asian American Ballerina, Sono Osato.
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Julia Scotti: Funny That Way

Transgender comedian Julia Scotti’s vibrant comeback. Last seen 20 years ago as Rick Scotti (on bills with Chris Rock and Jerry Seinfeld) she comes out on network TV, her children return after a long estrangement, and we watch her triumphant homecoming as she delivers a truth that breaks down walls.
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Standing Above the Clouds

When the world's largest telescope is set to be built on their sacred mountain, Mauna Kea, three Native Hawaiian families dedicate their lives to defending it. Standing Above the Clouds follows three women and their daughters as they raise their families while putting protecting their sacred mountain.
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