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] => In Daraa, Syria, 25-year-old Hanadi dreams of answers. The questions: Where is my husband? How can I get my daughters to safety? Is there someplace to call home? As so many dreams turn to nightmares around her, Hanadi refuses to accept the cards she’s been dealt. Relying on her own wit and bravery, she navigates a harrowing four-year, international, wartime journey alongside her three young daughters. From refugee in Jordan to asylum-seeker in Germany, Hanadi cares far less for the labels she’s given than she does for peace and justice. The answers she finds along the way lead her to testify at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva about the war crimes of the Assad Regime. This intimate story set amidst an international whirlwind explores the power and determination of one unexpected hero to be heard.
The partly-animated film is a co-production with ITVS, the leading provider of independently produced programs for PBS. It is executive produced by Academy Award nominated and Peabody and Emmy-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger.
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[text] => As a young lawyer working in the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1960s and early 70s, Stephen Bingham is involved in many of the progressive causes of the day, including civil rights, the farm workers’ movement, the anti-war movement, and prisoners’ rights. On August 21st, 1971, he is the last person to visit imprisoned Black Panther leader George Jackson before what government officials allege is a prison break out attempt that leaves six dead, including three prison guards and Jackson himself. Bingham is accused of passing a gun to Jackson and is indicted for murder. Fearing for his life Bingham assumes a false identity and leaves the country. He spends the next 13 years as a fugitive, living mostly in Paris where he remains actively politically and meets his future wife. In 1984, he turns himself in to authorities, claiming his innocence. After a high-profile trial, he is acquitted in 1986 and returns to his work as a legal aid lawyer serving poor people.
This is Stephen Bingham’s story, but it is also a story of the social and political justice movements and personalities that shaped him. The film looks at the nexus of circumstance and ideals that brought Stephen Bingham and George Jackson together on that fateful day, and how a single moment in time can change a life forever. It is also the story of the experience of exile: living for years with an entirely different identity. The film presents a multi-layered portrait of the turbulent 60s and 70s, and the role of one person seeking justice for others and then for himself.
However, this is not only a film about the past. The conflicts and contradictions in American society that defined the movements of the 1960s have not faded; in fact, the issues of racism, mass incarceration, and state surveillance are more urgent than ever. The question of individual engagement for the cause of social justice is an enduring one, as are the risks and contradictions that such engagement sometimes entails. Stephen Bingham’s story brings these questions to the forefront, allowing us to reflect on the nature of political commitment and action.
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[text] => Cherine’s Beirut stands for joy, beauty, and creativity. But most importantly it is home. And the tiny vintage shop Dépôt-Vente represents all of that. Whenever she feels down, she goes there. Nawal, the eccentric owner, has her model one of Dépôt-Vente’s upcycled outfits for the shop’s Instagram account, and the world suddenly seems bearable again. Outside the shop’s walls, however, Beirut is falling apart. When she meets the love of her life while travelling abroad, Cherine decides to start a new life with him in the US. While she gladly leaves behind the daily challenges of living in a broken country, cutting ties with home proves difficult. Cherine desperately attempts to hold onto what she lost by making a film about Dépôt-Vente, the place that embodies all the good parts of Beirut that the world seldom sees. Cherine films Claudia, Marc, and other youth working at Dépôt-Vente, and over time, she documents the changes the shop brings about in them. Marc, a designer who hides his queerness from his family, gains the confidence to live life as an openly gay man and becomes a drag artist. Claudia, a shy fashion student, tests her imagination by making wild garments out of everything from discarded gold fabric to leather handbags. Marc and Claudia aren’t the only ones changing, though. Over time, Cherine realizes that while many things remain, nothing is ever truly the same – not even Dépôt-Vente. And after five years of filming, she is finally ready to let go.
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Dépôt-Vente
After moving to a new country for love, a filmmaker creates a loving portrait of a Beirut thrift shop that embodies the spirit of her home in Lebanon.
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[text] => From the bubonic plague to COVID-19, the “war on disease” has been a metaphor we live and die by - a metaphor that shapes not only how we imagine illness, outbreaks, sick people, doctors, and treatments, but also how we act when we encounter them in the real world. This affects how we define both the "public" and "health" in public health, who merits life-saving measures, and even what qualifies as a health intervention. But what if it weren’t a war? To answer this question, the feature-length documentary DIS-EASE dives deep into cultural histories of contagion, deconstructs master narratives of risk and responsibility, and offers prescriptions for a healthier world. The film unfolds in three parts, roughly corresponding to the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, and uses the form of an outbreak narrative to diagnose the "war on disease" in the present militarization of public health discourse; trace it to its source in the tangled roots of Darwinism, eugenics, and colonial medicine; look at its evolution over time into pop-cultural phenomena like the vampire novel and body-snatcher film; and imagine alternatives that account for both the real drivers of large-scale outbreaks and the true interdependence of humans and microbes.
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Dis-Ease
For centuries, the “war on disease” has been a metaphor we live and die by. But what if it weren’t a war?
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[text] => Disruption follows three unlikely allies—Charley, a British artist-activist; Nidhi, a pragmatic board game designer; and Amarjit, a queer farmer in Punjab—whose mission to create a board game about survival turns into a stark confrontation with reality.
Charley’s game, Disruption: Battle for the Future of Food, pits farmers against corporations but lacks the urgency of real struggle. Seeking authenticity, Charley travels to India to collaborate with Nidhi. There, they meet Amarjit, whose life reflects the game’s stakes: her father died from pesticide poisoning, yet she must still use chemicals to keep her crops alive. Without her land, marriage is her only security.
As Charley and Amarjit grow close, the project falters, frustrating Nidhi. When she translates Amarjit’s reality into the game, a harsh truth emerges—the farmer always loses. The game finally works, but at what cost? Charley is horrified: was Disruption meant to inspire resistance or confirm defeat?
Meanwhile, Amarjit’s struggles intensify—debt, failing crops, family pressure. A Canadian visa could offer escape, but only if she exploits her land for profit. Charley and Amarjit’s struggles mirror each other—both trapped, both yearning for freedom.
When the final game plays out, Amarjit must choose: fight for her land or play to win?
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A British artist-activist, a game designer, and a queer farmer in India create a survival game, only to face the brutal realities of climate change, corporate greed, and identity. As life imitates play, winning demands sacrifices they never anticipated.
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[text] => Devi Khadka is leading a quiet resistance. As she travels around Nepal, listening to stories of wartime rape survivors, and creating a unified voice for justice, she knows that she’s poking a hornet’s nest. Nepal’s leaders want to bury the shameful truth of wartime rape. As the only public face of survivors, Devi has decided that she can no longer stay silent. But her hip-hop-loving teenage daughter just wants her to be a mum.
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Devi, a former guerrilla fighter who survived wartime rape, decides to fight for justice.
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With innovative dark humor, DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE examines how the promise of an American multiracial democracy faces a renewed backlash, culminating in the very real fears of an actual authoritarian takeover.
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Duane Lake spent six years in jail before he was acquitted, but by then, he had already lost his house, his family, his livelihood. Two years after release, he is still rebuilding while using his story to help “tear the system down.” Like Duane, public defender Chris Routh spent a year in jail, which motivated him to become a lawyer. As he fiercely defends his clients, Chris fundraises to recruit new lawyers in Jackson, Mississippi, where the state doesn’t pay for public defense. On the other side of the courtroom, District Attorney Steve Mulroy is implementing a series of reforms in Memphis, TN, a city at the top of the nation’s worst crime list, while the nation’s eyes are on him as he prosecutes the police for the murder of Tyre Nichols. In Houston, Judge Genesis Draper fights a massive misinformation campaign against bail reform’s link to rising crimes while also working to reduce the city’s overcrowded jail, where 25 people died in 2022 alone.
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Every day, half a million forgotten Americans languish in THE DEAD ZONE, the limbo between arrest and conviction. Innocent people die in jail and can be held for years because of the profit motivated pretrial detention system. But four extraordinary people are trying to offer a blueprint for change.
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[text] => When almost all the women of Iceland walked off the job and out of their homes one fall morning in 1975 refusing to work, cook, or take care of the children, they brought their country to its knees and catapulted the island nation to its status as one of the best places in the world today to be a woman. Told for the first time by the women themselves and timed for release in the lead-up to the strike’s 50th anniversary, the story is subversive and unexpectedly funny. “We loved our male chauvinist pigs,” recalls one of the activists, “We just wanted to change them a little!” This is the true story of one day that changed everything. The Day Iceland Stood Still is a collaboration between U.S. director Pamela Hogan, who campaigned as a high school student in the 1970s with her activist mother to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, and Icelandic producer Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir, who at the age of 7 accompanied her mother to that very strike in 1975 and thought that when she woke up the next morning “everything would be perfect.” The E.R.A. never passed in the U.S., and Iceland still isn’t perfect – but it’s the only country to have closed over 90% of its gender gap, and committed to reaching full equality in the near future. There’s a famous saying: “The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.” We hope this story will inspire viewers all over the world to reimagine the possible.
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When 90% of Iceland’s women walked off the job and out of their homes one morning in 1975 the country came to a standstill. Unexpectedly funny and told for the first time, this is the true story of one day that catapulted Iceland to the world’s superpower of gender equality.
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