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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Home Court

Ashley Chea, a teenage basketball phenom and daughter of Cambodian refugees strives to become one of the nation’s top players and the first in her family to attend college.
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Hope of Escape

A true story that follows the incredible journey of an enslaved mother and daughter who must escape before they are sold and separated forever. Their only hope is to connect with their free relatives in the North and convince the most powerful abolitionists of their time to help them.
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Hyde Park

Hyde Park is a character-driven documentary that follows an African-American community over 18 years as they struggle to fight environmental racism in Augusta, Georgia.
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Hear, Eat, Home

A lyric portrait of how—through art, friendship, music, and food—New York immigrant musicians and artists understand the upheavals they faced in their home countries and answer new challenges that emerge as they make the US their home.
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Hard Hatted Woman

In an industry that is over 97% male-dominated, women in blue-collar construction trades are confronting gender stereotypes entrenched not only among carpenters and crane operators but also in our culture at large. Theirs is a fight to reshape the labor movement and overcome the most enduring economic barriers for women.
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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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How to Build a Library

Two tenacious Kenyan women are transforming a dilapidated, junk-filled library in downtown Nairobi. But first they must work with local government, raise several million dollars for the rebuild, and confront the ghosts of a problematic colonial history still trapped within the library walls.
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Hollywood Does Abortion

HOLLYWOOD DOES ABORTION reveals how depictions of abortion in film and television have both reflected and distorted this safe but controversial medical procedure. Exploring how abortion came into our living rooms and psyches, we see how these stories helped shape public discourse and today’s seismic shift in abortion access.
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Here, the Silence is Heard

After arriving in Chile at the old house that my family abandoned in exile, ghosts of an unstoppable family spell begin to appear at night.
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An Hour from the Middle Of Nowhere

In the Deep South, the lives of an immigration attorney, a community, and a family intertwine in the shadow of one of the largest immigration detention prisons in the United States.
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Haenyeo · Ama: Korean & Japanese Sea Women

The documentary explores the ancestral tradition of free diving sea women who make their living by harvesting the ocean floor. It captures this unique, semi-matriarchal society and its fast disappearing practices, using poetic visual cinematography to chart the women’s personal stories, collective shamanistic rituals, and songs of the sea.
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