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 Sky Is Red
From 1968 to present day, the strange counterculture world of ultimate frisbee has been a backdrop for incredible change. In The Sky Is Red, five underrepresented and marginalized individuals push for racial, class, and gender equity in the sport.
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Sundays at Café Tabac
Enter the world of radical glamour, "Sundays at Café Tabac" chronicles the title’s legendary lesbian night in NY’s East Village(1993-95), whose showcase of diversity and bold self-expression changed lives and mirrored unprecedented visibility that rocked the mainstream media, in an era when visibility was a matter of life and death.
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Sitting Still
Artist, scholar, architect, landscape architect, professor, author, urban visionary, and unparalleled designer of cities, Laurie Olin is a true Renaissance man who, along with world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, takes us on a visual, eye-opening journey through natural and built environments, revealing the connective tissue for creating healthy and humane societies.
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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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The Subversive Sirens
The Subversive Sirens documentary follows the inner lives of six artists and activists who break out into the world of synchronized swimming as an act of political warfare.
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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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See the Women
The daughter of an influential Native American activist raised in the center of the indigenous, political movement of the 70s, reclaims her identity as an activist and Indigenous woman by addressing the trauma that many women and children face, the one blind spot in her father’s own activism.
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Smile4Kime
A grieving young filmmaker struggling with mental illness communes with the spirit of her vibrant friend with whom she shared an unbreakable bond to discover how even beyond death, their friendship lives on.
Smile4Kime is an experimental and autoethnographic documentary that uses animation to tell a story of friendship.
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Shudderbugs
Upon return to her childhood home after her mother’s sudden death, a woman’s grief spirals down a rabbit hole of suspicions and misconceptions, ultimately leading her to an unexpected awakening.
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SuperD!ville
We are creating a web series for public schools focusing on social and emotional learning for children with dyslexia and attention issues. Our mission is to help kids succeed in school and life because of, and not in spite of, their learning differences.
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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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Seeing Stars
Five fierce and funny women with limited sight and limitless vision dare look into the dark and share their light.
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Send Us Your Brother
Mahendra Kumar, an Indian gender rights activist battles his culture and his family to teach men and boys a new way of being male.
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Seams
A filmmaker’s parachute obsession begins a journey investigating Irish and Northern Irish women’s labor during the Second World War. Animations interweave with women’s testimonies of divisions in neutral Ireland, partitioned Northern Ireland, and war-torn Britain. Questioning ‘enemy’, nationalism and colonialism, Seams also celebrates women and their culture’s movement toward peace.
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Silent Beauty
A lyrical and sensitive autobiographical exploration of the filmmaker’s family history with child sexual abuse and a culture of silence.
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SORORITY CONFIDENTIAL: An Investigation in 12 Unequal Parts
SORORITY CONFIDENTIAL: AN INVESTIGATION IN 12 UNEQUAL PARTS tells the unexamined story of racial discrimination in one of the largest and most exclusive private clubs in America: white college sororities. The investigation is entwined with a personal exploration of a family’s role in creating and sustaining white supremacy.
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