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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Wake Up on Mars

A 10-year-old Roma boy living in Sweden attempts to come to terms with the mysterious resignation syndrome illness of his two sisters. While the future of their family depends on a pending asylum request, the little boy dreams of building a spaceship in order to leave it all behind.
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Well Groomed

A year immersed in the visually stunning and humorous world of competitive creative dog grooming.
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Warrior Women

“Warrior Women” is the story of mothers and daughters fighting for indigenous rights in the American Indian Movement of the 1970s. The film unveils not only a female perspective of history, but also examines the impact political struggles have on the children who bear witness.
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WOMEN OF STEEL

1980-1994: hundreds of migrant/working-class women campaigned for equality against BHP, the biggest and most powerful company in Australia. In WOMEN OF STEEL, these ordinary women tell their personal stories of how they beat a giant and changed the workplace rules for women and men throughout the country.
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A Woman's Work

Football and feminism collide in a feature documentary that follows a group of former NFL cheerleaders battling their teams and the NFL to end 50 years of wage theft and illegal employment practices. Their fight for wage and gender equality embodies the challenges faced by working women across all industries.
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Work While You Have the Light

Work While You Have the Light is a feature documentary by a multi-generational directing team that examines professional women who are over seventy-years-old and still working.
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Women In Blue

A high-profile police shooting rocks the Minneapolis Police Department, and its reform-minded first female chief is forced to resign. Following three women officers— who carry on the fight to transform the MPD and restore community trust—WOMEN IN BLUE explores gender, violence and policing in America.
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