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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Following a loose three-act structure, this vérité film explores how the criminal justice system shapes nearly every slice of Kristal’s life, though she’s never spent a day behind bars. Beginning when Kristal’s father and brother are still incarcerated, the film captures the joy, frustration, and complexity that their release brings. Kristal anchors the narrative. Her mother, “Big” Crystal, and nephew, Nyvae, add dimension to her story. Interwoven are interviews and Kristal’s own cell phone videos, bringing texture and complexity to her millennial perspective. Kristal’s quest to adopt her nephew and give him a more stable life is a key story arc, culminating in a powerful resolution in the third act.
By some counts, one in four American women have a loved one who has been incarcerated. For Black women like Kristal Bush, raised in the era of mass incarceration, that number is closer to one in two. Filmed over four years, A WOMAN ON THE OUTSIDE is a deeply American story about the legacy of mass incarceration.
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[text] => In American culture, when women age, there is an antiquated expectation that they will eventually stop actively participating in culture and society. A working woman over seventy is rarely seen by society--unlike her male counterparts who are revered with age. This general societal assumption must be updated.
There are 76 million baby-boomers and over half of them are women who are in the process of creating a new model for being an older woman. We are in a new age, and the paradigm is shifting. Women are working into their nineties with tenacity and clear minds. Work While You Have the Light exposes the true narrative of aging women by following passionate, curious, fierce and courageous women who are not stopping because of their age.
Work While You Have the Light is for women of all ages to be inspired to not fear age, but rather welcome the opportunity to become fully themselves. The film follows eight women over seventy throughout a year’s time who are working in different capacities throughout the United States--an Artist, Writer, Doctor, Teacher, Television/Radio Producer, Singer, Museum Director, and CEO.
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[title] => The Woman Who Poked The Leopard
[text] => The film opens with home footage of Dr. Stella Nyanzi and her children pouring sherry in a crowded apartment in exile. They read the poem that landed Stella in jail. It narrates Museveni’s four-decade reign over Uganda against archival footage. Behind bars, Stella loses an unborn child to torture. When discharged from prison wearing a “fuck oppression” sash, she briefs the press.
Stella undertakes a parliamentary campaign through slums, markets, and trading centers. She connects with Kampala’s working class. People are torn between their faith in her and their religious scorn for her queer allyship. Police besiege her home and she resists them with profanities and her walking cane. Her children accuse her of being unavailable, but Stella does not falter. She wants understanding from those she loves. Her community asks why she doesn’t join Bobi Wine’s party for a sure victory.
Stella loses elections. Her children unhappy, her lover estranged, she remains traumatized. Stella’s parents’ deaths have not been avenged. She turns to family life, but the state still torments her. Resisting another arrest, she burns her parents’ secrets and flees. She leaves her lover behind. In exile, Stella’s activism burgeons. Her children evolve. Stella persists.
[logline] => After a life of radical activism that lands her in jail, Ugandan Queer rights academic and poet Stella Nyanzi runs for parliament. Police brutality and tragedies that follow force her to choose between her children’s safety and the revolution.
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The Woman Who Poked The Leopard
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[text] => Wittig, Yes! introduces Wittig's political, theoretical, and literary ideas through the creative collaborations with her partner Sande Zeig and a new generation of international academics and writers who articulate the foundations of her conceptual revolution. Zeig interweaves excerpts of work they developed over the years through archival film, photographs, personal notes, as well as theatrical readings, moving with them from France, Greece, California, and Arizona. The three decades of public and private archival materials unveil Monique Wittig not only as a revolutionary writer, thinker, and activist but also as a multifaceted individual with a profound compassion for others, a deep love of nature, and an exceptional sense of humor. She leaves a legacy that continues to have an impact on our current ideas of gender and political thought.
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Wollongong, New South Wales - 1980: Denied jobs at the steelworks — the city’s main employer — working-class/migrant women refused to accept discrimination. They began a campaign for the right to work that lasted for fourteen years. Their battle with BHP, the country’s richest and most powerful company, took them from the factory gate to the highest court in the land and changed the rules for women and men throughout Australia. In Women of Steel, directed by campaign leader Robynne Murphy, they tell their personal stories for the first time on film. The result is an exciting and often humorous tale of how a bunch of ordinary women stuck together and did what no one believed they could do — they subdued a giant!
[logline] => 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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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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[text] => Crimes are being committed in all social classes against girls and women in Baghdad. Particularly since the American war and occupation of Iraq. Subconsciously all women feel threatened that they can be the next victim of violence at any moment.
This reality pushes, investigative journalist Zahraa Ghandour to investigate the story of her childhood friend Noor. When both girls were only 9 years old, Zahraa witnessed Noor's family dragging her away, leading to her abandonment and disappearance. In her journey to find her missing friend, Zahraa uncovers secret worlds of abuse against women, crimes that happen with impunity and stories of girls who have managed to escape their disappearance.
Through a multifaceted search that pans back and forth in time, Zahraa must navigate her girlhood trauma and reality, where the death and disappearance of women are a daily occurrence in a war-ravaged Iraq.
With other women survivors who choose to fight back, Zahraa challenges reality by imagining a life free of fear for Iraqi women. She asks: how is it possible to find the truth about what happened to Noor in the middle of this chaos? How does one break out of this endless cycle of fear that everyone here is stuck in?
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Since time immemorial, Yurok people have placed fire on the land to maintain a balanced ecosystem. In the past century, settlers banned fire and the environment and people have suffered. Now, Yurok people are returning fire medicine to heal the land.
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WISDOM GONE WILD is an intimate documentary presenting a new look at dementia and caregiving. Rather than a portrait of loss, dementia is seen as a wisdom that has “gone wild.”
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[text] => Traveling a long road to the south of Colombia, Ángela and her sister Juliana venture into Nasa indigenous land. There, their father, an Afro-descendant farmer, was forcibly disappeared some time ago. After 30 years of avoiding the fact, Ángela has a dream in which her father asks her to find him.
As the sisters traverse the country, they have conversations that reveal their father's profile and the challenges he faced as an independent rice farmer. They also delve into topics related to the land where he worked: an indigenous territory where the agricultural, armed, and social problems of the country are magnified. Accompanying this journey are the testimony of the sisters' mother, the introspective grandmother, and an unexpected radio resource.
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