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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SORORITY CONFIDENTIAL
SORORITY CONFIDENTIAL tells the unexamined story of racial discrimination in one of the largest and most exclusive private clubs in America: white college sororities.
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THE BENGALI
Crossing many borders, one woman travels from the African-American community of New Orleans, the city of her birth, to Bengali India, where her grandfather came from. The untold story of ties between South Asians and African-Americans in the U.S.
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Own It! Louis Kelso’s Macroeconomic Fix
Does capitalism work better if everyone owns some capital? In this one-hour, for-PBS documentary, we see how lawyer Louis Kelso’s ownership plans, championed by Senator Russell Long, gave the country enough opportunity to find out.
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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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Impossible Town
When her father dies unexpectedly, Dr. Ayne Amjad is thrust to the helm of a decades-long struggle to aid a southern West Virginia town beset by cancer-causing chemicals.
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Unlocked aka Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution
"Unlocked" is a groundbreaking digital learning site created for people going into healthcare and professionals already working in the field. Building on the success of the "Kings Park" documentary, "Unlocked" features a wealth of personal stories with individuals who have experienced the U.S. mental healthcare system firsthand.
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My Name Is Andrea
A cinematic evocation of key moments from the life of feminist outlaw Andrea Dworkin, maverick thinker and intellectual genius of the 20th Century. Through innovative use of archival footage and expressionistic dramatizations, the film pushes the creative boundaries of biographical documentary to challenge the current narratives on gendered violence.
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Then They Came for Us
After becoming the target of a neo-Nazi “troll storm” and receiving thousands of death threats against her, a Jewish American woman reaches into the past to overcome her present trauma.
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Laughing in Afghanistan
Can laughter change the world? Karim Asir, the Afghan Charlie Chaplin, wants to change the world using pantomime and humor, amid bombs and destruction and gives performances with laughter his only weapon.
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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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Fire Tender
Yurok Tribal Members return fire to the land toward cultural and ecological healing.
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Adios Amor - The Search for Maria Moreno
The discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot—Maria Moreno, a migrant mother who sacrificed everything but her twelve kids for farmworker justice. The first female farmworker in the U.S. hired as a union organizer, Maria’s story was silenced and her legacy buried—until now.
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Reproductive Choices: Revisiting La Operacion
A documentary challenging the long-held belief that the U.S. government forced Puerto Rican women to be sterilized; the truth is more complex and examining the evidence from the women themselves casts a whole new light on this story.
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Coach Emily
Emily Taylor, a Black woman and rock climbing coach in Oakland, CA, battles systemic racism in her professional and personal life as she strives to empower her students, all young girls of color, and connect them to the outdoors.
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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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Mama: Black Motherhood in Crisis
Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and the reckoning of systemic racism in America, Mama is a powerful, intimate documentary about the multi-pronged threats facing Black mothers, and the effects of racism on their health and their children.
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I Am the Revolution
The inspiring story of three women risking their lives to incite political, activist, and armed uprisings in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq.
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Firelighters: Fire Is Medicine
Our relationship with fire is out of balance, leading to catastrophic wildfires. FIRELIGHTERS follows Yurok, Karuk, and Hoopa burning rights activists as they share their knowledge and provide solutions to this global problem.
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