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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[logline] => Witnesses who filmed the deaths of George Floyd, Philando Castile, and others, step forward in this ground-breaking documentary about the police brutality videos igniting global movements. Few realize how witnesses must battle online trolls, surveillance firms, and exploitative social media platforms turning their pain into profit.
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[text] => While you may not know his name, chances are high you know his work. Laurie Olin is responsible for many of the most iconic and beloved parks, gardens and public spaces in the country, including the Getty Center gardens, Battery Park City, Columbus Circle, the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, the Washington Monument grounds, Bryant Park, Mission Bay, and Independence Mall to name a few. But his imprint on cityscapes extends all over the globe.
Olin’s motivation has always come from the social aspects of urban design, working passionately to keep cities viable for all citizens with a special focus on the economically marginalized. Over the course of a career spanning fifty years, Olin has aspired to create a level playing field—a more democratic, egalitarian society through shared public spaces.
Given the disproportionate growth of the world’s largest metropolises with more people than ever before being born, living and dying in cities, Olin and his collaborators like Frank Gehry, urge us to take a closer look at the health and survival of our cities. They reveal how our sense of place is either degraded diminished through overbuilding and neglect, or enhanced through purposeful design and social encounter.
Olin's life story will become a launching pad for the exploration of themes and ideas about the world in which we live: the overwhelming disconnect with nature, the effects of population explosion, the failed promise of the suburbs, the global water and climate crisis, and building economically-driven environments instead of human ones.
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Combining archival footage, animation, music, and text, the bomb offers a visceral, non-linear, and unsettling experience, taking audiences inside the complex cultural and technological realm of nuclear weapons.
Live performances of the bomb were staged at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Glastonbury Festival, the Sydney Festival, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremonies.
The film at the heart of the bomb made its streaming debut on Netflix and can now be found on Amazon, Apple TV, Tubi, Roku, and other platforms.
In the Fall of 2024, a museum-version of the bomb begins a nationwide tour of university campuses.
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The Kids Are Not Alright is an intimate portrait of trauma following three families’ journeys as they work to shed light on the devastating impacts of the Troubled Teen Industry, pursue healing in the absence of justice, and fight to hold abusers accountable.
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[text] => The vivid and deeply personal stories at the heart of "Unlocked" have not been heard before. Because of the power and diversity of these stories, we believe Unlocked has the authenticity and breadth of vision to inspire the deep shift in values and attitudes needed to realize a healthcare system rooted in principles of recovery.
Accounts are shared from very different perspectives. Former patients, people of lived experience, peers, family members, direct care staff, clinicians, administrators, inmates, law enforcement, and corrections personnel share markedly different realities. Seen together, these varied points of view provide an overview that supports better understanding and open dialogue. Even the most painful stories offer hope.
Since the release of "Kings Park" in 2012, we have seen over and over the power of putting a human face on the story of public mental healthcare. The response to our screenings nationwide has been overwhelmingly positive and equally passionate in colleges, hospitals, peer organizations, national conferences, jails, provider settings, and advocacy groups.
With the help of a generous grant from The Foundation for Excellence in Mental Health Care we have completed a project prototype consisting of:
• A sample 2-part Video Curriculum which includes including featured videos of personal stories, topic essays and other teaching resources;
• A sample Video Library of viewable and searchable clips of uncut documentary scenes and interviews;
• Streaming access to the documentary "Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution."
We are now seeking funds to complete the digital learning site.
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[text] => On March 9th 2021, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mailin loses the trial, and the priest that abused her for 15 years is set free. Her world is crumbling. Yet in spite of the wreckage, she goes back home, and so that her daughter Ona can fall asleep, she tells her a bedtime story. A surreal journey thus begins, that in its juggling with reality, reveals to be a metaphor of Mailin's childhood.
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[text] => Meet Johnny Perez, a successful working professional, father, mentor, poet, community organizer, advocate, activist, photographer, filmmaker, felon, and human being. Perez spent 13 years in prison, three of those years in solitary confinement.
Today Perez is committed to ending the practice of solitary confinement nationwide. He was instrumental in helping to pass the recent HALT Solitary bill in NY State.
Perez’s story reminds us that permitting torture inside U.S. prisons does not align with the values of this country.
“We can and must do better.” - Johnny Perez
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8x10: From The Confines of Solitary To The Front Lines of Criminal Justice Reform is the story of one man’s experience with solitary confinement and his journey to change a system bent on destroying his humanity.
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[text] => The idea of Les Nickelettes was hatched as a ‘70s vaudeville act at the People’s Nickelodeon, a midnight movie series that ran after-hours at the Mitchell Brother’s O’Farrell Theater. A pornographic film venue was an unlikely beginning for a feminist theater company but sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Les Nickelettes evolved into a brazen women’s lib troupe whose members wrote, produced, and performed original skits, stunts, and musical comedy theater in San Francisco for thirteen years. Anarchy in High Heels addresses the neglected topics of comedy’s role in feminism and the power that arises when women bond together through a shared sense of humor. We seek to disrupt the narrative that second-wave feminism was humorless, and bring to light its satirical, bawdy side as embodied by Les Nickelettes. For Millennial and Gen Z women, this may come as a surprise and serve as a connection between second-wave feminism and today’s burlesque, drag strip shows, gender fluid identities and comedy as a political statement. According to Ellin Stein, author of That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream, Les Nickelettes “served notice that women could be outspoken, raunchy, and above all, funny.” They were part of the tumultuous countercultural adventure that began in San Francisco in the late ‘60s and took the country by storm. Anarchy in High Heels is a snapshot of that unique era.
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[text] => With the truth under constant threat of erasure in today’s post-truth era, The Archives shines a light on Holocaust memory through the site of the archives. The film accompanies family archivists and institutional archivists on their journeys as they collect, organize, exhibit, and donate the historical archives that prove the gruesome facts of the Holocaust in writing and through artefacts. From cemeteries in Eastern Europe to State Archives in Austria and Brazil, from YIVO to Yad Vashem, from never-opened letters sent from concentration camps to Nazi Aryanization files, these archives will be the only witnesses of the Holocaust once the last direct eyewitness is gone. The film takes us on an emotional and international journey of encounters between family archivists and institutional archivists around the world. Together these archivists are looking for the missing links in interrupted family stories, while bringing erased and hidden pre-Holocaust histories back to life. The Archives shows not only that the documents preserving the history of the Holocaust are alive, but also how crucial it is that they be maintained and safeguarded for eternity.
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The Archives tells the story of Holocaust archivists, quiet warriors who preserve and uncover the truth of history. Their domains are the archives, hallowed places of stored history that are the searching grounds for the victims’ descendants, family archivists excavating the trauma of the past to build a better future.
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[text] => In her first feature film, Katy Scoggin returns to her childhood home to reconnect to her religious father. He has spent decades refuting the theory of evolution, while she has embraced science since her college days.
Katy encounters her father at a turning point: her sister’s family is moving, and her parents plan to follow. The household goes into upheaval with the packing of home videos, class notes, and old Bibles. Through these relics, Katy sees how all of her family members' beliefs have changed--except for her father's.
Thus a rift widens, and a dramatic question emerges: How do you stick together as a family if your beliefs have grown worlds apart?
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Flood
Katy returns to her childhood home to attempt to reconnect to her evangelical father, years after leaving the Christian faith. What could possibly go wrong?
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[title] => River of Grass
[text] => River of Grass addresses the Florida Everglades’ past, present, and future through Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s groundbreaking book, The Everglades: River of Grass (1947) which transformed popular perception of the land from a worthless swamp into a valuable river. Marjory was a Miami-based journalist. suffragist, and advocate for the Everglades until her death at 108 years old. Over haunting Everglades landscapes and an otherworldly soundscape, Marjory's observations of a shifting and developing South Florida contextualize present-day scenes in which a diverse cross-section of people navigate their relationship with a compromised place. Positioning past and present directly in conversation with one another, the film reveals how historical events inextricably shape the present. Together the stories build a complex collective map of a unique and endangered place.
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[text] => AFTERMATH revisits the scene of a wrenching, highly-publicized hate crime 25 years later. When Brandon Teena arrived in Falls City, Nebraska, in November of 1993, the 20-year-old’s handsome looks swiftly won him friends and a pretty girlfriend. Three weeks later, on Christmas Eve, Brandon was brutally raped and beaten by two new-found “friends,” enraged when they discovered that he was transgender, presenting as male, but assigned female by birth. The two men came to murder him that New Year’s.
Critically-acclaimed and Emmy-nominated, THE BRANDON TEENA STORY drew global attention, exposing the roots of violence, hatred, and transphobia in America. It was the first documentary to investigate violence against transgender people in the US, leading to hate crime laws and changes in policing practices.
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Aftermath
AFTERMATH revisits the wrenching, highly-publicized hate crime documented in Emmy-nominated THE BRANDON TEENA STORY, 25 years later. Through the eyes of a community grappling with the impact of Brandon’s life and death, the film explores loss, growth and life for LGBTQ individuals in Heartland America.
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[text] => Mortality and cardboard. Artist James Grashow has been rooted in both since the 1960's. The scale of Jimmy’s work ranges from massive corrugated sculpture installations to tiny, intricate drawings. He’s also a prolific woodcut illustrator, carving allegorical pieces for showcases such as the New York Times, a Jethro Tull album and the set of Seinfeld. With nearly 100 exhibitions – including The Met and MoMA – this multifaceted maestro has worked tirelessly, eclectically, brilliantly for 6 decades.
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The film, JIMMY (w.t.), blends process, obsession, mortality, with the unexpected delight of Jimmy’s humor-filled heart, offering a deeply inspiring portrait of an artist rejoicing in the beauty of life while confronting his greatest fears “one demon at a time”.
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[text] => Roger Cook is arguably the most influential designer you’ve never heard of.
Reducing visual design to its most fundamental forms, American designer Cook created the symbols by which we navigate airports, train stations, and finding the bathrooms. However, while his work provided way finding to the world, he spent his life unpacking who he was down to his bloodline and his very name, which turned out to be an adaptation of Rajie, a name given to him by his immigrant parents from Palestine and lost early on in the fast adjustment to their new life.
Raised as a Church-going, all American child in NJ, Roger shows a drive for art and design, then an explosive field that leads him to the booming world of Madison Avenue. Ever competitive and fiercely original, he starts his own firm and with his partner, comes up with the universally recognized designs that guide the world.
After a first trip to reconnect with his Palestinian roots, Roger reclaims his name, Rajie. Witnessing the ignored suffering of a people from whom he hails and increasingly identifies with, Rajie finds his mission, to tell the story of his people through his visual art.
Using interviews, archival photos and home videos, recordings, as well as AI to bring Rajie’s work to life, our film retraces the biography of this passionate artist.
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Untitled Rajie Cook documentary
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[text] => I have been a film sound recordist most of my life. I have listened to thousands of people’s voices recount their stories into my recorder, and touch audiences around the globe. After decades of recording other people’s voices, this is mine.
My father was an alchemist who turned transistors and cables into emotions and dreams. He worked at Iskra (‘spark’ in English), the legendary Yugoslav telecommunications company, the Apple of its day. Being different was baked into Iskra’s DNA and the country’s “non-alignment” was the defining signature of Iskra.
Our journey of discovery begins with my father but is cut short when he is diagnosed with dementia. I seek out others instead, from East and West.
Weaving in and out of past and present, with unique archive, our tale unfolds: in the 40s Iskra pledged to put their own 35mm projectors into every town in Yugoslavia. One of Iskra’s most celebrated engineers, now 105, was the first woman with an electro-technical degree and a film pioneer. In the 80s it boasted a computer department bigger than Microsoft. Through Iskra, the West could safely do business with the East. In 1988 Gorbachev visited it to understand this Yugoslav ‘cash cow and the recipe for success in doing business with the West.’
Do those that burn twice as bright do so for half as long?
Iskra was so intertwined with Yugoslavia that when the country descended into war, Iskra went with it. Born together in 1946, their fate was inextricably linked.
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Learn more