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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By way of inclusion in a treasured childhood activity that is typically unavailable to immobile children, the film demonstrates that when children with disabilities are given opportunities to access the generally inaccessible, they can not only improve their physical condition but also reach emotional milestones by experiencing the same freedoms, independence and ‘normalcy’ they perceive in the atypical children all around them. And for the many parents who have to spend hours upon hours navigating an inadequate health care and educational system, having a reason and the ability to be outdoors with their child is a welcome reprieve. As parents share with Sandra the daily struggles they experience from having to sue local school boards every year to unexpectedly losing an essential therapy, the film will show how the current systems are in dire need of improvements.
The film gives first hand access to a community that lacks access to much of the world to illustrate how inclusion can give all people with disabilities an equitable quality of life.
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[text] => Set against a backdrop of climate disruption and forest loss, ROOTS OF RESILIENCE weaves two stories infused with hope and urgency, in Northern landscapes linked by salmon and historically vast forests.
An urgent race to protect remaining old growth is underway along the Pacific Coast shared by Canada and the US. The world’s largest temperate rainforest is under threat, with stakes made higher by recent American elections. In a region known for indigenous communities with deep cultural connections to the forest, logging continues on both sides of the border. The Tongass National Forest in Alaska is in peril as a new administration proposes to re-open areas to logging and development.
On the same latitude across the globe, rugged moors of the Northern British Isles offer a foretaste of former rainforest, in a landscape transformed by millennia of human impact. Long ago these isles were blanketed by the Caledonian woods to the North. The people of these forests, fierce protectors in their time, inspired Romans to construct Hadrian’s Wall near the boundary between England and Scotland. Today, Scotland and neighboring Ireland are among the most deforested places on earth. Less than 2% of ancient forest remains, yet rewilders dream of forests long lost to early colonization, industry and conflict.
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The film takes place during arguably the most wildly historic elections of our times – when the Electoral College took center stage like never before as political operatives used mechanisms in the Electoral College process to attempt to change the outcome. The film is bookended with never-before-seen footage at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, when violence broke out in an effort to prevent Congress from certifying the Electoral College votes.
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By the time the credits roll, OPOV? offers viewers a complex and nonpartisan understanding of this historic institution created in a bygone time while highlighting the connective tissue that links then and now, so urgent and timely questions we’re grappling with today are not separate and apart from our past but directly informed by it in the present.
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[title] => Unlocked aka Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution
[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.
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• 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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Unlocked aka Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution
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[text] => This documentary film tells the story of a man who we all have come across in our daily lives, the South Asian gas station attendant.
Shantha Murthy, the filmmaker’s father ran away from home as a young boy to escape the extreme poverty in his village in India. He travelled all over the country, hiding on trains, looking for work. He sometimes went for weeks without food, and slept in boxes on the streets. But even in his darkest times, he always believed that somehow, his life would change. He wanted to have a family of his own, hold his wife’s hand with his children and walk through the beautiful gardens in Bangalore. “That was my dream.”
A chance encounter with an American couple he waited on at a hotel would give him that new life. But life in the States would not be the perfect dream come true, as he constantly struggled with money and a family tragedy.
Using home movies, found footage along with intimately recorded telephone conversations, director Karla Murthy poetically reveals her father’s story, a life shaped by extreme hardship, kindness and love, and the tireless pursuit of his dreams.
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The Gas Station Attendant
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[title] => And Then One Day… (formerly SOMETHING REMAINS)
[text] => In the rural German town of Ellwangen, high school students in 2000 were challenged by their teacher to find out who were the last Jews to go to their school. Their discovery of Erich Levi — one of the last Jewish students — inspired a novel that, years later, would cross continents and time to reach me. When I opened that book in 2016 and saw the names of my own relatives woven into its pages, fiction and family collided.
The film unfolds on two interwoven threads. One follows those earlier students who, during a time when Germany’s democracy felt secure and the return of fascism seemed unthinkable, investigated their town’s forgotten Jewish past. The other follows me and a new generation of students, twenty-five years later, as we reopen the same archives together. Across decades, our shared search uncovers what happened to the Jews, the disabled, political dissenters and LGBTQ+ individuals, who were forced to flee or deported to their deaths — and what these stories reveal about how democracy unravels.
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[text] => Index:Trace looks at the entire nuclear fuel trajectory—from its start in the radioactive dust of uranium mines, to the ubiquitous dangers and climate impacts of nuclear power, the apocalypse portended by nuclear weapons, and the irradicable environmental and health consequences of radioactive waste. The film will portray the nuclear legacy that has fundamentally changed the global ecology, distributing radioactive elements throughout the biosphere, affecting the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat—and penetrating into the very genetic material that makes us who we are.
The film presents a people’s history of the environmental devastation wrought by the nuclear industrial complex through ten emblematic events that highlight the intersection of the four indices of the nuclear fuel trajectory—uranium mining, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and nuclear waste.
Narrative sequences about these ten events include: the first atomic bomb test in New Mexico; the fallout from decades of nuclear testing on the Marshall Islands and in Nevada; the catastrophic uranium mining spill on Navajo Land in Church Rock, New Mexico; the partial meltdown of the reactor at Three-Mile Island in Pennsylvania; the FBI raid on Rocky Flats, a plutonium production plant in Colorado; human experiments on unknowing subjects with radioactive materials across the country; the environmental movement in the 1970s and 80s which focused on nuclear abolition; the radioactive waste tanks built during the Cold War at the Hanford Site, in Washington; the ongoing nuclear waste predicament; and the possibility and hope of creating a nuclear free future.
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[text] => Cherine’s Beirut stands for joy, beauty, and creativity. But most importantly it is home. And the tiny vintage shop Dépôt-Vente represents all of that. Whenever she feels down, she goes there. Nawal, the eccentric owner, has her model one of Dépôt-Vente’s upcycled outfits for the shop’s Instagram account, and the world suddenly seems bearable again. Outside the shop’s walls, however, Beirut is falling apart. When she meets the love of her life while travelling abroad, Cherine decides to start a new life with him in the US. While she gladly leaves behind the daily challenges of living in a broken country, cutting ties with home proves difficult. Cherine desperately attempts to hold onto what she lost by making a film about Dépôt-Vente, the place that embodies all the good parts of Beirut that the world seldom sees. Cherine films Claudia, Marc, and other youth working at Dépôt-Vente, and over time, she documents the changes the shop brings about in them. Marc, a designer who hides his queerness from his family, gains the confidence to live life as an openly gay man and becomes a drag artist. Claudia, a shy fashion student, tests her imagination by making wild garments out of everything from discarded gold fabric to leather handbags. Marc and Claudia aren’t the only ones changing, though. Over time, Cherine realizes that while many things remain, nothing is ever truly the same – not even Dépôt-Vente. And after five years of filming, she is finally ready to let go.
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After moving to a new country for love, a filmmaker creates a loving portrait of a Beirut thrift shop that embodies the spirit of her home in Lebanon.
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[text] => Jana spent her childhood between orphanages and streets of Tbilisi. While raising her 14-year-old daughter, Elene, as a single parent without an occupation, she decided to become a surrogate mother. She has to carry someone else's baby for 9 months in exchange for 14.000 USD, an unimaginable amount of money for Jana, of course, she's on board! Jana has already given birth to three babies out of two surrogate pregnancies and is pregnant for the third time. Although she is not living in the streets any more, she is still far from reaching her dream which is to have her own place to live in. It is unclear how many babies Jana needs to deliver to fulfil this dream. The amount of money that seems a lot at first, disappears between her pregnancies, then Jana needs to start the process again. As Jana’s health deteriorates from pregnancy to pregnancy, she thinks of worst case scenarios. However, lacking other options, Jana sees surrogacy as the only way out of homelessness. Elene’s future is a strong motivation for her to carry on through this emotionally and physically hard journey for as long as her health allows. Elene is growing up, so Jana isn’t able to hide her pregnancies from her any more. Her relationship with Elene is the most precious thing for Jana and she is afraid to open up to her about surrogacy. She feels that Elene might judge her, because deep in her heart, Jana does judge herself.
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For an orphan Jana, motherhood has always been priceless. When she has to raise a kid single and homeless, Jana becomes a surrogate mother to offer her daughter the life she’s never had. Nine months and 14.000 USD - is it as simple and priceless as it sounds?
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[title] => 999: The Extraordinary Young Women on the First Official Transport to Auschwitz
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A bright 16-year-old with big dreams, elfin faced, Edith Grosman, her sister, Leah, and 999 other innocent young women reported for national service duty and ended up in Auschwitz.
“There was nothing there when we arrived. It was an empty place!”
Why take girls? If you want to destroy a race of people annihilate fertile, young women. Archival footage and photographs of rare documents reveal: a camp regime of starvation—the equivalent of one tin of cat food per day, per girl; the Slovak government’s payment to the Nazis of $200.00 per girl.
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“We weren’t even adults. We were teenagers, young enough to throw temper tantrums, now we were seeing girls our age dying.”
Now 94, Edith asks, “Why do intelligent people hate? War serves no one.”
It takes a minion of ten men to say Kaddish; our film ends with women saying Kaddish in the very place where Edith’s sister and thousands of other girls, died. “I will do anything to remember the girls.”
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[text] => Gara (59) and her daughter Nada (13) belong to an ancient semi-nomadic tribe that herds animals and forages for medicinal herbs in pristine mountains of Montenegro. They walk for days to reach the impressive range of meadows and peaks at 2,000 m above sea level, evoking Biblical landscapes from old masters’ paintings. At the same time, layers and echoes of complexity reveal the intense bond between mother and daughter. In fact, Gara is not really Nada’s mother, but her aunt. Nada was still a baby when her mother was murdered by her violent husband. The Mountain embraced their wounded souls to heal them.
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While the Sinjajevina landscape is desecrated by military exercises and its animals scared by gun fire, Nada grows from child into a young woman, determined to build on Gara’s resistance and carry on the fight for her land and her identity.
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[text] => "The verdant hills of Casablanca look down on homes and shops jammed chockablock against narrow, twisted streets filled with the odors of spices and dung…."
…And so begins the first sentence of Sandy Stone's groundbreaking 1987 Manifesto, describing Morocco, one of the few places in the world to get a "sex change" in the early 1970s. The Girl Island film begins at the same time, but in a San Francisco hospital, where Sandy languished for months with 27 broken bones after a car accident. Sporting a bushy beard while taking female hormones, she shocked the staff, who wouldn't give her pain meds until The Byrds musicians David Crosby and Graham Nash arrived, yelling, "Do you know who this is? This is one of our best sound engineers!"
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Partway through production, we are fundraising to finish filming and complete the animation!
Buckle up. We're going to Girl Island!
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[text] => A Mother Apart follows Staceyann Chin, Brooklyn’s most outspoken poet-activist and reluctant poster-mom for radical Black parenting as she raises her daughter Zuri, while investigating the past of her own mother who abandoned her as an infant.
Haunted by the recovery of a collection of unopened childhood letters addressed to her mother Hazel in Montreal, Staceyann begins an investigation into the past of a woman whose absence has shaped her poetry, politics, and her relationship with her own daughter, Zuri. Every path she takes uncovers shocking revelations about Hazel’s past, sends Staceyann deeper into a web of dismay around her mother’s choice to leave her behind in Jamaica.
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A Mother Apart (formerly MITM)
A Mother Apart (formerly MITM) is part mother-daughter buddy film, part investigative saga that follows Brooklyn's most outspoken poet-activist Staceyann Chin, as she navigates being a mom while discovering the truth about her own mother who abandoned her as an infant.
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