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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Milisuthando

‘Milisuthando’ is a coming-of-age personal essay film on love and what it means to be human in the context of race, explored through the memories of Milisuthando – who grew up during apartheid but didn’t know it was happening until it was over.
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Let There Be Life

Three live threatened by a community in fear.
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ELEGY

The film is a testament to the love and strength of the African American community in Harlem during the time of COVID-19. ELEGY is as much a poem for the dead as it is a tribute to the living.
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My Love Affair With Marriage

Unaware that Mythology Sirens are plotting to trap her and that her own biology is a force to reckon with, Zelma, a fiery, free-spirited girl, sets out on a 23-year quest to find perfect love and lasting marriage. An animated feature film for adults.
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In Balanchine's Classroom

Balanchine’s former dancers reveal startling new facets of the legendary choreographer as they open the door to his private classroom - his laboratory, set against their present-day efforts to keep his legacy alive.
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The Invisible Extinction

Superstar scientists Gloria Dominguez-Bello and Marty Blaser confront an international public health emergency - the loss of our ancestral microbes – while three patients with life-threatening diseases triggered by this disruption explore experimental treatments to save their lives.
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The Place That Makes Us

Among the abandoned industrial ruins of Ohio, a new generation is determined to rebuild home.
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1946: THE MISTRANSLATION THAT SHIFTED CULTURE

A journey which unveils the mystery of how theology, history, culture, and politics led to a Biblical mistranslation, the man who tried to stop it, and the impassioned academic crusade of the LGBTQIA+ Christian community-driven to discover the truth.
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999: The Extraordinary Young Women on the First Official Transport to Auschwitz

“66% of millennials cannot say what Auschwitz was” even fewer know that the first Jewish transport to Auschwitz was 999 teenage girls and young women. Discover the truth behind this historical #MeToo moment and meet three survivors of the first transport, who are in their 90s, and their families.
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Do No Harm!

American healthcare is sick. Six young doctors are trying to heal it.
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The In Between

The in Between is a portrait of a unique community that follows the exceptional but very normal lives of the citizens of the sister cities of Eagle Pass, Texas and Piedras Negras, Coahuila along the U.S. / Mexico border, offering an intimate look into the heart of Mexican-American identity.
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Being BeBe | The BeBe Zahara Benet Documentary

An ambitious immigrant from homophobic Cameroon struggles to build a successful career as a drag performer in the US after winning the First Season of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
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The Long Friday

When 90% of Iceland’s women decided to go on strike one morning in 1975, they brought their country to its knees and catapulted to #1 on the global gender equality index. Powerfully told by the women who lived it - the true story of 12 hours that sparked a revolution.
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Every Day Is a Holiday

A war veteran and P.O.W. takes a complicated path to U.S. citizenship, made more dramatic by his daughter's discovery of his wartime diary.
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Shudderbugs

Upon return to her childhood home after her mother’s sudden death, a woman’s grief spirals down a rabbit hole of suspicions and misconceptions, ultimately leading her to an unexpected awakening.
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PERSIS

PERSIS is a documentary film exploring the legacy of the unheralded model-turned-actor Persis Khambatta.
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Ohero:kon - Under the Husk

Two Mohawk girls on a journey to becoming women, take part in their traditional passage rites ceremony.
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Seams

A filmmaker’s parachute obsession begins a journey investigating Irish and Northern Irish women’s labor during the Second World War. Animations interweave with women’s testimonies of divisions in neutral Ireland, partitioned Northern Ireland, and war-torn Britain. Questioning ‘enemy’, nationalism and colonialism, Seams also celebrates women and their culture’s movement toward peace.
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