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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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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Little Sallie Walker
In LITTLE SALLIE WALKER, four black women from across the generations recount how they once discovered pleasure, refuge, and power in childhood play. As they continue to navigate a less than idyllic American landscape, each contemplates if play is magical enough to save them now.
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SOORA – Breaking the Silence
Men can abuse, apply force on, humiliate, rule over and speak for women in Iran – legally. Five female activists run a one-year campaign to stop domestic violence against women – the director being one of them. They face resistance from society, religion and state, but believe in one goal: passing a law to make domestic violence a crime.
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Small Family, Happy Family
As India grapples with its booming population, women have been caught in the crossfire - sterilized in horrific conditions at the hands of the government. Through the narrative of Mitilesh, a young mother who undergoes sterilization, the film reveals how reproductive health policies affect the country’s most vulnerable.
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Women In Blue
A high-profile police shooting rocks the Minneapolis Police Department, and its reform-minded first female chief is forced to resign. Following four women officers— who carry on the fight to transform the MPD and restore community trust—WOMEN IN BLUE explores gender, race and violence in American policing.
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SuperD!ville
We are creating a web series for public schools focusing on social and emotional learning for children with dyslexia and attention issues. Our mission is to help kids succeed in school and life because of, and not in spite of, their learning differences.
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The Kindertransport Journey Project (Working title)
On July 1, 2019, four former unaccompanied child refugees, now between 83 and 92 years old, arrive in Vienna, Austria, to begin a trip retracing the route they took 80 years ago, as Kindertransport children, traveling alone, without parents, fleeing to save their lives.
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memoirs of a snitch
A scholarly and astute student is up for a prestigious scholarship, but when she tries to do the right thing, her life is turned upside down putting her promising future in jeopardy.
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All We've Got
More than 100 bars, bookstores, art and community spaces where LGBTQ women gather have closed in the past decade. Join us as we travel the country to find out why these spaces matter and how some are managing to survive despite the odds.
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Marianne
Seven French Muslim women take back the narrative of their lives, defying the uniform idea of the “oppressed Muslim woman” created by the French media and politicians. In a national context of increasingly intolerant secularism, they push the viewer to question their own assumptions on liberty, feminism, identity and secularism.
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PERSONHOOD
PERSONHOOD tells a different reproductive rights story – one that ripples far beyond the right to choose and into the lives of every pregnant person in America.
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Choices
An unexpected pregnancy forces 27-year-old Zazie Clarke to make a choice... or, in this case, both choices. In parallel universes, Zazie’s choices to become a mother and to have an abortion propel her to confront self-doubt, the judgments of others, and a love she thought she’d left behind.
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THE SUM OF OUR PARTS
While supporting her partner Kelly in his gender confirmation surgery, Roseanne is triggered by her sexual trauma and faced with an unexpected opportunity to pursue legal action against her abuser. THE SUM OF OUR PARTS follows the couple on a quest to reclaim their identities and help each other heal.
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Send Us Your Brother
Send Us Your Brother is a feature-length documentary about Masculinity. Filmed over two and a half years, the documentary is a rich, and deeply intimate look at what it means to be male in India today.
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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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Razing Liberty Square
Razing Liberty Square is a feature documentary about the development, decline and redevelopment of Liberty Square, Miami, the oldest segregated public housing community in the history of the United States. Best known as setting for the Oscar-winning movie Moonlight.
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untitled ALL ARTS PBS Series
In real conversations, our host (TBD) explores how artists work: their unique processes, materials, the intricacies of each artist's work; and how artists live: their neighborhoods, gentrification, the economy, politics, navigating a career and personal life.
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Hard Hatted Woman
In an industry that is over 97% male-dominated, women in blue-collar construction trades are confronting gender stereotypes entrenched not only among carpenters and crane operators but also in our culture at large. Theirs is a fight to reshape the labor movement and overcome the most enduring economic barriers for women.
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