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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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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Personal Statement

Three seniors at Brooklyn high schools are determined to get their entire classes to college, even though they aren't even sure they are going to make it there themselves.
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MIDDLE SCHOOL 243

A love letter to the much-maligned years of early adolescence and one public school that has successfully eliminated bullying and reduced social anxiety while fostering self-esteem and cultivating academic excellence for over 30 years.
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My Mis-Education in 3 Graphics

My Mis-Education in 3 Graphics documents the filmmaker’s darkly humorous journey through the mind-boggling constructs of mainstream economics. Critics offer some clear-sighted alternatives to the dominating economists' beliefs.
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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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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 three women officers— who carry on the fight to transform the MPD and restore community trust—WOMEN IN BLUE explores gender, violence and policing in America.
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Do No Harm!

American healthcare is sick. Six young doctors are trying to heal it.
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The Long View

One community's struggle to create schools that work for all its students.
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Picture Character

PICTURE CHARACTER explores the complex, conflict-prone, and often hilarious world of the creators, lovers, and arbiters of emoji, our world’s newest pictorial language.
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Warrior Women

“Warrior Women” is the story of mothers and daughters fighting for indigenous rights in the American Indian Movement of the 1970s. The film unveils not only a female perspective of history, but also examines the impact political struggles have on the children who bear witness.
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A Growing Thing

25 years after the end of apartheid, a black South African mother is training to become a leader in her township community. A glimpse of post-apartheid life from a woman’s perspective.
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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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Bought/Broken

“Bought/Broken” is an interactive experience that examines the relationships and violence of abuse through the lens of objects bought, broken and repaired, evoking memories through objects and exploring the idea of gain and loss. I have been compositing the experiences and stories of domestic violence survivors.
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East Of Town

East Of Town is a feature documentary about an isolated rural town in Southwest Georgia, where an immigration attorney fights for justice in the shadow of one of the largest immigration detention centers in the United States.
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Toxic Beauty

A whistle blower, her lawyer, world-class scientists, cancer survivors and those who have lost their lives, strip a dominant pharmaceutical company of all credibility in this powerful documentary film, while exposing the hard truths about dangerous, unregulated chemicals and toxins in cosmetics and care products.
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Untitled Race & Criminal Justice Project

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Madidi (Working Title)

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Maestra

Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. MAESTRA explores this story through the personal testimonies of the young women who went out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island - and found themselves deeply transformed in the process.
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