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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The religion they create is rooted in magic and play, while also a critique of institutional structures that have historically excluded queer people. Through this film, the girls reclaim certain aspects of religion like unconditional love and community, using it as a tool to bring queer and “othered” kids together.
However, as the religion grows and their misfit disciples gather, tension builds between them. Madi, as the figurehead of the religion, becomes more confident, both in her strangeness and queerness, while Josie’s jealousy and insecurity grows as she feels Madi slipping away. Finally, after playground sermons, midnight pond baptisms, and unruly followers, the religion sparks a school-wide panic, which ultimately leads to a Judas-like betrayal.
Our film is inspired by a fact Carmela's Catholic School told her growing up: a pelican will rip off its own flesh to feed it’s blood to its children. The school used the pelican as their mascot, claiming it as a parallel to Jesus sacrificing his own flesh and blood to save humanity. The pelican will be a constant motif throughout the film, and serve as an integral player and divine presence in the religion.
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“God is a Pelican” is a stop-motion animated short that follows two misfit middle-school girls’ intense, queer, and turbulent friendship as they create their own religion.
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[text] => Madinah Wilson-Anton, a Black Muslim hijabi Delaware State Representative for the most ethnically and racially diverse neighborhood in the state, is known for her passionate politics and biting humor. When she's not advocating for her community as a politician, she's shaping perceptions of it in her other role -- as a standup comedian.
“STAND UP FOR MADINAH” is a short documentary exploring Madinah's two roles. The film showcases her comedy, where she uses humor to navigate her identity as a Black Muslim woman in the U.S. It highlights bold actions that raise her national profile, like publicly advocating for a ceasefire in Gaza and staging a hunger strike outside the White House, but also subject her to online trolling and criticism. And through intimate interviews and behind-the-scenes footage, the film delves into what her choices say about how Black and brown women can use their voices in today's America, and the challenges progressive politicians face from the country's political divisions. As the 2024 elections approach, the film shows Madinah grappling with a crucial question: In today's political climate, can she successfully fulfill her roles as a lawmaker and a comedian, or will she be compelled to pick one over the other?
[logline] => “STAND UP FOR MADINAH” follows the first female Muslim legislator in Delaware as she challenges the Biden administration on the ongoing war in Gaza. When she is not confronting the establishment, Madinah is spending time at comedy clubs trying her luck to find success as a local stand up comedian.
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[text] => It’s Sunday night, 1993, and we’re at Café Tabac—an intimate French bistro in New York’s East Village. The hum of conversation mingles with the soulful mixes of DJ Sharee Nash. The party starts early at dinner, a slow burn of clinking glasses and flirtatious glances, until the room fills up with a diverse cross-section of New York’s lesbian community. They include artists, fashionistas, activists, (the newly coined) “celesbians” and their preferred friends and family. The party’s hosts, Wanda Acosta and Sharee Nash, Nuyorican-Latina and African American respectively, inspire a distinctive energy to the night, where women of color felt especially celebrated and represented. The air is thick with cigarette smoke, laughter and possibility as the night erupts into something electric. The collective boldness of the women is so unfamiliar yet entirely infectious, that the room buzzes. It inspires, affirms and imprints an unshakeable new way of being. Word of the party travels around the world and lesbians begin to make their way there from afar. It changes lives, and those women go on to change the world. This isn’t just a party—it’s a sanctuary and an incubator.
“Sundays at Café Tabac” take us on an unforgettable journey into the heart of this fleeting yet pivotal moment in time, when this weekly gathering—during a thriving era of lesbian nightlife—became a cultural touchstone. From 1993 to 1995, this legendary lesbian night filled with head-turning fashion wasn't just a place to see and be seen—it was a vibrant, radical act of self-definition. When visibility was a matter of life and death for our community, Café Tabac provided a defiant stage for those refusing to be erased, its impact resonating far beyond the walls of this party.
Through over 60+ personal narratives of the LGBTQ+ patrons, hosts, and icons who found both refuge and revelation here (which include filmmaker/activists Maria Maggenti, Rose Troche, Guinevere Turner, Catherine Gund; models Jenny Shimizu, Eve Salvail, Patricia Velazquez; writers Jacqueline Woodson, Sarah Schulman, Linda Villarosa, Hilton Als, Michael Musto; performers Lea Delaria, Marga Gomez; musicians Meshell Ndegeocello, the band BETTY; downtown & fashion icons Patricia Field, Edwige; and so many more)—the film weaves a story of nightlife, activism, and the unprecedented surge of lesbian media representation in the early ’90s. Against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis and political battles over LGBTQ+ and women’s rights, the film is more than just about a party. It presents a front row seat to early ‘90s culture and history and shines a light on the vital yet overlooked contributions of lesbians—many among Café Tabac’s community— to these movements through organizing prowess, vision, creativity, boldness, defiance and sheer brilliance. Their impact still echoes today, despite the history books failing to acknowledge their role.
Directed and Produced by Karen Song, a Café Tabac alum, and Produced by the party’s co-host Wanda Acosta, the film blends intimate interviews with evocative fashion-forward recreations styled by Rebecca Weinberg—Emmy-winner for “Sex & The City” (with Patricia Field), animation by multi-Emmy winner Lauren Fisher, never-before-seen archives, and an original score by multi–Grammy-winning musician Meshell Ndegeocello. Edited altogether by award-winning filmmaker Rhys Ernst, the documentary pulses with the energy of an era when nightlife, activism and for the first time ever, lesbians omnipresent on mainstream magazine covers, primetime TV and the like—were inseparable.
Sunday nights at Café Tabac intrinsically is the story of VISIBILITY. Once we were able to see ourselves unapologetically be our full selves, celebrating and being celebrated by each other, it fostered a profound personal empowerment—grounded in the power of community— that each person carried out into the world. The radical glamour on display, is also a reflection of how our creative impulses can signal a challenge to the status quo, of not just survival, but a defiant and poetic celebration and expansion of one’s identity and community. “Sundays at Café Tabac” uncovers the idea that nightlife is visibility as a practice, a necessary in-person practice. And its impact can last decades after that “last call” on the night the party ended in 1995.
With the unfathomable overturning of Roe v. Wade, “Don’t Say Gay” legislation passed as LAW in Florida, school book bans and LGBTQ language, government institutions & programs, archives and libraries being disintegrated before our very eyes—where our bodies, history, rights and visibility are undeniably under attack—we can see how progress can suddenly be erased… how we can be disappeared. It is clear how important visibility is as a regular practice that we need to keep fighting for, in physical, media and virtual landscapes. It is not just a given. Visibility is just one of the many battlegrounds where we have to fight for our right to exist and for our truths, because those who control the narrative—as we witnessed in the ’80s during the AIDS epidemic—have the power to distort who we are and ultimately cause us grave harm.
As forces seek to disappear and silence our community once again, “Sundays at Café Tabac” is more than a reflection on the past—it’s a reminder of our collective strength, caring, legacy, and the spaces and world we continue to create for ourselves. Queer folks have always found a way, and part of that pathway is paved with the radical need to celebrate ourselves and our lives—together. Nightlife has long been a cornerstone of queer history and activism. The “Sundays at Café Tabac” documentary springs from this rich historical legacy. This is our history. And it’s time to bring it into the light.
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Sundays at Café Tabac
Step into the electrifying realm of radical glamour, where Sundays at Café Tabac immortalizes the iconic lesbian night that lit up New York’s East Village from 1993 to 1995. A vibrant celebration of diversity and unapologetic self-expression, this unforgettable gathering not only transformed lives but also mirrored the surge of visibility that sent shockwaves through mainstream media—during a time when being seen was a matter of survival.
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[title] => Being BeBe | The BeBe Zahara Benet Documentary
[text] => BEING BEBE is a documentary feature film about performance, persistence, and purpose, as explored through the iconic life of BeBe Zahara Benet, the first winner of the culture-shaping phenomenon RuPaul’s Drag Race. With 15 years of intimate access, BEING BEBE is a celebration of Queer Black Excellence that bears witness to the highs, lows, and dramatic evolution of one remarkable artist over time.
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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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[text] => As a young lawyer working in the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1960s and early 70s, Stephen Bingham is involved in many of the progressive causes of the day, including civil rights, the farm workers’ movement, the anti-war movement, and prisoners’ rights. On August 21st, 1971, he is the last person to visit imprisoned Black Panther leader George Jackson before what government officials allege is a prison break out attempt that leaves six dead, including three prison guards and Jackson himself. Bingham is accused of passing a gun to Jackson and is indicted for murder. Fearing for his life Bingham assumes a false identity and leaves the country. He spends the next 13 years as a fugitive, living mostly in Paris where he remains actively politically and meets his future wife. In 1984, he turns himself in to authorities, claiming his innocence. After a high-profile trial, he is acquitted in 1986 and returns to his work as a legal aid lawyer serving poor people.
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[text] => The Source of Life (Te Puna Ora) is an artful telling of a burgeoning environmental movement in French Polynesia. We follow three indigenous women - a community leader, a spearfisher and a teenage activist - as they cultivate an alliance at the front lines of climate change. Inspired by the myths and rituals that shape their nature based culture, these unlikely leaders move beyond bureaucracy and toward ground-up empowerment. Together, they oppose overdevelopment, take back indigenous land, and ultimately demand recognition from international leaders. Their journey is mirrored by a parallel fictional storyline of the myth of goddess Hina while she, like them, sails through the south pacific, faces a storm and finds purpose. This is a story of how a small community can give hope for global change.
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[text] => Mariluz Canaquiri says her river is the “ɨa” (ee-ah)—the center, life force and mother. Her river deep in Peru’s Amazon provides her with fish to eat, water to drink, a transport route and a place to swim and relax. But it is also much more. Underneath the surface live the Karuara, which means “people of the river” in Kukama, Mariluz’s native tongue.
If a person disappears in the river and their body is never found, it means they have transformed into a Karuara. These spiritual beings live in underwater villages in a parallel universe. They lounge in hammocks made of boa constrictors, smoke sardines and wear crayfish watches, stingray hats and catfish shoes.
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This film follows Mariluz, a remarkable Kukama grandmother, and her community, as they struggle to adapt to the modern world and save their river and culture.
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Karuara, People of the River
A film about spiritual beings that live in the Amazons’ rivers, and an indigenous community’s struggle to save these sacred water guardians.
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[text] => In 1960 thirteen-year-old Zumra Nuru, born into a conservative Muslim farming family, had the courage to challenge the status quo. Looking at his mother laboring in the field alongside his father all day, he questioned why his father rested at the end of the day, but his mother continued to work into the night. He watched children beaten for being unable to do tasks that were beyond their ability. In 1972 he convinced a handful of people to break from this old oppressive way of life and to join him in creating a new society. Sixty-six people came together to launch what is now the Awra Amba community, settling in a small village in southern Gondar. Today in Awra Amba, there are no assigned gender roles, no child labor, no clergy, and no inheritance laws based on bloodlines. What exists instead is a shared effort to build a society rooted in fairness, cooperation, and mutual care.
The film weaves together daily life, historical memory, and political tension. In 2023 regional conflict broke and several leaders including Zumra were forced into exile. Yet even from afar, they continue to lead, holding Zoom meetings, and launching businesses. Structured around contrast, the film follows the outside world: a country unraveling under pressure but stays close to Awra Amba as it continues building a better society. What can the world learn from an African village that has done with so little what so many have failed to do with so much more?
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For over two years THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED team has been designing and producing the INVERSE SURVEILLANCE PROJECT, an immersive co-created new media installation designed and produced by the Arab and Muslim American communities in the Chicagoland area. The installation will take the form of a life-sized labyrinth that will be the canvas for an immersive community archive experience that repurposes the thousands of records collected during a decade of FBI surveillance (as depicted in the film) as a site of collective healing and a reclaiming of narrative. To learn more, visit InverseSurveillance.com
All donations through WMM will now go to support The Inverse Surveillance Project. Thank you for your support!
In the Arab-American neighborhood outside of Chicago where director Assia Boundaoui grew up, most of her neighbors think they have been under surveillance for over a decade. While investigating their experiences, Assia uncovers tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents that prove her hometown was the subject of one of the largest counterterrorism investigations ever conducted in the U.S. before 9/11, code-named “Operation Vulgar Betrayal.” With unprecedented access, THE FEELING OF BEING WATCHED weaves the personal and the political as it follows the filmmaker’s examination of why her community fell under blanket government surveillance.
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[text] => When almost all the women of Iceland walked off the job and out of their homes one fall morning in 1975 refusing to work, cook, or take care of the children, they brought their country to its knees and catapulted the island nation to its status as one of the best places in the world today to be a woman. Told for the first time by the women themselves and timed for release in the lead-up to the strike’s 50th anniversary, the story is subversive and unexpectedly funny. “We loved our male chauvinist pigs,” recalls one of the activists, “We just wanted to change them a little!” This is the true story of one day that changed everything. The Day Iceland Stood Still is a collaboration between U.S. director Pamela Hogan, who campaigned as a high school student in the 1970s with her activist mother to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, and Icelandic producer Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir, who at the age of 7 accompanied her mother to that very strike in 1975 and thought that when she woke up the next morning “everything would be perfect.” The E.R.A. never passed in the U.S., and Iceland still isn’t perfect – but it’s the only country to have closed over 90% of its gender gap, and committed to reaching full equality in the near future. There’s a famous saying: “The only thing new in the world is the history you do not know.” We hope this story will inspire viewers all over the world to reimagine the possible.
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[text] => Her name is Vena. She lives on a small patch of land with fourteen volcanos. Vena walks through a mellow-paced visceral dream, a tropical journey. Thriving despite gender-based violence and guided by her ecofeminist beliefs, Vena nurtures a boundless relationship with water and land.
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The Vena Aquatica project encompasses El Salvador’s most urgent contemporary challenges: water access, water contamination, human migration, family disintegration, U.S. intervention, and gender inequality. Women breathe life into this story, and they teach us about climate patterns, water levels, the life of trees, what it means to heal intergenerational trauma and through their spirits we form a tender and emotional bond with water and the environment.
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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] => On April 8th 2022, I saw Kramatorsk train station shortly after a Russian rocket obliterated the lives of 51 civilians and saw the bloody remains of women, children and elderly scattered like rags on the platform. I was angry and enlisted in the National Guard of Ukraine. I learned how to treat the wounded and how to survive on the battlefield. I was the only woman in my unit but I gained their respect and found friends. My commander allowed me to film but it was made clear that my job as a soldier came first.
Focusing on life on the frontline, I am both a witness and protagonist in a documentary that follows the transformation of average civilians into combat veterans and what they lose on the way. Life at war has given me an overwhelming clarity of who people really are and amongst all the pain, destruction and moral ambiguity, there are genuine moments of joy, love and human decency. Now, as a recently promoted lieutenant I am torn between the wish to be with my mother who worries me every day, and the responsibility to the young men I now command. I am also a woman in a world of men. For now, I am showing no weakness to my men because they rely on my experience to stay alive. Yet, I have not let go of my hope in humanity and deep down inside, I'm still a girl who wants to dance and be a mom.
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The Soldier's Journey
What does it take for Helena, a filmmaker to pick up a weapon in the most ruthless war the world has experienced since World War II and still try not to lose hope in humanity and the future?
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