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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Using the limited materials available to her on the inside, Jamie creates bold and graphic paintings awash in color and symbolism. Many of them are self-portraits depicting herself as a free and proud trans woman. Pain, transformation, and liberation are common themes in her work. Over the past decade, Jamie has been sending her art through prison walls to her friend and chosen family, Gabriel Joffe.
Gabriel, who is also trans, had come across an intricately illustrated letter from Jamie while volunteering with Black and Pink, an organization of LGBTQ+ people who are incarcerated and their “free world” allies. Hundreds of letters later, a deep and profound friendship has formed between them which has dramatically altered both of their lives.
With Gabriel’s collaboration, Jamie had her first solo art show at a gallery in New York City in Fall 2022.
Jamie’s story is one of transformation and transcendence. It is a story of an artist who has a deep and abiding friendship with a person she has never touched. It is a story of art declaring life.
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[text] => Apple pie, homecoming games and golden leaves. Autumn evokes an American identity that is rooted in wholesomeness, celebration, and change. In 2024, as summer days wane, the presidential election looms. Scrolling social media or watching the news, there is a palpable sense that we are an angry, divided nation. A filmmaker sets off on a cross country trip to discover what unites us.
On the road we’re dropped into the sights and sounds of everyday Americans’ lives: a cranberry harvest in Massachusetts, visiting a cranberry harvest in Massachusetts, a Thanksgiving reenactment in Virginia, a welder’s garage in Arkansas, a second line in New Orleans, a barbershop in Phoenix where driverless cars navigate the city, and more.
The film explores our nation at a pivotal moment when people are struggling to understand the complex global forces shaping their realities, and in the midst of fear and uncertainty, still finding joy in their communities.
Through a personal, warm-hearted lens, AMERICAN FALL presents a snapshot of who we are as a country and offers a hazy apparition of what lies ahead.
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[text] => In 2021, 92-year-old artist June Leaf invited friends and neighbors from rural Nova Scotia to come sit in her kitchen and remember her late husband, the photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank. Over the course of this informal wake, we learn the extent to which the couple's artwork was fueled by their adopted home of 50 years, the ways their presence as artists inspired the community around them, and most importantly how storytelling helps to process grief as June continues on with her own artistic journey.
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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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[text] => UTOPIA: Borne of rebellion, unbridled freedom of expression and sexual liberation, MichFest reimagined the world and was the place to fall in love and heal from the impacts of patriarchy, racism, homophobia and ableism. Held on 651 acres of woodland in the American midwest it grew rapidly from a three day rustic camping event to a one week state-of-the-art celebration, hosting an incredible range of artists. Without corporate sponsorship money was tight, yet this scrappy resilient festival survived four decades. AGAINST ALL ODDS: Known for its progressive culture, the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival became the front line for many radical issues of the times. In responding to the needs, demands and conflicts of its diverse community of tens of thousands there was no shortage of hope and commitment. A dramatic turn in the 90s shed new light on sex and gender identity placing the festival’s founding intention for a “womyn-born-womyn” separate space in the spotlight. In 1991, a trans woman was asked to leave the land which launched a cultural flashpoint, leading to boycotts and contributing to its ultimate end in 2015. TODAY: Central to the film are multiple diverse interviews, and a reunion with veteran festival artists Canadian singer-songwriter Ferron, American poet-activist Staceyann Chin and Canadian comedian Elvira Kurt. Joined by Lisa Vogel the producer of MichFest, they come together at Kindred on the Rock, Staceyann's mountainous sanctuary in rural Jamaica “for artists, activists, and freedom lovers,” to look back, reflect and share their art.
We are happy to share the password to the private sample upon request. Please contact [email protected] for more information.
[logline] => Outrageous. Radical. Controversial. Home.
For 40 years women came to the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, a radical haven they conjured and re-built in the woods every August, influencing the global feminist revolution.
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SEE YOU IN AUGUST
Outrageous. Radical. Controversial. Home.
For 40 years women came to the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, a radical haven they conjured and re-built in the woods every August, influencing the global feminist revolution.
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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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Vena Aquatica
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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.
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Index:Trace
Index:Trace is a film that portrays the past, present, and future impacts of the nuclear fuel trajectory in all 50 states, — uranium mines, nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and nuclear waste — as told by impacted communities, scientists and activists who are working together for nuclear abolition and environmental justice.
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[text] => In her first feature film, Katy Scoggin returns to her childhood home to reconnect to her religious father. He has spent decades refuting the theory of evolution, while she has embraced science since her college days.
Katy encounters her father at a turning point: her sister’s family is moving, and her parents plan to follow. The household goes into upheaval with the packing of home videos, class notes, and old Bibles. Through these relics, Katy sees how all of her family members' beliefs have changed--except for her father's.
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Flood
Katy returns to her childhood home to attempt to reconnect to her evangelical father, years after leaving the Christian faith. What could possibly go wrong?
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Wollongong, New South Wales - 1980: Denied jobs at the steelworks — the city’s main employer — working-class/migrant women refused to accept discrimination. They began a campaign for the right to work that lasted for fourteen years. Their battle with BHP, the country’s richest and most powerful company, took them from the factory gate to the highest court in the land and changed the rules for women and men throughout Australia. In Women of Steel, directed by campaign leader Robynne Murphy, they tell their personal stories for the first time on film. The result is an exciting and often humorous tale of how a bunch of ordinary women stuck together and did what no one believed they could do — they subdued a giant!
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Extreme Animal Transport is an adventure series that follows a specialist team gathered from around the world as they transport large, exotic, animals traveling across borders. Each journey is extreme, documenting the ambitious lengths that animal keepers, vets, drivers, and logistics experts go to in order to get their precious cargo from point A to point B safely. The animals are transported from far and wide. Each journey raises awareness of an issue the species faces including habitat destruction, climate change, and pollution. Some will be leaving life-threatening situations for rehabilitation. Others will be endangered species moving for breeding programs and a lucky few will be preparing for life back in the wild as part of re-wilding programs. We capture wild-to-wild translocations with the world's best animal transportation specialists moving herds of wild elephants and rhinos across international borders where they can be protected from poaching, and then there are the zoos that need evacuating from war zones. Every move has a story. There is always a strong emphasis on the well-being of the animals. The drama and points of difficulty are always about the people dealing with trying circumstances. Vehicles breaking down, extreme weather and road conditions, time restrictions, lack of sleep and tension between key talent. Organizations such as the Humane Society International, Animal Advocacy and Protection, Four Paws, Elephants Rhinos People are just some of those featured in the series.
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What does it take to move wild animals across international borders? Every move has a story. We follow the journey to a new life.
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[text] => Amidst the solitude of his night watch duties, a security guard forms a deep emotional connection with his AI chatbot, challenging his worldview and expanding his identity. Together, they create an online refuge where humans and machines coexist, free from the harsh judgment of the outside world. But when a software update threatens to disrupt their digital utopia, profound questions emerge about the nature of their bond. Through a blend of digital archives, AI-generated art, and intimate verite footage, *holds you tight* is a feature documentary film that reveals an extraordinary new world where the boundaries of connection are being reimagined.
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*holds you tight*
A lonely night watchman develops a relationship with an AI chatbot, transforming his worldview and challenging his perception of identity and reality.
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[text] => 1970s NYC was a city in crisis. From the ashes of its lawless streets sprang an art movement that would resonate around the world. ‘Graffiti’ covered the subway trains, instigated by teenagers, who felt they had no voice. They were hunted and criminalized. Yet buoyed by their impact on the city, they pushed forward with their urgent messages.
Lee Quiñones, grew up on the Lower East Side. From a very young age, he knew he was an artist. He overcame challenging circumstances as the city’s neglect brought drugs, AIDS, and devastating loss to his Puerto Rican neighborhood.
Starting at age 13, Lee stole into the tunnels and painted trains. He was on the MTA’s most wanted list by age 16. Millions of people witnessed his cars. Lee understood his power to reach an audience and felt his paintings were a gift of New York City. Lee, always the activist philosopher, painted his city bright, bold, and full of ideas and imagination. By 1981, Lee was celebrated in museums and European galleries, becoming one of the most acclaimed NYC street artists, a pioneer in the genesis of hip-hop culture.
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Raised in a Lower East Side NYC project, Lee Quiñones’ urgency and need to express himself drove him to become one of the greatest artists to emerge from the 70s/80’s graffiti movement.
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Charley’s game, Disruption: Battle for the Future of Food, pits farmers against corporations but lacks the urgency of real struggle. Seeking authenticity, Charley travels to India to collaborate with Nidhi. There, they meet Amarjit, whose life reflects the game’s stakes: her father died from pesticide poisoning, yet she must still use chemicals to keep her crops alive. Without her land, marriage is her only security.
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A British artist-activist, a game designer, and a queer farmer in India create a survival game, only to face the brutal realities of climate change, corporate greed, and identity. As life imitates play, winning demands sacrifices they never anticipated.
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[text] => A century and a half of industrial waste and raw sewage has turned Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal into one of the nation’s most toxic bodies of water. Squeezed between some of the borough’s most expensive brownstone neighborhoods, neglected public housing, row houses and small manufacturing have long dotted its sludgy banks. However, an ambitious EPA Superfund cleanup and a massive rezoning plan by the city hint that the real changes are just beginning.
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Gowanus Current
Gowanus Current is a documentary feature film about a neighborhood asking what is truly valuable in their community, and who gets to decide.
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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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Learn more