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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In 1997, seventeen-year-old Devi, was arrested, accused of being a rebel, tortured, and raped in custody. A civil war had just begun. Rebel leaders revealed her as a rape ‘victim’. Tagged with this shameful taboo, Devi battled depression, social ostracism, joined the rebel frontlines, and rose through the ranks, even serving as a member of the parliament when the war ended.
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[text] => Deep in a lush valley of the Colombian Andes, where the scars of a violent history still linger, thousands of people are quietly forgetting who they are.
After her brother is killed in a conflict that has raged on for generations, Paola watches her mother and other members of her family mysteriously lose their memory by the time they reach middle age. What Paola doesn’t yet know is that this mysterious pattern is part of something much larger. In the region of Antioquia lives the world’s largest known family with a genetic mutation for early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.
As Paola searches for answers, local researchers Dr. Francisco Lopera and Dr. Lucía Madrigal race against time, and against deep-rooted cultural and systemic barriers, to unlock the potential cure hidden in the DNA of this family, while the world finally begins to take notice.
Providencia is a story told through an ensemble of deeply human lives that converge for a collective story, of not just medical science or individual destiny, but of resilience. Far from a tragedy, the film is a testament to perseverance, and the power of community. Audiences will leave not with despair, but with awe for the scientific journey and a renewed sense of what it means to truly live, as Colombians have done through every kind of adversity for generations.
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Twenty years after her first, successful creative cinematic engagement with the Kindertransports, the film My Knees Were Jumping, Remembering the Kindertransports, the first film made on the subject of the Kindertransports, Melissa revisits this history in her intimate, emotionally compelling style, enriched by years of experience as President of the Kindertransport Association, working intimately within with this community. As in My Knees Were Jumping, in this new film, Melissa will create a compelling, emotional, informative narrative, and a film rich with compassionate insight. As an organizer of and participant in the trip, Melissa will deftly interweave her personal voice and observations with those of the Kinder and kt2s on the Journey. In two weeks, a new community is formed.
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A bright 16-year-old with big dreams, elfin faced, Edith Grosman, her sister, Leah, and 999 other innocent young women reported for national service duty and ended up in Auschwitz.
“There was nothing there when we arrived. It was an empty place!”
Why take girls? If you want to destroy a race of people annihilate fertile, young women. Archival footage and photographs of rare documents reveal: a camp regime of starvation—the equivalent of one tin of cat food per day, per girl; the Slovak government’s payment to the Nazis of $200.00 per girl.
Juxtaposing B&W footage with color, children tell their mothers’ stories: Marta was sterilized by Dr. Mengele, her daughter was adopted. Ill with Typhus, Ida’s friends hid her in mounds of clothes. The beautiful Helena Citronova had an affair with SS Franz Wunsch. Postcards sent to and from Birkenau reveal a dramatic correspondence that ends abruptly. On Chanukah 1942, 10,000 women were taken to the gas, Edith’s sister, Leah, was one. Afterwards “the camp was empty.”
“We weren’t even adults. We were teenagers, young enough to throw temper tantrums, now we were seeing girls our age dying.”
Now 94, Edith asks, “Why do intelligent people hate? War serves no one.”
It takes a minion of ten men to say Kaddish; our film ends with women saying Kaddish in the very place where Edith’s sister and thousands of other girls, died. “I will do anything to remember the girls.”
Will you?
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[text] => AFTERMATH revisits the scene of a wrenching, highly-publicized hate crime 25 years later. When Brandon Teena arrived in Falls City, Nebraska, in November of 1993, the 20-year-old’s handsome looks swiftly won him friends and a pretty girlfriend. Three weeks later, on Christmas Eve, Brandon was brutally raped and beaten by two new-found “friends,” enraged when they discovered that he was transgender, presenting as male, but assigned female by birth. The two men came to murder him that New Year’s.
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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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[text] => 1946 reveals the ground-breaking research of Kathy Baldock, a Christian Conservative LGBTQIA+ activist and Ed Oxford, an LGBTQIA+ theologian, in their quest to, discover what factors ignited the anti-gay movement within American conservative Christians. The filmmaker, Sharon “Rocky” Roggio, started this pursuit in an effort to find common ground, within scripture, for her and her conservative father, Pastor Sal Roggio. What has been discovered along the way stands the chance to profoundly change the language of inclusion and to better the lives of both conservative Christians and the LGBTQIA+ people they love. The removal of the LGBTQIA+ person from the sin category is akin to this century’s abolition of racial discrimination and the passing of women’s suffrage. There are two sides of history to stand on.
C.S. Lewis said, “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
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[text] => In 1977 former President Richard Nixon told television interviewer David Frost, “If it hadn’t been for Martha, there’d have been no Watergate…” So, who was this infamous woman – and what was behind this bold claim?
Martha Mitchell was the wife of Nixon’s Attorney General John Mitchell, who many believed to be the second most powerful man of the time. She boldly spoke her mind to eager reporters about the dirty tricks of the administration, and her outspokenness cost her dearly. Gas-lighted and discredited by the administration; it was female journalists who took her stories and allegations seriously.
Martha Mitchell has mostly been forgotten by history. Her name may be best known for a psychiatric misdiagnosis coined the “Martha Mitchell Effect”, where patients are labeled delusional, when in fact they are telling the truth.
THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT tells the story of one woman who spoke inconvenient truths and was summarily dismissed. Sadly, this pattern continues for women nearly fifty years later. But it is also a larger tale of the impact of political dirty tricks on American society. What happens when we dismiss warnings because they are deemed illegitimate by the powers that be? On the heels of two unprecedented Presidential impeachments and rampant political corruption, the time to revisit Martha’s tale couldn’t be more prescient.
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[text] => Arrested at 16 for robbery and sentenced to life without parole, Terrence Graham fought his way to the Supreme Court and won a chance at freedom. In a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled in Graham v. Florida that children convicted of crimes other than murder could not be sentenced to life without the chance of parole. The decision changed sentencing of young people across the country and Terrence himself was re-sentenced: he wouldn’t die in prison. But even as thousands of people were released off his case, Terrence remained locked up for 20 years. It wasn’t until February 15, 2024, that Terrence Graham walked out of the Duval County Jail at 37 years old.
THE PRISON OUTSIDE is an autobiographical film about Terrence’s next chapter. It’s about the freedom he won in Graham v. Florida and the freedom he still does not have.
On strict probation, Terrence has to complete two years of house arrest and GPS monitoring while finding his footing in a world he has never experienced as an adult. Any mistake could send him back to prison.
Success not only requires Terrence to make it through probation—he also has to mature into adulthood, revisiting memories of childhood and incarceration to unlock the freedom he fought so hard to get.
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Little Sallie Walker
How did generations of Black women and girls across America, including the film's director, find themselves fighting for joy and healing? LITTLE SALLIE WALKER, an intimate documentary, explores how their precious worlds of play collide with a unique set of traumas and struggles from both the past and present.
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