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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[text] => My uncle Peter Zak Valentine was born on Valentine’s Day 82 years ago and died in his basement in August of 2022. Long ago diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic but choosing to live his life unmedicated, Peter lived independently, riding the edge between mental illness and magic. Peter was an eccentric, beloved, and respected local legend of the city of Cambridge.
The film follows Peter’s unusual journey, weaving around the extraordinary events surrounding his house, MIT, and the city of Cambridge. In the late 1980's, Peter was not the owner of his rent controlled three-story house. It was divided into apartments, and he rented one of them, living on disability payments. When MIT wanted to demolish his neighborhood to develop and build University Park, Peter refused to move, insisting that he could not leave his apartment because it was his laboratory for research on Electromagnetic Arts, a psychic defense system he had created, developed, and taught. After seven years of Peter’s insistence and many legal hearings, MIT physically moved his house 900 ft to Central Square, positioning it at the exact odd angle which he specified. They also sold the entire house to Peter for a dollar. The rest of the neighborhood was demolished and MIT moved forward with their development of University Park.
The MIT story brings in many larger conversations and questions which are woven throughout the film, specifically around themes of gentrification, rent control, and the increased, looping level of housing shortage that cities such as Cambridge face.
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[text] => Told through the lens of filmmaker and subject Martine Granby, The Mask That Grins and Lies, follows Martine as she wades into the choppy waters of her own family's past, and examines how they’ll move forward once the stigma of mental illness is out in the open.
Both deeply personal and expansive, the film calls into the light the denial that plagues not only Martine’s family but brings to the surface the larger structural invisibility many face in diagnosis, treatment, and daily life. The Mask That Grins And Lies challenges the mythology of the “strong black woman,” offering often-unseen imagery to challenge what it means to not just survive, but thrive, moving forward even without a cure-all.
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[text] => The idea of Les Nickelettes was hatched as a ‘70s vaudeville act at the People’s Nickelodeon, a midnight movie series that ran after-hours at the Mitchell Brother’s O’Farrell Theater. A pornographic film venue was an unlikely beginning for a feminist theater company but sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Les Nickelettes evolved into a brazen women’s lib troupe whose members wrote, produced, and performed original skits, stunts, and musical comedy theater in San Francisco for thirteen years. Anarchy in High Heels addresses the neglected topics of comedy’s role in feminism and the power that arises when women bond together through a shared sense of humor. We seek to disrupt the narrative that second-wave feminism was humorless, and bring to light its satirical, bawdy side as embodied by Les Nickelettes. For Millennial and Gen Z women, this may come as a surprise and serve as a connection between second-wave feminism and today’s burlesque, drag strip shows, gender fluid identities and comedy as a political statement. According to Ellin Stein, author of That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream, Les Nickelettes “served notice that women could be outspoken, raunchy, and above all, funny.” They were part of the tumultuous countercultural adventure that began in San Francisco in the late ‘60s and took the country by storm. Anarchy in High Heels is a snapshot of that unique era.
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[text] => This film is a project of Documentary Australia and is sponsored by Women Make Movies as part of our ongoing partnership in support of independent filmmakers.
Gloria Steinem said, “The final stage of healing is using what happened to you to help others”. This sentiment is never truer than in the work of artists. The Art of Survival is a mixed media documentary, which aims to explore the role of artistic expression as a tool for catharsis, healing and empowerment for survivors of childhood sexual abuse.
Through an exploration of art, dreams and the unconscious mind, our documentary will follow artists, their past, the art form they have chosen to express themselves through, and how their work can serve to start a conversation about surviving the traumas associated with childhood abuse.
The documentary, which follows Welsh-Chinese artist, Choichun Leung, and British concert pianist, James Rhodes, will be a combination of verite-style, fly on the wall documentary, confessional interview, scientific commentary, and animation. We will tell the story of the individual artists, learn about their craft, their process – and their childhood experiences as the driving force behind their work. The animation will aim to make manifest a visual representation of the subconscious effects of the artist’s childhood experiences.
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[text] => In 2009 after she was sentenced to more than two years of imprisonment for solicitation of prostitution, Marcia Powell was locked in a metal cage in the sun at an Arizona prison. Hours later she collapsed in the over 107-degree heat and by day's end, she was dead. Even though an internal investigation carried out by the Arizona Department of Corrections revealed that prison guards had denied her water and ridiculed her when she pleaded for help, no one was held accountable. The story of how Marcia came to be incarcerated and the circumstances of her death reveal the impact that inhumane prison conditions are having on wide range communities of sex workers—including the homeless, young people, transgender people and immigrants—across the United States. The documentary NO HUMAN INVOLVED chronicles how a movement formed around this case, seeking justice in her name.
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No Human Involved
NO HUMAN INVOLVED: a woman is destroyed by a 27-month prison sentence for prostitution in Arizona, the tenacity of those who fight for justice in her name.
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A raw, cinematic, experimental dance film, that features New York’s avant guard arts scene, and encapsulates the life a New York artist through a mash up of original choreography, music, verite documentary, and magical realism.
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[text] => Set against a backdrop of climate disruption and forest loss, ROOTS OF RESILIENCE weaves two stories infused with hope and urgency, in Northern landscapes linked by salmon and historically vast forests.
An urgent race to protect remaining old growth is underway along the Pacific Coast shared by Canada and the US. The world’s largest temperate rainforest is under threat, with stakes made higher by recent American elections. In a region known for indigenous communities with deep cultural connections to the forest, logging continues on both sides of the border. The Tongass National Forest in Alaska is in peril as a new administration proposes to re-open areas to logging and development.
On the same latitude across the globe, rugged moors of the Northern British Isles offer a foretaste of former rainforest, in a landscape transformed by millennia of human impact. Long ago these isles were blanketed by the Caledonian woods to the North. The people of these forests, fierce protectors in their time, inspired Romans to construct Hadrian’s Wall near the boundary between England and Scotland. Today, Scotland and neighboring Ireland are among the most deforested places on earth. Less than 2% of ancient forest remains, yet rewilders dream of forests long lost to early colonization, industry and conflict.
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How women around the world experience and address menopause - a critical and understudied realm of women's sexual health and reproduction.
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In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the “right to die,” igniting a national debate about autonomy and the value of disabled lives. After years of courtroom battles, Bouvia vanished from public view. Sundance-winner Davenport embarks on a personal investigation to find out what really happened to Bouvia and reveal why her story is disturbingly relevant today.
LIFE AFTER brings together the missing voices of the disability community in the ongoing debate about assisted dying, uncovering chilling stories of disabled people dying prematurely. Davenport exposes the intersection of systemic failures and personal autonomy, challenging the idea that assisted dying always represents a free choice, when it can sometimes be seen as the only option.
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Hands On
Two determined women engage in an extraordinary endurance contest to win a car by keeping their hands on it the longest. As years pass, their unwavering resolve leads to an unexpected bond.
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[text] => INDÍGENA follows filmmaker Siku Allooloo’s journey as she unearths the legacy of her late mother, Marie-Hélène Laraque, who founded a groundbreaking Indigenous newspaper at the heart of the 1970s American Indian Movement. Siku was 14 when, on her mom’s deathbed, she vowed to one day share her life’s work with the world. This vow that has taken two decades to fulfill. Now carrying her first child, Siku is determined to claim her lost inheritance and share its vital legacy.
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Learn more