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] => At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government is determined to fight Communism with culture. The Venice Biennale, the world’s most influential art exhibition, becomes a proving ground in 1964. Alice Denney, Washington insider and friend of the Kennedys, recommends Alan Solomon, an ambitious curator making waves with trailblazing art, to organize the U.S. entry. Together with Leo Castelli, a powerful New York art dealer, they embark on a daring plan to make Robert Rauschenberg the winner of the Grand Prize. The artist is yet to be taken seriously with his combinations of junk off the street and images from pop culture, but he has the potential to dazzle. Deftly pulling off maneuvers that could have come from a Hollywood thriller, the American team leaves the international press crying foul and Rauschenberg questioning the politics of nationalism that sent him there.
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TAKING VENICE uncovers the true story behind rumors that the U.S. government and a team of high-placed insiders rigged the 1964 Venice Biennale – the Olympics of art – so their chosen artist, Robert Rauschenberg, could win the Grand Prize.
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[text] => While you may not know his name, chances are high you know his work. Laurie Olin is responsible for many of the most iconic and beloved parks, gardens and public spaces in the country, including the Getty Center gardens, Battery Park City, Columbus Circle, the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, the Washington Monument grounds, Bryant Park, Mission Bay, and Independence Mall to name a few. But his imprint on cityscapes extends all over the globe.
Olin’s motivation has always come from the social aspects of urban design, working passionately to keep cities viable for all citizens with a special focus on the economically marginalized. Over the course of a career spanning fifty years, Olin has aspired to create a level playing field—a more democratic, egalitarian society through shared public spaces.
Given the disproportionate growth of the world’s largest metropolises with more people than ever before being born, living and dying in cities, Olin and his collaborators like Frank Gehry, urge us to take a closer look at the health and survival of our cities. They reveal how our sense of place is either degraded diminished through overbuilding and neglect, or enhanced through purposeful design and social encounter.
Olin's life story will become a launching pad for the exploration of themes and ideas about the world in which we live: the overwhelming disconnect with nature, the effects of population explosion, the failed promise of the suburbs, the global water and climate crisis, and building economically-driven environments instead of human ones.
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[text] => Crimes are being committed in all social classes against girls and women in Baghdad. Particularly since the American war and occupation of Iraq. Subconsciously all women feel threatened that they can be the next victim of violence at any moment.
This reality pushes, investigative journalist Zahraa Ghandour to investigate the story of her childhood friend Noor. When both girls were only 9 years old, Zahraa witnessed Noor's family dragging her away, leading to her abandonment and disappearance. In her journey to find her missing friend, Zahraa uncovers secret worlds of abuse against women, crimes that happen with impunity and stories of girls who have managed to escape their disappearance.
Through a multifaceted search that pans back and forth in time, Zahraa must navigate her girlhood trauma and reality, where the death and disappearance of women are a daily occurrence in a war-ravaged Iraq.
With other women survivors who choose to fight back, Zahraa challenges reality by imagining a life free of fear for Iraqi women. She asks: how is it possible to find the truth about what happened to Noor in the middle of this chaos? How does one break out of this endless cycle of fear that everyone here is stuck in?
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[text] => Update: the INVERSE SURVEILLANCE PROJECT
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.
[logline] => When journalist Assia Boundaoui investigates rumors of surveillance in her Arab-American neighborhood in Chicago, she uncovers one of the largest FBI terrorism probes conducted before 9/11 and reveals its enduring impact on the community.
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When journalist Assia Boundaoui investigates rumors of surveillance in her Arab-American neighborhood in Chicago, she uncovers one of the largest FBI terrorism probes conducted before 9/11 and reveals its enduring impact on the community.
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[text] => Since she could walk, Estefanie has donned the insignia of the nonviolent resistance movement that defines her life – red and green for blood and land. Growing up in the most dangerous country in the world for environmental defenders, her mom, Alicia, raised her as the first child to participate in the Indigenous guard, the grassroots force protecting their territory from armed groups seeking control. Her gleeful imagination prevails against a ceaseless war. As Estefanie grows up from age 6-13, she develops a deeper understanding of the violence that shapes her childhood. We began filming in early 2018 as armed conflict was returning to their territory in Cauca with the failed promise of Colombia’s historic peace accord. Assassinations of social leaders exploded, and members of the guard became targets like never before. At age seven, Estefanie witnessed the aftermath of a massacre that killed five members of the guard from their community. Alicia, facing death threats like every other leader from their movement, was forced to grapple with a profound question as a mother: prioritize her and her daughter’s safety, or remain committed to the Indigenous Guard and teach young Estefanie the courage of seeing one’s life as inherently bound to the collective. A feminine portrait of war and resilience through the prism of motherhood, the documentary shows the relational forces that hold people together for a cause, bound to an ancestral struggle "until forever."
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[text] => Ex Libris is a hybrid non-fiction film incorporating animation, collage, and first person narrative to frame my grandfather’s story as he did: through his collection of exlibris, an art form now almost forgotten. Exlibris, or bookplates, are small limited edition prints, commissioned to commemorate the people, places and times of the collector. Those graphics marked and commemorated what was most meaningful to my grandfather. On the surface, he was an ordinary man caught in extraordinary circumstances – Vienna in the early 20th century, a time of cultural and political ferment; the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Nazi occupation of Vienna. He was also an eccentric dreamer who created a personal iconography, a vibrant universe parallel to his everyday life as a neighborhood pharmacist.
The bookplates, which contain great visual beauty and narrative expressiveness, will be the center of the film. Through animation, hand-drawing, and collage they will be illuminated, manipulated, and re-imagined. The film will reconfigure my grandfather's world and refract it through high-definition video, super 8mm film, archival footage, family photographs, and cityscapes. Marco’s diaries provide a narrative spine; allowing his rich, observant voice to offer content and commentary.
A companion book and interactive website where collectors can upload images and stories of their exlibris will enlarge the scope of the film and support my intention to ignite a renewal of exlibris culture.
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Bought/Broken
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The film unfolds on two interwoven threads. One follows those earlier students who, during a time when Germany’s democracy felt secure and the return of fascism seemed unthinkable, investigated their town’s forgotten Jewish past. The other follows me and a new generation of students, twenty-five years later, as we reopen the same archives together. Across decades, our shared search uncovers what happened to the Jews, the disabled, political dissenters and LGBTQ+ individuals, who were forced to flee or deported to their deaths — and what these stories reveal about how democracy unravels.
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[text] => Mortality and cardboard. Artist James Grashow has been rooted in both since the 1960's. The scale of Jimmy’s work ranges from massive corrugated sculpture installations to tiny, intricate drawings. He’s also a prolific woodcut illustrator, carving allegorical pieces for showcases such as the New York Times, a Jethro Tull album and the set of Seinfeld. With nearly 100 exhibitions – including The Met and MoMA – this multifaceted maestro has worked tirelessly, eclectically, brilliantly for 6 decades.
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JIMMY
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[text] => The vivid and deeply personal stories at the heart of "Unlocked" have not been heard before. Because of the power and diversity of these stories, we believe Unlocked has the authenticity and breadth of vision to inspire the deep shift in values and attitudes needed to realize a healthcare system rooted in principles of recovery.
Accounts are shared from very different perspectives. Former patients, people of lived experience, peers, family members, direct care staff, clinicians, administrators, inmates, law enforcement, and corrections personnel share markedly different realities. Seen together, these varied points of view provide an overview that supports better understanding and open dialogue. Even the most painful stories offer hope.
Since the release of "Kings Park" in 2012, we have seen over and over the power of putting a human face on the story of public mental healthcare. The response to our screenings nationwide has been overwhelmingly positive and equally passionate in colleges, hospitals, peer organizations, national conferences, jails, provider settings, and advocacy groups.
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• A sample Video Library of viewable and searchable clips of uncut documentary scenes and interviews;
• Streaming access to the documentary "Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution."
We are now seeking funds to complete the digital learning site.
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[text] => When Martina Radwan, an accomplished cinematographer, meets sixteen-year old Baaskaa on a film shoot about homeless kids in Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar, she decides to intervene. She sets him up with a foster family and supports him financially. Initially successful in helping Baaskaa, Martina takes on two more teens, Nasaa, a girl, and Vanni, a boy. Unprepared, but determined, she becomes the teen’s unofficial, long-distance surrogate mother and advocate, encouraging them to heal and change. Despite their language barrier, cultural differences and physical separation, this unlikely family by choice develops a deep, intimate bond.
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One doesn’t have to travel far to find teens like Baakaa, and Nasaa and Vanni. This film allows the young powerful voices, which are generally ignored, to be heard and to inspire us to overcome boundaries, personal as well as cultural ones and to broaden our definition of community and family within the global world we are living in.
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Learn more
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In the winter, they take care of the house and work in the fields. They plant, pick, or weed olives and potatoes. At night, they stay home, exhausted. In the summer, they are “Machtat”, or traditional musicians. They go from one wedding to the other, to celebrate and bless the marriages of young women, to guide them and get them prepared for their new lives as wives.
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The Boy and the Suit of Lights
Hoping to rescue his family from poverty, young Borja is torn between tradition, controversy, and identity as he aspires to fulfill his family's dream of becoming a bullfighter.
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