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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Call Me Dancer is a story of hope, heartache and hard work. Manish and Yehuda search to uncover who and what they are. Yehuda seeks a purpose and a place to call home. Manish dreams of dancing on the world-stage but struggles to break free from the confines of his own economic and social circumstances.
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[text] => In her deeply personal documentary, comedian Arlieta Hall reveals the complexity of being a caregiver. She channels her creativity in many ways, including spending slow, quiet time caring for her dad at his home as well as telling her stories on the comedy stage. Through intimate verité footage filmed by co-director Brittany Alsot, Arlieta’s raw self-tape confessionals, and comedy show footage, Arlieta breaks the taboo around Alzheimer’s, bringing awareness and offering comedic storytelling tools for dealing with a relative with Alzheimer’s, which is a problem so many people struggle with in silence, especially on Chicago’s under-resourced Southside.
The film follows Arlieta, her father Milton, and Charmaine (Milton’s wife and fellow caregiver) through the ups and downs of daily life. Milton often thinks he’s the principal and Arlieta is the student and Charmaine is his secretary who gets the day off. Through family photos and reminders of his past exploits in music and religion, Arlieta travels with Milton between the past and present.
In the US alone, nearly one in five Americans provided unpaid care to an adult with functional or health needs in 2020 and yet 23% of Americans say caregiving has made their health worse (AARP May 2020). When caregiving ends up being harder than she expected, Arlieta turns to improv and learns to treat Milton like her scene partner by supporting whatever role he plays in the moment. This could be principal/student, officer/truant, father/son, or—in more lucid moments—father/daughter. At the beginning of Finding Your Laughter, we see Arlieta using improvisation in a subtle conversational way which allows her to enter the world of confusion with Milton by supporting what he says to validate him. We see Milton start conversations that go all over the place and Arlieta consistently employs the “yes, and…” technique that is the cornerstone of improvisation to keep him engaged. Through watching Arlieta and Milton interact in the verité and cell phone footage, the audience witnesses how to be patient and supportive to a person with Alzheimer’s, even if they have no idea what this person is saying.
At the same time that Milton’s health is declining, Arlieta’s career is ascending. She becomes an improviser, sketch and stand-up comedian who performs comedy about her father and her life, both of which provide her emotional relief. By sharing these real-life stories, she finds new success and connection with audiences. We will see Arlieta, with the help of her “bonus mom” (step-mom) Charmaine, working on developing and expanding the material she performs at each stand-up show. When Arlieta needs to process something that happened with her dad, she crafts it into a joke and workshops it on the stand-up stage—allowing her to change the story into something positive and return to working with Milton with patience.
Eventually, Arlieta and her ‘bonus mom’ Charmaine must provide 24/7 support. In effect, Arlieta says through tears, the father she loves has become a 2-year-old. We will see through Arlieta’s own filming of daily struggles how, after some time, improvisation isn’t working anymore and has become tricky for Arlieta and Milton as it is harder for him to engage with her. Instead of using complete sentences Milton begins to use gibberish and eats with his hands. Due to Alzheimer’s, he doesn't sit long and wanders off, which makes it frustrating for Arlieta to care-give and communicate with him. When alone, Arlieta gets real about her struggles with her own exhaustion, anger, and despair. We see her raw emotions expressed in the unflinching video diaries, as well as how she remains committed to caring for her father with grace, respect, and laughter.
The film is not trying to sugarcoat Alzheimer’s or the gritty and exhausting reality of caregiving; we are shedding light on how hard it can be. As Arlieta keeps turning to comedy, the audience finds relief along with her, and a new improvisational perspective on life opens up: one that acknowledges that laughter doesn’t cure all ills, but by taking in life’s fullness, we can stay in the moment to find meaning and healing.
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[text] => Storyteller, director, and writer, Roni Jo Draper will guide viewers through the complex story of fire that has been in the making since 1849 when the early settlers entered Yurok territory from the eastern parts of the United States.
Roni, a Yurok tribal member, will weave together three stories: the story of how fire came to the people as a tool and as medicine, how settlers sought to separate the people and land by extinguishing fire, and how the people worked to return fire to the land.
The story is framed by the retelling of how Coyote gathered the peoples of the forest–Eagle, Osprey, Deer, Beaver, and even Frog–to steal fire. The people used fire as a tool to warm themselves, prepare meals, and to purify the land. With fire as medicine for the land, the land thrived.
Roni will also provide an Indigenous telling of how settlers sought to steal fire from the Indigenous peoples of the Klamath River. Over one hundred years later, cultural fire practitioners in this region navigated through miles of bureaucracy in order to ease the state and federal restrictions surrounding fire and are among the first Indigenous peoples of North America to legally burn. State and Federal agencies are looking to Indigenous peoples, in particular Klamath Tribes, to unlock fire’s potential to protect forests from large forest fires that have threatened the land in California and throughout the world.
[logline] => After more than one hundred years of fire suppression, Yurok people are returning Indigenous fire medicine to the land in order to heal the world.
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[text] => In the shadows of Syria's decades-long war, Yasemin fights her own battle within the walls of her home. She struggles to survive and protect her children, forced by an unforgiving society into making heart-wrenching choices. Confronting a mother's deepest nightmare, she leaves her only son in desperation to save her daughter from becoming another victim of child marriage.
Weighed down by guilt and sorrow, her journey leads her to Jinwar—a sanctuary where women, rising from the ashes, have built a village for themselves and their children. In this village, mothers watch their children dream while uniting to transform their sacrifices and pain into hope, drawing strength to challenge the patriarchal bonds that have stolen their dreams, their childhood, and maybe their motherhood.
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Jinwar is a feature documentary about a Syrian mother’s complex relationship with her children, one of which she had to abandon in order to save the other one.
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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.
Borrowing extensively from the visual language and storytelling devices of narrative film, THE PRISON OUTSIDE seeks to immerse audiences in the intimate, everyday experiences of what the prison system does to people and families impacted by the carceral state—one in every two families in America. The film puts a magnifying glass up to the little moments of freedom that Terrence and his family experience so we can all savor their joy. And it cuts through those moments with the very real fear and oppression they continue to face while he is on probation. Through Terrence’s story, told in his words, from his perspective, this film makes the case that the chance of freedom should never be taken from a young person, showing how the rules of probation, house arrest, and ankle monitors can create a prison in the free world.
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It’s rare in the United States to see a film exclusively showcasing the Vietnamese experience of the Vietnam War. The Road to Independence will cover a side of the war that hasn’t been examined by most Americans. We’ve gotten many versions that seem to omit the greatest question - what was it all about? Vietnam has a long record of fighting for its autonomy, from China, Mongolia, France, Japan, and America. Vietnam stands out as a country without monetary resources that has been able to gain independence from some of the most powerful empires in the world. It’s a David and Goliath story. It’s a story that should be told from the voices of the people that lived and fought there.
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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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BARBARA FOREVER is an exclusive look at the iconic life, work, & legacy of pioneering lesbian experimental filmmaker, Barbara Hammer, tracing her prolific canon alongside never-before-seen documentations of her life and body, to reveal Hammer's unconventional attempts to live on forever.
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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.
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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 American culture, when women age, there is an antiquated expectation that they will eventually stop actively participating in culture and society. A working woman over seventy is rarely seen by society--unlike her male counterparts who are revered with age. This general societal assumption must be updated.
There are 76 million baby-boomers and over half of them are women who are in the process of creating a new model for being an older woman. We are in a new age, and the paradigm is shifting. Women are working into their nineties with tenacity and clear minds. Work While You Have the Light exposes the true narrative of aging women by following passionate, curious, fierce and courageous women who are not stopping because of their age.
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[text] => COEXISTENCE, MY ASS! follows activist-comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi as she creates a comedy show by the same name. Shot over five tumultuous years, the film traces Noam’s personal, professional and political journey in tandem with the region’s steady deterioration. Raised in a bilingual Israeli-Palestinian village — the only intentionally integrated community in the country — Noam grows disillusioned with traditional peace activism. She pivots to stand-up and quickly attracts attention across the Middle East. But as her star rises, everything around her falls apart. With biting satire, Noam pushes her audiences to face difficult truths that aren't always funny but do remind us that another reality is possible.
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Coexistence, My Ass!
Noam Shuster Eliassi grew up the literal poster child for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process before making a hard pivot to stand-up comedy and political satire. But as the region sinks deeper into devastating violence, she must meet the moment by challenging people with hard truths that are no laughing matter.
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