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WHAT IS FISCAL SPONSORSHIP?
Fiscal sponsorship is the largest component of the Production Assistance Program. It’s designed for women filmmakers who are actively fundraising for their film and need 501(c)(3) non-profit tax-exempt status.
Non-profit tax-exempt status is required by many foundations, corporations and government agencies in order to be eligible for funding since many do not accept application proposals from individuals. Additionally, 501(c)(3) status allows you to receive charitable deductible contributions from individuals—a major incentive for individuals considering making a donation to your project.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
As your fiscal sponsor, Women Make Movies acts as a non-profit tax-exempt umbrella organization that accepts and administers contributions made to your project. WMM is legally responsible for the funds received on behalf of fiscally sponsored projects and must ensure that the funds are used for charitable activities, as agreed upon between the donor and recipient, and that the donor reporting requirements are met in a timely fashion. It does not mean that we are your producers, fundraisers, or in any way connected to the content or actual production of your project. All artistic and proprietary rights, title, and interest in and to the completed project will belong to the Project Director and may be copyrighted in the Project Director’s name.
Fiscal sponsorship does not provide grants or conduct research for individual project funding. Fiscal Sponsorship with WMM is also not a guarantee of Distribution. If your project fits our mission (specifically, it is about women or women’s issues), you may certainly submit your film for Distribution consideration at the appropriate time.
FEES
$35 Annual Fee
WMM serves as the project’s exclusive fiscal sponsor throughout the production of the project. The amount of funds to be raised is a minimum of $50,000 (If you end up not being able to raise that amount, you are not penalized). We will sponsor the distribution and outreach life of a project provided you submit a proposal detailing your plans for this phase when you get to that point.
Administrative Fees
- Regular Contributions: 6%
- National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for Arts, State Humanities Councils or other types of government grants: 7-10%
- Except New York State Council of the Arts (NYSCA): 5%
- Credit Cards: 6% regular WMM fee + 3% fee imposed by credit cards
- When cumulative donations for a single project reach $350,000: 4%
New Sponsored Projects
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[text] => Basketball Heaven follows director Resita Cox as she returns to her hometown, Kinston, NC, an unlikely basketball mecca where Friday night games sell out and dreams take flight from community courts. But unlike traditional sports films, this is not a story about star athletes. This is a story about the people who make them: teachers, coaches, elders, and neighbors who raise and love beyond what they see. Through the lens of two central figures, Ms. Felicia Solomon, an educator and spiritual mother to generations, and Coach Jesse Miller, a community coach and father figure, the film explores how Black resilience, care, and tradition are passed down. Kinston itself becomes a character, shaped by segregation, a forgotten floodplain, and systemic disinvestment, yet still pulsating with culture, memory, and pride.
Alongside beloved mentors like Ms. Solomon and Coach Jesse, we meet Coach Tish Dixon, head girls’ basketball coach at Rochelle Middle School and a former classmate of Resita. A decorated athlete whose pro career was cut short by injury, Coach Tish now nurtures the next generation both on and off the court. With intimate access and lyrical narration, Resita confronts her own scarred childhood and finds healing in the community that helped her survive. At its heart, Basketball Heaven asks: What does it take to pour into others when the world refuses to pour into you?
[logline] => Basketball Heaven follows filmmaker Resita Cox as she journeys through time to her hometown, Kinston, NC: the largest producer of NBA talent in the world. Basketball Heaven is a poetic community portrait of the unsung heroes and rich history of this small, Southern Black town.
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[text] => THE COMA CLUB is a feature-length documentary that intimately examines the lives of a close-knit group of families who met in a VA hospital and have become full-time caregivers for their loved ones as a result of injuries sustained during America’s recent wars. Led by women, these families have formed a community they call the “Coma Club,” a nod to their loved ones’ condition - severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).
No area of modern medicine remains more mysterious than severe TBI, leaving these families uncertain about what the future holds. The injury impacts not only the patients themselves, but also those closest to them - creating a ripple effect as each family member adjusts to entirely new roles and relationships.
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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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The religion they create is rooted in magic and play, while also a critique of institutional structures that have historically excluded queer people. Through this film, the girls reclaim certain aspects of religion like unconditional love and community, using it as a tool to bring queer and “othered” kids together.
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] => Despite growing up far from high peaks, in suburban New Jersey, Zivia's buoyant energy and tenacity for pushing limits led them from gymnastics competitions to the enigmatic world of mountaineering. Today, Zivia strives to expand the scarce collective of Black womxn alpinists seeking to explore the depths of their abilities in the mountains. As Black womxn, acquiring the resources and support to pursue alpinism is challenging. The mentorship and skills required for technical mountain ascents remains largely inaccessible beyond Eurocentric, male-dominated spaces. This determination toward change takes root as Zivia invites a team of fellow outdoor educators, and mentors turned friends, Rosemary Saal and Sof Petros to pursue an unprecedented summit on Mt. Kenya. By climbing independently through the most complex elements of the ascent, Zivia, Sof, and Rosemary are redefining “why” and “who” attempts expeditions at this caliber.
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[title] => The Endless Frontier
[text] => THE ENDLESS FRONTIER immerses us in the lives of three passionate scientists (from Princeton University, University of Utah, and UCLA), each dedicating their lives to researching solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges, from improving human health to solving the climate crisis.
Today is a dangerous time for science, however, and like all researchers, they work in environments where competition for resources is fierce and where their focus is constantly directed away from science to survival. Recent federal funding cuts have intensified this crisis, threatening the future of scientific research in America.
This new documentary exposes the realities of the American scientific research system and the ways scientists are pushing back against that system to improve life for the rest of us.
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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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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.
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[text] => Roger Cook is arguably the most influential designer you’ve never heard of.
Reducing visual design to its most fundamental forms, American designer Cook created the symbols by which we navigate airports, train stations, and finding the bathrooms. However, while his work provided way finding to the world, he spent his life unpacking who he was down to his bloodline and his very name, which turned out to be an adaptation of Rajie, a name given to him by his immigrant parents from Palestine and lost early on in the fast adjustment to their new life.
Raised as a Church-going, all American child in NJ, Roger shows a drive for art and design, then an explosive field that leads him to the booming world of Madison Avenue. Ever competitive and fiercely original, he starts his own firm and with his partner, comes up with the universally recognized designs that guide the world.
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[text] => In 1960 thirteen-year-old Zumra Nuru, born into a conservative Muslim farming family, had the courage to challenge the status quo. Looking at his mother laboring in the field alongside his father all day, he questioned why his father rested at the end of the day, but his mother continued to work into the night. He watched children beaten for being unable to do tasks that were beyond their ability. In 1972 he convinced a handful of people to break from this old oppressive way of life and to join him in creating a new society. Sixty-six people came together to launch what is now the Awra Amba community, settling in a small village in southern Gondar. Today in Awra Amba, there are no assigned gender roles, no child labor, no clergy, and no inheritance laws based on bloodlines. What exists instead is a shared effort to build a society rooted in fairness, cooperation, and mutual care.
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[text] => When New Jersey schools unveil an updated sex education curriculum, including lessons for younger kids and LGBTQ+ inclusivity, the backlash is immediate.
As opposing parents and politicians band together to pressure the state to rescind the changes, three high school students - Louie, Mehr and Max - are caught up in the firestorm. They are on a mission to preserve what they believe is a fundamental right of young people - access to critical information on their bodies, gender identity and sexuality. Over the course of the next few years, NEXT GENERATION SEX follows the tenacity and bravery of these three teens: Louie, an aspiring educator who shares his own fears about coming out; Mehr, an outspoken senior working to stop sexual assault and harassment; and Max, a trans student who is unwantedly the focus of the parental rights extremists. Each must navigate discrimination, public vitriol, and their own personal journeys to protect their rights.
Alongside the teenagers, the film also tracks the fury of parental backlash to the new curriculum and opposition to discussions of sex or gender in schools at all. These “parental rights” groups take over school boards, troll educators by calling them “groomers” and pedophiles, and target student activists, while aiming to control what young people are allowed to learn about their own sexuality, bodies, and relationships.
As this battle explodes into a national firestorm, the film reveals the next generation’s fight to break beyond society’s fear and discomfort, to shape what they value in society.
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Combining archival footage, animation, music, and text, the bomb offers a visceral, non-linear, and unsettling experience, taking audiences inside the complex cultural and technological realm of nuclear weapons.
Live performances of the bomb were staged at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, the Glastonbury Festival, the Sydney Festival, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremonies.
The film at the heart of the bomb made its streaming debut on Netflix and can now be found on Amazon, Apple TV, Tubi, Roku, and other platforms.
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the bomb
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TESTIMONIAL
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