Since its inception, the Production Assistance Program has assisted in the completion of hundreds of projects, including Oscar-winning documentary CITIZENFOUR by Laura Poitras, Oscar nominee STRONG ISLAND by Yance Ford, and Sandi Tan’s SHIRKERS, which won the World Cinema Documentary Competition Award for Best Directing at Sundance in 2018. In the last 5 years, WMM’s PA Program has helped 136 films reach completion and assisted filmmakers in raising more than $28,000,000 from government, foundation, corporate or individual, and crowd-funded sources.
Below you can browse, learn more about, and support select films fiscally sponsored through our Production Assistance Program. You can take part in helping women’s visions reach the screen by making a tax-deductible donation to any of the projects featured here. With your help, we can continue to see advancements in feminist filmmaking every day. Hopefully, with our collective efforts to support these artists, more opportunities and celebrated accomplishments will continue to flourish.
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Unlocked aka Kings Park: Stories from an American Mental Institution
"Unlocked" is a groundbreaking digital learning site created for people going into healthcare and professionals already working in the field. Building on the success of the "Kings Park" documentary, "Unlocked" features a wealth of personal stories with individuals who have experienced the U.S. mental healthcare system firsthand.
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62 Days
When Marlise died, the battle for her life began. 62 DAYS tells the story of Marlise Muñoz, a brain-dead pregnant woman whose family was forced to keep her on life support against her wishes.
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As Prescribed
“Benzo warriors” fight a grassroots battle to save others from the devastating consequences of the little pill they took as prescribed.
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Call Me Lucky
Henry Schloss, a young Holocaust survivor who lost every member of his family in the camps, develops the obsession of filming his son once he becomes a father. Inside, however, he struggles with undiagnosed Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Game On
GAME ON is a feature-length character-driven documentary about BAFTA-winning game designer Brenda Romero. In the last thirty pioneering years, Brenda has contributed to nearly fifty game titles, developing innovative video and board games in a male-dominated environment. Can she sustain video game gold?
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The Cow That Sang a Song About The Future
Agonizing animals mourn the tyranny of the human race and foretell a new social order, while a family reopens the wound that was left by the mother’s suicide.
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Youngstown
Among the abandoned industrial ruins of Ohio, a new generation is determined to rebuild home.
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River of Grass
A time-traveling guide channeled by the land recounts the Everglades’ violent past and warns of Florida's precarious future. Told through Miami journalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas's The Everglades: River of Grass (1947), the film explores how Florida’s vulnerability to climate change is historically rooted in the Everglades’ ongoing legacies of settler colonialism.
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Sitting Still
Artist, scholar, architect, landscape architect, professor, author, urban visionary, and unparalleled designer of cities, Laurie Olin is a true Renaissance man who, along with world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, takes us on a visual, eye-opening journey through natural and built environments, revealing the connective tissue for creating healthy and humane societies.
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Every Day Is a Holiday
A war veteran and P.O.W. takes a complicated path to U.S. citizenship, made more dramatic by his daughter's discovery of his wartime diary.
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A Place of Absence
A Place of Absence follows filmmaker Marialuisa Ernst’s search to find meaning and connection with Anita and Leticia, two Central American women traveling to Mexico as part of the Caravan of Mothers of Missing Migrants. As the group searches for sons and daughters who vanished en route to the U.S.
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Truth or Consequences
Faced with a dying Earth, humanity built a spaceport in the desert of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Those who could, left in search of new planets to call home. This is the story of the people who stayed.
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EL RETORNO / THE RETURN
EL RETORNO follows Aura, a cleaning woman in Manhattan. Shouldering numerous burdens and overcoming struggle, her willpower helps her survive in her two worlds. Amidst a tenuous political backdrop Aura returns to Colombia to the dream house she’s built but will that ultimately bring her the peace she longs for?
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Gowanus Current
GOWANUS CURRENT is a hybrid observational documentary and tone poem chronicling rapid changes to a notoriously polluted neighborhood in Brooklyn. It explores the textures of its transforming landscape and the struggles of its stakeholders, asking what is truly valuable in a community.
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Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
In search of her authentic self, a South Carolinian Geechee girl wakes up in Paris another starving writer living at the Beat Hotel; after a failed marriage and work as a Moon Goddess with Sun Ra Arkestra, her best-selling cookbook changes how the world talks about women, race and food.
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Small Family, Happy Family
As India grapples with its booming population, women have been caught in the crossfire - sterilized in horrific conditions at the hands of the government. Through the narrative of Mitilesh, a young mother who undergoes sterilization, the film reveals how reproductive health policies affect the country’s most vulnerable.
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