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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ETEL AND THE MOUNTAIN
ETEL AND THE MOUNTAIN is the definitive portrait of one of the world’s greatest living artists and poets, 94-year old Lebanese-born Etel Adnan. The film follows Adnan over two years as she draws, paints and reflects on life with philosophical depth and feeling, teaching us about life, art and time.
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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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THE SUM OF OUR PARTS
While supporting her partner Kelly in his gender confirmation surgery, Roseanne is triggered by her sexual trauma and faced with an unexpected opportunity to pursue legal action against her abuser. THE SUM OF OUR PARTS follows the couple on a quest to reclaim their identities and help each other heal.
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Own It! Louis Kelso’s Macroeconomic Fix
Does capitalism work better if everyone owns some capital? In this one-hour, for-PBS documentary, we see how lawyer Louis Kelso’s ownership plans, championed by Senator Russell Long, gave the country enough opportunity to find out.
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Hwangsa: Colour of the Wind
Hwangsa: Colour of the Wind is a cinematic portrait of monstrous dust storms. From the deserts of Western China to the shores of California, the film rides the winds of climate change, dropping us into the lives of eight characters, none who can take for granted the air they breathe.
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All We've Got
More than 100 bars, bookstores, art and community spaces where LGBTQ women gather have closed in the past decade. Join us as we travel the country to find out why these spaces matter and how some are managing to survive despite the odds.
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SEEDS
SEEDS is an ethnographic portrait of a centennial African-American farm in Thomasville, Georgia. Using lyrical black and white imagery this meditative film examines the decline of generational black farmers and the significance of owning land.
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Prison Show
A small community radio station in Texas reveals the tentacular reach of the United States penal system, whose grip goes far beyond prisons, and from which it is impossible to escape.
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Hyde Park
Hyde Park is a character-driven documentary that follows an African-American community over 18 years as they struggle to fight environmental racism in Augusta, Georgia.
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LOST IN TRANSLATIONS
LOST IN TRANSLATIONS (LIT) is the quest for Biblical truth. A journey which unveils the mystery of how theology, history, culture, and politics led to a Biblical mistranslation, the man who tried to stop it, and the impassioned academic crusade of the LGBTQIA+ Christian community-driven to discover the truth.
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Most Dangerous Women
A century of women’s activism and leadership towards peace and equality in the United States and across the globe encourages both contemplation and action, at a time many among us search for personal purpose and new ways of being.
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How To Power A City: Stories from the front lines of the clean energy revolution
Citizens from all walks of life, fed up with government bureaucracies and Intransigent fossil fuel providers, fight to bring clean power to their cities and homes. Who will prevail — those seeking a cleaner future, or those with a death grip on the fossil fuel past?
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The Fight
Inside the ACLU, a team of scrappy lawyers battle Trump’s historic assault on civil liberties.
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The Letter / Barua
Filmed with a gentle pace and incredible closeness, The Letter is an intimate family portrait that ascends into a dramatic climax of Shakespearean proportions.
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The Sky Is Red
From 1968 to present day, the strange counterculture world of ultimate frisbee has been a backdrop for incredible change. In The Sky Is Red, five underrepresented and marginalized individuals push for racial, class, and gender equity in the sport.
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COAST
16-year-old Abby’s small town trappings and her mother’s unlived dreams are closing in on her when she falls in love with the lead singer of a punk rock band who introduces her to a world of possibility and self-expression.
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