Directory of Sponsored Projects
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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Pretty Ugly - The Story of the Lunachicks
The untold story behind NYC's most legendary group of punk rock heroines, 'Pretty Ugly' follows the Lunachicks from the 1980s to today, as their lifelong bond and continued crusade for equality propels them towards a highly-anticipated reunion.
Three seniors at Brooklyn high schools are determined to get their entire classes to college, even though they aren't even sure they are going to make it there themselves.
Fire Through Dry Grass
On a tiny island 500 yards from Gracie Mansion, five men who use wheelchairs and write poetry about running the streets take on the city, the system, and the virus to stay alive and protect 500 vulnerable nursing-home residents.
Adios Amor - The Search for Maria Moreno
The discovery of lost photographs sparks the search for a hero that history forgot—Maria Moreno, a migrant mother who sacrificed everything but her twelve kids for farmworker justice. The first female farmworker in the U.S. hired as a union organizer, Maria's story was silenced and her legacy buried—until now.
ONLINE DIALOGUES
Friends and family from very diverse backgrounds across the globe share intimate stories of how the pandemic is impacting them and their lives. ONLINE DIALOGUES offers a personal look at how age, race, and economic status impact our experience.
Vena Aquatica
Developed from a collection of oral histories belonging to women from across El Salvador, VENA AQUATICA is a hybrid documentary following a woman's journey from child to matriarch, capturing her most intimate struggles and exposing the brutal ecocide brought on by generations of extractive, foreign economies.
Untitled Race & Criminal Justice Project
On Three Wheels
On Three Wheels is a feature-length documentary that brings to light the challenges families raising children with physical disabilities face on a day-to-day basis, and how the gift of a tricycle- taking them from four wheels to three- transforms their lives.
Fencing for the Edge
FENCING FOR THE EDGE follows the emotional and physical journeys of two girls' teams as they compete in the world's largest high school fencing league.
Rembetika Blues
Music has no borders.
Normal Isn't Real: Succeeding with Learning Disabilities & ADHD
Dave, Audrey, Nicole and LeDerick share their unique paths to success as young adults who have successfully met and managed the challenges that come with LD/ADHD.
SuperD!ville
We are creating a web series for public schools focusing on social and emotional learning for children with dyslexia and attention issues. Our mission is to help kids succeed in school and life because of, and not in spite of, their learning differences.
A story of struggle and resilience at the top of the world.
Two Mohawk girls on a journey to becoming women, take part in their traditional passage rites ceremony.
Lawrence Weiner: Writing on the Wall
Lawrence Weiner: Writing on the Wall is an intimate documentary film about the trailblazing artist Lawrence Weiner, who as one of the founders of Conceptual Art helped to revolutionize and democratize the art world in the 1960s by taking his artwork out of the galleries and into the streets.
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.
Being BeBe | The BeBe Zahara Benet Documentary
An ambitious immigrant from homophobic Cameroon struggles to build a successful career as a drag performer in the US after winning the First Season of RuPaul's Drag Race.
Girls of Tomorrow (working title)
At an all-female college in New York City, students from diverse backgrounds are reinventing politics, power, solidarity, gender and activism. Their feminism is innate and their battle cry is "now". These are the faces of tomorrow, the young women who will be shaping our future. Girls of Tomorrow is a