Production Assistance Program (Fiscal Sponsorship)

Production Assistance Program (Fiscal Sponsorship) is sponsored by Women Make Movies. Women Make Movies offers fiscal sponsorship services to women-identified filmmakers for film or multimedia projects. This program supports filmmakers in raising funds from government, foundation, corporate, or individual sources.

Fiscal Sponsorship | Women Make Movies You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience. 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. 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. 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.

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% Maxine, a precocious sixteen-year-old in Wheeling, West Virginia, feels safe and loved in the town she calls home.

But as anti-trans policies threaten her healthcare, her mother pushes to leave, forcing the family to confront what home, safety, and belonging really mean. She's The Joint: The Story of MC SHA-ROCK MC SHA-ROCK is the Bayard Rustin of rap, both of whom played crucial and instrumental roles in shaping historic and global movements. Roles that went largely unknown and were often credited to other people.

Bound by a legacy of toxic soil and systemic neglect, three families in a historic Black neighborhood in Augusta, Georgia, wage a decades-long battle against seven industrial giants to survive. Through their unrelenting pursuit and activism, they navigate a grueling seven-year relocation to reclaim the health and dignity they deserve. GOVERNMENT!

The Agencies We Think We Know GOVERNMENT! The Agencies We Think We Know is a series of ten feature documentaries, each one focusing on a U.S. government agency. We will tell the dramatic and unexpected stories of why these agencies were founded in the first place, how they evolved, and how they function today.

A former nun breaks her silence to expose the Church’s most celebrated priest and a system built to protect power at any cost. In 1971, Katy Payne and her husband Roger discovered that whales sing and changed how we see life on Earth. Listening to Whales follows Katy and Chris Clark, who Katy trained on the cliffs of Argentina, as breakthrough discoveries collide with a Navy sonar program killing the whales they love.

A New York artist’s desperate life is shattered and rebuilt in a raw, cinematic odyssey, fusing avant-garde dance, verité documentary, and magical realism into a pulsing testament to the city’s creative soul. The Movement of Violence, Northern Ireland The Movement of Violence, N. I.

is an anthemic love letter to Northern Ireland. An experimental dance documentary investigating how violence lingers in the body, how memory shapes gesture, and how dance becomes an act of release, resilience, and restitution. Before The Feast (Nilam Kātha Kālam) A bittersweet story of love, loss and legacy.

In Kochi’s sea-facing salt marshes, aging farmer Vincent is the keeper of a rare seed for the next generation. When a rising sea conspires to damage his crops, causing his family to drift away, an unexpected tragedy causes the tides to turn. Kokusekihou (working title) A Japanese-born woman lost her Japanese citizenship after naturalizing in the United States.

Stranded in Japan during the COVID-19 border closures, she finds herself living in legal limbo and launches a constitutional challenge against Japan’s nationality law and its single-citizenship principle. The truth about Alice Munro emerged only after her death. For her daughter Andrea, the story is not about legacy or outrage, but about what happens when everyone knows and nothing changes.

Ask Joan, follows the life and work of Joan Price, an 82-year-old sex-positive author and sex advice columnist, who is on a mission to help all seniors – but especially older women – fight society’s ageism to grab all the pleasure they can. When Ani’s mother urges her to turn off the GPS, familiar Los Angeles streets fracture into surreal landscapes of memory and myth.

Ani must find her way through them — only to realize she has to redefine home. Wikipediology is a documentary YouTube series that uncovers the hidden stories behind Wikipedia’s most contested science pages -revealing the messy, human process by which we collectively decide what counts as truth.

GIVE IT A SHOT follows scientists in India and the U.S. developing a new male contraceptive that could revolutionize family planning and improve women’s lives globally. YOU DESERVE TO DIE: The Story of Gamergate Disabling a military aircraft with a hammer is madness. Doing it twice is divine.

This film is a project of Documentary Australia and is sponsored by Women Make Movies as part of our ongoing partnership in support of independent filmmakers. Somewhere Over the Rainbow When an Indian filmmaker turns the camera on her fragmented family and her childhood mentor, a white British man, she uncovers the complex legacies of love and colonisation.

Set between inherited duty and chosen identity, the film is an absurd excavation of what it means to belong. Am I eligible for WMM’s Production Assistance Program if I’m fiscally sponsored by another organization? No, you are not eligible for the Production Assistance Program if you are fiscally sponsored by another organization.

Does fiscal sponsorship provide grants or loans to my project? No. Fiscal sponsorship does not award grants or provide loans to your project. (Women Make Movies does not offer any cash grants, loans, or advances to projects.)

However, fiscal sponsorship does allow you to apply for funds that, as an individual, you would be ineligible to receive. In other words, fiscal sponsorship opens up available sources of funding for your project since many foundations, corporations, and government agencies can only award grants to non-profit organizations. Is Women Make Movies a grant funding organization?

No. Women Make Movies does not award grants or other financial support. At what stage of production can you apply for fiscal sponsorship? You can be a part of fiscally sponsored projects in WMM’s Production Assistance Program as long as you are in pre-production, production, or post-production.

Many participants have also used WMM as a sponsor for distribution grants or to accept donations to do outreach and related community engagement projects. “I would like to thank you for all your support. I was very lucky to work with WMM and I am sure without your support I could not make this film.

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