The documentary was made with the help of funding from public media. This on top of sweeping grant cancellations earlier this year at both the National Endowments for the Humanities and the Arts, which both served as important sources of federal funding for documentarians. Won’t stop,” said filmmaker Carol Bash, whose 2015 documentary about jazz musician Mary Lou Williams, Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band, was made with public media support. GBH is a public media powerhouse that produces such high-profile PBS series as Frontline, Nova and American Experience. It’s a moral imperative that’s now being questioned daily.”NPR has also received funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.