Media company Refinery29 and fashion brand Kate Spade are working together to provide opportunities to emerging women directors. According to WWD, the businesses are partnering on “Pilot Season,” a program “created to cultivate the next generation of female voices through visually arresting, innovative sixty second stories.”

Danielle Kampf, Katie Boland, Sarah Salovaara, Anna Kerrigan, and Francesca Mirabella and Kylah Benes-Trapp have all directed women-centric one-minute shorts via the Pilot Season project. Their videos will be evaluated by a jury of industry figures, including Rosie Perez, writer Tracy McMillan (“Runaways”), and Completion Films prez Kisha Imani Cameron. Next month one short will be chosen for further development.

Refinery29 president and CCO Amy Emmerich said she wants Pilot Season to give up and coming women filmmakers the chance to speak with execs and producers, or even learn how to pitch their ideas — relatively simple opportunities that women are still routinely denied in show business. “Even as we’re casting and developing projects now, I can see the difference between how women and men pitch,” Emmerich remarked. “Women don’t get enough opportunities to do it and men typically do — there’s an ease about some of these guys [because they have more opportunities] that changes the dynamic when you get in the room.”

Last summer Refinery29 announced it would be teaming up with film studio NEON to purchase and distribute movies. The partners’ titles so far include “Little Woods” and “Assassination Nation.” Refinery29 is also developing TV projects through its R29 Originals, and is home to short series Shatterbox, original web series, and “R29 Features,” a doc series about women making change all over the world.

Head over to Refinery29 to watch the Pilot Season shorts.