#Chicken & Egg Pictures
Chicken & Egg Awardees Announced: Angela Tucker, Jeanie Finlay, and More
Congratulations are in order: Chicken & Egg Pictures has announced more than $650,000 in new grants to eight recipients of its 2023 Chicken & Egg Award. Created to “recognize the...
Exclusive: Chicken & Egg’s New Project: Hatched Grantees Tackle Gender Identity, Mental Illness, & More
A portrait of an abolitionist trying to heal her family in the wake of incarceration, an animated short presenting gender fluidity through a child’s eyes, and the story of 30 women crossing...
Exclusive: Petra Costa and Tracy Heather Strain Among 2022 Chicken & Egg Award Recipients
Chicken & Egg Pictures has selected the recipients of the 2022 Chicken & Egg Award, which offers unrestricted funding to advanced women and gender nonconforming documentary filmmakers. Women...
Exclusive: Chicken & Egg Pictures and Fork Films Select Participants for Inaugural Story Workshop
Chicken & Egg Pictures and Fork Films are joining forces on a new creative story workshop for documentarians. Women and Hollywood can exclusively reveal that the orgs have selected the...
Exclusive: Abortion Doc “On the Divide” Among Chicken & Egg’s Latest Project: Hatched Grantees
Chicken & Egg Pictures has added seven projects to its 2021 slate of Project: Hatched grantees. Women and Hollywood can exclusively announce that the org, which supports women and gender...
Exclusive: Chicken & Egg Pictures Announces Newest Grantees of Project: Hatched Program
Chicken & Egg Pictures has announced the newest grantees of their Project: Hatched program for feature-length documentary impact. The filmmaking teams behind five projects will receive mentorship...
Exclusive: Chicken & Egg Pictures Selects 2021 (Egg)celerator Lab Grantees
Chicken & Egg Pictures has selected the grantees for its 2021 (Egg)celerator Lab, Women and Hollywood can confirm exclusively. The program awards a total of $400,000 to first- and second-time...
Exclusive: Loira Limbal, Jialing Zhang, & Cristina Ibarra Among 2021 Chicken & Egg Award Recipients
Loira Limbal, Jialing Zhang, Cristina Ibarra, Maryam Ebrahimi, Tatiana Huezo, and Elwira Niewiera will be honored with a $50,000 grant and a year-long mentorship program for their documentary...
Exclusive: Chicken & Egg Pictures Announces Four New Project: Hatched Grantees
Four documentaries with festival premieres that were impacted by COVID-19 will receive grants from Chicken & Egg Pictures. The org, which supports women and non-binary nonfiction filmmakers, has...
Exclusive: Chicken & Egg Pictures Announces 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab Grantees
Chicken & Egg Pictures has announced the 10 grant recipients of its 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab, Women and Hollywood can report exclusively. The program awards a total of $400,000 to women or...
Chicken & Egg Announces 2020 Award Recipients and Introduces Project: Hatched
Chicken & Egg Pictures is ringing in the new year by naming the recipients of its 2020 Chicken & Egg Awards and introducing its newest programs, Project: Hatched and the Chicken & Egg...
Apply Now: Chicken & Egg Pictures’ 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab
If you’re a woman or nonbinary director working on your first or second nonfiction feature, this is for you. Chicken & Egg Pictures is now accepting applications for its 2020 (Egg)celerator...
Chicken & Egg Award Winners and (Egg)celerator Lab Participants Announced
Chicken & Egg Pictures has confirmed the 2019 recipients of the Chicken & Egg Award (formerly the Breakthrough Filmmaker Award) and the selected titles for the (Egg)celerator Lab (formerly...
Chicken & Egg Pictures Receives Amicus Award at IDA Documentary Awards
Given at the IDA Documentary Awards, the Amicus Award “honors individuals or organizations in recognition of their work supporting the essential needs of the nonfiction media landscape.”...
Chicken & Egg Pictures Announces Recipients of Its Inaugural Breakthrough Filmmaker Award
Documentary filmmakers Kristi Jacobson, Julia Reichert, Yoruba Richen, Elaine McMillion and Michèle Stephenson have been named the five recipients of Chicken & Egg Pictures’...
Cynthia Lopez to Receive 2013 Good Egg Award
Chicken & Egg Pictures will be honoring Cynthia Lopez during this year’s Independent Film Week. Lopez will receive the 2013 Good Egg Award which is annually given to a leader in the...
Chicken & Egg Pictures Appoints Jenni Wolfson as Executive Director
Chicken & Egg Pictures has recently appointed Jenni Wolfson as their first executive director. Wolfson joins Chicken & Egg from WITNESS, an international human rights video advocacy...
Chicken & Egg Pictures Awards $220,000 in Grants to Women Filmmakers
Chicken & Egg Pictures, one of our favorite nonprofits supporting women filmmakers, announced $220,000 in grant funds to 25 documentaries directed by women. And while we usually...