Chicken & Egg Pictures’ Use of the Non-Fiction Core Application
Since 2016, Chicken & Egg Pictures has opted into the Non-Fiction Core Application process. The Non-Fiction Core Application is a collaborative field-wide effort led by the Sundance Institute in partnership with IDA ”to standardize a set of questions that are used in nonfiction funding, fiscal sponsor or artist support opportunities”… “to alleviate the burden of proposal re-writing on applicants, foster greater access to sources of creative and financial support and build toward a more equitable and transparent nonfiction field.” (via IDA)
Chicken & Egg Pictures has consistently updated our application questions to be in alignment with the Core Application with the latest version created in 2022. The majority of our questions about the project information, key creative personnel, financial information/budget, and work samples are directly in line with the Core Application. Supplemental questions are few and have been added where we have noticed a repeated need to capture information that we need to inform our selection process. We acknowledge the effort it takes for filmmakers to complete any application and our team reviews our application processes each year to ensure the information we are requesting is necessary to our evaluations and decision making.
We were involved in the discussions around the most recent update of the Core Application specifically about how to standardize response lengths to allow both for word count limits as well as character count limits (for those organizations like ours whose application platform only works using character counts). As an outcome of these discussions, the Core Application v. 2022 has a word-to-character count equivalency listed on page 1 of the Application Proposal Checklist. Our applications follow this guideline of 100 words = 650 characters. We have this information available via our application platform, but understand that there is space to clarify it further on our program webpages as well as our application checklist documents. We have included this on our webpage and application checklist for the (Egg)celerator Lab, which is open for applications through May 22, 2024, to reflect this as well.
We are sharing this information now because an inquiry was raised about our application process via social media and it’s our practice to be responsive to filmmaker inquiries, but also because it is likely a question that has come up for many more filmmakers beyond this particular instance.
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Eight Nest-supported World Premieres at 2023 Sundance Film Festival
We are egg-static that eight Nest-supported films will have their World premieres at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
The 2023 Sundance slate is made up of 28% first-time filmmakers. Chicken & Egg Pictures is committed to supporting filmmakers through the lifecycle of their films; we’re proud that five of the documentary films premiering at Sundance are grantees of our flagship program (Egg)celerator Lab, designed for first or second-time filmmakers.
See you in Utah!
Against the Tide
dir. & prod. Sarvnik Kaur
prods. Koval Bhatia
![Still of Against the Tide. Two men go through the content of their fishing net, there are a fish and plastic trash.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/EL-2021_Against-the-Tide_Sarvnik-Kaur_Film-Still_ATT-Rakesh-plastic-1024x576.png)
2021 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee Against the Tide is having its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Available in person and online
Premiering on Friday, January 20
Get your tickets
It’s Only Life After All
dir. & prod. Alexandria Bombach
prods. Kathlyn Horan, Jess Devaney, Anya Rous
![](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-14-at-10.46.34-AM-1024x647.png)
It’s Only Life After All was supported through Alexandria Bombach’s 2019 Chicken & Egg Award and is having its world premiere in the Premiere section.
Available in person
Premiering on Thursday, January 19
Get your tickets
Is There Anybody Out There?
dir. Ella Glendining
prod. Janine Marmot
![Still from Is There Anybody Out There? Ella Glendining is on a a medical bend with her belly uncovered](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/EL-2021_Is-There-Anybody-Out-There_Ella-Glendining_Film-Still_2-e1614701382999-1024x669.jpg)
2021 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee Is There Anybody Out There? is having its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Available in person and online
Premiering on Sunday, January 22
Get your tickets
Joonam
dir. Sierra Urich
prod. Keith Wilson
![A mother and daughter stand under opposite ends of a grape arbor together, harvesting grape leaves. A grandmother is seen sitting in the background with a walker in front of her. Each woman appears to be separately lost in thought.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/EL-2022_Joonam_Sierra-Urich_Film-Still_MAIN_01-1024x576.jpeg)
2022 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee Joonam is having its world premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition.
Available in person and online
Premiering on Saturday, January 21
Get your tickets here
Milisuthando
dir. Milisuthando Bongela
prod. Marion Isaacs
![Still from Milisuthando. Aerial shot of a person braiding their hair.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/aerial-braids-1024x576.jpg)
2019 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee Milisuthando is having its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Available in person and online
Premiering on Saturday, January 21
Get your tickets
Plan C
dir. & prod. Tracy Droz Tragos
![](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Screen-Shot-2022-12-12-at-4.47.51-PM-1024x606.png)
Plan C is supported through the Critical Issues Fund and it is having its world premiere in the Premiere section.
Available in person
Premiering on Monday, January 23
Get your tickets
The Eternal Memory
dir. & prod. Maite Alberdi
prods. Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Rocío Jadue
![Still from The Eternal Memory. A couple wearing special cardboard glasses. The woman holds the man's glasses.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/TheInfiniteMemory_MainStill-1024x541.jpg)
The Eternal Memory was supported through Maite Alberdi’s 2020 Chicken & Egg Award and is having its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.
Available in person and online
Premiering on Saturday, January 21
Get your tickets
The Tuba Thieves
dir. Alison O’Daniel
![Still from The Tuba Thieves. A person looking up with their hand beside their face holding two fingers. Below them is a text that reads the first evening's stars begin to appear. Black and White photograph.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/EL-2021_The-Tuba-Thieves_Alison-ODaniel_Film-Still__06-2-1024x575.jpg)
2021 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee The Tuba Thieves is having its world premiere in the Next section.
Available in person and online
Premiering on Sunday, January 22
Get your tickets
From the AlumNest
- Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
dirs. & prods. Michele Stephenson, Joe Brewster
U.S. Documentary Competition - Kim’s Video
dirs. & prods. David Redmon, Ashley Sabin
prods. Deborah Smith, Dale Smith, Francesco Galavotti, Rebecca Tabasky
Next section (Opening night) - King Coal
dir. & prod. Elaine McMillion Sheldon
prods. Shane Boris, Diane Becker, Peggy Drexler
Next section - Murder in Big Horn
dirs. Razelle Benally, Matthew Galkin
prods. Razelle Benally, Matthew Galkin, Ivan Macdonald, Ivy Macdonald - Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields
dir. Lana Wilson
prods. Christine O’Malley, Jack Turner
Premiere section - Victim/Suspect
dir. & prod. Nancy Schwartzman
prods. Julie Goldman, Christopher Clements, Alice Henty, Rachel de Leon, Amanda Pike
Update:
Meet our Team at Sundance Film Festival
Our new Program Director Kiyoko McCrae will be in attendance along with Jenni Wolfson, CEO, and Rebecca Celli, Associate Director of Development.
The Nest at 2022 CIFF this Week
The 18th edition of Camden International Film Festival will take place in person in Maine this Thursday, September 15 through Sunday, September 18, and online through Sunday, September 25 for audiences across North America. Chicken & Egg Pictures is egg-cited to participate in the market, and we are also excited to see screenings of two 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab films, All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars and Polaris, as well as two AlumNest films at the festival.
Please take a look at the films below:
All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars
dir. Jennifer Rainsford
prods. Mirjam Gelhorn, David Herdies, Michael Krotkiewski
![](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/EL-2020_Stories-from-the-Debris_Jennifer-Rainsford_debris_still2_Film-Still-MAIN-1024x530.jpg)
The 2011 Japan tsunami triggers this staggering essay about loss that connects human and environmental trauma using astonishing juxtapositions. Humans breathe out and the oceans breathe in, so that we are constantly breathing together and becoming our planet. If we admit that our human experiences of pain and the Earth’s are just different versions of the same destruction, will recovery come, be it in ripples or waves?*
All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars is a 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee and is part of the Cinematic Vision Competition.
Get your tickets + more info with this link.
*Text courtesy of Cineuropa.
Polaris
dir. Ainara Vera
prod. Clara Vuillermoz
![](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/EL-2020_Polaris_Ainara-Vera_Polaris_iceberg_Film-Still-1024x576.jpeg)
After overcoming her painful childhood in France, 36-year-old Hayat has managed to become an expert skipper in the Arctic. Her biggest passion is to navigate in between icebergs and spot whales. While she experiences this pureness, her 28-year-old sister Leila tries to integrate into society after coming out of jail in France. Their life went by independently until a year ago when Leila fell pregnant. Polaris explores the inner battle that we all have to undertake to find a balance between the light and the darkness and how the beauty of nature can help us.
Polaris is a 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee and is part of the Harrel Competition.
Get your tickets + more info with this link.
From the AlumNest
- Descendant
dir. & prod. Margaret Brown
prods. Kyle Martin, Essie Chambers
This film is part of the Best of Fest section. - Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
dirs. Geeta Gandbhir, Sam Pollard
prods. Jessica Devaney, Anya Rous, Dema Paxton Fofang
This film is part of the Best of Fest section.
Meet Our Team at CIFF
![In the left Sabine Fayoux Cantillo smiles at the camera, to the right Iva Dimitrova smiles at the camera. Portraits in black and white.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/IVA-SABINE.jpg)
Program Manager Sabine Fayoux Cantillo and Program Coordinator Iva Dimitrova will attend the festival. They will be taking meetings and watching lots of films!
Check out the full line-up with this link.
Nest-supported Films in The Gotham Week Project Market
Chicken & Egg Pictures is proud to see two Nest-supported and eight AlumNest films in The Gotham Week Project Market. This year’s lineup includes 60 documentary features that will be presented in-person at Brooklyn Navy Yard, and virtually. The Gotham Week will take place from Saturday, September 17 through Friday, September 23.
The Gotham Week Project Market hosts one-on-one industry meetings dedicated to elevating the work of independent artists and facilitating relationships with distributors, financiers, production companies, festival programmers, sales/talent agents, and other potential collaborators.
Take a look at the Nest-supported projects below:
Life + Life
dir & prod. Contessa Gayles
prods. Richie Reseda, David Felix Sutcliffe
![Close up of a pair of feet jumping in a bed](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/EL-2022_LifeLife_ContessaGayles_Film-Still_MAIN_01_WEB-1024x530.png)
An incarcerated musician struggles for healing and peace as he comes of age in this documentary-musical odyssey composed behind bars.
Life + Life is a 2022 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee.
Storming
dir. Katrina Sorrentino
prod. Tiffany Fisher-Love
![](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/NKF-2019_STORMING_MAINFilmStill-1024x525.png)
A family hangs in limbo, caring for their comatose son. Hope and denial blur as seasons circle in this meditation on love and letting go.
Storming was a participant of the 2019 Nest Knight Fellowship.
From the AlumNest
- #NunsToo
dir. Lorena Luciano, prod. Filippo Piscopo - Give it a Shot
dir. & prod. Vaishali Sinha, prod. Hemang Chheda - In Plain Sight
prod. Farihah Zaman, dir. PJ Raval - Life After
prods. Jessica Devaney, Colleen Cassingham, dir. Reid Davenport - Meanwhile
dir. & prod. Catherine Gund, prod. Erika Dilday - Prisoner X
dirs. Hilla Medalia, Amos Roberts, prod.Hilla Medalia & Gal Greenspan - Thoughts & Prayers
dir. & prod. Jessica Dimmock, Zackary Canepari - To Use a Mountain
Executive produced by 2022 Chicken & Egg Award recipient Brett Story, Maida Lynn, dir. Casey Carter, prod. Colleen Cassingham
The Gotham Week Conference
- The Politics of Filmmaking in the US
Wednesday, September 21 at 2:30 pm ET
With Project: Hatched 2022 finalist The Janes’ directors Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes.
Cost: $25
Meet Our Team
![Headshots of Program Coordinator Iva Dimitrova and Executive Director Jenni Wolfson. Two women smiling at the camera.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IVA-JENNI-1024x516.jpg)
Our Executive Director Jenni Wolfson and Program Coordinator Iva Dimitrova will be taking meetings at The Gotham Week.
Check out the full list of projects participating with this link.
Nest-supported and AlumNest Films in POV’s 35th Season Line-up
At Chicken & Egg Pictures, we are egg-cited to see Nest-supported and two AlumNest films in POV’s, television’s longest-running showcase for independent nonfiction films, 35th season lineup. Please mark your calendars with their television premiere dates below.
Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
dir. & prod. Ann Kaneko
prod. Jin Yoo-Kim
![Still from Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/MANZANARDIVERTEDWHENWATERBECOMESDUST-STILL-2-1024x576.jpg)
POV premiere: Monday, July 18, 2022
Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust was a Project: Hatched 2021 grantee.
An Act of Worship
dir. Nausheen Dadabhoy
prods. Heba Elorbany, Kristi Jacobson, Sofian Khan
![An Act of Worship Nausheen Dadabhoy Diversity Fellows Initiative 2018 Accelerator Lab 2019](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Khadega-1024x540.png)
POV premiere: Monday, October 17, 2022
An Act of Worship participated in the 2018 Diversity Fellows Initiative and was a 2019 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee.
Midwives
dir. & prod. Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
prods. Mila Aung-Thwin, Bob Moore, Ulla Lehmann
![Still from Midwives](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/EL-2020_Midwives_-Snow-Hnin-Ei-Hlaing_Midwives-Project-still2_Film-Still-scaled-e1583434682449-1024x529.jpg)
POV premiere: Monday, November 21, 2022
Midwives is a 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee and won a Special Jury Award for Excellence in Vérité Filmmaking at Sundance 2022.
From the AlumNest
- The Mole Agent
dir. & prod. Maite Alberdi
prod. Marcela Santibanez
Available through July - President
dir. Camilla Nielsson
prods. Signe Byrge Sørensen, Joslyn Barnes
POV premiere: Monday, August 8, 2022 - Delikado
Writer and Executive Producer 2018 Chicken & Egg Award Recipient Laura Nix, dir. Karl Malakunas, prods. Michael Collins, Marty Syjuco, Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala
POV premiere: Monday, September 26, 2022
An egg-stra special shout out to our Co-Founder & Senior Creative Consultant Judith Helfand, whose film Love & Stuff, produced by our Co-Founder & Board President Julie Parker Benello and AlumNest filmmaker Hilla Medalia, will have its POV premiere on Monday, September 5, 2022.
Check out the full line-up with this link.
The Nest at Sheffield DocFest 2022
We are thrilled to see four Nest-supported films and two AlumNest films at the 29th edition of Sheffield DocFest. Taking place from Thursday, June 23 through Tuesday, June 28, this festival’s edition is an invitation to ‘ReConnect’ with documentary and each other.
Projects from eight Nest-supported filmmakers will be participating at the MeetMarket, Sheffield DocFest’s pitching forum. The market will take place in-person for the first time since 2019 from Monday, June 27 through Tuesday, June 28 and will move online in the days following the festival.
Alis
dirs. & prods. Clare Weiskopf, Nicolas van Hemelryck
prods. Alexandra Galvis, Radu Stancu
![A young woman is on her knees, with her hands on top of them, her eyes are closed and behind here there are shelfs](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/EL-2022-Finalist_ALIS_Clare-Weiskopf_Nicolas-van-Hemelryck_Film-Still_MAIN_01-1024x554.jpeg)
Alis is a 2022 (Egg)celerator Lab finalist, and the winner of the Crystal Bear at the Berlin Film Festival.
Get your tickets with this link.
BEBA
dir. & prod. Rebeca Huntt
prod. Sofia Geld
![Low angle shot of Beba, placing her arm behind her head and wearing a black top](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/PH-2022_BEBA_Rebeca-Huntt_Film-Still_03_WEB-1024x679.jpg)
BEBA is a Project: Hatched 2022 grantee.
Get your tickets with this link.
Electric Malady
dir. Marie Lidén
prod. Aimara Reques, Lorna Jane Ferguson
![Electric Malady Marie Lidén 2018 Accelerator Lab](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/William_Electric-Malady_Still.jpg)
Electric Malady is a 2018 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee.
Get your tickets with this link.
Midwives
dir. & prod. Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
prods. Bob Moore, Ulla Lehmann, Mila Aung-Thwin
![](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/EL-2020_Midwives_-Snow-Hnin-Ei-Hlaing_baby-patient_Film-Still-1024x567.jpg)
Midwives is a 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee and Special Jury Award winner at Sundance 2022.
Get your tickets with this link.
From the AlumNest
- The Joys and Sorrows of Young Yuguo
dir. Ilinca Calugareanu, prod. Mara Adina
World Premiere in the International Short Competition - The Great Abandonment
dirs. & prods. Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya
MeetMarket
Eat Bitter
dirs. Ningyi Sun, Pascale Appora-Gnekindy
prod. Mathieu Faure
![The upper half is characters Luan and Thomas' faces and Thomas prays to the left of their faces; and the lower half is the back of Thomas' head and him getting ready to dive in the yellowish river.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/EL-2022-Finalist_Eat-Bitter_Ningyi-Sun_Pascale-Appora-Gnekindy_Film-Still_MAIN_01-1024x716.jpeg)
Eat Bitter is a 2022 (Egg)celerator Lab finalist.
Hummingbirds
dirs. Silvia Castaños, Estefanía Contreras
prods. Jillian Schlesinger, Leslie Benavides, Miguel Drake-McLaughlin
![Silvia and Beba smile as they point their middle finger at the fire-work lit sky. There is a red light on Beba's middle finger, and a green light on Silvia's.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/EL-2022-Finalist_Hummingbirds_Silvia-Castaños_Estefanía-Contreras_Film-Still_MAIN_01_WEB-1024x616.jpg)
Hummingbirds is a 2022 (Egg)celerator Lab finalist.
Life + Life
dir. & prod. Contessa Gayles
![Close up of a pair of feet jumping in a bed](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/EL-2022_LifeLife_ContessaGayles_Film-Still_MAIN_01_WEB-1024x530.png)
Life + Life is a 2022 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee.
Matryoshka
dir. & prod. Maricarmen Merino
prods. Paulina Villegas, Karla Bukantz
![Close up of a woman leaning against the frame of a door, she has curly shoulder length hair and wears glasses](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/EL-2022_Matryoshka_Maricarmen-Merino-Mora_Film-Still_MAIN_01-1024x614.jpeg)
Matryoshka is a 2022 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee.
The Wife Of
dir. & prod. Volia Chajkouskaya
prods. Ivo Felt, Christian Popp, Marius Markevicius
![Two soldiers on their knees lay out a rectangular carpet outside a big house](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/EL-2022_The-Wife-Of_Volia-Chajkouskaya_Film-Still_02_WEB-1024x525.jpg)
The Wife Of is a 2022 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee.
AlumNest projects at the MeetMarket
- #NunsToo Documentary
dir. Lorena Luciano, prod. Filippo Piscopo - DALTON’S DREAM
dirs. Kim Longinotto, Franky Murray Brown, prod. Lorine Plagnol - The Gender Project (working title)
dir. & prod. Kimberly Reed, prods. Louise Rosen, Robin Honan
Meet Our Team at Sheffield DocFest
![Headshots of Program Coordinator Iva Dimitrova and Executive Director Jenni Wolfson. Two women smiling at the camera.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/IVA-JENNI-1024x516.jpg)
Our Executive Director Jenni Wolfson and Program Coordinator Iva Dimitrova will be representing Chicken & Egg Pictures at the MeetMarket.
Check out the full line-up with this link and the complete list of MeetMarket projects with this link.
The Nest at Tribeca Film Festival
We are proud to see three Nest-supported films and five AlumNest films at The Tribeca Film Festival. The festival will run in-person and online from Wednesday, June 8 to Sunday, June 19, in New York City.
If you happen to be around the NYC area don’t miss these screenings:
World Premiere
An Act of Worship
dir. Nausheen Dadabhoy
prods. Sofian Khan, Kristi Jacobson, Heba Elorbany
![An Act of Worship Nausheen Dadabhoy Diversity Fellows Initiative 2018 Accelerator Lab 2019](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Khadega-1024x540.png)
An Act of Worship is an exploration of the last 30 years of Muslim life in America, weaving together observational footage of three activist women who came of age after 9/11 with news archival footage, community-sourced home videos, and audio interviews along with evocative recollections of individuals impacted by Islamophobic policy. From the perspective of Muslim Americans, he film revisits pivotal moments in US history that have shaped their lives, such as the first Gulf War, 9/11, the Boston Marathon Bombing, and Trump’s travel ban, creating a prismatic counter-narrative and opening a window into their world through collective memory. This is what it means to be a Muslim in America.
An Act of Worship participated in the 2018 Diversity Fellows Initiative (past program) and is a 2019 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee.
Get your tickets with this link.
World Premiere
Hidden Letters
dir. & prod. Violet Feng
prods. Mette Cheng Munthe-Kaas, Jean Tsien, Su Kim
![](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/EL-2020_Hidden-Letters_Violet-Du-Feng_Zhao-Qing_AA-Ruff-Cut-13.00_01_23_13.Still002_Film-Still-1024x576.jpg)
Our story began hundreds of years ago in a secluded village in China where women’s lives were completely controlled by men. They created a secret written language called Nushu that men didn’t understand. They wrote poems and songs to give each other strength and dignity, and vowed to be lifetime sisters in this prose. At the brink of extinction, Nushu is now being commodified in the context of capitalism. Hidden Letters is a film about two young women trying to reclaim the power of Nushu, despite the new threats in a world of revived patriarchy.
Hidden Letters a 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee.
Get your tickets with this link.
And see Violet Feng speak at TRIBECA TALKS: Speaking in Codes: Storytelling that Codifies Gender Equitable Systems in China and the U.S.
Women filmmakers and artists around the world face a parallel challenge in navigating industries that are codified by male decision-makers and storytelling customs. This panel will explore how women and marginalized genders work to support one another to re-codify a more equitable system through investment in storytelling.* Panelists include director Violet Feng, Gloria Steinem, and Robin Morgan. Panel hosted by InMaat, Chicken & Egg Pictures, and Independent Lens.
Get your tickets with this link.
BEBA
dir. & prod. Rebeca Huntt
prod. Sofia Geld
![Low angle shot of Beba, placing her arm behind her head and wearing a black top](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/PH-2022_BEBA_Rebeca-Huntt_Film-Still_03_WEB-1024x679.jpg)
A stunning self-portrait, tough, raw, stubborn, and powerful. Beba stares down the curses of her ancestry, probing the psychic wounds she has inherited, while simultaneously embracing the vastness of her multitudes, occupying many spaces, and demanding to be seen in all of them.
BEBA is a Project: Hatched 2022 grantee.
Get your tickets with this link.
From the AlumNest
- Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices From a Plantation Prison
prod. Catherine Gund
dir. Cinque Northern - Body Parts (World Premiere)
dir. Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
prod. Helen Hood Scheer - Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (World Premiere)
dirs. Geeta Gandbhir, Sam Pollard
prods. Jessica Devaney, Anya Rous, Dema Paxton Fofang - To The End
dir. Rachel Lears
prod. Sabrina Schmidt Gordon - Unfinished Business (World Premiere)
dir. & prod. Alison Klayman
prods. Julie Goldman, Carolyn Hepburn, Christopher Clements, Nicholas Ma, Mishka Brown
- The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (World Premiere)
dirs. Yoruba Richen, Johanna Hamilton
prod. Christalyn Hampton
Check out the full line-up with this link.
*Text courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival
The Nest at the New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival
The 33rd edition of the New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival will feature two Nest-supported films! The festival will run from Friday, May 20 to Thursday, May 26 with both in-person and online screenings.
Midwives
dir. & prod. Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
prods. Bob Moore, Ulla Lehmann, Mila Aung-Thwin
![](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/EL-2020_Midwives_-Snow-Hnin-Ei-Hlaing_baby-patient_Film-Still-1024x567.jpg)
A tale of the complicated relationship between Rohingya and Buddhists in Myanmar, told over five years through the eyes of two midwives from either side of the divide.
Midwives is a 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee.
Get your tickets + more info with this link.
The Janes
dirs. Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes
prods. Emma Pildes, Daniel Arcana, Jessica Levin
![A photograph of 5 women wearing swimsuits and shades, in a sunny day in the'70s.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/PH-2022-Finalist_The-Janes_Tia-Lessin_Emma-Pildes_Film-Still_01_MAIN-1024x727.jpeg)
The Janes is the story of an underground network of women in Chicago in the ‘60s and early ‘70s who provided safe, affordable, illegal abortions.
The Janes is a Project: Hatched 2022 grantee.
Get your tickets + more info with this link.
From the AlumNest
- Delikado
Writer and Executive Producer 2018 Chicken & Egg Award Recipient Laura Nix, dir. Karl Malakunas, prods. Marty Syjuco, Michael Collins, Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala
Check out the full line-up with this link.
The Nest at 2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival
We are egg-static to see eight supported films, and seven AlumNest films in the 29th Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival line-up. This edition will take place in-cinemas in Toronto and will stream across Canada from Thursday, April 28 to Sunday, May 8.
The festival stated that 49% of the official selections were directed by women, maintaining its commitment to a roughly 50-50 gender split.
World Premiere
Silent Beauty
dir. & prod. Jasmin Lopez
![Silent Beauty Jasmin Mara López](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/9e054e2b-e9f0-4e3d-9ed5-c22afbe33c85-1024x540.jpg)
A personal documentary that follows Director Jasmin López as she works to heal from child sexual abuse she endured at the hands of her grandfather, Gilberto, a Baptist minister, almost thirty years ago. In the process of sharing her own trauma with her large family, she learns that generations of children in her family were victims of the same abuse. Told from the director’s perspective, Silent Beauty is a film about confronting and accepting difficult truths while finding beauty in the process.
Silent Beauty is a 2019 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee and is having its World Premiere in the Persister section.
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Alis
dirs.& prods. Clare Weiskopf, Nicolas van Hemelryck
prods. Radu Stancu, Alexandra Galvis
![A young woman is on her knees, with her hands on top of them, her eyes are closed and behind here there are shelfs](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/EL-2022-Finalist_ALIS_Clare-Weiskopf_Nicolas-van-Hemelryck_Film-Still_MAIN_01-1024x554.jpeg)
In a Colombian shelter for teenage girls, filmmakers ask a group of young women to close their eyes and imagine the life story of a fictional classmate named Alis. As reality prevails and fiction fades, the innocent game becomes a descent into hell, where their luminous faces guide the audience to the depths of the dark world they once inhabited, only to emerge with new skin. How to imagine a different life, break the cycle of violence, and embrace a brighter future?
Alis is a 2022 (Egg)celerator Lab finalist and is part of Made In Chile: A spotlight on docs from Chile
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All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars
(previously titled Stories From Debris)
dir. Jennifer Rainsford
prods. Mirjam Gelhorn, David Herdies, Michael Krotkiewski
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The 2011 Japan tsunami triggers this staggering essay about loss that connects human and environmental trauma using astonishing juxtapositions. Humans breathe out and the oceans breathe in, so that we are constantly breathing together and becoming our planet. If we admit that our human experiences of pain and the Earth’s are just different versions of the same destruction, will recovery come, be it in ripples or waves?*
All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars is a 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee and is part of the World Showcase section.
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Boycott
dir & prod. Julia Bacha
prod. Suhad Babaa, Daniel J. Chalfen
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When a news publisher in Arkansas, an attorney in Arizona and a speech therapist in Texas are told to choose between their jobs and their political beliefs, they launch legal battles that expose an attack on freedom of speech in 33 states in America.
Boycott was supported through Julia Bacha’s 2019 Chicken & Egg Award, and is a Hot Docs Special Presentation.
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Eskape
dir. Neary Adeline Hay
prods. Jasmin Basic
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The survival story of a mother and her daughter, the filmmaker, through the desperate flight from a crumbling Cambodia after the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime. Faced with the silence brought by trauma and time, the longing to understand her mother today resonates in an abysmal echo, while reviving the memories as a political refugee in Europe.
Eskape is a 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee and is having its North American premiere in the Hidden Stories section.
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Midwives
dir. & prod. Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing
prods. Bob Moore, Ulla Lehmann, Mila Aung-Thwin
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A tale of the complicated relationship between Rohingya and Buddhists in Myanmar, told over five years through the eyes of two midwives from either side of the divide.
Midwives is a 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee and is having its Canadian premiere as a HotDocs Special Presentation.
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Mija
dir. & prod. Isabel Castro
prod. Tabs Breese, Yesenia Tlahuel
![Close up to the face of Doris singing](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Screen-Shot-2022-04-07-at-12.55.34-PM-1024x623.png)
With Doris’ voice as our guide, Mija uses VHS archive, verité footage, and camcorder vlogging to tell the story of two young women’s coming-of-age journeys as they look for success and belonging. The film is an immensely emotional and intimate portrait honoring the resilience of immigrants and their children.
Mija is a 2021 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee and is part of the Artscapes section.
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Once Upon a Time in Uganda
dir. Cathryne Czubek, co-dir. Hugo Perez
prods. Gigi Dement, Cathryne Czubek, Matt Porwoll, Hugo Perez, Kyaligamba Ark Martin
![2017 Accelerator Lab Cathryne Czubek Hugo Perez Lights Camera Uganda](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/2017-Accelerator-Lab_Czubek_Lights-Camera-Uganda_cooming-soon-picture_lowres-1024x577.jpg)
Against all odds, former bricklayer and teacher Isaac Nabwana has turned his small home in the slums of Uganda’s capital city into the Wakaliwood action movie studio. After 10 years and 40+ films, Wakaliwood has become an overnight international media sensation, inspiring others around the world to follow in his footsteps. When New York film nerd Alan Hofmanis shows up on his doorstep one day, everything is bound to change.
Once Upon a Time in Uganda is a 2017 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee and is part of the Nightvision section.
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From the AlumNest
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A Peculiar Silence
prod. Catherine Gund, dir. Cinque Northern -
Angels of Sinjar
dir. & prod. Hanna Polak, prod. Simone Baumann - Don’t Come Searching
prods. Michelle Serieux, Sherien Barsoum, dir. & prod. Andrew Moir - The Martha Mitchell Effect
prods. Beth Levison, Judith Mizrachy, dirs. Anne Alvergue, Debra McClutchy - The Mole Agent
dir. Maite Alberdi, prod. Marcela Santibanez - TikTok, Boom.
dir. & prod. Shalini Kantayya, prods. Ross Dinerstein, Danni Mynard - To The End
dir. Rachel Lears, prod. Sabrina Schmidt Gordon
Check out the full line-up with this link.
*Language courtesy of Hot Docs.