Spotlight on 2023 Chicken & Egg Award Recipients

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Polaris

Ainara Vera

A Quiet Inquisition

Alessandra Zeka and Holen Sabrina Kahn

A Woman Like Me

Alex Sichel & Elizabeth Giamatti

Monica & David

Alexandra Codina

Paper Children

Alexandra Codina

All of Me

Alexandra Lescaze

Xmas Without China

Alicia Dwyer

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Alison Klayman

LoveTrue

Alma Har’el

Speed Sisters

Amber Fares

Once Upon a Time
in Venezuela

Anabel Rodríguez Ríos

Children in No Man’s Land

Anayansi Prado

I am not going to change 400 years in four.

Angela Tucker

Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust

Ann Kaneko

The Homestretch

Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly

The Story of Broke

Annie Leonard

#Dalitwomenfight!

Anonymous

I’m Free Now, You Are Free

Ash Goh Hua

Girl Model

Ashley Sabin and David Redmon

The Feeling of Being Watched

Assia Boundaoui

Sepideh – Reaching For The Stars

Berit Madsen

The Forest for the Trees

Bernadine Mellis

Made in Boise

Beth Aala

Pushing The Elephant

Beth Davenport & Elizabeth Mandel

Bidder 70

Beth Gage and George Gage

Storm Lake

Beth Levison, Jerry Risius

The List

Beth Murphy

What Tomorrow Brings

Beth Murphy

Pashtana’s Lesson

Beth Murphy

Sanctuary

Brett Story

Daughter of a Lost Bird

Brooke Pepion Swaney

Change The Name

Cai Thomas

Democrats

Camilla Nielsson

For The Next 7 Generations

Carole Hart

Texas Gold

Carolyn Scott

What’s on Your Plate? 

Catherine Gund

Dispatches From Cleveland

Catherine Gund

Born To Fly

Catherine Gund

Once Upon a Time in Uganda

Cathryne Czubek and Hugo Perez

Landfall

Cecilia Aldarondo

Betting the Farm

Cecily Pingree and Jason Mann

Our City Dreams

Chiara Clemente

The Campaign 

Christie Herring

Warrior Women

Christina D. King and Elizabeth Castle

Alis

Clare Weiskopf Nicolas van Hemelryck

Private Violence

Cynthia Hill

Freeheld

Cynthia Wade

Grit

Cynthia Wade and Sasha Friedlander

Dear Mandela

Dara Kell and Christopher Nizza

Mama Bears

Daresha Kyi

Gideon’s Army

Dawn Porter

Trapped

Dawn Porter

The Chosen Life

Dawn Porter

Crossings

Deann Borshay Liem

Seeking Asian Female

Debbie Lum

Black Mothers Love & Resist

Débora Souza Silva

Sol in the Garden

Débora Souza Silva

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

Deborah S. Esquenazi

Eventual Salvation

Dee Rees

Powerless/Katiyabaaz

Deepti Kakkar & Fahad Mustafa

Care

Deirdre Fishel

Tre Maison Dasan

Denali Tiller

Vessel

Diana Whitten

Watchers of the Sky 

Edet Belzberg

Recovery Boys

Elaine McMillion Sheldon

Driving with Selvi

Elisa Paloschi

Bangla Surf Girls

Elizabeth D. Costa

The Hamlet Syndrome

Elwira Niewiera

The Fight

Elyse Steinberg, Eli Despres, Josh Kriegman

Fruits of Labor

Emily Cohen Ibañez

The Toe Tactic

Emily Hubley

William Kunstler: Disturbing The Universe

Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstler

Takeover

Emma Francis-Snyder

Belly of the Beast

Erika Cohn

A Walk Into The Sea

Esther Robinson

Accept the Call

Eunice Lau & Arthur Nazaryan

Black Out

Eva Weber

Cheshire, Ohio

Eve Morgenstern

Remote Area Medical

Farihah Zaman and Jeff Reichert

6X9: A Virtual Experience of Solitary Confinement

Francesca Panetta & Lindsay Poulton

Beautiful Sin

Gabriela Quirós

The Music’s Gonna Get You Through

Gabrielle Mullem

The Color of Land

Gabrielle Weiss

The Barber of Birmingham

Gail Dolgin & Robin Fryday

A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers

Geeta Gandbhir, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, and Perri Peltz

Meet the Patels

Geeta Patel and Ravi Patel

Since I Been Down

Gilda Sheppard

The Trials of Spring

Gini Reticker

American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

Grace Lee

Something Better to Come

Hanna Polak

When Two Worlds Collide

Heidi Brandenburg & Mathew Orzel

Among the Believers

Hemal Trivedi

Girls of the Moon

Hiba Dhaouadi

Of Love & Law

Hikaru Toda

Overexposed: Filming An Arctic Odyssey

Holly Morris

The Babushkas of Chernobyl

Holly Morris and Anne Bogart

32 Pills: My Sister’s Suicide

Hope Litoff

Mariachi High

Ilana Trachtman and Kim Connell

A Cops and Robbers Story

Ilinca Calugareanu

Mija

Isabel Castro

Powerlands

Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso

Always in Season

Jacqueline Olive

The Surrender of Waymond Hall

Jane Greenberg

Silent Beauty

Jasmin Mara López

The Square

Jehane Noujaim

Deep Down

Jen Gilomen and Sally Rubin

A Small Act

Jennifer Arnold

Unrest

Jennifer Brea

All of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars

Jennifer Rainsford

Tocando la Luz

Jennifer Redfearn

Apart

Jennifer Redfearn

Sun Come Up

Jennifer Redfearn

Kick Like A Girl

Jenny Mackenzie

Body Typed

Jesse Epstein

Love the Sinner

Jessica Devaney & Geeta Gandbhir

The Pearl

Jessica Dimmock and Christopher LaMarca

The Accidental Advocate

Jessica Gerstle

Ascension

Jessica Kingdon

The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga

Jessica Oreck

Total Trust

Jialing Zhang

Sexy Baby

Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus

The Supreme Price

Joanna Lipper

Bismillah

Jolene Pinder & Sarah Zaman

Budrus

Julia Bacha

Dalya’s Other Country

Julia Meltzer

American Factory 美国工厂

Julia Reichert

9to5: The Story of a Movement

Julia Reichert

Between Earth & Sky

Kalyanee Mam & David Mendez

Brooklyn Castle

Katie Dellamaggiore

Razing Liberty Square

Katja Esson

The Graying of AIDS

Katja Heinemann & Naomi Schegloff

The Return

Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway

Dreamcatcher

Kim Longinotto

Dark Money

Kimberly Reed

Onlookers

Kimi Takesue

The Invisible War

Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering

Cameraperson

Kirsten Johnson

Solitary

Kristi Jacobson

Pray Away

Kristine Stolakis

Going on 13

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan

The Departure

Lana Wilson

Walk Run Cha-Cha

Laura

The Oath

Laura Poitras

Oil & Water

Laurel Spellman Smith and Francine Strickwerda

Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek

Leah Mahan

How to Have an American Baby

Leslie Tai

The Art of Rebellion

Libby Spears

Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man

Lily Zepeda

Oscar’s Comeback

Lisa Collins & Mark Schwartzburt

Sweet Dreams

Lisa Fruchtman and Rob Fruchtman

A Woman on the Outside

Lisa Riordan Seville, Zara Katz

Orgasm Inc.

Liz Canner

Through the Night

Loira Limbal

It Will Be Chaos

Lorena Luciano

A Place at the Table

Lori Silverbush and Kristi Jacobson

State of Grace

Lourdes Portillo

Kingdom of Us

Lucy Cohen

The Lion’s Mouth Opens

Lucy Walker

Land of Opportunity

Luisa Dantas

! Women Art Revolution

Lynn Hershman Leeson

College Behind Bars

Lynn Novick

(T)ERROR

Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe

Number 387

Madeleine Leroyer

Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus

Madeleine Sackler

Garbage Dreams

Mai Iskander

Words Of Witness

Mai Iskander

The Letter

Maia von Lekow & Christopher King

The Eternal Memory

Maite Alberdi

Thank You For Playing

Malika Zouhali-Worrall & David Osit

Games You Can’t Win

Malika Zouhali-Worrall and David Osit

Call Me Kuchu

Malika Zouhali-Worrall and Katherine Fairfax Wright

The Guardian of Memory

Marcela Arteaga

The Great Invisible

Margaret Brown

Any Given Day

Margaret Byrne

Councilwoman

Margo Guernsey

Songs of Earth

Margreth Olin

The Dilemma of Desire

Maria Finitzo

Shadow Girl

María Teresa Larraín

Niños de la Memoria (Children of Memory)

María Teresa Rodríguez

Electric Malady

Marie Lidén

Young Lakota

Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt

Valentine Road

Marta Cunningham

After Tiller

Martha Shane and Lana Wilson

She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry

Mary Dore

About Face: The Story of Gwendellin Bradshaw

Mary Katzke

All Fall Down

Mary Posatko and Emily Topper

On The Divide

Maya Cueva, Leah Galant

Lioness

Meg McLagan and Daria Sommers

Simple As Water

Megan Mylan

Girl, Adopted

Melanie Judd and Susan Motamed

The Patron Saints

Melanie Shatzky and Brian M. Cassidy

Dope Is Death

Mila Donovan

Non-Aligned & Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes From the Labudović Reels

Mila Turajlic

Tree

Milica Zec and Winslow Porter

Our School

Mona Nicoara and Miruna Coca-Cozma

Regarding Susan Sontag

Nancy D. Kates

One Shot One Kill

Nancy Schwartzman

Roll Red Roll

Nancy Schwartzman

One Child Nation

Nanfu Wang & Jialing Zhang

Users

Natalia Almada

El Velador

Natalie Almada

And So I Stayed

Natalie Pattillo, Daniel A. Nelson

An Act of Worship

Nausheen Dadabhoy

Freedom Fields

Naziha Arebi

Eskape

Neary Adeline Hay

Visitor’s Day

Nico Opper

The F Word: A Foster-to-Adopt Story

Nico Opper

Buddha in Africa

Nicole Schafer

Eat Bitter

Ningyi Sun, Pascale Appora-Gnekindy

The Golden Thread

Nishtha Jain

Granito

Pamela Yates

Lovesick

Priya Giri Desai & Ann S. Kim

The Hand That Feeds

Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick

Semper Fi: Always Faithful

Rachel Libert and Tony Hardmon

Motherland (Bayang Ina Mo)

Ramona Diaz

BEBA

Rebeca Huntt

Made in India

Rebecca Haimowitz and Vaishali Sinha

Can’t Stop The Water

Rebecca Marshall Ferris & Jason Ferris

No Más Bebés (No More Babies)

Renee Tajima-Peña

MUHI – Generally Temporary

Rina Castelnuovo & Tamir Elterman

Writing With Fire

Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh

My Perestroika

Robin Hessman

Sonita

Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami

Whose Streets?

Sabaah Folayan

A Thousand Girls Like Me

Sahra Mani

Mama Has a Mustache

Sally Rubin

Fambul Tok

Sara Terry

Kings Point

Sari Gilman

Saving Jackie

Selena Burks-Rentschler

Coded Bias

Shalini Kantayya

a DROP of LIFE

Shalini Kantayya

Catching the Sun

Shalini Kantayya

Saving Face

Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy and Daniel Junge

My Louisiana Love

Sharon Hong

The Scientists Versus Dartmouth

Sharon Shattuck

Picture A Scientist

Sharon Shattuck

From This Day Forward

Sharon Shattuck

I Never Left

Shazia Khan

Web Junkie

Shosh Shlam and Hilla Mendalia

Joonam

Sierra Urich

JOLIN: The Evolution of my Life

Siyan Liu & Danni Wang

Dear Mother, I Meant to Write about Death

Siyi Chen

Even When I Fall

Sky Neal and Kate McLarnon

Midwives

Snow (Hnin Ei Hlaing)

Machtat

Sonia Ben Slama

Enemies of the State

Sonia Kennebeck

The Amina Profile

Sophie Deraspe

The Devil We Know

Stephanie Soechtig

Wo Ai Ni Mommy

Stephanie Wang-Breal

Tough Love

Stephanie Wang-Breal

Blowin’ Up

Stephanie Wang-Breal

Bag It

Suzan Beraza

Uranium Drive-In

Suzan Beraza

Cartoon College

Tara Wray & Josh Melrod

Citizen Koch

Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

The Janes

Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes

The Apology

Tiffany Hsiung

50/50: Rethinking the Past, Present, and Future of Women and Power

Tiffany Shlain

Connected

Tiffany Shlain

United Skates

Tina Brown & Dyana Winkler

Praying for Armageddon

Tonje Hessen Schei

Down a Dark Stairwell

Ursula Liang

Hidden Letters

Violet Du Feng, Zhao Qing

Cocaine Prison

Violeta Ayala

Between Fire and Water

Viviana Gómez Echeverry

My Favorite Neoconservative

Yael Luttwak

Strong Island

Yance Ford

Of Kites and Borders

Yolanda Pividal

The New Black

Yoruba Richen

How It Feels to Be Free

Yoruba Richen

Missing Home (The Last Days of Beijing Hutongs)

Zhang Weimin