10 Community SIMA Award Wins & Mentions
Last month, SIMA, the nonprofit impact media agency that celebrates, curates, and distributes documentaries and creative media projects that advance positive social change, announced the winners of the 12th annual Social Impact Media Awards. Of the 2024 winners, we were proud to have five supported films and two filmmakers win awards, and three alumni films and filmmakers receive special mentions. Congratulations to all those strong social impact leaders recognized in this year’s awards.
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 who won the award for Best Cinematography.
![graphic of a film reel](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/small-icons-04.jpg)
PAY OR DIE
dirs. & prods. Rachael Dyer, Scott Alexander Ruderman
prod. Yael Melamede
![PAY OR DIE](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PH-2023_PAY-OR-DIE_Main-Still-1024x540.jpg)
PAY OR DIE is a Project: Hatched 2023 grantee and won the Systemic Change Award (Sponsored by the Foundation for Systemic Change (FSC)).
![graphic of a film reel](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/small-icons-04.jpg)
The Eternal Memory
dir. & prod. Maite Alberdi
prod. Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Rocío Jadue
![Still from the Eternal Memory](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/TheInfiniteMemory_MainStill-1024x541.jpg)
The Eternal Memory was supported through Maite Alberdi’s 2020 Chicken & Egg Award and won the award for Best Director.
![graphic of a film reel](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/small-icons-04.jpg)
The Script
dir. Brit Fryer, Noah Schamus
prod. Colleen Cassingham, Jess Devaney
![Still from The Script. In a set, a person with their back to the camera, talks to two other persons that are sitting in chairs in front of a table. To the right and left, there are camera crew people.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/EP-2-The-Script_Press-Still-2_WEB-SIZE-1024x576.png)
The Script was supported in partnership with Multitude Films as a part of the QUEER FUTURES series and won the Creative Activism Award.
![graphic of a film reel](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/small-icons-04.jpg)
Twice Colonized
dir. Lin Alluna
prods. Emile Hertling Péronard, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Stacey Aglok, Bob Moore
![The main character of Twice Colonized, Aaju Peter, in a close-up shot holding her hands in front of her face so her traditional tattoos on her hands and her chin are visible.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PH-2023_Twice-Colonized_Main-Still-1024x576.jpg)
Twice Colonized is a Project: Hatched 2023 grantee who won the Transparency Jury Prize.
Special Mentions
How to Carry Water
dir. Sasha Wortzel
prod. Jess Devaney, Anya Rous, Colleen Cassingham
![](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-03-27-at-2.49.55 PM-1024x509.png)
How to Carry Water was supported in partnership with Multitude Films as a part of the QUEER FUTURES (2022) series.
![graphic of a film reel](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/small-icons-04.jpg)
Suddenly TV
dir. & prod. Roopa Gogineni
prods. Reem Haddad, Trevor Snapp, Fiona Lawson-Baker
![A young Sudanese protester points a cardboard camera towards an interview unfolding on a bridge in the middle of a large sit-in demonstration.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PH-2023_Suddenly-TV_Main-Still-1024x576.jpg)
Suddenly TV is a Project: Hatched 2023 grantee.
From the AlumNest
- Mourning in lod – Ethos Jury Prize
dir. Hilla Medalia
prod. Sheila Nevins - This Is Where I Learned Not To Sleep – Humanitas Award
dirs. & prods. Kirsten Kelly & Anne de Mare
prod. Andrew Schwertfeger - Who I Am Not – Special Mention
dir. Tunde Skovran
prods. Andrei Zinca, Danielle Turkov, Paul Cadieux, Patrick Hamm, Amy Shepherd, Edith Weil, Daniel Szandtner, Janos Kovacs
Post written by Communications Assistant Tess Caldwell
Three Chicken & Egg Pictures grantees recognized with Emmy nominations
We were thrilled to see that three Chicken & Egg Pictures grantees have been recognized with News & Documentary Emmy nominations:
Born to Fly
Directed by Catherine Gund
Nominated for Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming
Elizabeth Streb and the STREB Extreme Action Company form a motley troupe of flyers and crashers. Propelled by Streb’s edict that “anything too safe is not action,” these daredevils challenge the assumptions of art, aging, injury, gender, and human possibility. Revealing the passions behindthe dancers’ bruises and broken noses, Born to Fly offers a breathtaking tale about the necessity of art, inspiring audiences hungry for a more tactile and fierce existence.
Directed by Anne de Mare and Kirsten Kelly
A courageous young woman, Marianna, takes the boldest step imaginable to confront her risk of having inherited the fatal, incurable Huntington’s Disease.