Chicken & Egg Pictures-Supported Filmmakers Win at Peabody Awards
Three Chicken & Egg Pictures-supported filmmakers accepted Peabody Awards this year. A big congratulations to:
Deborah S. Esquenazi for Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four
Dawn Porter (2017 Breakthrough Filmmaker Award recipient) for Trapped
Nanfu Wang (2017 Accelerator Lab grantee) for Hooligan Sparrow*
Read more about these films and the other recipients in their company on the Peabody website.
*Chicken & Egg Pictures did not fund the film Hooligan Sparrow, but supports director Nanfu Wang as a 2017 Accelerator Lab grantee. Nanfu has also received the LUNA Chicken & Egg Pictures Award at 2017 SXSW Film Festival (read more here).
Congratulations to Nanfu at SXSW 2017!
We’re so proud of our Accelerator Lab grantee Nanfu Wang and her film, I Am Another You, for winning the LUNA Chicken & Egg Pictures Award at SXSW Film Festival this year!
For more information about the film, and the award, check out some of these articles:
“Show Her The Money: Why Financing Really Matters for Women Directors” by Ally Fleming, SXSW blog
“‘I Am Another You’ Uncovers an American Dreamer From the Inside Out” by Eric Kohn, Indiewire
“SXSW Film Review: ‘I Am Another You’” by Owen Gleiberman, Variety