28 Nominations for the Cinema Eye Honors Awards!
Cinema Eye recently announced the nominees for the 17th edition of the Cinema Eye Honors Awards. We are proud to see 28 nominations within the Chicken & Egg Pictures community! The awards ceremony will take place on Friday, January 12 at the New York Academy of Medicine in East Harlem. Congratulations and good luck to all of the nominees.
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- Project: Hatched 2023 participant Bad Press | dirs. Rebecca Landsberry-Baker, Joe Peeler | prods. Conrad Beilharz, Garrett F. Baker, Tyler Graim | Nominated in the Spotlight section
- 2021 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee Against the Tide | dir. & prod. Sarvnik Kaur | prods. Koval Bhatia, Quentin Laurent | Nominated in the Spotlight section
- 2022 Chicken & Egg Award Recipient Margreth Olin’s Songs of Earth | dir. & prod. Margreth Olin | Nominated for Outstanding Original Score, Outstanding Cinematography, and Outstanding Production
- 2021 Chicken & Egg Award Recipient Tatiana Huezo’s The Echo | dir. & prod. Tatiana Huezo | prod. Dalia Reyes | Nominated in the Heterodox section
- 2020 Chicken & Egg Award Recipient Maite Alberdi’s The Eternal Memory | dir. & prod. Maite Alberdi | prods. Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Rocío Jadue | Nominated for Outstanding Editing, Outstanding Direction, Outstanding Nonfiction Feature, The Unforgettables Honorees, and Audience Choice Prize – Sharp
- 2021 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee The Tuba Thieves | dir. & prod. Alison O’Daniel | Nominated for Outstanding Debut and Outstanding Sound Design
- Project: Hatched 2023 participant Twice Colonized | dir. Lin Alluna | prods. Emile Hertling Péronard, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Stacey Aglok, Bob Moore | Nominated for The Unforgettables Honorees
- 2021 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee Q | dir. & prod. Jude Chehab | Nominated in the Spotlight section
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From the AlumNest
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- Black Girls Play: The Story Of Hand Games | Nominated for Outstanding Nonfiction Short and Shorts List Semifinalists
dirs. & prods. Michéle Stephenson, Joe Brewster
- Confessions of a Good Samaritan | Nominated for The Unforgettables Honorees and Audience Choice Prize
dir. Penny Lane
prod. Gabriel Sedgwick
- Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project | Nominated for Outstanding Visual Design, Outstanding Original Score, Outstanding Nonfiction Feature, and The Unforgettables Honorees
dirs. & prods. Michéle Stephenson, Joe Brewster
- King Coal | Nominated for Outstanding Cinematography
dir. & prod. Elaine McMillion Sheldon
prods. Shane Boris, Diane Becker, Peggy Drexler
- Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power | Nominated in the Broadcast Film Nominees section
dir. Geeta Gandbhir
prod. Jess Devaney
- Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields | Nominated in the Broadcast Film Nominees and Broadcast Editing Nominees sections
dir. Lana Wilson
prods. Jack Turner, Christine O’Malley
Post written by Communications Intern Tess Caldwell
Machtat World Premiere + Four Nest-supported Films at Visions du Réel
Chicken & Egg Pictures is proud to see five Nest-supported films in the lineup for Visions Du Réel 2023. The festival will take place between Friday, April 21 to Sunday, April 30 in Nyon, Switzerland.
We are sending special congratulations to the 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee Machtat on their World Premiere!
Against the Tide
dir. Sarvnik Kaur
prods. Koval Bhatia, Quentin Laurent
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Against the Tide is a 2021 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee participating in the Grand Angle Section.
Get your tickets here.
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Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes From the Labudović Reels
dir. & prod. Mila Turajlić
prod. Carine Chichkowsky
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Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes From the Labudović Reels will be participating in the Grand Angle Section and was supported through Mila Turajlić’s 2020 Chicken & Egg Award.
Get your tickets here.
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Eat Bitter
dir. 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 participating in the Grand Angle Section.
Get your tickets here.
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El eco / The Echo
dir. & prod. Tatiana Huezo
prod. Dalia Reyes
![Still from El Eco. Two young kids sit on a large rock jutting out from the side of a grassy hill. They are facing away from the camera. In front of them is a grassy valley with sheep grazing in it.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Huezo_Tatiana_2021_CEA_CURRENT-STILL-EL-ECO-3-1024x559.jpg)
El eco / The Echo will be participating in the Grand Angle Section and was supported through Tatiana Huezo’s 2021 Chicken & Egg Award.
Get your tickets here.
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Machtat
dir. Sonia Ben Slama
prods. Tania El Khoury, Cécile Lestrade, Elise Hug
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Machtat is a 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee having its World Premiere in the International Feature Film Competition.
Get your tickets here.
Vdr-Rough Cut Lab & VdR-Pitching Session
Our Daughters
dir. & prod. Chithra Jeyaram
![Four adults are in the entrance of a house, two women hold a circle with her hands, in front of two men. Each men have a baby on their shoulders.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/EL-2022_Our-Daughters-wt_Chithra-Jeyaram_Film-Still_MAIN_01-1-1024x681.png)
2022 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee Our Daughters will be participating in the VdR rough cut lab.
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Florence from Ohio
dir. Stephanie Wang Breal
prods. Mynette Louie, Carrie Weprin
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Florence from Ohio was supported through Stephanie Wang Breal’s 2019 Chicken & Egg Award and it is participating in the VdR-Pitching Session.
Meet our Team at Visions Du Réel
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Representing Chicken & Egg Pictures, our Associate Director of Program Sabine Fayoux Cantillo will be in attendance at Visions Du Reel. While in Nyon, she’ll be participating in VdR-Pitching, attending VdR-Work in Progress, and taking 1-1 meetings with filmmakers.
Written by Spring Intern Tess Caldwell
Four Nest-supported Films at Berlinale 2023
Chicken & Egg Pictures is proud to see three Nest-supported films in Berlinale 2023 lineup. El eco/The Echo and Hummingbirds will have their world premiere, and the recent Sundance winner of the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary The Eternal Memory will have its European premiere. The festival takes place from Wednesday, February 16 to Sunday, February 26.
El eco / The Echo
dir. & prod. Tatiana Huezo
prod. Dalia Reyes
![Still from El Eco. Two young kids sit on a large rock jutting out from the side of a grassy hill. They are facing away from the camera. In front of them is a grassy valley with sheep grazing in it.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Huezo_Tatiana_2021_CEA_CURRENT-STILL-EL-ECO-3-1024x559.jpg)
El eco / The Echo will have its world premiere in the Encounters section and was supported through Tatiana Huezo’s 2021 Chicken & Egg Award.
Get your tickets here.
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The Eternal Memory
dir. & prod. Maite Alberdi
prods. Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín, Rocío Jadue
![Still from The Eternal Memory. Augusto and Paulina reading from a magazine on a sofa.](https://chickeneggpics.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/LMI-6-1024x562.jpg)
The Eternal Memory will have its European Premiere in the Panorama Section and was supported through Maite Alberdi’s 2020 Chicken & Egg Award.
Get your tickets here.
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Hummingbirds
dirs. Silvia Del Carmen Castaños, Estefanía “Beba” Contreras
co-dirs. & prods. Jillian Schlesinger, Miguel Drake-McLaughlin, Diane Ng, Ana Rodriguez-Falco
prods. Leslie Benavides, Rivkah Beth Medow
![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 will have its world premiere in the Generation 14plus section and is a 2022 (Egg)celerator Lab finalist.
Get your tickets here.
From the AlumNest
- My ne zgasnemo / We Will Not Fade Away
dir. Alisa Kovalenko
prods. Valery Kalmykov, Oleksiy Kobelev
World premiere in the 14plus competition of Berlinale Generation
Alisa is also participating in the Berlinale Talents Event A Closer Look: Current Docs from Ukraine - 2017 Chicken & Egg Award recipient Kirsten Johnson is participating in the Berlinale Talents Event Simply Absurd: Subversive Screenwriting
Ascension, Simple As Water & Writing With Fire on the 94th Oscars® shortlist
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Tuesday, December 21 their shortlist for documentary features and documentary short subject. At Chicken & Egg Pictures we are sending massive congratulations to the 3 Nest-supported films on the list: Ascension, Simple As Water, and Writing With Fire, as well as to the 5 films from the AlumNest.
We are egg-cited to see these films on these lists and look forward to the Nominations list, which will be announced on Tuesday, February 8. Nominations voting begins on Thursday, January 27 and concludes on Tuesday, February 1.
The 94th Oscars® will be held on Sunday, March 27 and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide. Take a look at the shortlisted films below and checkout the full list with this link.
Ascension
Directed by Jessica Kingdon
Produced by Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy, and Nathan Truesdell
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Simple As Water
Directed by Megan Mylan
Produced by Robin Hessman & Megan Mylan
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Writing With Fire
Directed and produced by Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh
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From the AlumNest
Documentary Feature
President
dir. Camilla Nielsson
prods. Joslyn Barnes, Signe Byrge Sørensen
In the Same Breath
dir. Nanfu Wang
prods. Jialing Zhang, Carolyn Hepburn, Sara Rodriguez, Julie Goldman, and Christopher Clements
Documentary Short Subject
Águilas
dir. & prod. Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
co-dir. & prod. Maite Zubiaurre
Terror Contagion
dir. & prod. Laura Poitras
prods. Anonymous, Yoni Golijov
International Feature Film
Prayers for the Stolen
dir. Tatiana Huezo
prods. Nicolás Celis, Jim Stark
2021 Chicken & Egg Award recipient Tatiana Huezo receives Special Mention at Cannes
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2021 Chicken & Egg Award recipient Tatiana Huezo, premiered her film Noche de Fuego/Prayers for the Stolen at the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in July, where it received a Special Mention in the Un Certain Regard competition.
The film is Huezo’s fiction debut, based on the novel Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement and set in a small town in the mountains of Mexico. Noche de Fuego/Prayers for the Stolen tells the story of what it is like to be a young woman growing up in a rural town marked by violence, where three girls forge their friendship learning how to hide to survive.
The film will be available at San Sebastian Film Festival, Festival de Cine de Lima, and New York Film Festival.
Congratulations Tatiana!
Post by 2021 Summer Communications Intern Mariana Sanson.