Best of the Nest 2021:
Our year at Chicken & Egg Pictures
We provided over $1 million in grants to 45 women and gender nonconforming documentary filmmakers based in 10 countries
6 international, advanced-career filmmakers received funding and mentorship as recipients of the Chicken & Egg Award
We hired 2 new staff members to build internal capacity and expand our programs
10 documentaries by first- and second-time directors participated in the (Egg)celerator Lab and filmmakers pitched their projects at Sheffield Doc/Fest to an audience of 400+ industry members
We imagined new ways to support our filmmaker community, and we implemented new AlumNest programming such as story workshops and 1:1 meetings
Through Project:Hatched, 12 social issue films were awarded a total of $240k for their impact and engagement campaigns
Project:Hatched began as an internal nomination process and will launch as an open call in December!
We celebrated our 15th anniversary (one year late) at our Eggstended Re-Run virtual gathering in May
Image at top: 2021 Chicken & Egg Award Recipient Jialing Zhang in the field