2025 is so far offering no shortage of challenging twists and turns. Bleak doesn't quite seem to cover it. We don't have any easy answers, but we do promise steadiness. Chicken & Egg will be here, championing women and gender-expansive filmmakers with resources, mentorship, and access. We will be here, practicing radical tenderness—uplifting the stories that must be shared, the wins that must be celebrated, and the solutions within and beyond our doc ecosystem that might lead us through this moment to the promise of tomorrow.
Read on to learn about our Chicken & Egg Award filmmakers, festival happenings, an AlumNest spotlight, and beyond.
Thanks for reading! And hang in there.
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2025 Chicken & Egg Award filmmakers announced
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We announced this week via Filmmaker Magazine more than $550,000 in grants to seven recipients and one finalist of our 2025 Chicken & Egg Award. Our flagship program awards each cohort member a $75,000 grant and year-long tailored mentorship. The Award recipients are Rita Baghdadi, Kelly Duane de la Vega, Carola Fuentes, Angelo Madsen, Habiba Nosheen, Jenni Olson, and Anupama Srinivasan. The 2025 Chicken & Egg Award Finalist is Marcela Arteaga, who will receive a $25,000 production grant toward her film. Learn more about the cohort and their projects here.
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This month's awards and nominations
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Each month, we'll highlight a film from our AlumNest that's been making waves!
“…Both an engaging exposé on the ways immigrants are exploited for cheap labour and a harrowing exploration into a culture where toxic masculinity is deeply rooted in the soil... In exploring the volatile thorns on her family tree, Vdovîi presents a richly layered work that ponders the legacy of violence and the things that are often inherited without question.” —Courtney Small, POV Magazine
We celebrate Tata, a film directed by Lina Vdovîi and Radu Ciorniciuc, about a journalist who's estranged from her violent father and discovers that he’s become a victim of exploitation at work. When she agrees to help him expose the injustice, it reopens the wounds of their past. Tata was supported via our (Egg)celerator Lab program in 2022.
Since its world premiere at TIFF in 2024, the film has collected accolades including the Audience Award at Les Films de Cannes à Bucarest, Best Documentary and Audience Award at Trieste Film Festival, and the Human Rights in Action Award at Le Festival des histoires vraies and has screened at Zurich Film Festival, Astra Film Festival, El Gouna Film Festival, and Verzio Film Festival.
Listen to Lina speak about the film on ZFF's podcast Leading FeMales in Film 2024.
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Meet our Communications interns
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It takes a village to amplify our mission! Our team is delighted to welcome two Communications interns who have already hit the ground running and are providing crucial support for our work. Please join us in welcoming Nurah Abdulhaqq and Amelia Ray!
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