Photo: Jenni Wolfson, courtesy DOC NYC

CEO Jenni Wolfson Honored with Leading Light Award at 2024 DOC NYC Visionaries Tribute

Avery Benello, Judith Helfand, Jenni Wolfson, Wendy Ettinger stand together on the red carpet in front of a step-and-repeat backdrop with the Women's Media Center logo on it. They hold open small red velvet boxes showing their awards for the Pat Mitchell Lifetime Achievement Award

L-r: Avery Benello, Judith Helfand, Jenni Wolfson, Wendy Ettinger

Chicken & Egg Co-Founders and CEO Honored at 2024 WMC Awards

Jude Chehab, Loira Limbal, Jennifer Redfearn

Graphic: Tess Caldwell

Three Guggenheim Fellows

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Graphic: C&E Films

Best of the Nest 2024

A color still from the film Hummingbirds, in which two people are standing in the foreground on a sandy outdoor landscape with a train approaching from their left. 

Graphic: Chicken & Egg Films

We’re Excited to Reintroduce Ourselves

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Photo: Mettie Ostrowski

Welcoming Communications Director, Hannah Thomas

Welcome to the Nest, Cristina Colón Feliciano!

Chicken & Egg Films’ Use of the Non-Fiction Core Application

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Photo courtesy Lourdes Portillo

Lourdes Portillo (1944-2024)

Photo courtesy Deepa Donde

Welcome Deepa Donde to our Board!

Welcome to the Nest, Elliot Zayas!

 Best of the Nest 2023

Graphic announcing Nekisa Cooper as Board President in 2023

Graphic: Mariana Sanson

Announcing Nekisa Cooper as our Board President

Photo courtesy Félix Endara

Welcome Félix Endara to our Board!

Our Program Team is Now Complete!

Welcome to the Nest, Will Tamura! 

Welcoming Program Director, Kiyoko McCrae

January 2023 Nest News: Festival Premieres, Oscars Shortlist, and a New Strategic Plan

In Memoriam of Julia Reichert

Nekisa Cooper headshot, a woman with short hair and thick frames smiling at the camera

Photo courtesy Nekisa Cooper

Welcome Nekisa Cooper to our Board!

A still from The Boy and the Suit of Lights. A close-up shot of a young boy wearing a grey suit and a yellow cloth draped over his left shoulder. Behind him, a crowd of people sits in stadium seating. He has short brown hair and brown eyes.

Still from The Boy and the Suit of Lights

Supported Films at Sheffield DocFest 2024

Five Supported Films at Hot Docs

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Photo courtesy Jeanie Finlay

Jeanie Finlay’s Retrospective and Q at Big Sky Documentary Festival

Square with seven images of supported filmmakers who received 2024 Academy of Motion Picture and Sciences invitations.

Seven Supported Filmmakers Join the Academy

Film still from Against the Tide. Two men go through the content of their fishing net, there are a fish and plastic trash.

Still from Against the Tide

Six Supported Films and Filmmakers on POV’s 37th season

Photo: Mark Mann

DOC NYC Honors 6 Supported Filmmakers And Program Director Kiyoko McCrae

2025 CEA Filmmakers

2025 CHICKEN & EGG AWARD RECIPIENTS ANNOUNCED

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2025 EL banner

2025 (Egg)celerator Lab Grantees Announced

Stills from Project Hatched 2024 grantees. Clockwise from top left: Black Box Diaries, Black Snow, Commuted, La Lucha, Malqueridas, Songs From The Hole, There Was, There Was Not, UNION, Yintah, and Your Fat Friend.

2024 Project: Hatched Grantees Announced

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Photo courtesy Bree Nieves Robert

Announcing “Shorts In-Session,” a New Work-in-Progress Initiative

A black and white grid showing the 29 headshots of filmmakers who received a 2024 Research or Development grant

2024 Research & Development Grant Announcement

2024 (Egg)celerator Lab Grantees Announced 

2024 Chicken & Egg Award Recipients Announced

Gender Expansion Eligibility Announcement

Inaugural Research & Development Grant Cohort Announced

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New ‘Chicken & Egg Pictures | POV Shorts Co-Production Fund’ Announced

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Announcing the Project: Hatched 2023 Grantees

Chicken & Egg Pictures Launches Research & Development Grants With Support From Netflix

2023 Chicken & Egg Award Recipients Announced

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Announcing our 2022 Critical Issues Fund Grantees

‘AlumNest Relief Fund’ Announced in Partnership with Women Make Movies

Multitude Films and Chicken & Egg Pictures Announce "QUEER FUTURES" Series 

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Announcing our Project: Hatched 2022 Grantees and Finalists

A collage of photos with stills of the ten projects supported by the 2022 (Egg)celerator Lab

Announcing Our 2022 (Egg)celerator Lab Grantees

A series of headshots of six women looking at the camera. 2022 Chicken & Egg Award Recipients