Nest-supported and AlumNest Films in POV’s 35th Season Line-up
June 21, 2022
From The Field

At Chicken & Egg Pictures, we are egg-cited to see Nest-supported and two AlumNest films in POV’s, television’s longest-running showcase for independent nonfiction films, 35th season lineup. Please mark your calendars with their television premiere dates below.

Still from Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust
dir. & prod. Ann Kaneko prod. Jin Yoo-Kim

POV premiere: Monday, July 18, 2022

Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Becomes Dust was a Project: Hatched 2021 grantee.

An Act of Worship Nausheen Dadabhoy Diversity Fellows Initiative 2018 Accelerator Lab 2019
An Act of Worship
dir. Nausheen Dadabhoy prods. Heba Elorbany, Kristi Jacobson, Sofian Khan

POV premiere: Monday, October 17, 2022

An Act of Worship participated in the 2018 Diversity Fellows Initiative and was a 2019 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee.

Still from Midwives
Midwives
dir. & prod. Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing prods. Mila Aung-Thwin, Bob Moore, Ulla Lehmann

POV premiere: Monday, November 21, 2022

Midwives is a 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab grantee and won a Special Jury Award for Excellence in Vérité Filmmaking at Sundance 2022.

From the AlumNest

  • The Mole Agent

    dir. & prod. Maite Alberdi

    prod. Marcela Santibanez

    Available through July

  • President

    dir. Camilla Nielsson prods. Signe Byrge Sørensen, Joslyn Barnes POV premiere: Monday, August 8, 2022

  • Delikado

    Writer and Executive Producer 2018 Chicken & Egg Award Recipient Laura Nix, dir. Karl Malakunas, prods. Michael Collins, Marty Syjuco, Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala

    POV premiere: Monday, September 26, 2022

An egg-stra special shout out to our Co-Founder & Senior Creative Consultant Judith Helfand, whose film Love & Stuff, produced by our Co-Founder & Board President Julie Parker Benello and AlumNest filmmaker Hilla Medalia, will have its POV premiere on Monday, September 5, 2022.

Check out the full line-up with this link.

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