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

A photo with Senior Programmer Zaina Bseiso, Senior Programmer Milton Guillen, and filmmaker Lucrecia Martel 

Photo: Mariana Sanson

Reflections from CIFF 2025

A photo of a group of people smiling in front of a hot pink step and repeat that reads "Sheffield DocFest." Next to the photo, text reads "Chicken & Egg Films WIP Showcase" and "Sheffield DocFest."

Pictured: Chinmoy Sonowal, Ragini Nath, Ilinca Calugareanu, Gabriela Díaz Arp, Jane Wagner, Rachael DeCruz, and Jeremy Levine

20th Anniversary WIP Showcase at DOC NYC 2025

A photo of the Alabama Theater at dusk. A retro, neon sign reads "Alabama." In the distance, an old theater sign reads "craft in motion."

Photo: Amelia Ray

Reflections on the 2025 Sidewalk Film Festival

A graphic in white, black and electric lime highlighting 2024 Best of the Nest.

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

Communications director Hannah Thomas headshot

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

Black and white headshot of Lourdes Portillo

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 woman leans over to investigate a decaying house.

Still from Southmont Drive

gala image

CELEBRATE WITH US ON JUNE 3

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

Black and white portrait of Jeanie Finlay

Photo courtesy Jeanie Finlay

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

Still from Seeds. A man holds a young baby on a boat. Photo in black and white.

Still from Seeds

December Community Highlights

Still from River of Grass

November Community Highlights

Aubrey Gordon stands in front of a pink and purple gradient backdrop.

Still from Your Fat Friend, Photo: Joseph Cultice

Fall Community Highlights

Yellow banner with small purple titles saying "2025 RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT GRANT RECIPIENTS"  with portraits of 35 different filmmakers. 

GRAPHIC: CHICKEN & EGG FILMS

2025 Research & Development Grant Recipients Announced

2025 CEA Filmmakers

2025 Chicken & Egg Award Recipients Announced

2025 EL banner with 9 stills of the supported films

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

A mixed race woman stands in front of a wooden fence. She has long, dark hair and wears wire rimmed glasses and smiles slightly while looking directly at the camera. A headshot for filmmaker Bree Nieves Robert. 

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

A Chicken & Egg Pictures | POV shorts Co-Production Fund graphic

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

Graphic with 2023 Project: Hatched films

Announcing the Project: Hatched 2023 Grantees

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

2023 Chicken & Egg Award Recipients Announced

Graphic with eight stills from films of the Critical Issues Fund

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 

Banner with film stills of the Project: Hatched 2022 grantees that says Meet our Project: Hatched 2022 grantees

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