Chicken & Egg Pictures has announced their latest initiative, teaming up with Netflix on a $450,000 fund to support women and non-binary documentary filmmakers who have previously made at least two feature films and are currently working toward their next project. As many as 30 filmmaking teams will receive a $10,000 grant for research or a $20,000 grant for development. In addition to the grant, recipients will be provided with “peer support, mentorship opportunities and deeper connections in the documentary film industry.”<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Chicken & Egg Pictures Research & Development Grant is accepting applications through 12 p.m. ET on Monday, April 24. Recipients will be announced sometime this summer.<\/p>\n
As an organization, Chicken & Egg Pictures has supported many prominent non-fiction filmmakers, such as Julia Reichert, Nanfu Wang, Laura Poitras, Yance Ford and Kirsten Johnson. They’ve also aided several 25 New Faces of Film with their projects, including Penny Lane<\/a>, Ash Goh Hua<\/a>,\u00a0 Jessica Kingdon<\/a>, Jesse Epstein<\/a>, Kimberly Reed<\/a>, Sonia Kennebeck<\/a>, Alison O’Daniel<\/a>, Nico Opper<\/a>, Jessica Oreck<\/a>, Elaine McMillion Sheldon<\/a> and filmmaking team Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall<\/a>.<\/p>\n