In a global context described by some as the Golden Age of documentary and by others as the Corporate Age of documentary, the Marché du Film’s Cannes Docs sidebar dedicated its May 20 talk to the question of a “Universal Values System in Documentary: Dismantling Borders for Greater Equity.”
Moderated by Devika Girish, editor of New York-based Film Comment magazine, the high-level panel included Alemberg Ang from Filipino production house Daluyong Studios; Chinese filmmaker and artist Viv Li; Chicken & Egg Pictures Program Director Kiyoko McCrae; and Adam Piron, director of the Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program.
Opening the talk, Girish invited panelists to share a documentary they would describe as a model of ethical filmmaking.
For Piron, it was the debut feature of American visual artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka, “Malni – Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore,” an experimental work about the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest.
Moderated by Devika Girish, editor of New York-based Film Comment magazine, the high-level panel included Alemberg Ang from Filipino production house Daluyong Studios; Chinese filmmaker and artist Viv Li; Chicken & Egg Pictures Program Director Kiyoko McCrae; and Adam Piron, director of the Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program.
Opening the talk, Girish invited panelists to share a documentary they would describe as a model of ethical filmmaking.
For Piron, it was the debut feature of American visual artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka, “Malni – Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore,” an experimental work about the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest.
- 5/22/2024
- by Lise Pedersen
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Pov Shorts and Chicken & Egg Pictures is giving a major career boost to five young documentary filmmakers. Today, the organizations announced the recipients of the inaugural Chicken & Egg Pictures/Pov Shorts Co-Production Fund, which will provide $120,000 for development and production funding to three short documentary projects helmed by women and nonbinary filmmakers.
The quintet earning the grants are Imani Dennison, Latajh Weaver, Aurora Brachman, Brit Fryer, and Lydia Cornett [scroll for details on their doc projects]. They will be spending the next several days attending the Camden International Film Festival in coastal Maine; the Points North Institute, which puts on the festival, is welcoming the filmmakers as “an official fellowship cohort” at Ciff 2023.
The inaugural co-production fund “marks the two organizations’ first joint content development project, and all films are co-productions of Pov Shorts and Chicken & Egg Pictures,” according to a release. “Chicken & Egg Pictures and Pov Shorts each contributed $60,000 to finance the fund which...
The quintet earning the grants are Imani Dennison, Latajh Weaver, Aurora Brachman, Brit Fryer, and Lydia Cornett [scroll for details on their doc projects]. They will be spending the next several days attending the Camden International Film Festival in coastal Maine; the Points North Institute, which puts on the festival, is welcoming the filmmakers as “an official fellowship cohort” at Ciff 2023.
The inaugural co-production fund “marks the two organizations’ first joint content development project, and all films are co-productions of Pov Shorts and Chicken & Egg Pictures,” according to a release. “Chicken & Egg Pictures and Pov Shorts each contributed $60,000 to finance the fund which...
- 9/14/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Ten documentary projects from eight countries have been selected as grantees of Project: Hatched, a Chicken & Egg Pictures program designed to support directors as they develop and launch strategic impact campaigns.
Many of the selected projects had prestigious premieres at film festivals, including Sundance and IDFA. But despite the high-profile debuts, the dismal docu marketplace has forced filmmakers to figure out various alternative distribution models. Project: Hatched funding can help filmmakers ensure an impact campaign around a project that in all likelihood took years to make. Even films such as this year’s Project: Hatched grantee title “Pay or Die,” which was acquired by MTV Documentary Films, are in need of funding for an impact campaign.
Each of the 10 selected film will receive $30,000, which will go towards completion funding and impact campaigns. This is the first year that the grant’s criteria were expanded to include international projects. Additionally, this...
Many of the selected projects had prestigious premieres at film festivals, including Sundance and IDFA. But despite the high-profile debuts, the dismal docu marketplace has forced filmmakers to figure out various alternative distribution models. Project: Hatched funding can help filmmakers ensure an impact campaign around a project that in all likelihood took years to make. Even films such as this year’s Project: Hatched grantee title “Pay or Die,” which was acquired by MTV Documentary Films, are in need of funding for an impact campaign.
Each of the 10 selected film will receive $30,000, which will go towards completion funding and impact campaigns. This is the first year that the grant’s criteria were expanded to include international projects. Additionally, this...
- 8/17/2023
- by Addie Morfoot
- Variety Film + TV
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