POV Shorts And Chicken & Egg Pictures Announce Recipients Of Inaugural Doc Co-Production Fund
14.09.2023 - 14:23
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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 awarded three non-recoupable $40,000 grants to new nonfiction short-form works in progress or already in production.”
Each of the projects will additionally receive “creative, strategic, and editorial advice from the Chicken & Egg Pictures and POV Shorts teams. While attending CIFF2023, each filmmaker will receive an All Access Filmmaker Badge including Party Access, Lodging, access to the Points North Artists Programs Lunch, and participate in a Production Summit on making films for PBS distribution.”
Once completed, the shorts will earn consideration for launch “on PBS via national linear broadcast and PBS Digital, which reaches an audience of 44.7 million