A portrait of an abolitionist attempting to heal her household within the wake of incarceration, an animated brief presenting gender fluidity by means of a baby’s eyes, and the story of 30 ladies crossing from North to South Korea in pursuit of peace — these are among the many non-fiction movies Hen & Egg Footage has chosen for its newest spherical of Mission: Hatched grantees. Ladies and Hollywood can solely affirm that six documentary tasks from ladies and nonbinary artists will obtain $30,000 towards their completion prices and impression campaigns. The filmmakers may also obtain seven months of mentorship in impression technique {and professional} improvement.
As well as, two runner-up tasks will every obtain a $15,000 finalist grant.
Members of Hen & Egg’s alumni community, AlumNest, participated within the Mission: Hatched choice course of. The grantees are “Any Given Day,” Margaret Byrne’s exploration of residing with psychological sickness in Chicago; “A Lady on the Outdoors,” Lisa Riordan Seville and Zara Katz’s story of a younger Philadelphia activist hoping to reunite her household when her father and brother are launched from jail; Rebeca Huntt’s “BEBA,” a self-portrait inspecting inherited trauma and familial historical past; Deann Borshay Liem’s “Crossings,” which follows 30 ladies peacemakers, together with Gloria Steinem, as they journey from North to South Korea within the hopes of ending the Korean Battle; “Mama Has a Mustache,” Sally Rubin’s animated brief that sees a baby studying about id past the gender binary; and Emma Francis-Snyder’s “Takeover,” the story of ’70s activists the Younger Lords.
The Mission: Hatched finalists are “The Janes,” Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes’ Sundance doc in regards to the eponymous ’70s underground abortion community, and “Powerlands,” Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso’s take a look at the intersection of Indigenous displacement and environmental destruction.
“Since 2019, Mission: Hatched has supported 19 brief and feature-length movies,” Hen & Egg famous in a press launch. “By way of this system, filmmakers be taught from Hen & Egg Footage’ inventive staff, friends, and specialists about distribution, outreach, and how one can maximize their movies as instructional and advocacy instruments. Filmmakers on this program have used their movies to assist push for legislative reforms, host neighborhood gatherings, and maintain essential conversations with focused influencers.”
In September, Hen & Egg awarded Mission: Hatched grants to Maya Cueva and Leah Galant’s “On the Divide”; Cai Thomas’ “Change the Identify”; Ash Goh Hua’s “I’m Free Now, You Are Free”; Ann Kaneko’s “Manzanar, Diverted: When Water Turns into Mud”; Brooke Pepion Swaney’s “Daughter of a Misplaced Chook”; Natalie Pattillo and Daniel A. Nelson’s “And So I Stayed”; and Beth Levison and Jerry Risius’ “Storm Lake.”
Discover extra details about the newest Mission: Hatched grantees and finalists beneath.
Mission: Hatched Grantees
Any Given Day
Director: Margaret Byrne
Producer: Margaret Byrne
Producer/Influence Producer: Latesha Dickerson
A filmmaker and three Chicagoans navigate the complexities of residing with psychological sickness.
A Lady on the Outdoors
Administrators: Lisa Riordan Seville, Zara Katz
Producers: Kiara C. Jones, Lisa Riordan Seville, Zara Katz
Kristal is a younger bold Philadelphian pushed to maintain households linked to their incarcerated family members. However when her father and brother return from jail, she confronts the final word query: can she reunite her circle of relatives?
BEBA
Director: Rebeca Huntt
Producers: Rebeca Huntt, Sofia Geld
Influence Producer: Mia Bruno
A shocking self-portrait, robust, uncooked, cussed, and highly effective “Beba” stares down the curses of her ancestry, probing the psychic wounds she has inherited, whereas concurrently embracing the vastness of her multitudes.
Crossings
Director: Deann Borshay Liem
Producers: Deann Borshay Liem, Ramsay Liem, Sarah Kim, Homosexual Dillingham
Thirty ladies peacemakers, together with Gloria Steinem, undertake a dangerous crossing of the demilitarized zone (DMZ), from North to South Korea, to finish America’s longest-running battle.
Mama Has a Mustache
Director: Sally Rubin
Producer: Sally Rubin
Influence Producer: Nick Kelso
“Mama Has a Mustache” is a brief animated documentary about id and household outdoors of the standard gender binary, as seen by means of kids’s eyes.
Takeover
Director: Emma Francis-Snyder
Producer: Tony Gerber
In 1970, the Younger Lords, a bunch of activists, took over a decrepit hospital within the South Bronx, launching a battle for his or her lives, their neighborhood, and healthcare for all.
Mission: Hatched Finalists
Powerlands
Director: Ivey Camille Manybeads Tso
Producers: Jordan Flaherty, Emily Faye Ratner, Ewa Jasiewicz
A Navajo filmmaker investigates the worldwide displacement of Indigenous individuals and the devastation of the surroundings by companies which have exploited the land the place she was born.
The Janes
Administrators: Tia Lessin, Emma Pildes
Producers: Emma Pildes, Daniel Arcana, Jessica Levin
“The Janes” is the story of an underground community of ladies in Chicago within the ‘60s and early ‘70s who offered protected, reasonably priced, unlawful abortions.
Supply: Women And Hollywood
