Congratulations to five Chicken & Egg Grantees on their Emmy Nominations!

The 32nd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards nominees
have been announced, and we’re proud to see many
Chicken & Egg grantees in the running!

Monica & David by Alexandra Codina

The Oath by Laura Poitras

A Small Act by Jennifer Arnold

Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy by Stephanie Wang-Breal

Deep Down by Jen Gilomen and Sally Rubin

And congratulations to Chicken & Egg grantee Nicole Opper for her nominated feature film debut, Off and Running.

Check Out DEAR MANDELA'S Theatrical Trailer!

We’re thrilled to support DEAR MANDELA.
Their theatrical trailer is now up!

DEAR MANDELA, by Dara Kell and Christopher Nizza
When their shantytowns are threatened with mass eviction, three ‘young lions’ of South Africa’s new generation rise from the shacks and take their government to the highest court in the land, putting the promises of democracy to the test.

DEAR MANDELA will World Premiere at the Durban International Film Festival on July 26, 2011.

Check it Out:

DEAR MANDELA theatrical trailer from Sleeping Giant on Vimeo.

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Congratulations to Bag It's grant from The Fledgling Fund's Spring 2011 selection!

The Fledgling Fund has announced their Spring 2011 grantees. We’re thrilled to see Suzan Beraza’s Bag It, as a grant recipient among all the 26 amazing projects being supported. The Fledgling Fund continues to seeks to improve the lives of vulnerable individuals, families, and communities by supporting innovative media projects that target entrenched social problems.

BAG IT, by Suzan Beraza

Americans use 60,000 plastic bags every five minutes-single-use disposable bags that we mindlessly throw away. But where is "away?" Where do the bags and other plastics end up, and at what cost to our environment, marine life and human health? Bag It follows "everyman" Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic world. Jeb is not a radical environmentalist, but an average American who decides to take a closer look at our cultural love affair with plastics. Jeb's journey in this documentary film starts with simple questions: Are plastic bags really necessary? What are plastic bags made from? What happens to plastic bags after they are discarded? Jeb looks beyond plastic bags and discovers that virtually everything in modern society-from baby bottles, to sports equipment, to dental sealants, to personal care products-is made with plastic or contains potentially harmful chemical additives used in the plastic-making process. When Jeb's journey takes a personal twist, we see how our crazy-for-plastic world has finally caught up with us and what we can do about it. Today. Right now.

Check out the trailer:

Bag It Intro from Suzan Beraza on Vimeo.

Judith Helfand's film, A Healthy Baby Girl, is Screening this Tuesday, July 19th, in DC!

THE NATIONAL MUSEUM of WOMEN in the ARTS presents
A HEALTHY BABY GIRL
THE PEABODY AWARD-WINNING FILM BY JUDITH HELFAND

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Susan Swartz: Seasons of the Soul, filmmaker JUDITH HELFAND joins renowned scholar SUSAN BELL, Author of DES DAUGHTERS, for a screening of Helfand’s 1997 autobiographical “classic”.

The screening will be followed by a discussion with Susan Bell & Judith Helfand. The focus: how A HEALTHY BABY GIRL – a disarmingly, loving [and even funny] story exploring the impact of DES – was used by environmentalists to reframe the specter of hormone/endocrine mimicking chemicals as a threat to our most precious and personal relationships.

Judith will share new dvd extras, including one that explores her first foray into painting and “healing with color” -- made post DES cancer & hysterectomy.


Tuesday, July 19, 2011
7:00pm-9:00pm

National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Ave/ Washington, D.C. 20005


General $5; Members/Seniors/Students $4.

Reservations encouraged: reservations@nmwa.org/call 202-783-7370

Check Out Jesse Epstein and NAMI NYC's Multimedia Event!

Congratulations to Jesse Epstein, who is partnering with NAMI NYC on a multimedia event exploring the "invention of the ideal body". They are also really interested in having NYC based educators and students there so spread the word!

Thursday, July 14 · 6:00pm - 8:00pm

NYU Langone Medical Center

550 First Ave (32nd and 33rd)

New York, NY

Sponsored by NAMI -- "Body Image, Eating Disorders and Mental Health," a public education event featuring writer Harriet Brown and filmmaker Jesse Erica Epstein.

Author Harriet Brown will speak and read from her book "Brave Girl Eating"
Filmmaker Jesse Epstein will show excerpts from BODY TYPED.

Check out the event on Facebook.