Chicken & Egg Pictures and Rooftop Films have joined together to offer a short film grant of $6000 to women filmmakers. Any filmmaker who has ever screened at Rooftop Films, or who has ever applied for or received support from Chicken & Egg Pictures is eligible to apply. For more information on what to include in your application, please visit Chicken & Egg Pictures. Application deadline is August 3, 2010.

by: Lindsay Gibb, Reelscreen

This past week the women behind Chicken and Egg Pictures, a New York-based hybrid film fund and mentoring production company for female filmmakers, were given the Loreen Arbus Award at the New York Women in Film and Television’s (NY-WIFT) Muse Awards. Realscreen spoke with Judith Helfand, Julie Parker Benello and Wendy Ettinger (pictured, left to right) about the meaning of Chicken and Egg, what they’re looking for in the projects they support and what plans they’re hatching for the future.

Last year the Loreen Arbus Award for Those Who Take Action and Effect Change was given to Kodak for its support of female cinematographers. This year Wendy Ettinger, co-founder of Chicken and Egg Pictures, says she’s thrilled the NY-WIFT acknowledged her organization because it meant the awards show, which usually focuses on women in fictional films and television, was giving a nod to women who work on documentaries.

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One of our newest projects is Pray the Devil Back to Hell, a film by Abigail Disney and Gini Reticker. This award winning film chronicles the remarkable story of the courageous Liberian women who came together across faith to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country. We are so excited to be part of the efforts to engage audiences in the issues of women’s power and the potential of nonviolent action, and we are thrilled that the film is receiving stellar reviews.

Pray the Devil Back to Hell is opening in New York City today, with additional openings in select cities. In collaboration with Fork Films and Auburn Media, we have coordinated special screening events and we hope you can make it out to one of them. The following events will take place at the Cinema Village Theater with extraordinary organizations hosting post-screening Q&A’s:

11/7 FRIDAY 8PM
Hosted by the Andrus Family Fund with The Advocates for Human Rights

11/8 SATURDAY 4PM
Hosted by African Refuge

11/8 SATURDAY 6PM
Hosted by the American Society for Muslim Advancement, the Center for Women’s Multifaith Education at Auburn Theological Seminary, the Sister Fund, the Women’s Ministry of the National Council of the Churches, and United Methodist Women.

11/8 SATURDAY 8PM
Hosted by Ms. Foundation for Women with the Global Fund for Women

11/9 SUNDAY 8PM
Hosted by the US National Committee for UNIFEM, Metro New York Chapter

You can spread the word to your friends about the film and special events through email, web badges, and flyers offered on the official website.