Judith Helfand

About Judith Helfand

Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand (she/her) is best known for her ability to…

Experience

1. Co-founder & Senior Creative Consultant

   Chicken & Egg Films

   Jan 2005 — Present

   In 2005 Judith co-founded Chicken & Egg Pictures with Julie Parker Benello and Wendy Ettinger. Aggregating over twenty years of collective expertise as producers, mentors, social-justice activists, funders, advocates and practitioners of rigorous impact-driven audience engagement campaigns, they came together to create a dynamic venture to support women documentary filmmakers. The non-profit film fund started off by providing strategic “I Believe in You” grants matched by timely creative “hands-with” mentorship. All of the funds up until 2013 were raised by the co-founders with Helfand taking a lead role in the development of materials, branding and content at all levels of the organization. Fifteen years, thousands of hours of mentorship and millions of grant dollars later, Chicken & Egg Pictures has evolved, with the vision of a first-ever ED, new hires, an extraordinary staff, and a new set of strategic funding and mentorship programs, into a critical part of the documentary ecosystem, pipeline of support and movement for gender parity. Helfand served as Co-Founder and Creative Director from 20••••15 at which point she became a Senior Creative Consultant with more time to dedicate to her own filmmaking/storytelling.