Working Films is accepting applications for the first annual Fledgling Fund and Chicken & Egg Pictures Grantee Residency to be held in the beautiful Hudson Valley at the LifeBridge Sanctuary Retreat Center, August 12-15, 2009. Eight filmmakers will be selected to participate in this interactive retreat focused on the nuts & bolts of audience and community engagement campaigning for non-fiction films.

Working Films is excited to announce the opening of Working Films UK, a London office in partnership with the Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation – extending the services of Working Films to filmmakers in the United Kingdom and the European Union. Since 2007, the Working Films team has collaborated with BRITDOC on filmmaker trainings, strategy summits for feature documentaries, festival workshops and, most recently, the foundation’s very first North American Good Pitch at Hot Docs.

Reel Justice, a film conference on media activism will kick-off its national tour in Jackson, MS at Tougaloo College from Friday, March 27, 2009 at 6PM through Saturday, March 28, 2009. Sponsored by Working Films and the Andrus Family Fund, the conference focuses on models for community reconciliation as a response to violence, and in particular police brutality, racially motivated violence and violence against women.

Working Films is honored to announce that TROUBLE THE WATER and PLEASE VOTE FOR ME are winners of the 2008 Working Films Full Frame Awards, sponsored by the Ettinger Foundation and Chicken & Egg Pictures.

Working Films is pleased to announce the selected participants for the 2008 Content + Intent Documentary Institute, a five-day residency for filmmakers. This year’s Residents are filmmakers of compelling and crucial documentaries that brilliantly expand our understanding of the “American story.” Read on for a list of the accepted Residents and descriptions of their projects.