Chicken & Egg Pictures will honor Lesli Klainberg, Executive Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, and Eugene Hernandez, Deputy Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, with its 2014 Good Egg Award, and celebrate the two Chicken & Egg Pictures film grantees participating in the Independent Film Week Project Forum: The Bill by Ramona Diaz and (T)error by Lyric Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe.

Klainberg and Hernandez will receive the award on September 15 during the Chicken & Egg Pictures Annual Independent Film Week Celebration in New York City.

The Good Egg Award is given annually to distinguished leaders in the independent and documentary film community. This year’s honorees both have a distinguished history of contributions to the documentary field and to the world of independent film as a whole.

Klainberg has an incredible record, across more than two decades, not only through her work at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and as Executive Director of NewFest, New York’s LGBT Film Festival, but as a producer and director of acclaimed independent documentaries.

Hernandez has made tremendous contributions with his work at Indiewire, which he co-founded and led as Editor-in-Chief, and involvement with a host of documentary programs and festivals including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Sundance Documentary Fund, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, and many more.

“They are both pillars of the film community, respected and well-loved, and together at the helm of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, they are in a position to build and expand on their already impressive accomplishments. It will be exciting to see how they continue to champion and shape the world of independent film.” said Jenni Wolfson, Executive Director of Chicken & Egg Pictures.

Two Chicken & Egg Pictures grantees have been selected for IFP’s 2014 Project Forum: “The Bill” from director Ramona Diaz will participate in the Spotlight on Documentaries section, and (T)ERROR from directors Lyric Cabral & David Felix Sutcliffe will participate in the Documentary Lab.

The Bill is set in the Philippines, one of the world’s poorest and most populous countries, and it struggles with reproductive health policy. The Reproductive Health Bill guarantees access to contraception, maternal care, and sex education in schools. In a country where 85% of the population is Catholic, there is unrelenting opposition from the formidable Church. Nowhere are the stakes more starkly apparent than in Fabella Memorial Hospital, one of the busiest maternity public hospitals in the world. The film intercuts between the legislature and Fabella Hospital – contrasting the sluggish pace of policy development, as lawmakers parse the language of the RH Bill, and the rampant speed of childbirth, as the hospital’s whiteboard tracks the day’s deliveries.

(T)ERROR is the first film to document an active FBI counterterrorism sting operation, featuring unprecedented, real-time access to the investigation’s central players. The film captures the dramatic aftermath that occurs when the target of the investigation realizes he is being set up by an FBI informant.

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