Female Creators Bring Big Ideas To Screen In Conde Nast Entertainment, Indigenous Media’s Incubator

An incubator series one year in the making has arrived online. Conde Nast Entertainment and Indigenous Media have premiered Project HER, a collection of six short films that are all helmed by female filmmakers.

For Project HER, CNE and Indigenous recruited a number of notable showrunners and TV executives to serve as mentors for a crop of up-and-coming filmmakers. In turn, those creators produced their own short films, which span a variety of genres and tones. Beauty is a supernatural piece set in the 1930s; Black Night is a sci-fi thriller; Good Eggs concerns a forty-something woman and her frozen ova; The Row is set in a prison; Snugglr (picutred above) is a comedy about a professional snuggler; and Watch Party is a sitcom set in front of a TV.

Indigenous Media has made space for both incubators and female-fronted content since its 2014 launch

. The media company’s co-founders previously worked together at Wigs, where every single series was led by a female character. In 2016, Indigenous launched The Big Script, an incubator based off screenplays from Hollywood’s Black List.

“As evidenced by the amazing work that each of Project HER mentors have done, women’s voices are indisputably valuable, and the industry has a responsibility to help resolve gender disparity in the business by providing them the opportunities they deserve,” Indigenous Media co-founder Rodrigo Garcia told The Hollywood Reporter.

The six short films in the Project HER series can be found on CNE’s The Scene platform and on Facebook Watch. More information about individual projects within the incubator is available via The Hollywood Reporter, which first reported on the launch of Project HER.