The Chimaera Project recognizes the collective voice as a catalyst for SOCIAL CHANGE. Our overarching goal is to inspire confidence in hiring more women and nonbinary creatives. Statistics prove that current hiring practices in the arts have a tangible creative and economic impact on families and our communities.
You are our inspiration and motivation!
The Chimaera Project has touched the lives of approximately 1,500 program participants. We could not have done this without you!
As recently shared by one of our TO.GET.HER finishing fund program participants: It’s about more than any one of us. It’s about raising the voices of women collectively, so that we really start to expand diversity in an industry that, for decades, has excluded women (as well as BIPOC and APPI filmmakers, LGBTQIA filmmakers and filmmakers with disabilities.
How The Chimaera Project Got Its Name: Girls!Girls!Girls! was the beta project that inspired The Chimaera Project. It was a feature anthology of 6 short films all written, produced, edited, directed and shot by women. An anthology is the definition of our Chimaera: Many different seemingly unalike parts coming together as one to form something unique and strong.
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The Chimaera Project is currently supported in part by the generosity of the Sony Create Action grant, the California Arts Council, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture, and the Department of Cultural Affairs City of Los Angeles.
We are grateful for the additional grant support we have received over the years from the National Endowment for the Arts, Annenberg Foundation, The J. Paul Getty Trust, California Community Foundation, The Puffin Foundation and EMinutes.
