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WHO WE ARE
Moonshot Initiative, formerly known as Women’s Weekend Film Challenge, is a nonprofit that promotes gender equity by creating opportunities for women and non-binary people to bring their leadership, talents, and stories to the forefront of the film and television industry. We aim to empower and support underrepresented voices and promote a more inclusive media landscape.
Moonshot advances the careers of thousands of underrepresented voices. Whether it’s through our free film challenge, which puts crews of strangers together to make a film in one weekend and provides everything needed, or through our pilot accelerator, which finds the most promising TV writers and gets them in front of the top development executives, our programs are all designed to create supportive and diverse learning environments to help the next wave of talent advance in the industry.
Through individual donations, corporate sponsorships and grants, we are able to keep our programming costs as low as possible to break down financial barriers.
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Support while you learn
Monthly support is the best way to sustain our mission. When you sign up for a monthly donation, you'll recieve hundreds of hours of virtual workshops with the top women of Hollywood, career-building advice and creativty prompts. We are in the beta stage of this monthly membership. Eventually all monthly donors will be automatically entered to win monthly prizes! Sign up now:
Testimonials
Olivia Beccina,
P.A.
The feeling of working with women who had such passion was incredible and the time limit created an intense but FUN atmosphere. The best moment was Getting a great last take of the final scene
Adanna Paul, Wardrobe
This has truly been an invaluable experience. The fast pace and spontaneity of the challenge automatically fostered a sense of community and devotion between team members. The opportunity to arrive on set each day and work with talented, capable, dedicated, and creative women in film was a dream come true!
Brooke Solomon, Writer
It is so rare that you find a program that actually delivers on the access and skills it claims to provide. I would highly recommend this program to any writer – especially those looking to take their career to the next stage, understand different factions of the industry, and build a supportive community of fellow creatives.
Traci Hays, Director
The energy in the room was unlike anything I had experienced in my 10+ years as a working professional filmmaker. There was freedom to try new things and a safe place to make mistakes and help each other through each obstacle that arose.
BY THE NUMBERS
20K
Virtual workshop attendees
53%
of participants are people of color
1.4K
Applications to our Pilot Accelerator
32%
of participants identify as LGBTQ+
900+
Participants in our film challenges
9%