Wendy Ettinger

Wendy Ettinger is an award-winning producer of documentary and narrative film, who through her 25-year career has focused on the power of media to catalyze social change. Her first foray into film was producing/executive-producing the critically acclaimed The War Room. In 2005 Wendy co-founded Chicken & Egg Pictures, mentoring and funding films by over 250 women filmmakers whose artful, innovative storytelling has catalyzed social change and netted multiple awards, including Academy Awards and Emmys. To address the industry’s gender/equity disparity, in 2013 Wendy co-founded Gamechanger Films, the first equity fund dedicated to financing feature films directed by women. Since Gamechanger’s founding, 10 of its films have screened at Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Venice, Los Angeles, and London film festivals, receiving Emmy and Film Independent Spirit Award nominations, among others. Part of Variety’s 2015 “Power of Women New York Impact” list, a 2014 PVBLIC Social Impact Leadership Council Award recipient, and a proud member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, she has served on festival panels and juries both nationally and internationally.