Chanel and Tribeca Announce 2025 Through Her Lens Program

Tribeca and Chanel are celebrating a milestone: 10 years of the Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program.

This year’s edition of the talent incubator will take place Sept. 16 through Sept. 18 in New York City. The program, which launched in 2015, provides monumental mentorship and support for emerging filmmakers who identify as female or nonbinary. Participants, selected by a jury, participate in three days of workshops, conversations led by industry experts, and networking events. 2025 program mentors include Riva Marker, Sarah Paulson, Frida Perez, Constance Tsang, and Odessa Young; conversation leaders include Pamela Abdy, Colleen Atwood, Laura Karpman, Lucy Liu, and A.V. Rockwell.

The selected filmmakers for this year’s program are Rachel Harrison Gordon and Emily Kron, Gabriela Garcia Medina and Laura Fries, Alice Gu and Katie White, Karishma Dev Dube and MG Evangelista, and Kat Whalen and Ginger Kearns. Participants were selected by a jury that includes Kaitlyn Dever, Meghann Fahy, Allison Janney, Payal Kapadia, Issa Rae, and Jenny Slate. At the end of the program, one short film project will be awarded full financing, while the other four films will be awarded development grants from Tribeca Studios.

“Throughout these ten years, we’ve created a space where women filmmakers champion each other’s work, alumni open doors for one another, and belonging to this network truly means something in our industry,” said Jane Rosenthal, cofounder and CEO of Tribeca Enterprises, in a statement announcing the 2025 program. “Through Her Lens is about consistency, perseverance, and meaningful change — the kind that shifts the very fabric of our culture at a moment when it’s needed most.”

The program will kick off with a VIP luncheon on Sept. 16. Ahead of the program, Chanel and Tribeca released “In Her Words,” a short video in which Riley Keough, Gina Gammell, Carrie Coon, Lucy Liu, Nia DaCosta and Lola Tung share brief insights and words of support.

“You are the pilot and not the turbulence, and that’s an important lesson to learn for a film set,” offers Coon in the short. “You don’t have to catch other people’s energy, you can maintain your own focus.”

Riley Keough attends the 2025 Chanel Through Her Lens Tribeca Luncheon.

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