About WOCNI
Through the Women of Color Narrative Initiative (WOCNI), Visionary Justice StoryLab advances narrative justice by supporting liberatory storytelling in film and media that centers the voices, experiences, and narratives of women of color.
Each year, WOCNI awards $5,000 to three filmmakers advancing bold, innovative approaches to storytelling that challenge dominant narratives and expand cultural imagination, supporting work that moves film and media toward more complex, multiplicitous stories.
Women of color have long shaped culture through storytelling while navigating structural barriers to sustained investment and opportunity. WOCNI exists to support projects that reimagine narratives impacting women’s lives – that assert visionary justice through the lenses they bring to the creative process and to cultural problem solving. By supporting the creation of these stories, the initiative invests in filmmakers’ creative growth while advancing work that reflects both the breadth of experiences shaped by oppression and the nuance and specificity of identity and circumstance. In doing so, WOCNI strengthens a storytelling ecosystem that embraces complexity and expands how stories are told, shared, and understood.
