About WIF

WIF Fellows receive a year of intensive support through mentorship, career coaching, and networking.

The Episodic Lab and Feature Residency are offered to promising non-professional television and film writers to hone their projects through workshops and master classes.

In 2024, WIF, Los Angeles received a three-year-grant from the Gates Foundation to strengthen the international network of women in the screen industries, including research, infrastructure, and development of resources for artists.

ReFrame, co-founded by WIF and Sundance Institute, is an official WIF initiative that uses a unique peer-to-peer strategy: ReFrame Ambassadors engage senior decision-makers at over 50 Partner Companies to implement ReFrame programs. The initiative provides research, support, and a practical framework Partner Companies can use to mitigate bias in creative and hiring decisions, celebrate successes, and measure progress toward a more gender-representative industry at all levels.

Since 2013, we have partnered with top academic institutions, Pepperdine University and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, to commission and conduct research into the key obstacles to gender parity in the screen industries. This work has led to the foundation of ReFrame and been part of the foundation of an ACLU action to expose and combat gender discrimination. Our latest project, Entrepreneurial Pathways, will encompass research into the paucity of funding for female-led companies, and create tools and resources for women to raise capital.

Our advocacy work ranges from groundbreaking research that illuminates inequities to integrated strategies for companies to improve their parity practices. We’ve launched media campaigns to raise awareness of women’s work and issues pertinent to the screen industries, and our ReFrame Stamp for gender-balanced productions serves as a mark of distinction for film and television.