Documentary
JessZilla
Jesselyn Silva, a 3x national boxing champion, chases her Olympic dreams, until a cancer diagnosis changes everything about what it means for their family to fight.
Documentary
Puzzle People
Five stories that show puzzling is about more than completing an image; it is a way to slow down, support mental health, and take a break from our screens.
Documentary
Girl Boxer
Jesselyn Silva is only 10 years old, but she's already in the ring.
Branded
Taking Up Space
The real life version of Netflix's hit show “Dear White People.”
Branded
Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge
The first guests in the galaxy to set foot in a brand new land.
Documentary
The Iron Grandmother
Orna Ben-Ami dreams of making the world a better place for her grandchildren through her art.
Select Clients
- Adidas
- Audible
- Beats
- Bonobos
- Booking
- Bose
- Chase
- Chevy
- Chewy
- Disney
- Disney Cruise Line
- Disney Parks
- DSG
- EA Sports
- FanDuel
- Farmer's Dog
- FitFighter
- Ford
- Jägermeister
- Macy's
- McDonald's
- Meta
- Microsoft
- Netflix
- The New York Times
- Nike
- NY Presbyterian
- NYU Langone
- Panera
- Pennzoil
- PepsiCo
- Pfizer
- Pokémon GO
- Samsung
- Square
- TIAA
- Walmart
Film Festivals
Plus the American Film Showcase and the inaugural Popcorn List. The full list is too long to put here, but we're proud of every single acceptance. Ask and we'll happily send the lot.
What two people can do
JessZilla, by the numbers. Crew size: two.
- 20+
- Top-tier festivals worldwide, in competition at IDFA, Big Sky, DOC NYC and Atlanta
- 15+
- VOD & AVOD platforms across more than 10 countries
- $50K
- Raised for DIPG/DMG research through a named fund with CURE Childhood Cancer
- 4
- Festival awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Documentary
About
Our secret sauce
A love of telling heartfelt stories, born from the humble chicken wing.
Emily and Ben met on a commercial shoot in Buffalo, New York, the birthplace of the famous chicken wing. (Feel free to ask us about Ben's hot sauce tolerance.)
Years later the name stuck, and so did the way they work.
Chicken Wing Pictures is a two-person team of documentary-focused filmmakers, who love creating warm and easy to love stories. Film nerds like them, critics too, and so do regular joes. We're deeply curious humans who have a knack for problem-solving and doing good work (for ourselves, our clients, and for the world.)
Nice things people wrote
All press“Perhaps the most important sports documentary you could ever watch.”Sportsish, on JessZilla
“Sheskin’s short film is about… the importance of representation in all aspects of life, and the inherent joy of putting together a puzzle.”Beyond the Cinerama Dome, on Puzzle People
“I screened numerous magnificent pictures, yet none delivered a knockout punch quite like Emily Sheskin’s ‘JessZilla.’”Cinema Femme, This Was the Fight