The overall vision of the Women Filmmakers Incubator is to empower the participating directors with the confidence, knowledge and connections that they can use to go on and direct a feature film, drama or scripted series. The Incubator is intended primarily for emerging debut directors of a feature film (drama or documentary), but will also consider those wishing to establish careers in TV drama and scripted content. Applicants must apply with a project, but the Incubator is primarily focused on filmmaker development, not project development. The objectives of the Incubator are: Increase the number of women directing features and TV drama. Connect producers, broadcasters and funders with female directors with a view to getting more female-centric stories into and through development. Create networking opportunities for women directors to further their projects and careers. Inspire and encourage women directors to passionately pursue feature film and drama directing careers through interaction with successful women who serve as role models. Improve directors’ understanding of the business of film and television drama. What you reading above is the application details. You need to write an application letter  A maximum two-page letter stating what your career goals are and why you want to participate in this Incubator. About the applicator: (you write expand this to 1000 words) Ming Xu, a Chinese New Zealand filmmaker, comes from a film-editing background. She wrote her first feature film Many Coat of Jess. She really wants to get into the incubator workshop, and this workshop will help her so much. Her career goals are to get this feature film made and present it to a larger audience among New Zealand and international cinemas. She wants to bring the New Zealand story more diverse and vivid by telling a story people from around the world can relate and enjoy. She thinks film in the future shouldn’t be simply labelled by region and gender. Films directed by women shouldn’t get less recogination or treated than men. The films should be universal too. Her feature will make the audience resonate even though you are not the group the character in, the rainbow community, any audience will feel different but they can relate. Her goal is to a film that brings people from different region, culture, and genders together. Ming is from China originally but she has the audacity to tell a kiwi story based on her own experience and things she witnesses by living in NZ for almost 9 years. The big reason why she wants to participate in the workshop to get educated and exchanged ideas from the cohorts, more female emerging directors in New Zealand.  Being inspired by other female director’s stories and experience is very important. Also She wants Connect producers, broadcasters and funders with female directors with a view to getting more female-centric stories into and through development. Create networking opportunities for women directors to further their projects and careers. Inspire and encourage women directors to passionately pursue feature film and drama directing careers through interaction with successful women who serve as role models. Improve directors’ understanding of the business of film and television drama. About the film: (use a reference for the application letter, but the story of the film shouldn’t get spoil too much in the application letter) Many Coat of Jess is a queer film happens in a small rural town, New Zealand, a Chinese takeaway daughter, Jess still in the closet, hiding her sexual desires, works on a horse farm. She is quick in love with the farm owner’s daughter Hannah. In this love relationship, she will learns so much even through they broke up, which is a sad ending, but Jess will know better about what love is and how to love freely. Many Coat of Jess isn’t a traditional lesbian film but she will have lots of new features, such as the dilemma of a lesbian character in love with no support from the family, revealing a small-town story in New Zealand, a love story with a brokeup ending etc. Many Coats of Jess is a bittersweet film that everyone will relate to.  The writer needs to write this application in a professional manner to help the applicator getting into this workshop. And being a POC emerging filmmaker Ming, she ticks lots of box for this application. Use the first-person perspective to write the application, as I want… I hope…. but don’t write too causally.