Our Story

WISE (Women in Showbiz Everywhere) is a 501 (c)(3) workforce and cultural infrastructure organization dedicated to advancing women and underrepresented creatives in film, media, and storytelling industries worldwide.

We are building a globally connected ecosystem that supports creators across every stage of their journey—from learning and mentorship, to paid production opportunities, to long-term creative leadership.

WISE operates through six interconnected pillars: film production, podcasts and storytelling platforms, fiscal sponsorship and creative development support, film showcases, structured training and mentorship, and WISE Wellness—healing-centered spaces designed to support sustainability for women in entertainment.

Our work is rooted in a simple but urgent belief:

Talent is everywhere. Access is not.

Founded by filmmaker Vineesha Arora-Sarin, WISE is shaped by lived industry experience and a deep understanding of the structural barriers that prevent many women and underrepresented creatives from building sustainable careers in entertainment.

Why Now

The entertainment industry is evolving rapidly—but access to opportunity remains deeply unequal.

Women continue to be significantly underrepresented in directing, production leadership, financing, and decision-making roles across film and media. For women of color, immigrant creatives, and emerging voices, the barriers are even greater—and pathways to sustainability often remain fragmented or inaccessible.

At the same time, storytelling itself is changing. Independent film, streaming platforms, and digital media have expanded how stories are told—but not necessarily who gets the opportunity to tell them.

Without intentional infrastructure, many creators face the same cycle:
limited access → unpaid or unstable opportunities → lack of mentorship → early exit from the industry.

The demand for authentic, diverse storytelling is growing.
The talent already exists.
What is missing is the system that connects them.

This is why WISE exists now.

We are not responding to a future need—we are responding to a present gap.

Through mentorship, training, wellness initiatives, podcasts, showcases, and film production under Project Eve, WISE is actively building pathways that did not previously exist at scale for many women in entertainment.

Without this infrastructure, change remains fragmented.

With it, access becomes structured, repeatable, and sustainable.

About Project Eve

Project Eve: Driving Change Through Women-Led Storytelling is WISE’s flagship film production initiative dedicated to developing stories that inspire, challenge, heal, and create cultural change.

Our first production under Project Eve is:

I Wear Pink Shoes

An anthology film of four short films centered on women’s resilience, healing, identity, survival, and reclamation of power.

The project brings together stories from around the globe that invite audiences to step into the lived experiences of women across cultures, communities, and generations—to better understand what it means to walk in their shoes.

These are not stories rooted in victimhood. They are stories about women reclaiming voice, agency, humanity, and strength.

At its heart, I Wear Pink Shoes is about empathy, awareness, healing, and transformation through storytelling.

It is also designed to create real production opportunities for emerging filmmakers and underrepresented creatives—building pathways into the industry while bringing meaningful stories to life.

The First Film: The Night I Died: Awakening Kali

The first short film in the anthology, The Night I Died: Awakening Kali, follows a young girl trapped within an orphanage where innocence is stolen and silence is enforced. When unimaginable trauma threatens to break her spirit, an ancient force awakens within her.

Inspired by the fierce feminine energy of Kali—it is a story about survival, transformation, and reclaiming power.

Blending psychological drama, spiritual mythology, and social impact storytelling, Awakening Kali explores what happens when a child the world failed to protect becomes a force that can no longer be ignored.

Through Project Eve, WISE is committed to developing bold, women-led stories that challenge, heal, inspire, and create opportunities for the next generation of filmmakers.

Your support helps bring these stories to life.

We are raising our first tranche of up to $75,000 to complete production of KALI, support its marketing and distribution, and seed the development of the next film in this expanding universe.

Join Us

Your tax-deductible donations & support helps fund:

screenplay and story development
production and post-production
paid opportunities for emerging creatives
mentorship and creative development
festival and distribution pathways
wellness and sustainability support for women creators

This is more than a film initiative.

It is a movement to build equity, opportunity, healing, and representation through storytelling.

Donate WISEly.

Help us bring these stories—and the ecosystem behind them—to life.

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Project Eve: Driving Change Through Women-led Storytelling

An urgent film production initiative for women & underrepresented storytellers by WISE (Women in Showbiz Everywhere)

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