Highlights of the September 29, 2016 – FEEDBACK Film Festival

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WILDsound FEEDBACK TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL
Highlights from the Thursday September 29, 2016 event.

festival posterWE’LL SEE IF WE DROWN, 20min., France, Comedy/Crime
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festival posterUNPRINCIPLED, 13min., USA, Comedy/Drama
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festival posterBACK TO THE FUTURE?, 10min., USA, Comedy/Sci-Fi
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festival posterTHE SOUNDS OF STREET VENDORS, 8min., USA/Cuba, Documentary
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festival posterWAR OF SPACE, 5min., USA/Kenya, Documentary
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festival posterTHE CHAMPION, 17min, USA, Documentary
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Documentary and Comedy generally do not mix – especially in a film festival screening. This month was a experimentation in programming. We began the festival with three excellent documentary short films that have gotten into every festival they have submitted to. And we ended on three comedy shorts that were polarizing to all.

The theme of the Documentary/Comedy Festival was “Overcoming external conflicts”.

We were excited to showcase our first FAN FICTION short film at the festival. A sequel to the…

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The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes. Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival. This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way. When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival. A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

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