FEMALE FEEDBACK Festival Testimonial – June 25, 2018

Kaitlyn Fajilan

Great festival! Organizers were prompt to respond, not to mention very accommodating, kind, and polite. The moderator not only did her research on the various films being showcased, but was super upbeat, positive, warm, affirming, and inquisitive. When a particular audience member was being abrasive and rude in front of the whole theater, the moderator did not lose her cool for a second and maintained a sense of total professionalism throughout. She really did her best to honor the “stars” of the evening—us, the audience. Overall I really enjoyed myself and felt so honored to have my film screened here. The fact that the event was held at the Regal Live Cinemas in Downtown LA was nothing to sneeze at either!

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By femalefilmfestival

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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