HIGHLIGHTS: February 2023 Female Film Festival Showcase

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Form Short Film: GOOD GRIEF
Best Long Form Short Film: MORNING GLORY
Best Peformances: IT’S NOT ABOUT THE CAR
Best Cinematography: PATHS
Best Sound & Music: tRuth
Best Direction: TO SAY GOODBYE IS TO DIE A LITTLE
Best Animation: MARBLE ME FREE
Best Music Video: WEIRD ANIMAL – TIMOTHY BAILEY & THE HUMANS
Best Comedy: HOW I BLEW IT

Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:

HOW I BLEW IT, 12min., Hong Kong, Comedy/Relationships
Directed by Charlene Marrie
How I Blew It is a campy dark comedy about a girl, Willa who is trying to navigate a toxic relationship. As a shy and naively in love girl (well who thinks she’s in love), she struggles to realise that she needs to break up with Mati, her toxic, manipulative and sexually inappropriate boyfriend. Mati throws Willa a birthday brunch at his bitchy girl friend’s house, where he only invites his friends and none of Willa’s. Willa feels like a total outsider, struggling to enjoy the party among the oddly campy, rude and overly sexual guests. As the brunch develops, so does Willa and Mati’s relationship.

https://www.instagram.com/charlenemfilm/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


GOOD GRIEF, 4min., Canada, Drama
Directed by Marc Yungco
When two friends discover that more than their car is broken.

https://www.instagram.com/daniellebraund

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


WEIRD ANIMAL – TIMOTHY BAILEY & THE HUMANS, 5min., USA, Music Video
Directed by Rachel Kleinman
Music Video – official

https://www.timothybaileyandthehumans.com/
https://www.instagram.com/timothybaileyandthehumans/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


MARBLE ME FREE, 6min., USA, Animation
Directed by Diane Leslie Kaufman
How do we cope and what do we do when physical and emotional pain, obstacles, and hardship block our way forward? This “dark night of the soul” journey is powerfully depicted in the “Marble Me Free” animated film.

https://www.marblemefree.com/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


IT’S NOT ABOUT THE CAR, 16min., USA, Drama/Comedy
Directed by Yingjie Jin
A mother/daughter conflict.

https://m.imdb.com/name/nm12876069/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


TO SAY GOODBYE IS TO DIE A LITTLE, 15min., USA, Drama
Directed by Michele Ly
To Say Goodbye… follows a late night ride share where their journey is the same but their destinations are very different.

https://www.kristinamillerweston.com/koolbnz-productions
https://instagram.com/koolbnzprod

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


PATHS, 11min., Iraq, War/Drama
Directed by Azhin Kawa
In August 2014 Isis attacks the city of Shingal and the villages surrounding it, while Haider and 21 members of his family are escaping the terrorists, something happens that drastically changes the course of their lives. in a double narrative fractured storyline, Haider must choose a path.

https://instagram.com/paths_film/

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


tRuth, 15min., Belgium, Sci-Fi
Directed by Sylvie Zaidman, Nic Shake
Ruth, a young woman living in a not-so-distant future, seems to live an idyllic life . However, when the technology fails, she will have to combat her inner fears to survive, in a world where nothing is what it seems

https://www.instagram.com/ourwaymovies

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


MORNING GLORY, 26min., USA, Drama
Directed by Hannah Chamberlain Conway
A woman living with enormous loss, and a mysterious room full of plants, has her isolated existence punctuated by a maintenance worker who arrives to fix her TV. They spend a life changing day together, as they enter a space of ruthless honesty, where lies and performances are no longer needed, and transformation is possible.

https://instagram.com/morningglory_film

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


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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