HIGHLIGHTS: September 2023 Female Film Festival Showcase

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Film: GENDER REVEAL
Best Comedy Film: MY ROOMMATE, DEATH
Best Sound & Music: BRIDGES
Best Direction: EIGHT OF SWORDS
Best Cinematography: ECHO
Best Performances: SIFTER

Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:

SIFTER, 8min., USA, Comedy/Drama
Directed by Shalini Bathina
Samara and Nisha celebrate their first Karva Chauth as a married couple but the festival brings up suppressed emotions between the pair.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

ECHO, 15min., UK, Family/Fantasy
Directed by Jo Southwell
Echo, tells the story of Alice, a young woman so traumatized by the loss of her baby that she shuts herself off emotionally from her partner and retreats into a fantasy world where she is able to connect with the essence of the child she lost, who we call Echo. After an elaborate underwater game of hide and seek, which clearly fills her with joy, Alice comes to the realization that she must make a choice; sink down into the dark water with Echo, or come up for air where Tom is desperately searching for her.

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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

BRIDGES, 5min,. USA, Experimental
Directed by Roni Blak
Blak & Blue Project presents: A retaliation against the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the myriad domino effect it has on all American lives in the digital age and its saddening reality. With choreography by Roni Blak (of the Blak & Blue Dance Project), this unifying and confrontational piece aims to inspire a message that reckon the powers that be with its visual assault of the senses in reaction to the consistent and unrelenting assault on women’s bodies throughout history.

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WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

EIGHT OF SWORDS, 19min., UK, Drama
Directed by Patricia Downey
Set in Belfast, in an ordinary house, in an ordinary street – it could be your street or next door. Helena from Poland and locals Patsy and Eva fight for survival under the rein of Russian Human traffickers.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

MY ROOMMATE, DEATH, 7min,. Canada, Comedy
Directed by Becca Isaias
Over 200 years after making a bet for Margaret’s soul, Death is still losing every game to her, which has resulted in them getting demoted from collecting human souls- they want their old position back, but they have also developed a soft spot for Margaret.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

GENDER REVEAL, 9min., Canada
Directed by Bryanny
A young woman that always does everything right , has a Gender Reveal party where everything goes horribly wrong.

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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