HIGHLIGHTS: June 2024 FEMALE Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Film: COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE
Best Direction: THE CALLIGRAPHY LESSON
Best Experimental: PRECIPICE
Best Story: HE ONLY HIT ME FOUR TIMES
Best Performances: BFFR
Best Documentary: ROLL UP FOR EQUITY
Best Student Film: NEROT SHEL SHABBAT

Best Romance Film: DAISY

See info for each film:

NEROT SHEL SHABBAT, 15min,. USA
Directed by Lital Mizrahi
The film follows a young couple who need to flee the Soviet Union during the fall of the Iron Curtain.

https://mayabellew.wixsite.com/nerot-shel-shabbat

Watch NOW – the audience feedback video from the festival

BFFR, 15min,. USA
Directed by Erika Apelgren
The story unfolds as Angelica and Patricia navigate a night of wine, food, and conversation. Patricia’s detached and cold approach to the interaction becomes evident, but Angelica, desperate for connection, overlooks her flaws.

Watch NOW – the audience feedback video from the festival

PRECIPICE, 5min., USA
Directed by Jessica Gomula-Kruzic
At the edge of a waterfall, two dancers merge as the river does when it meets the ocean, once separate, now inseparable.

http://www.jgomula.com/video/precipice/https://www.facebook.com/GKIntermedia

Watch NOW – the audience feedback video from the festival

ROLL UP FOR EQUITY, 31min., USA
Directed by JM Balbuena
“Roll Up for Equity” is a short documentary that exposes San Diego’s struggle for social equity within its regulated cannabis industry, highlighting passionate local advocates pushing for accountability and change in America’s Finest City.

https://jmbalbuena.com/multimedia/
https://www.instagram.com/_jmbalbuena/

Watch NOW – the audience feedback video from the festival

THE CALLIGRAPHY LESSON, 9min., USA
Directed by Ashley Chin Chin IP
The delicate strokes of Chinese calligraphy characters—traditional symbols of wisdom—help the children understand complex modern issues.

Watch NOW – the audience feedback video from the festival

HE ONLY HIT ME FOUR TIMES, 25min., USA
Directed by Deidra Laquito McEachern
An educated woman excuses the domestic violence she experiences, until she is faced with undeniable truth of how tragic the consequences can be.

http://deedeewrites.com/https://www.instagram.com/Deedee_writes

Watch NOW – the audience feedback video from the festival

COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE, 29min,. USA
Directed by Caitlin Presberg
Vernon Parrish, a retired mayor of a large suburb just outside of Chicago, had moved to the small town of Livingston, Montana, for peace and solitude and to get out of the public eye. After six years, Verne’s past returns to haunt him, driving him into a self-imposed exile at his cabin in the woods, hoping to ride out the media storm. While he is away, a storm of a different form rolls in, drastically changing the world as he knew it, culminating in a tale of a man who is both a victim and a beneficiary of circumstance.

http://www.comeoutwhereveryouarefilm.com/https://www.instagram.com/come_out_wherever_you_are_film/

Watch NOW – the audience feedback video from the festival

DAISY, 11min., Australia
Directed by Alyssa Scott
“Daisy,” inspired by the real-life tale of our writer’s great-grandparents in 1930s Australia, unfolds the courageous journey of a young woman who defies societal expectations and risks losing everything as she embarks on a forbidden love affair, challenging the boundaries of family, faith, and the pursuit of true happiness.

https://www.instagram.com/daisyproductionsau/

Watch NOW – the audience feedback video from the festival

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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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