HIGHLIGHTS: July 2024 FEMALE Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Film: HER LAST DAY
Best Direction: AFROLISTIC: BLACK HEALING FROM ZIMBABWE TO THE BAY
Best Story: CAMINO

See info for each film:

CAMINO, 18min., USA
Written by Bella Coyne
Maxine is a young screenwriter struggling to write an authentic story. In navigating her relationship with her best friend, a Mexican man named Leon of ambiguous legal status, she finds that the best stories are often the most truthful – and with that truth will come loss.

Watch NOW – the audience feedback video.

AFROLISTIC: BLACK HEALING FROM ZIMBABWE TO THE BAY, 22min., USA
Directed by Nekia Wright, Shylet Ndarambwa
Black American healer shares about her practice and explores traditional healing, music, and dance in Zimbabwe.

Watch NOW – the audience feedback video.

HER LAST DAY, 14min., China
Directed by Jiacheng Wang
A woman “Meizi” with her child who has lived in domestic violence for years travels back to her past wedding with her abusive husband while facing the decision to change her marriage.

Watch NOW – the audience feedback video.

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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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