HIGHLIGHTS: September 2024 FEMALE Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:
Best Short Film: CHAPTER XIII
Best Direction: THE COWGIRL

See info for each film:

CHAPTER XIII, 20min., Italy
Directed by (Iris) Concetta Lombardo
Sergio is a writer who has isolated himself from the world. His publishing house puts him under pressure. Stopping at Chapter XIII, he goes into crisis and doesn’t know what to do. A presence, close to him, will force him to “look” inside himself, until he makes an irreversible choice…

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THE COWGIRL, 6min., USA
Directed by Armando Hernandez
A cowboy at a bar about to order his very last drink at closing time meets his unexpected match: a cowgirl waitress who gives him the check (and a whole lot more).

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HEALING THE LAND, 9min., USA
Directed by Sue Williams
“Healing the Land” follows six months of animal life on Wild Harmony Farm, a 40-acre organic livestock spread run by Rachael Slattery and her husband Ben. As they describe their situation, young farmers today are inheriting tired land, land that has been overused and abused for generations – and their job is to restore it. Where conventional industrial agriculture runs on pesticides, herbicides and animals raised in warehouses, the couple practices regenerative farming, prioritizing soil health, biodiversity, and healthy livestock raised outdoors.

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BENEATH THE SURFACE: THE FIGHT FOR CORAL, 45min., UK
A stunning one-off documentary exploring the corals of the Red Sea, where science and conservation are looking for ways to protect coral globally. Told through the eyes of a Saudi female free-diver, from Saudi Arabia to Mexico during the hottest year on record, it demonstrates the plight of corals, the race for solutions and the need for a coordinated global effort to save our oceans.

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THE RHYTHMS NEVER END, 5min., USA
“The Earth is Created. It is day number one.” A spiritual, self-reflective, series of short poems about creation – about all the gifts mankind has been given: the rhythms of night and day, of life, the seasons, the oceans and more. All with the promise of peace and love, which man sometimes abuses, but for which he is always forgiven.

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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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