HIGHLIGHTS: Toronto Virtual Festival Oct. 2024

A showcase of the best Female Directed films in the world today.

Audience Awards:

Best Feature Film: SERENADE TO THE WIND

Best Short Film: LATE WINTER

Best Story: SHUT UP & MAKE ME…..

Best Direction: INSECT

Best Performances: CONTRAPLANO

Details of each film:

CONTRAPLANO, 7min., Brazil
Directed by Débora Bukanowsky
We’re so accustomed to seeing the movement in front of cameras that we don’t question: what’s it like to be behind a camera and produce cinema?

https://www.facebook.com/Bukanowsky/
https://www.instagram.com/arnobukanowsky/

INSECT, 8min., Canada
Directed by Cherelle Ann Sarah Higgins
In a subterranean prison, a bitter young girl and her supernatural ally hold a strange and beautiful man captive to avenge the crimes he has committed against her.

https://insect.bulldog-pictures.com/
https://www.instagram.com/b_dog_films/

SHUT UP & MAKE ME…., 12min., USA
Directed by Claudine Pierre-Louis
We witness the search for answers amongst depression through the eyes of the main character, Soul.

https://www.instagram.com/claudinelove1214/

LATE WINTER, 17min., Croatia
Directed by Jasna Safić
Selma and Saša have been arranging for three weeks to go to dinner together, but on the day when they were finally given the opportunity to actually go, Saša’s mother conveys them that Saša’s demented father Vlado has gone and he needs to be found. Selma and Saša go to his parents’ settlement to find him, take him home and put him to the bed.

SERENADE TO THE WIND, 59min., Croatia
Directed by Sanela Bajric
In 1937 La Scala Theater in Milan held a contest for a new opera. The winning opera should have been “La Serenata al Vento” (The Serenade to the Wind) composed by Aldo Finzi, a young, but already successful composer.

http://www.imago21.org/serenade.html

https://www.facebook.com/SerenadeToTheWindDocumentary/

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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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