HIGHLIGHTS: November 2024 FEMALE Film Festival

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Awards:
Best Short Film: BUDDY
Best Direction: TOXIC INFLUENCE: THE DARK SIDE OF DOVE
Best Story: JOYCE

See info for each film:

JOYCE, 25min., Norway
Directed by Tomas Martinsen-Hickman
Joyce, a 40-something closeted alcoholic, hits her breaking point after a series of bad choices, her husband stages an intervention but it goes awry and she risks losing her family and her life, based on true events.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14756796
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TOXIC INFLUENCE: THE DARK SIDE OF DOVE, 6min,. UK
Directed by Alice Russell
You wouldn’t poison your daughter’s future, but Dove is doing it every day. Greenpeace research found that every minute, Dove floods low-income communities with 12,000 highly polluting plastic sachets. These super-polluting packets of plastic are choking our oceans, killing wildlife, and fuelling an environmental disaster of unprecedented scale. The very communities Dove claims to support are drowning in a sea of single-use plastic, their neighbourhoods transformed into unofficial dumping grounds for corporate waste. This needs to change.

Watch NOW – the audience feedback video.

BUDDY, 10min,. USA
Directed by Yeonwoo Kim
Buddy is John’s pet parrot. Every morning, when John’s mom opens the cage door, Buddy wakes up and helps wake John for school. This is a part of the routine that Buddy loves. John always makes sure Buddy doesn’t enter the bathroom, as it is a strict household rule. After John leaves for school, the house becomes quiet, and Buddy spends his time in John’s room.

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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