A Newcomer at the 18th Fighting Squadron, by Laetitia Gaillard – FEMALE Festival Screenplay

The 18th Fighter Squadron is a unit of the US Air Force, whose mission is to train the American fleet against the enemy fighter tactics. In August 2000, a few days before the unit’s deployment to Turkey for the “Northern Watch” operation, the unit is welcoming a very young 22-year-old woman pilot, who had just finished her training. Never seen before in this squadron and problems in perspective.

This is the pilot of a TV series.

Narrator: Hannah Ehman
Gierat: Shawn Devlin
Morse: Geoff Mays

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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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