Author: 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.

EPIC Poem: The Last Winter of the Ghost Road, by Lonna Blodgett

Performed by Val Cole —- POEM: The death winter came and was deep With white on the purple mountain The Tiwahe’ ‘Standing Rock People’ Begged for warm fires from Iktinie the Sun Spirit Our mouths were hungry and bodies were weak Iya’ the Snow Monster had taken us farther to the south To follow Capa… Continue reading EPIC Poem: The Last Winter of the Ghost Road, by Lonna Blodgett

FEMALE Festival Best Scene: MATHEMATICAL MERMAID, by Sandra Fox-Sohner, Maria Kaur Bedi

For centuries, mathematicians chased an elusive dream: one formula that explains the mystery of Saturn’s rings, rotating celestial spheres, and spinning tops. The puzzle was known as The Mathematical Mermaid. Many men tried and failed. Then, one extraordinary mind defied tradition and dared to solve it. CAST LIST: Narrator: Sean Ballantyne Anuita: Hannah Ehman Sonia:… Continue reading FEMALE Festival Best Scene: MATHEMATICAL MERMAID, by Sandra Fox-Sohner, Maria Kaur Bedi

BODY IMAGE Poetry Reading: A Bent Time of Day, by Dov Frank

Performed by Val Cole POEM: They look like an accidental bird, Wings making grey angles Their thoughts move in rings around their ears And scrape against the sharp jaw lines, Movement horizontally, body stretching across only to snap back into embodiedness. Seeing them, I noticed how our spines crack open at dawn And spill the… Continue reading BODY IMAGE Poetry Reading: A Bent Time of Day, by Dov Frank