A showcase of the best Female Films from around the world today! AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:Best Short Film: GOOD ADVICEBest Direction: BEFORE THEY FORGETBest Micro-Short Film: CAMERA AND BODYBest Story: CODE-SWITCHED BEFORE THEY FORGET, 8min., USADirected by Teresa GarzaIn a dystopian future where families are torn apart, a mother is granted one annual reunion with a… Continue reading WINNERS: December 2025 Toronto FEMALE Film Festival
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.
FEMALE Festival 1st Scene: WALKING OVER WET PAINT, by Judy Taylor
A snarky book nerd may find love, but only if she’s willing to come out of her oh-so-cozy she.. CAST LIST: Narrator: Julie Sheppard Trisha: Val Cole Henry: Shawn Delvin
BODY IMAGE Short Story: Super Kali, by Parul Sharma
Performed by Val Cole
HIGHLIGHTS: November 2025 FEMALE Filmmakers Festival
A showcase of the best Female Films from around the world today! AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:Best Short Film: CINDERSBest Micro-Short: SIBLING ARRIVALBest Experimental Film: DON’T MEANS DOBest Animation: INDEFINITELYBest Performances: MACKENZIEBest Visual Design: THE INSEPARABLEBest Direction: CYCLESBest Human Interest Film: BEAUTIFUL DISASTERSBest TV Web Series: THE CUPCAKE CHRONICLES Vol. 2 SIBLING ARRIVAL, 3min., USADirected by Dan… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS: November 2025 FEMALE Filmmakers Festival
FEMALE Festival TV Pilot 1st Scene: PRIORITY ONE, by Hannah Augenstine
After the death of her celebrated mentor, a woman must overcome grief and rejection to see her first play produced, fulfilling the dream he never let her abandon. CAST LIST: Narrator: Julie Sheppard Ross: Sean Ballantyne Taylor: Shawn Devlin Caller: Val Cole
BODY IMAGE Poem: Pretty Privilege, by Debra Tracy
Eleven. Me and my best friend walking down the street. Catcalled. Thirteen. Boobs overnight. High school boys pitching pennies at me, a carnival game I didn’t agree to play. So I wore my dad’s shirts. Big. Boxy. Tried to fold myself into the fabric, small enough to vanish. Thiry-four. Bakered. Seventy-two hours. Security sat with… Continue reading BODY IMAGE Poem: Pretty Privilege, by Debra Tracy
BODY IMAGE Poem: A too tall body, by Malia Arrayah
It doesn’t make sense to me that I couldn’t love someone because they are too tall, or too short, or too chubby, or too skinny, It makes sense that I couldn’t love someone because they were too mean, too awful, too angry, too abusive, but that is silly, too short, too big, Eludes me But… Continue reading BODY IMAGE Poem: A too tall body, by Malia Arrayah
BODY IMAGE Poem: My Crooked Face, by Jude MacAllen Tatman
slides away from my skull as time and tide have their fun, blemishes and scars like barnacles attached to the hull, the clouts to my nose from all those years ago grow more pronounced in gravity’s throes. fat and feeble, my feet have foundered; if i were a horse at this late hour i’d be… Continue reading BODY IMAGE Poem: My Crooked Face, by Jude MacAllen Tatman
BODY IMAGE Poem: MIRROR MIRROR, by Arshiya Dokania
Is she lovely, is she bright, Eyes like amber, warm with light? It’s sick and twisted how it all unwound, Tangled truths gave birth to false grounds. I’m not angry, just lost in thought, When you said I was pretty, was I lied to? In the mirror, I trace the lines, where confidence slips, a… Continue reading BODY IMAGE Poem: MIRROR MIRROR, by Arshiya Dokania
Body Image Poem: Andbody’s Better Than Mine, by Amelie Peterson
I hate my body I resent all of its demands from me I am disgusted with all the noises it makes without my permission. (I hate this poem) (I hate that) I hate my body. I resent the power my body has over me. I hate that if I don’t eat for 6 hours, I… Continue reading Body Image Poem: Andbody’s Better Than Mine, by Amelie Peterson
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