After ruining the virgin sacrifice by sleeping with the virgin, cult leader Michelle Wolfe is faced with an uphill battle to win over her disgruntled group of followers. She sets out to recruit as many followers as possible, hoping each new recruit will help generate more income and salvage the dwindling community. She’s Columbus on… Continue reading FEMALE Festival 1st Scene Script Reading: WOLFE PACK, by Lindsay Heiman
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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.
Director Biography – Sheena Holliday (GIVE ME A NAME)
Yorkshire-born Sheena has directed four shorts: A Plaster A Paper and a Cheese and Pickle Sandwich, 0800-FINALGIRL, Roseberry Road and The Ditch (official selection: London Short FF, Aesthetica FF, Sunderland Shorts, Carmarthen Bay FF). She also co-directed the first two seasons of PERSONA, the world’s first online soap designed for smartphones. She works extensively in… Continue reading Director Biography – Sheena Holliday (GIVE ME A NAME)
Short Film: GIVE ME A NAME, 10min., UK, Sci-Fi/Thriller
The United Kingdom, about ten years in the future. Jennifer, a senior intelligence officer, is briefing her deputy Kate about a new detainee who has been arrested for crimes against the state. But there is something different about this prisoner… As Kate conducts a ruthless interrogation, Jennifer, faced with her sense of duty on one… Continue reading Short Film: GIVE ME A NAME, 10min., UK, Sci-Fi/Thriller
Short Film: WAY BACK, 15min., Serbia, Family Drama
Dunja and Jasna are traveling with their mother Jovana to visit their father who lives alone in the cottage. DUNJA and JASNA are convinced that he had abandoned their mother because of the affair with another woman. By exchanging impressions of his action, they remember the past and reveal the expectations of a meeting. DUNJA… Continue reading Short Film: WAY BACK, 15min., Serbia, Family Drama
Director Biography – Georgia Fort, Krysta Rayford (GEORGE FLOYD: IT HAPPENED HERE)
Georgia Fort is a two time Emmy nominated Media Producer and Television Correspondent. Her reporting has been published on CNN, ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS affiliates. Her mission as a storyteller is to amplify truth, inspire, inform and agitate change. Most recently she produced a short documentary “George Floyd: It Happened Here”, which amplifies the… Continue reading Director Biography – Georgia Fort, Krysta Rayford (GEORGE FLOYD: IT HAPPENED HERE)
Short Film: GEORGE FLOYD: IT HAPPENED HERE, 6min., USA, Documentary
George Floyd cried out for help, begged for his life. A cry for help is a cry for humanity to be restored. In the midst of the uprising in Minneapolis, we captured raw thoughts and authentic truths from residents who live in the neighborhood where George Floyd took his final breath. Project Links Website
Director Biography – Tonia Kempler (LEORA)
Tonia Kempler lives in New York, though her roots run deep in a rural south still steeped in the occult traditions of the Gullah Geechee and the animism of the Cherokees. Surrounded and empowered by the lore and practices of these supernatural cultures, Tonia leans toward macabre worlds with isolated, damaged, and yet intensely capable… Continue reading Director Biography – Tonia Kempler (LEORA)
Short Film: LEORA, 10min., USA, Horror
Things turn deadly, when a woman attempts to help a lost, mute child and her companion — a disquieting doll who appears to harbor protection schemes of her own. Project Links Website Facebook Twitter
Director Biography – Clare-Louise English (MY DARLING CHRISTOPHER)
Clare-Louise is a deaf actor and theatre-maker who lost her hearing as a teenager. Daughter of the late TV and film actor, Arthur English, Clare-Louise trained at RADA on the MA Theatre Lab course and is Co-Founder of Hot Coals Productions, alongside Jo Sargeant.For the last 8 years Hot Coals have been making Deaf and… Continue reading Director Biography – Clare-Louise English (MY DARLING CHRISTOPHER)
Short Film: MY DARLING CHRISTOPHER, 9min., UK, War/Drama
MY DARLING CHRISTOPHER tells the true story of Clive who contracted Meningitis and lost both his sight and his hearing during the outbreak of the Second World War. Clive is now 15 years old and attending Goring School, having been evacuated from Margate School for the Deaf.Clive’s father, away serving in the Navy, receives a… Continue reading Short Film: MY DARLING CHRISTOPHER, 9min., UK, War/Drama
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