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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

Performed by Val Cole

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Burst! it spurts and oozes, drenching my corpus in thin translucent mucus. Emetic delight! the outer flesh peels back engulfing me inside-out, how warm and piercing my new exoskeleton is. Industrial actualization! sticky black smoke expresses out my ten thousand pores. Now slice through the middle and peel up a polygonal doorway, shovel out the… Continue reading BODY IMAGE Poem: The Troxler Effect in the Age of Industrial Fetish, by Kiplet Christian