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Roshi Givechi comes to filmmaking by way of design. As a third culture kid, the fact that she moved around a lot grew her instinct to observe, see patterns and decipher similarities and differences between people. Understanding what motivates people to behave in certain ways has inspired her work in design innovation over 20 years.… Continue reading Director Biography – Roshi Givechi (MY FAMILY TREES)

My Family Trees is a bittersweet tale about a man from Iran who took unconventional measures to stitch his family back together in Kansas…one single tree at a time. It’s a short documentary that spotlights the ways love, duty, and inexplicable hope make us uniquely human, and beautifully resilient.

Aastha Verma is an award-winning Director and Producer based in Los Angeles, with roots from India and the Middle East. Because of this multi-cultural background, she surrounds herself with stories that are built on ground reality and is a keen storyteller with female protagonists. Her vision is to bring out hidden realities of any given… Continue reading Director Biography – Aastha Verma (THE LAST RIGHTS)

A young Indian woman challenges her society’s patriarchal traditions in order to give her deceased grandmother her last rites. Project Links  Facebook  Instagram News & Reviews “Los Angeles Filmmaker in Varanasi”Times of Indiahttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/varanasi/los-angeles-filmmaker-comes-to-varanasi-to-shoot-short-film/articleshow/69250666.cms “Right for the last rights to an Indian woman”Yugmarghttps://www.yugmarg.com/epaper/?dt=2020/01/25&p=4 “Karnal girl debuts in Bollywood”The Tribunehttps://www.tribuneindia.com/news/karnal-girl-debuts-in-bollywood-30800 “The Last Rights shakes society”Jagranhttps://www.jagran.com/haryana/panipat-the-last-rights-shaken-society-and-now-world-will-see-film-of-haryanas-daughter-jagran-special-20704644.html?fbclid=IwAR3C0hurEPnjHdbS14bvjcUEHpTTc1rYiVoNR4H0LOlSbypZCWuR-Bdp3W4 “How filmmaker… Continue reading Short Film: THE LAST RIGHTS, 17min., India, Drama/Family

AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS: Best Film: TAKE AND RUN Best Performances: THE NEXT STOP, Best Cinematography: THE LIGHT THIEF Best Production Design: BAKED POTATO NIGHT Best Sound & Music: THE CHANGE PROJECT Theme of night: Community NOTE: Festival took place during the COVID-19 virus lockdown so all screenings were held in private. Watch the Audience FEEDBACK… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS, WINNERS & VIDEOS: February 2021 Female FEEDBACK Film Festival

After a clash with a client goes viral, a lawyer infamous for defending despicable men volunteers at a women’s legal aid clinic run by her uber-feminist mother, hoping to turn over a new leaf without tearing down the whole family tree. CAST LIST: Narrator: Julie Sheppard Mad: Hannah Ehman Kailey: Kyana Teresa

After her father’s death and Margo, an evil step-mother by all accounts, stops helping Willa pay for school escaping to Greenwich Village is Willa’s only option. Though she doesn’t know anyone except her aunt, Willa soon finds a sense of home at Bedford Arms, a place filled with eccentric and strange inhabitants. But Willa is… Continue reading FEMALE Festival 1st Scene TV Script Reading: Bedford Arms, by Clea Montville-Wood

Maria Brendle is an award-winning director and scriptwriter based in Zurich, Switzerland. She received her bachelor’s degree in film from the Zurich University of the Arts and her master’s degree in cognitive neuroscience (aon) from the Academy of Neurosciense Cologne. Maria graduated the renowned Drehbuchwerkstatt Munich. She works with a focus on women issues. http://www.maria-brendle.de… Continue reading Director Biography – Maria Brendle (TAKE AND RUN)

Sezim (19) wants to fulfil her dream of studying in the Kyrgyz capital when she gets kidnapped by a group of young men and taken to the hinterland. There she’s forced to marry a stranger. If she refuses the marriage, she is threatened with social stigmatization and exclusion. Torn between her desire for freedom and… Continue reading Short Film: TAKE AND RUN, 38min., Switzeland, 38min., Drama

Director Statement The idea of “The Light Thief” first came to life in the year 2012 while I was attending the Berlin Film Festival. It was snowing and I was walking back to my hotel after an evening screening. On the way there, some elements of Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” started playing in my mind and… Continue reading Director Biography – Eva Daoud (THE LIGHT THIEF)