HIGHLIGHTS: March 2023 Female Film Festival Showcase

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Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:
Best Feature Film: RAILS, JAILS AND TROLLEYS
Best Short Form Short Film: MY FATHER
Best Long Form Short Film: THE CRY OF A SPARROW
Best Documentary Short: REMEMBERING SUDAN: THE LAST MALE
Best Performances: THE SERVICE
Best Cinematography: ZYKLUS XX
Best Sound & Music: EXTRA LARGE
Best Direction: YATRA: The Journey

Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:

REMEMBERING SUDAN: THE LAST MALE, 11min,. USA, Documentary
Directed by Ami Vitale
Zacharia Mutai was devastated the day he lost his best friend Sudan. Sudan was someone he spent years with, someone he knew better than his own children, someone he loved. This death was tragic, but not a surprise.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!


RAILS, JAILS AND TROLLEYS, 71min,. Canada, Documentary
Directed by Henna Mann
Rails, Jails and Trolleys (August 2022) documents history’s…

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Today’s Podcast: FILMMAKER ZOÉ HENRIQUES (TWO LONE ROBOTS)

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TWO LONE ROBOTS, 7min., UK
Directed by Zoé Henriques
Two lone robots are looking for others but time is running out.

Get to know the filmmaker:

What motivated you to make this film?
A walk outside during the COVID pandemic to the location where the film was shot.

From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take you to make this film?
I will say two sets of 6 months, bringing the total tally to a year. I did a major rewrite and had a change of direction in the middle of the project, so this is effectively the second version of this film. The short answer, it took one year.

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Today’s Podcast: FILMMAKER BRITTANY CHRISTINE (OUTTA THIS WORLD)

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OUTTA THIS WORLD, 5min., Animation
Directed by Brittany Christine
An animated sci fi comedy about a human woman, Astria ZonBerg, who longs for something. On a journey with alien Pike to find it, she discovers something else she never knew she was missing.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3046505/
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Get to know the filmmaker on what motivated her to make this film:
The Pandemic and being in lockdown! I very much felt the same way my character Astria Zonberg did, in the sense that I had already turned my backyard into a beach complete with a lounge set for tanning, bbq area for cooking, volleyball court, ping pong table, racquetball set, tennis court, & projector screen for outdoor movies, then on the inside of my house I bought a rower machine, elliptical, bike, treadmill, thigh master, free weights, dumbbells, work out…

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SCRIPT MOVIE: Kiss Me, Stay Close, by Patricia Bruce

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Two false lovers — in a dangerous time…

Produced by the WILDsound Festival.

Executive Producer by Matthew Toffolo

Editor and Visual Design by Steve Rizzo

CAST LIST:
Narrator: Julie Sheppard
JACKLYN LEWIS: Hannah Ehman
POLICE DETECTIVE: Sean Ballantyne
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