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The history of women's film festivals begins in the early 1970s during the second wave of feminism. [1] The first international women's film festival took place in New York in 1972, and the occurrence of female film festivals soon spread to the rest of the world with festivals happening in Canada and Germany in 1973, France in 1974, and Iran in 1975. [1]
Women's film festivals are film events geared to promote women in the film industry. Women’s film festivals began due to the lack of female voice within the film industry. [1] To combat this hindrance, their own film festival was designed. Most women's film festivals only screen films directed, produced, or written by women.
The International Festival of Women's Films was founded by screenwriter Kristina Nordstrom in 1972, who also served as festival director. [2] [7] Nordstrom has previously worked as an assistant to Richard Roud, the co-founder and program director of the New York Film Festival. [8] Publicity materials for the festival stated that its purpose was:
The Super 8 festival is the longest-running festival of its kind in the world and features films made with Super 8, a motion-picture film format released in 1965.
International Images Film Festival for Women; International Women's Film Festival (Australia) International Women's Film Festival in Rehovot; Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln; Io Isabella International Film Week
LA Femme International Film Festival is an annual film festival. It focuses on platforming women filmmakers, "by women, for everyone". The festival was launched in 2005, with the objective of enhancing female directors, producers, and writers. It was the first women-focused festival in Los Angeles. To meet the festival objectives of showcasing ...
Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln (IFF Dortmund+Köln) is a German feminist film festival. It was created in 2006 by merging Feminale, Germany's oldest feminist film festival, held in Cologne, Feminale, and femme totale (held in Dortmund). Feminale was founded in 1983 by students of film theory from the University of Cologne.
The Norwich Women's Film Weekend (or NWFW) was a two-day annual event that ran for 10 years, from 1979 to 1989, at Cinema City in Norwich.. It was organised to 'promote and encourage women film-makers and present the audience with films dealing with women's issues', as the first programme (1979) put it. [1]