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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 Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWIFF), launched in 2017, "inherited the aims and intentions of the original 1975 International Women’s Film Festival". The inaugural event included a keynote panel on which several of the original organisers of the IWFF were panellists, and ran a shorts program screening some of the rare films from the IWFF.
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
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.
The Festival international de films de femmes de Créteil was founded by Jackie Buet in 1978 to showcase the directing talents of female filmmakers who, at the time, had difficulty getting their films adequately distributed. The first festival was held in 1979 in Sceaux. [1] It transferred to Créteil in 1985. [1]
Increased government funding for the film industry in Australia in the 1970s led to a renaissance in cinema, and, as part of the growing feminist movement in Australia at that time, women's cinema grew. The role of women's films was discussed at the Women's Liberation Conference in Melbourne in 1970, [108] and groups such as the Feminist Film ...