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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 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]
The Ndiva Women's Film Festival (NWFF) is an African film festival for women filmmakers and audiences, established in Accra, Ghana in 2017. [1] The founder and executive director of NWFF is Aseye Tamakloe. [2] The first NWFF, targeted at African women filmmakers and women of African descent, ran from 1–3 November 2017. [2]
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 Workers collective (1970s and 1980s), Sydney Women"s Film Group (SWFG, 1972–), Melbourne Women's Film Group (1973–), Reel Women (1979 to 1983 in Melbourne), and Women's Film Unit (Sydney and Melbourne ...
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.
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 competition is open to women from around the world who have made a feature-length documentary, a short length fiction and a documentary film. [citation needed] The festival offers a number of prizes, including several Audience awards and the "Grand Jury Prize." There is a festival archive containing more than 10,000 films by women.
It is the first and LGBTQ film festival in Taiwan. Taoyuan Film Festival 桃園電影節 2013 Taoyuan: Special interest Women Make Waves: 台灣國際女性影展 1993 Taipei Special interest It is the first and only women's film festival in the country as well as the largest women's film festival in Asia Youth Film Festival 青春影展 2004 ...