GlobalGirl Media Film Festival 2023 was a hybrid event, held in person on Sunday 17 SEPTEMBER 2023 at The Cinema Museum, Kennington, SE London, and online from 17-24 September. Our next festival is yet to be announced - make sure you put GGMFF in your Favourites, to be notified when submissions open.
Our 2023 in-person programme at The Cinema Museum included industry talks, workshops and networking, nominated film screenings and an Awards Ceremony.
Prizes included one-to-one mentoring sessions with industry professionals, BFI Future Film Festival and Sheffield Doc/Fest industry passes, and Mubi subscriptions.
Our inaugural festival was held online in March 2021. From over 150 submissions from 42 countries, we selected 36 films to showcase, along with a selection of films by international GlobalGirl alumni from our training programmes. In 2023 we showed an official selection of 50 films online, and screened 25+ nominated and GGM films at our in-person festival.
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GGMFF is run by GlobalGirl Media UK, the charity that empowers girls and young womxn* through digital media training. Along with GGM International, our mission is to change the traditional male-dominated media landscape, bringing more underrepresented womxn’s voices to the fore - in front of and behind the cameras.
We invite submissions BY, FOR and FEATURING GIRLS and YOUNG WOMXN* that present their unique perspectives and the issues that concern them. We particularly encourage submissions of documentary films, as telling real stories is at the heart of our mission.
We’re excited to be broadening the festival scene for diverse young womxn filmmakers. Open our eyes, surprise us, disturb us, move us with your vision and insight into communities and topics that the world needs to know about.
*women, including self-identifying and non-binary people
PLEASE NOTE:
* Films that are over 20 minutes in length will unfortunately be disqualified.
* Please be sure to include gender and age of the director, who should be a self-identifying woman or non-binary person aged 14-30 (not yet turned 31 by the submission deadline in 2023).
* Student entries will only be accepted if we receive proof of your student status
* Film subject matter should reflect young women’s life experience and concerns, and feature girls or women. We don’t want to be overly prescriptive about this criterion, but at the same time won't accept films that are completely off-topic such as horror or a male-centric story
Best UK Film
Best International Film
Best Fiction Film
Best Documentary
Best Director
Prizes will include exclusive one-to-one mentorships from industry professionals, and subscriptions to streaming services