WELCOME TO OUR WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL FILM AND MUSIC VIDEO FESTIVAL
WOMEN IN CINEMA AND MUSIC
THIS IS A LIVE OUTDOOR AND INDOOR EVENT
Due to the unpredictable nature of the global pandemic, and the state laws governing safety, live screening dates for our live event are subject to change. In order to keep everyone safe. Social distancing and mask-wearing will be mandatory at all our festival events, including film forums, screenings, and panels. Anybody not wearing a mask will not be given entry to the festival. There will be limited seating at all screenings and events. We will be holding both indoor and outdoor events.
PROGRAM
The festival will begin at 12 pm each day with film forums, guest speakers, panels, and live screenings of our jury-selected films followed by awards. The final day of the festival will include a poolside salon in Santa Monica
NOTE: We are expanding our film festival music program. Musicians may be male and female but video directors must be women. ALL films must be directed by women. Our top prize winners will also be interviewed on our show SHE TALKS CINEMA.
ABOUT US
We are the women of New Hollywood. In Their Footsteps: Women Pioneers of Old Hollywood Light the Way
The Hollywood Women's Film Institute is a Los Angeles-based non-profit feminist arts and education organization, bringing together women in film, music, TV, Academia, and media, from all over the world through our Global Sisters Program. The Institute provides all-inclusive platforms for women in the arts. The Hollywood Women's Film Festival is a program of the Hollywood Women's Film Institute. We were established to provide a forum for women from all countries to come to Los Angeles and show their films. Our goal toward change is to engage both men and women in raising awareness through working together and participating in panel discussions and workshops to balance the power scales and end gender and racial inequity. Our panels and workshops are focused on filmmaking, directing, writing, producing, composing, costume design, artistic support, financing, distribution, activism in the arts, and ending the systemic culture of sexism in our industry.
Our board members are writers, directors, producers, activists, professors, actors, attorneys, artists, authors, and journalists. It is our goal to bring together the film and Television industries with academia, music, and media, in order to facilitate substantial and lasting change for women in the arts. Our educational programs include panels, lectures, workshops, and a student filmmaker program.
The Women of New Hollywood are keeping the vision of the women pioneers of Hollywood’s golden era alive by re-inventing Hollywood. The success of women in film is an homage to their genius. We invite you to join us. Walking in the footsteps of the women pioneers in writing, directing, and producing, Mary Pickford, Alice Guy Blache, Dorothy Arzner, Ida Lupino, Hedy Lamarr, Lucille Ball, Marion Davies, Tressie Souders, Marion Wong, and all the women film pioneers, we bring you The Hollywood Women’s Film Institute and The Hollywood Women’s Film Festival.
In addition to our various jury awarded filmmaker awards, our special awards include the Lifetime Achievement Award, Humanitarian Award, the Dorothy Arzner LGBTQ Director's Award, and our Activism Awards. We also have a foreign film program, a student film program, and our new music program.
For the most outstanding US film, we offer access to our fiscal sponsorship, for the filmmaker's next film. Awards and prizes vary.
