DUE TO THE GLOBAL PANDEMIC WE WILL NOT DO LIVE SCREENINGS AT OUR THEATRE VENUE UNTIL IT IS SAFE - THE HOLIDAY FESTIVAL WILL BE ONLINE IF THE PANDEMIC CONTINUES TO DECEMBER 2020 - OUR SPECIAL EVENT THIS YEAR IS OUR NEW HOLIDAY FILM FESTIVAL FOR HOLIDAY THEMED FILMS.
We are expanding our music program. Musicians may be male and female but video directors must be women.
We are taking our lead from the Academy Awards - COVID19 is spiking again and theatre festival seating does not allow room for proper and safe distancing. The Hollywood Women's Film Festival 2020 events will be online this year. Our film industry member Jury panel vote on selections. Winners will get their laurels and we will screen the official film selections online. Winners will be notified. 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 new 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 Lamar, 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.
New Awards: Best TV Pilot, Best Podcast, Best Web Series, Best Spoken Word Social Justice Video, Youth Program Best Emerging Filmmaker. In addition to our various jury awarded filmmaker awards, our special awards include: Lifetime Achievement Award, Humanitarian Award, the Dorothhy 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.
