We will be screening from Oct 13-16, 2022.
Due to the ever change conditions of COVID in California we will be monitoring the conditions and event gathering restrictions. We will either be live-on-the-ground with virtual elements, or ALL virtual , or a hybrid event with virtual and on-the-ground events.
As we open call for entries we can not predict which one we will be doing in October 2021. So when you submit to our festival and if you are selected you need to be prepared, as we prepare, to pivot to anyone of those mentioned above versions.
We will have films, seminars, awards show, special films and much more
For 2021 YEAR and for our 17th season of programing our event final version will be posted around the first week in August 2021. It will be an exciting next coming months but it will be a very exciting programing year.
Our festival is in OCTOBER annually in Los Angeles, we will be hosting our standing room only panels and screenings as well as offering a potential online element for those that may not able to attend on the ground. Check our site as we get closer to October for full details.
A Femme International Film Festival is a premier festival that focuses on platforming women filmmakers “by women, for everyone”. Our Festival was created in 2005, when it became apparent that there was a need to enhance women behind the camera as Directors, Producers, and Writers. We were the first in Los Angeles to host such an event and film festival empowering women. All those that followed are just duplicates of the movement we started over a decade ago.
Through our Partners and Sponsors we have provided one-one-one meetings with our filmmakers or helped secure financing. CBS Entertainment Diversity Department and Sony Entertainment met with a selected group of our filmmakers with the goal to offer potential employment and/or placement as a director or writer under their diversity department. It is through our direct efforts that these opportunities are being secured for our LA Femme Int. Film Festival Filmmakers.
As LA Femme moves into the next few years, it plans to expand its platform so that more women in the industry and from around the world can have the benefit of taking their film to the next level through increased distribution outlets, more key positions in the entertainment industry and more recognition as artistic creators emerging as leaders in the industry.
Our goal is to create more such opportunities through exemplary programming, networking, and panel events. A classic professional atmosphere will create a sense of ‘opportunity’ for participants. LA Femme International Film Festival is “By Women for Everyone.”
Objectives:
To continually showcase and celebrate commercially viable films Written, Directed, or Produced by women.
To opening a pathway for women entering the industry by encouraging mentor-ship and artistic sharing between those women established in the field and those just beginning.
To Platform new emerging talent and support established women in cross-over roles.
To assist in distributing the feature films that are platformed in our festival with domestic theatrical releases and home video distribution.
Mission:
La Femme International Film Festival will support and nurture the artistic entertainment productions of women for the benefit of distribution to an international and domestic audience.
Emphasis:
»Our emphasis is on providing a complete specialized festival based on showcasing and celebrating commercially successful films written, directed, or produced by women and creating a system of access for those new to the industry directly to established women industry professionals.
»To assist in distribution of these films
»To mentor other women into positions of power in the independent and big budget, studio entertainment community.
Summary:
LA Femme Film Festival is more than a festival it is an emergence of artistic, professional women who make a difference in the entertainment community by creating productions that speak to a world wide audience. We were the first festival of its kind in Beverly Hills to not only platform existing films and artists but also distribute and mentor such films and the woman artists who created them.
FYI- We do not pay screening fees to any filmmaker. It is a privilege to screen at this prestigious film festival.
Our Distribution Partner screens all the films from the festival and offers distribution deals annually to those selected to screen. In the last several over 10 films were awarded a full distribution deal, other received limited distribution. We hope to see more in the future through our additional distribution partnerships.
In addition, each winner receives a crystal award and prizes vary.
Winners in the TV Pilot and Screenplay competitions will receive from InkTip :Winners will receive a prize package of an InkTip script listing to assist in getting their script to producers.
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November 2021
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Anna Gerasimova
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October 2021
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A Film By Brooke Harris Wolff
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Carly Sullivan
October 2021
