Through Women's Eyes International Film Festival

Welcome to the Through Women's Eyes International Film Festival in beautiful Sarasota, Florida! Our next festival is March 7-14, 2024. For our 25th Anniversary, we will be showcasing a wide range of films about gender equality, we are a mission-driven festival, dedicated to showcasing women filmmakers and films that address issues inadequately represented in mainstream media. We are an international festival with significant numbers of films from all over the world.

We frequently select films that go on to commercial success (RBG), publicize the work of voices that need to be heard (Nobel Winner Nadia Murad, On Her Shoulders), and remind the world about issues that need more attention (SEWA, violence as an act of war in the DRC featuring Nobel Winner Dennis Mukwege).

In 2021, our festival successfully launched on a virtual platform, permitting our most successful festival ever. Our audience expanded to viewers from 33 US states and 12 countries. In 2023, we will continue our virtual platform, permitting a global audience, coupled with significant in-person events in Sarasota, Florida, USA.

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We actively seek films that showcase important social themes and current events, films that reflect the LGBTQ+ experience, films reflecting the full diversity of global women, and films that show efforts to bring about gender equality. We welcome films from any country. All of our films must be entertaining and, if there's some humor, that never hurts!

We want films which are:

- made by anyone identifying as female or non-binary; film can be on any topic; or
- made by any filmmaker; film must focus on issues of particular interest to women; or
- made by any filmmaker; film must focus on women's stories and lives.

We strongly encourage selected filmmakers to attend our in-person festival; it is a great opportunity to publicize the film, answer questions from the audience, and participate in our receptions and panel discussions with other filmmakers. We have a very engaged base of supporters who host filmmakers and appreciate the entire weekend.

This festival is all-volunteer production of the non-profit women's rights and advocacy organization, Through Women's Eyes.