The FEEDBACK Female Film Festival (FFFF) was created for women filmmakers and screenwriters. The goal is to showcase the best of female talent in film & TV from around the world.

Since 2016, the FEEDBACK Film Festival has been showcasing the best of Female Directors, Producers, Writers, and female lead talent. We now will be showcasing a Film Festival, and a separate Screenplay Festival every single month in the heart of downtown Toronto at the Carlton Cinemas.

This festival now takes place every single month giving filmmakers 4 tiers to showcase and promote their film (All accepted films get all four tiers).

1) Screening #1 where you will also obtain your audience feedback video.
2) Screening #2 virtually on the streaming service WILDsound TV
3) Podcast interview at WILDsound Radio on ITunes
4) Blog interview promoting you and your film.

For the screenplay festival, all submissions receive full feedback on their script. The winners get their script performed by professional actors and made into a video. Winners also get the opportunity to promote themselves on the blog and podcast interviews.

All festival dates have been relegated to private screenings with the same Audience FEEDBACK videos made for the short & feature films, and recorded script readings performed by professional actors for the screenplays. This is our way of showing community over distance so everyone around the world can experience our Audience Feedback videos.

The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes.

Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival.

This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way.

When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival.

A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a “HE” character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

The festival quickly realized when doing the casting for the writing festival readings and setting up the film festival each week two distinct things:

There are so many talented female actors out there who don’t have enough roles to play. 64% of the assigned roles in a screenplay out of over 500 winning readings from 2013-16 were for males. A woman character got only 36% of the roles! And it’s safe to say that so many elite & talented women out there are sitting on the sidelines for no other reason than there is a lack of diversity in Hollywood and around the world in the stories being written.

There is a silent revolution happening around the world with female indy directors. The festival has noticed out of the last 100 films shown at the festival in the last year, 23 of those films were directed by a female. That is a great achievement in relation to how it is with Hollywood produced films, (4 out of 100 of the last films directed by a female.) but is that really something to be proud of? If 50% of the world’s population is female, then shouldn’t 50% of the films be produced and directed by a female? This is what the goal of this festival is.

Simply put: There NEEDS to be more stories told from the female point of view. And those stories need to be presented.

Recent Testimonials:

I thought that the feedback video was one of the best gifts this short film could bring me. Everything the audience said was so precise, every emotion… They captured the essence of the film! I never thought it could go so far. It really inspired me to keep on working.
– Director Laura Garcia (ALEX)

I loved hearing all the different interpretations from the different audience members. Everyone comes to a screening with different backgrounds and history, and that all informs the way in which they receive and perceive a film; it was fascinating to me, and I thought everyone had very valuable things to say.
– Filmmaker Sarah Deakins (Greece)

A producer friend of mine who worked on this script suggested sending it in. What a great idea.
- Ellery VanDooyeweert (Short Screenplay, The Writer's Duel)

Absolutely outstanding notes and I can’t thank you enough. Obviously Charlie Kaufman are difficult waters to sail but I am determined to rock on. The first thing I throw out of the boat is He Who Appears To Be He. But a girl can dream can’t she? Count on one thing you will be receiving my rewrite with a boatload of gratitude.
– Kelly Karam (Screenplay, Ole: Rising Above Mith)

I want to thank you immensely for the feedback! I’m truly grateful. Feedback and reviews are the main reasons I submit to competitions such as this one. I’m most pleased with this one in particular because the reviewer took the time to make suggestions as to how I could make the script better, most notably with some of my character relationships.
– Chastity Lively (Screenplay, Happy Holidays)

NEW Showcase: Submit your FEATURE FILM and receive an audience feedback promotional/testimonial video of your film. Great video to use to get into more festivals and/or promote your film. All submissions receive feedback on their film no matter what.

Winning films get shown at the film festival and receive an audience feedback video.

Winning screenplays get their work performed by professional actors and made into a video.

RULES to submit:

All film submissions must be have at least 3 out of the 4 major positions held by a female (director, producer, lead actor, writer). One major exception is that if the film is directed by a female, then the submission is immediately valid..

OR, the film's major plot and lead characters are female driven.

All screenplay submissions must be written by a female writer.

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Get your Short Film showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival and get a audience video. The FEEDBACK Festival has already showcased over 50 films directed by women, and over 100 screenplays/stories written by a women.

Offers filmmakers to get their works showcased at the FEEDBACK Film Festival. Then the filmmaker will receive and audience reaction video on their film.

Copy YouTube link for examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhyCENMnbMA&list=PL-0CVDAfvxir6Bsb1MUKQmvsa-CIyc5kW

0ffers screenwriters, novelists and storytellers at all levels the fantastic opportunity to hear their stories read aloud using TOP PROFESSIONAL ACTORS.

Copy YouTube link for examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQTRXsJAc_U&list=PL-0CVDAfvxipD3LGopyNdY9F7cbbZAS2o

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  • Lara Britton

    TOFFFF was a wonderful experience and our film was honored with the Best Performances award. The staff is wonderfully attentive and professional, and the audience feedback is an incredible gift for filmmakers. The marketing and PR opportunities given us are very supportive and much needed. Thank you so much!

    December 2023
  • Alessia Ambrosini

    The festival is well organized and the communication is very good.
    We were honored to receive the "Best Photography" award for our film "Darkness and Light". Listening to the comments on the feedback video was valuable and rewarding. Thank you!

    November 2023
  • I submitted my first produced short film, "Beyond the Door" (BTD) , to TOFFF and I simply cannot express how pleased I am by the festival. And not just because BTD was an Official Selection and won the Best Sound and Music prize, for which, as nothing more than the screenwriter, I can take absolutely no credit. This is the first FILM festival to which I've submitted anything--I've submitted tele-/screen-plays to many, many festivals, and placed in and even won many of them, and I don't think any of them have given my writing the kind of exposure that TOFFF is generating and will generate for BTD.

    And the audience feedback reel (https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/beyond-the-door-review) was/is unbelievably insightful--no screenwriting contest has EVER given me such a valuable resource.

    TOFFF is a FANTASTIC festival!

    November 2023
  • Thank you so much to everyone at TOFFF! --Wonderful communication, and we were honored to receive BEST DIRECTION for our film A CHANCE. Hearing the feedback on the feedback video was terrific and so valuable. Looking forward to the blog interview and podcast interview that'll be coming, and the screening, but meanwhile - thanks to this dedicated, passionate and professional team! This festival truly cares about the films and filmmakers - and sets up wonderful promotional opportunities for "having the world getting to know you and your film".
    Highly recommend.

    November 2023
  • Jody Jaress

    What a delightful, conscientious, professional and thoughtful staff behind TOFFF. I think you thought of everything to help promote independent filmmakers and our works. Truly loved getting the video feedback for TRACES OF MEMORY. Valuable indeed. As a Best Short winner, I'm eager to participate in the upcoming interviews... and whatever else you have in store! Keep up the generous work TOFFFF.

    November 2023