Festivals

Introduction:

This section gives links to film festivals that focus uniquely on women’s film and/or television production which might be of interest to WFTHN members and visiting researchers, either for their UK/Ireland context or for their relevance to women’s film history. There follows a list of lists of festivals, for wider browsing, and, finally, a list of references that can be found at the bottom of the page.

More research could certainly, and usefully, be done on the Women’s Film Festivals listed as well as on others that may not yet be listed here. We hope you will contribute any that you know about or find, and corrections are welcomed. Also please add any relevant book/article you write, or find, to the references at the end of this page.

This has been a difficult resource to compile, and a WFTHN blog on this topic will be published shortly.

We are always looking for expansion of this page, so if you have any additions please scroll down to the form below where you can log any new items that would be appropriate to the page.

Specific Festivals

Birds-Eye View Film Festival, London, 2002-2014. BEV is now running an events programme, from 2016, as Reclaim the Frame, https://www.birds-eye-view.co.uk

Créteil International Women’s Film Festival/Festival International de Films de Femmes, Paris, from 1978, https://filmsdefemmes.com This long-standing festival has often focused on women from the UK or Ireland.

Dublin Feminist Film Festival, from 2014, https://www.dublinfeministfilmfestival.com

IBW (Images of Black Women Film Festival), from c. 2004 https://www.facebook.com/IBW.FilmFestival.UK/about/?ref=page_internal

London Feminist Film Festival, from 2012, https://www.facebook.com/LondonFeministFilmFestival/

Remake – Frankfurter Frauen Filmtage, from 2018, Germany, https://www.remake-festival.de/en/remake/about-the-festival

Underwire Festival, from 2010, http://www.underwirefestival.com

Women of the Lens, London, from 2017, https://womenofthelens.com

Women Over 50 Film Festival, Brighton, from 2015, http://wofff.co.uk

Women X Film Festival, Darlington, UK, from 2020, https://filmfreeway.com/WomenX

Lists of relevant film festivals

British Council list of international women-focused film festivals http://film-directory.britishcouncil.org/festivals-directory?p=1&festival_query=women

Film Festival Research Network, ‘Women’s Film Festivals’, 9.1.2, http://www.filmfestivalresearch.org/index.php/ffrn-bibliography/9-specialized-film-festivals/9-1-identity-based-festivals/9-1-2-womens-film-festivals/

Jacob, Clarissa K (2012-2017) ‘festival timeline’, in the women & film project, https://womenandfilmproject.wordpress.com/resources/festival-timeline/

New York Film Academy, Student Resources https://www.nyfa.edu/student-resources/film-festivals/ ‘The Most Comprehensive List of Film Festivals on the Internet’ (sections on Ireland and the UK

University of Sheffield Library Special Collections and Archiveshttps://www.sheffield.ac.uk/library/special/filmfest, Film Festivals Collection, Ref: PE 25

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_film_festivals

Women Make Movies, https://www.wmm.com/resources/film-festivals/

References – for full details, see the Publications page:

Breidenbach, Ann (2020)

Braderman, Joan (1972)

Damiens, Antoine (2020)

http://www.filmfestivalresearch.org/index.php/ffrn-bibliography/9-1-2-womens-film-festivals

Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 72, No. 1-2, Spring/Summer 2020

Kamleitner, Katherina (2020)

Philipsz, Susan (2019)

Robertson, Selina, Ania Ostrowska and Elaine Burrows (2017)

Women and Film: a Resource Book