| Deadline Today: Female Feedback Film Festival. https://filmfreeway.com/FEEDBACKFemaleFilmFestivalFFFF https://femalefilmfestival.com/ Film Festival (short & feature) occurs 12 times a year (every month) in Los Angeles and Toronto. Accepted films get their films screened at 2 festivals. The Audience Feedback Festival, where you will receive a video of people's reactions to your film. (Great asset to promote your movie.) Plus, the Film Festival Streaming Service Festival, where it will be seen by people in the industry and film fans. Plus, each filmmaker gets the opportunity to do two interviews to further promote them and their work. A blog interview and a podcast interview on the Film Festival iTunes show. ------- Screenplay readings also take place every single month.
Every submission received full feedback on their script from an industry professional. Winning scripts get their script performed by professional actors and made into a video for you. Festival Mandate: The irony of this festival is 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. 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 has obtained agents and has begun/began 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. 65% of the assigned roles in a screenplay out of over 500 winning readings from 2018–21 were for males. A woman character got only 35% 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 Indepentant directors. The festival has noticed that out of the last 100 films shown at the festival in the last year, 41 of those films were directed by a female. That is a great achievement in relation to how it is with Hollywood-produced films (3 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. | 
