Event Category Archives: Festival

Wired Women Weekender

Wired Women is back and this year we’re making it a weekender! Across the two days, we’ll be bringing you panel discussions, presentations and practical workshops with some of the industry’s leading ladies. Whether you’re looking to tackle the freelance world, develop your short into a feature or are seeking some guidance on that all […]

Shorts: Girls to the Front

Wednesday 30 November Genesis Cinema 18:30 Running time: 87mins   Strong female characters are not enough. We want weird ones, insecure ones, transgressive and angry ones. Rule-breakers, creators, pioneers. Old, young, black, white, straight, gay. In this glorious collection of films, Woman breaks out of the boxes, tears off the labels, and is celebrated in […]

Shorts: Men by Women

Thursday 1 December Barbican 19:00 Running time: 81 mins Masculinity is laid bare in this selection of films by women filmmakers. Athletes, bullies, idols, has-beens, sons, fathers, brothers, widowers… A different take on the female gaze that aims to unpack men onscreen. BOOK TICKETS   FAN GIRL (Director) Dir. Kate Herron Emily and Kim spent their […]

My Feral Heart + Q&A with director Jane Gull

Director Jane Gull Screenwriter Duncan Paveling Producer James Rumsey DOP Susanne Salavati With Steven Brandon, Shana Swash, Will Rastall, Pixie Le Knot UK 2015 83min   After the sudden passing of his mother, Luke (Steve Brandon), a determined young man with Down’s Syndrome, is thrown into a state-funded home and stripped of his independence. Initially […]

Shorts: Hysterical

Thursday 1 December Prince Charles Cinema 20:45 Running time: 90mins Shocking, out-there, darkly comic, beautifully awkward (and with a slightly unnerving penchant for dogs), in this side-splitting selection of shorts, women take centre stage - and they own it. BOOK TICKETS THE GIRL IN THE DRESS - Natalia Malla (Writer) Dir. Natalia Malla Just hours […]

The Internet was Made for Women

Thursday 1 December Hackney Picturehouse 21:00 BOOK TICKETS Why wait for your career to start? Instead of embarking on the painstaking process of charming mainstream commissioners, these filmmakers determined to get straight on with making the shows they wanted to watch. Now with successful web series up and running, they’ll share how they did it, […]

Shorts: In Every Home A Heartache

Friday 2 December ArtHouse Crouch End 18:30 Running time: 91 mins Dynamic and powerful accounts of place, celebrating settings from the perspective of the flaneuse, the local resident, the tourist, as well as the powerful emotions produced by memory. See films exhibiting fears about the destruction of natural landscapes, people drawn to reach the most […]

The Levelling + Q&A with writer/director Hope Dickson Leach and producer Rachel Robey

Director/Screenwriter Hope Dickson Leach Producer Rachel Robey, Co Producer Anna Griffin With Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton, Jack Holden UK 2016 83min Courtesy of Peccadillo Pictures   Clover (Ellie Kendrick), a veterinary student, is called back to her family’s farm after her beloved brother dies. There she must confront her fractured relationship with her father (David […]

Athena Film Festival Presents

Friday 2 December Hackney Attic 19:00 For the first time, we partner with a fellow film festival to bring us the most interesting shorts made by women from across the pond. Athena Film Festival has been hosting film screenings, workshops, panels and events celebrating women in leadership since 2011. Join Women & Hollywood publisher Melissa Silverstein […]

Shorts: Stranger Things

Friday 2 December Prince Charles Cinema 20:30 Running time: 91mins You know that feeling after watching a scary film, when everything looks, sounds, feels different? The familiar becomes uncanny in these shorts. Disturbing twists in small packages that will stick with you for days. BOOK TICKETS   AWAY FROM ME - Francesca Fowler (Actor) Dir. […]

Shorts: Women in Motion

Saturday 3 December Genesis Cinema 11:30 Running time: 76mins BOOK TICKETS BUY SATURDAY SHORTS PASS From biological travels to energetic dance-pieces, these innovative shorts feature women in action. Finding inspiration in the corporeal, as well as in the decisions women are compelled to take, many of them engage with historical fears of active women and […]

Shorts: Mommie Dearest

Saturday 3 December Genesis Cinema 14:00 Running time: 83mins BOOK TICKETS BOOK SATURDAY SHORTS PASS   Exploring the biggest female honestly and untethered, these films interrogate women’s relationship to what’s considered our raison d’être. Earnest, brilliant shorts that explore the notion of motherhood, commitment and responsibility, as well as the effects of mothers on their […]

Light Years + Q&A with director Esther May Campbell

Director/Screenwriter Esther May Campbell Producer Samm Haillay, Wendy Bevan-Mogg, Duane Hopkins With Sophie Burton, James Stuckey, Zamira Fuller, Beth Orton, Muhammet Uzuner UK 2015 89min   A portrait of a family slowly falling apart marked by the absence of the mother (Beth Orton) who is plagued by a mysterious illness that is ravishing her mentally […]