A showcase of the best Female Films from around the world today!
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
Best Short Film: CINDERS
Best Micro-Short: SIBLING ARRIVAL
Best Experimental Film: DON’T MEANS DO
Best Animation: INDEFINITELY
Best Performances: MACKENZIE
Best Visual Design: THE INSEPARABLE
Best Direction: CYCLES
Best Human Interest Film: BEAUTIFUL DISASTERS
Best TV Web Series: THE CUPCAKE CHRONICLES Vol. 2
SIBLING ARRIVAL, 3min., USA
Directed by Dan Plays
An intimate documentary of a home birth; the eight-year old sibling is heard but not seen as she watches and reacts to her brother being born.
https://www.instagram.com/danaplays/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-sibling-arrival-film
DON’T MEANS DO, 9min., USA
Directed by Dana Plays
“Part dramatic narrative, part improvisation, Don’t Means Do, explores the personalities of two young girls, and someone they meet while out walking. It is a simple and genuine encounter, in the light of a gentle afternoon between the moods of child and adult.” – David Heintz
https://www.instagram.com/danaplays/
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-dont-means-do-film
Indefinitely, 6min. USA
Directed by Alona Lee
The night of a legendary comet coincides with a disastrous tsunami. An astronomer has been waiting for this comet all her life. Meanwhile, the lighthouse keeper rushes everyone off the island before the big wave swallows the town–and his lover.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-indefinitely-film
Mackenzie, 15min., Hong Kong
Directed by Queenie Xinyue Wang
A Shanghai born Hong Kong teenage actress has to confront her loss of friendship while getting on a feminine discovery journey that blurs the boundary of memory and present, fiction and reality.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-mackenzie
Once More, Like Rain Man, 15min., USA
Directed by Sue Ann Pien
‘It’s up to you to make a future that has you in it…’ We follow Zoe (Martinez) and her dad, Gerry (Jones) in a ‘day in the life’ of an autistic actress running the gambit of stereotypes she has to deal with – and her dad’s battle in supporting her forging that path for herself – in a funny, frustrating, painful and sometimes triumphantly sarcastic kind of way.
https://www.instagram.com/omlrmovie
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-once-more-like-rain-man-film
The Inseparable, 12min., USA
Directed by Jingling Li
It’s 2014 in a suburban California town. Timid fifth grader, BETH (10), believes it’s her and her best friend against the world until she hears that periods are contagious and her best friend has suddenly been infected. Left in the dark about the female body, Beth grapples with letting her friend get bullied or protecting her with the risk of catching the Period Disease.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-inseparable-film
Cycles, 8min., USA
Directed by Chinwe Okorie
Greta relishes in the comforting mundanity of the laundromat when a call from her sister snaps her back to reality. She is reminded that today is Father’s Day, a holiday that triggers sadness for both sisters who grieve the loss of their father. Greta pulls double duty by comforting her bereaved sister while struggling to crisply fold a fitted sheet. After the phone call, the Laundromat’s owner takes notice of Greta wrestling with her linens. He walks over, takes a sheet, and folds it for her. The two strangers fold the rest of her sheets together in a quiet moment of sublime connectivity.
https://instagram.com/chinwefilms
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-cycles-film
Cinders, 11min., USA
Directed by Renfang Ke
Interior decorator Alice and college professor George have been married for fourteen years. They raise a son and a daughter together, and they are happily married in others’ eyes. One night, Alice waits at home for George to get back from work. What she gets is not only her husband, but also the news that he is going to leave them for an affair. The trivia of marriage life has used up all their passion; love burns into cinders in just a blink. And George is not sure about what is to come.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-cinders
BEAUTIFUL DISASTERS, 14min., USA
Directed by Trisha Lynn Furhman
Of all people exotic dancers understand money can’t buy happiness. So where does it come from? This question sets Robin on a personal journey that takes her deep inside her desires and across the country; encountering hurricanes and personal loss of people she thought were just clients and coworkers. These events cause her to accept some hard truths not only about herself, but also about her industry.
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-beautiful-disasters
The Cupcake Chronicles Vol. 2: The Cupcake Shop Ghost, 54min., USA
Directed by Kevin Byrnes
Is the cupcake shop haunted? Or are those strange noises coming from the stomachs of hungry customers? Either way, everyone ends up satisfied.
https://kevbyrnes63.wixsite.com/fgdtproductions
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-cupcake-chronicles-2
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