#Short Film

News

Apply Now: Women’s Weekend Film Challenge

For the first time since the pandemic, the Women’s Weekend Film Challenge (WWFC) is taking place, with the goal of addressing the off-screen gender gap. Applications are now open for the fifth...

Features

Queer Women Creators Represent: Crowdfunding Picks

As anti-LGTBQIA+ attacks ramp up all over the country, it is more important than ever to pay attention to what LGBTQ people are saying in our own words. As the freedom to discuss the very existence...

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Apply Now: First Flights and Goldfinch’s Female Voices Short Film Fund

Filmmaking incubator First Flights and entertainment financier/production house Goldfinch are teaming up to support a woman artist as she creates a short film. A press release has announced the...

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Relationships That Deserve Screen Time: Crowdfunding Picks

One of the things that independent cinema does best is tell stories of relationships found outside of the dominant culture. The mainstream tends to focus on romantic relationships between men and...

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Apply Now: The Inaugural WIF x Google Shorts Program

Women In Film, Los Angeles (WIF) will fund three shorts from up-and-coming women and nonbinary filmmakers, with support from Google. Applications are now being accepted for the inaugural WIF Shorts...

Awards

The Future of Film Is Female Announces Spring 2021 Grant Recipients

The Future of Film Is Female (FOFIF) has awarded its latest round of funding. The org, which supports female filmmakers with financial support, exhibition, and promotion, presented Spring 2021 grants...

Features

How to Be a Woman: VOD Picks

There is not one, singular way to be a woman, but looking at the ways women are represented in mainstream media, one may start to believe that’s the case. All too often, the “ideal”...

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Apply Now: Still I Rise Fellowship

Documentary film series and distribution platform Still I Rise has earmarked a $50,000 grant for women artists and filmmakers. According to Deadline, the Still I Rise Fellowship will provide...

Features

Caught Between Two Worlds: Crowdfunding Picks

You don’t have to be a daredevil to feel the exhilarating danger of tightrope walking.  In fact, life often forces us to occupy roles that are incompatible with our own desires, that sometimes...

Awards

The Horizon Award Announces 2021 Recipients

Shira Baron and Marian De Pontes are the winners of the seventh annual Horizon Award, an honor presented to emerging female filmmakers. According to Screen Daily, Baron and De Pontes will both...

Festivals

Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Fest’s Final Week to Showcase Works by Felicia Pride & More

This year’s edition of the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival has confirmed its final week’s titles and events. The fest, an annual affair founded by African Voices magazine and...

Festivals

Submit Now: The NYWIFT Online Shorts Festival

The fourth annual New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT) Online Shorts Festival is now accepting submissions, a press release has announced. NYWIFT members are welcome to enter their short...

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Future and Fantasy: VOD and Web Series Picks

Women filmmakers are redefining what intimacy and relationships may look like in the future — not through making tired critiques of dating apps, but rather by offering expansive interpretations...

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Submit Now: Women In Film, ReFrame, and IMDbPro’s Curbside Shorts Filmmaking Challenge

Women In Film LA, ReFrame, and IMDbPro have launched a contest for women and nonbinary filmmakers who have been keeping creative during quarantine. Per a press release, the Curbside Shorts Two-Minute...

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Unconventional Self-Discovery: VOD and Web Series Picks

Understanding yourself rarely comes easy. Finding out who you are — from which labels you prefer to use, to your relationship to sexuality, and your bodily autonomy — takes time, and discoveries...

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Breaking Barriers: Crowdfunding Picks

We all eventually face barriers of some kind. These barriers can be personal or professional, and often concern both ourselves and the families and communities we come from. Our latest crowdfunding...

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Pick of the Day: “Marcy Learns Something New”

Women and Hollywood has temporarily suspended our recommendations newsletter. We’ll be sharing some of the week’s highlights in TV, VOD, and streaming via blog posts. In “Marcy Learns...

Festivals

Submit Now: The Corona Short Film Festival

A new opportunity has arisen “for film professionals and film enthusiasts who have already rewatched all the favorite series and movies, read all the books on the shelf, and played online games...

Features

These Projects Have Been Affected by Coronavirus. Here’s How You Can Help. (Volume IV)

It seems like every day brings more cancellations, closings, and upsetting news. The coronavirus is affecting the whole world, not least of all the artists and creators who are trying to bring their...

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Family Legacies: Crowdfunding Picks

Family can come with a lot of baggage, good and bad. Our latest crowdfunding picks examine all the complications of our familial relationships — the ones we choose and the ones we don’t...

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These Projects Have Been Affected by Coronavirus. Here’s How You Can Help. (Volume III)

It seems like every day brings more cancellations, closings, and upsetting news. The coronavirus is affecting the whole world, not least of all the artists and creators who are trying to bring their...

Features

Ripple Effects: VOD and Web Series Picks

Sometimes one decision can change your life forever; whether it be simply saying yes or no, deciding to go out or stay in, or making a more substantial, life-altering choice. These short films and...

News

Ingrid Veninger Teams with Women Directors Around the World for Short Film Anthology Project

COVID-19 is not preventing “Porcupine Lake” director Ingrid Veninger from making art — or from supporting fellow female filmmakers. According to a press release, Veninger is...

Features

These Projects Have Been Affected by Coronavirus. Here’s How You Can Help. (Volume II)

It seems like every day brings more cancellations, closings, and upsetting news. The coronavirus is affecting the whole world, not least of all the artists and creators who are trying to bring their...

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Responding to Trauma: Crowdfunding Picks

Trauma impacts all of us in different ways, and can come from many different places, whether they be our experiences with gender, race, and class, our family, or our friends. Our latest crowdfunding...

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Laughter as Resilience: Crowdfunding Picks

Comedy is an extremely effective — and often underrated — tool by which to tell important stories. Our latest crowdfunding picks use humor to examine a variety of important contemporary...

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Modern Horrors: VOD and Web Series Picks

Fear is a powerful force. Whether we realize it or not, the things that scare us often guide how we move through the world. As a genre, horror aims to tap into our universal fears and challenge them...

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Challenging the Narrative: Crowdfunding Picks

Sometimes we can feel alienated and left out by the narratives portrayed in culture and media, particularly when they fail to address and include the unique experiences of those with marginalized...

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Grandmas, Girlhood, and Growing Up: Crowdfunding Picks

Growing up can be tough — navigating personal identity and self-expression as well as increasingly complicated relationships with family and friends is no easy task, especially when factors...

Features

Navigating an Ever-Changing World: VOD and Web Series Picks

Whether we like it or not, technology has changed the world we live in. Our communication has gotten faster, but maybe less personal. And the ways we understand ourselves and the people around us...

News

Apply Now: Boyish’s #RaiseYourVoice Female Filmmaker Competition

Boyish, a digital media company spotlighting content created by women, is teaming up with In The Know and Malka Media for a female filmmaker contest. Boyish will award five women-identifying...

Features

The Roles We Play: Crowdfunding Picks

Figuring out who you are — and who you want to be — can be a difficult process, especially in a world so eager to put limitations on which identities are considered acceptable. This is an...

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Existential Struggles: VOD and Web Series Picks

Simply existing can be a confusing, scary, difficult endeavor. Many of us struggle with a lack of purpose, wish for better from life, or, even, know what we want but are prevented from getting it....

Features

Yes She Can: Crowdfunding Picks

This month’s crowdfunding picks look at women who persevere — whether through daring feats, everyday moments that could mean life or death, or divulging something personal to someone they...

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16 Days 16 Films Initiative Spotlights Short Films Addressing Gendered Violence

Modern Films and The Kering Foundation have selected the finalists for the second annual 16 Days 16 Films, a short film initiative inspired by the UN Women campaign 16 Days of Activism Against...

Features

Class Is Now in Session: Crowdfunding Picks

A person’s moral center starts developing at a young age, and continues to grow throughout their life — something we’re exploring in this month’s round of crowdfunding selections....

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Submit Your Short for the Eva Haller Women Transforming Media Award

The Eva Haller Women Transforming Media Award is accepting submissions. Named for the human rights activist and philanthropist Eva Haller, the honor recognizes short films telling women’s...

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Apply Now: Wavelength Productions’ WAVE Grant for First-Time Women Filmmakers of Color

Wavelength Productions, the company that brought us Rachel Lears’ feminist political doc “Knock Down the House,” has announced a grant supporting first-time female filmmakers of...

Features

The Family Complex: VOD and Web Series Picks

Our latest round of VOD and web series picks takes on one of the most complicated, universal, and inescapable institutions in existence: family. Whether it centers on a nontraditional path towards...

News

Submit: HBO Asian Pacific American Visionaries Short Competition

HBO has announced submission information for its 2020 Asian Pacific American Visionaries (APAV) short film competition. Per Deadline, “Warrior” exec producer and CEO of Bruce Lee...

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Apply Now: Ghetto Film School’s AT&T Mentorship Content Lab

Los Angeles teens with filmmaking aspirations, this one’s for you. Nonprofit filmmaking program Ghetto Film School is now accepting applications for its AT&T Mentorship Content Lab, which...

Features

Exploring Trauma: VOD and Web Series Picks

In media, women’s pain is usually used to motivate men. So there’s a real demand for nuanced portrayals of female trauma, which looks at what women are actually going through — as...

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Society, Expectations, and the “Other”: VOD and Web Series Picks

Society has unspoken expectations for everyone, especially women. We’re expected to dress in a certain way, do our hair and makeup, be less aggressive with men. Then there are expectations for...

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New Program from Refinery29 and Kate Spade Gives Women Directors Opp to Helm Video Short

Media company Refinery29 and fashion brand Kate Spade are working together to provide opportunities to emerging women directors. According to WWD, the businesses are partnering on “Pilot Season,”...

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Apply Now: North Face’s Move Mountains Grant for Women Directors

If you’re a woman filmmaker with a love for the Great Outdoors, then The North Face has the grant for you. The apparel company has announced the Move Mountains Filmmakers Grant, “a...

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Apply Now for the Inaugural Disney Launchpad: Shorts Incubator

The Walt Disney Company is offering directors from underrepresented communities the chance to “present diverse perspectives through the production of original, live-action short films for...

Features

Our Bodies, Our Choice: VOD and Web Series Picks

Reproductive rights are under attack across the country. And while women throughout Hollywood are making their own efforts to defend access to safe abortion nationwide, there is still work to be done...

Features

Here & Queer: Crowdfunding Picks

Despite their place at the forefront of the women’s rights movement, queer women have long been marginalized, misunderstood, and underrepresented by media. The history and experiences of queer...

Features

You Have to Laugh: VOD and Web Series Picks

“Humor is just another defense against the universe,” Mel Brooks told Rolling Stone in 1978. This insight is perhaps even truer for women — we’ve often had to wield our senses...

Features

Imagine That: Crowdfunding Picks

Imagination, J.K. Rowling shared in her 2008 Harvard Commencement Speech, is “not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not” but also “the power that enables us...

News

Apply Now: CinemaStreet Women’s Short Screenplay Competition

CinemaStreet Pictures is hosting a contest for short scripts from female screenwriters. The CinemaStreet Women’s Short Screenplay Competition is accepting women-penned scripts of 20 pages or...

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