It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of the San Francisco Women’s Film Festival, the annual Bay Area celebration of recent contributions to documentary, LGBT, and dramatic film. Participants of the fifth annual festival will no longer just be audience members with the introduction of Indie-Fest, the recently opening online screening competition sponsored by the film forum and marketplace IndieFlix. While the festival begins on the 1st of April, voting is open for five shorts until the end of the month and the winner will screen at SFWFF. Characters in the shorts include a soldier going AWOL in the Iraqi desert, a child dressed as the Hindu god Ganesh, and exotic parrots (why not?).
Scarlett Shepard, founder of the festival and the Women’s Film Institute, said that “between the Festival, the Internet and audience engagement, this is a great platform for people around the globe to see great indie films made by women.”
Woah – this one sounds great!
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