LA Femme International Film Festival is an annual film festival. It focuses on platforming women filmmakers, "by women, for everyone". The festival was launched in 2005, with the objective of enhancing female directors, producers, and writers. It was the first women-focused festival in Los Angeles. To meet the festival objectives of showcasing and promoting commercially viable films by women filmmakers, the organization offers mentorships, creates dialogues among creators, holds panels, and assists with finding distribution opportunities.
The film was founded by Leslie LaPage, after attending Sundance Festival 2005, and remarking on the fact that there were very few films by women.[1] LaPage found it difficult to find sponsors, because, in her words, "almost no one in Los Angeles seemed to believed that women could direct anything other than a romantic comedy."[1] But the event was mounted, and 25 films were screened in the 2-day festival. Since then, the festival has grown to include over 100 films screened over four days, in two theaters, and it includes seminars, panels, networking mixers, and gala events.[2][3]
Awardsedit
Features:
Best of La Femme
Best Director
Best Indie Feature
Honorable Mention
Mid-Length Films:
Special Jury Award
Other awards:
Best of La Femme Docs
Best of LaFemme Screenplay
Best of LaFemme Shorts
Best of La Femme Music Video
Honorable Mention for PSA
Best of La Femme Commercial
Best of LA Femme Mobisode
Best of LA Femme Webisode
Best of LA Femme Games
LA Femme Best Animated Short
LA Femme Best Animated Feature
Winnersedit
Some of the major awards granted at LA Femme Film Festival include:
Year
Award
Winner
Work
2018
Best Director
Marcia Kimpton
Bardo Blues
Best Feature Screenwriter
Catherine Dudley-Rose
Parallel Chords
Best Foreign Film
Jo Morris, Aiman Harhish
Dagenham
Best Special Focus Documentary
Susan Scott, Bonne de Bod
Stroop: Journey into the Rhino Horn War
2017
Best Feature Director
Sandi Somers
Ice Blue
Best Animated Short
Roadside Assistance
Best Feature
Becky Smith
August in Berlin
Best Foreign Film
Julia Frick, Alice Frick
Shop of Little Pleasures
2016
Best Special Focused Documentary
Julia Gibson, Audrey Mesler
The Last High: The Lure and Lie of Smoking Synthetics
^ abLaPage, Leslie (July 27, 2017). "LA Femme International Film Festival 2017: An Oral History of a "By Women, For Everyone" Festival". MovieMaker. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
^"La Femme International Film Festival". Film Freeway. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
^"LA Femme Film Festival". LA Live. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
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