Créteil International Women's Film Festival
Located in Créteil, a city southeast of Paris, today the festival is 10 non-stop days premiering 50 or more new films directed by one or more women. The festival also offers film classes, thematic forums and debates. The competition is open to women from around the world who have made a feature-length documentary, a short length fiction and a documentary film. Their work is judged by a jury of 6 cinema professionals.
The festival offers a number of prizes including several Audience awards and the "Grand Jury Prize." There is a festival archive containing more than 10,000 films by women.
In 2005, recent directors featured include works from Hong Kong, Butterfly by MAK Yan Yan, Ho Yuk by YAU Ching and Lim Poh Huat by Lee Wong from Singapore.
Winners of the Grand Prix
See also
- List of women's film festivals
- Women's cinema
- Woman's film
- Women in film
- Feminist film theory
- List of female film and television directors
- List of female film directors
- Black women filmmakers
References
- ^ Kuhn, Annette; Susannah Radstone (1994). The Women's Companion to International Film. University of California Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-520-08879-5.
External links
- Official site
- Créteil International Women's Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database
- [1] ("Films de Femmes@fiffemmes")
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