Women’s Weekend Film Competition Sets Fifth Competition in New York

Hundreds of professional filmmakers will join forces in New York this summer to shoot six short films as part of the Fifth Women’s Holiday Movie Challenge.

Founded in 2017 as a grassroots initiative by directors Katrina Madoff and Tracey Sair, WWFC aims to fill the lack of women and non-binaries behind the stage and screen shows, including by challenging their iconic films that bring their creatives together. , Shoot and edit short films in just one weekend. This year’s competition, scheduled for August, will be the first in-person competition since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic.

Filmmakers of all kinds can apply for free to the competition. In this link 1 – 27 June included. Participation is also free. The organizers are filmmakers Nancy Schreiber, ASC and Carmen Cabana; casting director Adrienne Stern; And the producers are Anna Sang Park, Annie Sundberg, Daniel Eliska and Mahak Jivan. WWFC and its sponsors, including Zeiss, Sony, ARRI, Cinelease, Gotham Sound, Casting Networks and Final, will provide attendees with the latest equipment, software, production insurance, production grants and film festival presentation grants. Project.

The teams will communicate with a pre-meeting at the CarStage in Long Island City in early August, the competition kicks off on August 11 where organizers will select a genre for each hat team and explain the requirements each film must have. Light. Crews will begin scriptwriting that night and must deliver the finished film by 11:59pm on Sunday, August 14.

“We are delighted to once again host the Women’s Weekend Film Festival to give a diverse group of talented filmmakers the opportunity to tell their stories on screen,” Sair said. “Many creative relationships have been formed as a result of our previous four challenges, and the results (30 professionally produced short films) show that there is no shortage of experienced women in all production roles.

“While progress has been made in tackling gender imbalances in the film industry, more needs to be done to achieve equality,” Medoff added. “The participants will end the weekend not only with a highly professional short film, but also with a large network of motivated and talented women.”

Since its debut in January 2018, WWFC has worked with more than 700 women to produce 30 short films that have been accepted into more than 90 film festivals. WWFC will premiere this year’s completed short films in Manhattan’s East Village at the end of August, inviting attendees to connect with each other and other members of the industry for their next party.