Women Make Waves Film Festival aims to celebrate the achievements of outstanding female talents, to explore different aspects of women's lives as well as to promote equality and rights of all genders. By covering a wide range of genres, issues, and representations of women, the Festival seeks to present and honor women’s survival wisdom and power as they are turned into films and gain mainstream recognition.
Time & Place
The 18th Women Make Waves Film Festival, organized by the non-profit Taiwan Women’s Film Association, will be held in Taipei in October, 2011. A portion of the selected films will be invited on a nationwide tour shortly after the screenings in Taipei city.
Entry qualification
Submission to the festival is open to feature films, short films, documentaries, animation, experimental films and innovative visual productions for digital media. There is no entry fee to submit films to Women Make Wave Film Festival. We welcome any recent works (produced up to 2 years before the Festival) by a female director that has not been shown in other festivals in Taiwan. Films that address women-related issues and/or have innovative visual style are preferable.
Deadline for entry: April 30, 2011
We have three main subjects in 2011 WMWFF:
1. Women’s Bodily Performance: We look for films or media works that explore women’s bodies that in some way challenge, broaden, or complicate the definition of a woman’s body and its relationship to identity and sexuality. We also welcome projects that deconstruct the naturalness of body and/or imagine a body with innovative visions.
2. Queer Flame: We look for films or media works that celebrate gender beyond the binary of female and male, femininity and masculinity, and/or explores non-heteronormative sexualities. Projects that portray lives and struggles of queer individuals or feature queer cultures and communities around the world are welcome.
3. New Current: We welcome contemporary films or media works made by female directors that contain a feminist sensibility and/or delivers groundbreaking aesthetics (open to any genre, any thematic ideas).
Women Make Waves Film Festival
3F, No.16, Lane 10, Singcheng St., Datong District, Taipei City 10353, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
T: 886-2-2557-5227 F: 886-2-2552-9728
E-mail: festival_tw@wmw.com.tw http://www.wmw.com.tw/en/
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2011 WMW Film Festival