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Women Texas Film Festival wraps a bow around it after 5 years

By John Wildman 5 years ago

Walford said, “From the beginning of WTxFF, I said that we would only do the film festival as long as we saw a need for it. While there is still much work to be done to give a platform to the work of women directors, producers, writers, editors, directors of photography, and composers, we have seen much headway made during the past five years. Our goal was to show the range of the female storyteller, and to celebrate great and distinctive work in every genre, every style. WTxFF sought to achieve a place where the notion of gender behind the camera could take a backseat to the grit, emotion, and vision projected on the screen. And in a lot of ways, we saw that increasingly happen at our film festival.”

Chris Zuhdi’s MEXICAN MOON Highlighted part of Hico’s Billy the Kid Film Festival teams with Dallas’ Women Texas Film Festival for fest highlighting Texas productions and women filmmakers November 6-7

By John Wildman 5 years ago

Vasquez and DiGiorgio said, “We launched the Billy the Kid Film Festival last year because the thought of combining the unique personality of Hico with our love of film was a winner no matter how we looked at it. However, our audiences’ and our filmmakers’ safety is first and foremost, and this virtual presentation will also give us an opportunity to share these films statewide and hopefully introduce them to even more film fans.”

Women Texas Film Festival reviews: Larissa Lam’s FAR EAST DEEP SOUTH gives an entertainng and unexpected history lesson

By Alicia Chang 6 years ago

The historical roots of many issues we face in American society presently are discussed in the film, ranging from segregation, race relations, and equity in education. At one moment in the film Baldwin Chiu makes the point that in school he never learned anything about the discriminatory laws that affected Chinese-Americans and other minority groups.

Olivia Peace’s TAHARA at Women Texas Film Festival review; all the tools to deliver a funny, but personal and touching film

By Tony Ruggio 6 years ago

Utilizing stop-motion animation at pivotal moments, Olivia Peace’s inter-disciplinary talents are on full display. She uses artwork to convey the dramatic, often illusory feelings of late-stage adolescence. Along with nimble writing by Jess Zeidman and some astute observations, these moments lend credence to Olivia Peace as a promising filmmaker to watch, should she continue down that path.

Women Texas Film Festival’s Justina Walford sees a benefit in film festivals going virtual that is very real

By Justina Walford 6 years ago

What I love about these films is that there are women of all ages watching these who have always settled for a protagonist kind of like them. And that is the great challenge for most of us women as we grew up with male protagonists, white female protagonsts, cis-hetero protagonists forcing us to fit our color, our identity, our queerness into those mainstream places. Nothing makes me feel better than hearing someone say, “Finally, I see me on that screen.”

Azul Lombardia’s DOBERMAN rotates around a world of male absence

By Justina Walford 6 years ago

Along with the rising tension, the film seems in its core a feminist exploration where men are merely mentioned plot points, things to be missed, and the women move the story embracing their aloneness in vibrant, diverse ways. As Lombardia says in her interview here “Like planets in the solar system, these seeming divergent characters’ worlds rotate around the same type of male absence.”

Rama Rau’s HONEY BEE WTxFF REVIEW: gives a documentarian’s edge to its truck stop hooker tale

By Luke Y. Thompson 6 years ago

Director Rama Rau was a documentarian prior to this, and it remains her sole fiction feature to date. This likely gives her an edge in knowing what audiences will and won’t read as B.S. Yes, HONEY BEE understands narrative structure, and with careful editing and scoring, puts the viewer subjectively into Natalie’s head. But it’s not interested in creating artificial cinematic heroes.

Olivia Peace’s TAHARA Opens Women Texas Film Festival announces slate of films for virtual fest August 13-16 with an emphasis on LGBTQIA+ and provocative docs

By John Wildman 6 years ago

Walford added, “We love being part of the international movement to showcase female filmmakers and we know we must continue our efforts with even more force so that we change the filmmaking industry in hiring an equitable gender ratio. Our goal has always been to show the range of the female storyteller, and the depths to which women can take us via their work in film- whether it be emotional, visual, introspective, startling, shocking, and horrific.

Mindy Bledsoe’s THE IN-BETWEEN led awards at Women Texas Film Festival 2019 announces Filmmaker Awards after big year for the fest

By John Wildman 7 years ago

Women Texas Film Festival Founder and Artistic Director Justina Walford said, “I am in love with this jury. Each juror added wisdom and gravitas, but most importantly used their love of filmmakers to be the focus of their decisions. As always, we want to not simply screen films envisioned and created by women, but to push forward the risk takers. And this group of films and the filmmakers that created them earned the right to be singled out via these awards.”

Emily Cohn’s CRSHD Opens Women Texas Film Festival; Lineup for 2019 including medical-themed pics, horror, award-winners and a feminist kissing booth!

By John Wildman 7 years ago

WTxFF Founder and Artistic Director Justina Walford said WTxFF Founder and Artistic Director Justina Walford said, “It is getting harder and harder to contain within four days all of the amazing films I find. Women Texas Film Festival has grown every year and we have nearly doubled in content. Three locations. 17 features. So many short films that we selected out of an ocean of compelling short film submissions. And since our goal is to show the range of the female storyteller, you will see every genre, every style. The notion of gender behind the camera takes a backseat to the grit, emotion, and vision projected on the screen. As it should.”