For Film’s Sake (FFS & formerly WOW Film Festival) provides opportunity and advocacy for female filmmakers. Moving from exhibition to direct film distribution, FFS kicks off with festival favourite, Strange Colours. Directed by Russian born Australian, Alena Lodkina, Strange Colours tells the story of Milena (Kate Cheel) who travels to remote opal mining town, Lightning…
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2017 Big Pineapple Winner Announced
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Jan Cattoni has won the 2017 Big Pineapple film funding award. Jan’s concept, titled Yuki, was chosen from a pool of 305 script entries to the inaugural competition. Sophie Mathisen, President of WIFT (Women in Film & Television) and Director of FFS (For Film’s Sake) explained that Jan wins a $50,000 cash prize which will…
FFS – LoveTrue
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Director Alma Ha’rel Rated CTC Score 3/6 Using an atmospheric blend of follow-along footage, artful camerawork, and scenes depicting the past, present, and future of her subjects, Alma Har’el follows three complicated, real-life relationships as they unfold in distinct corners of the country. Alaskans Blake and Joel pursue a promising romance, in spite of physical…
FFS – Supergirl
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Director Jessie Auritt Rated CTC Score 4/6 Naomi seems like a typical 11-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl; watching her lift almost three times her body-weight tells a different story. I really don’t know that much about the sport of Power-lifting except to say the one time that I saw a competition at the 2000 Sydney Paralympics…
For Film Sake Festival- Burqa Boxers
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Director Alka Raghuram Rated CTC Score 6/6 In a culture that values beauty, delicacy, refinement and submission as the prized traits to the ultimate feminine career fulfillment, marriage, young Muslim women in Kiddirpur, Kolkata challenge stereotypes, learning boxing with Razia Shabnam, one of the first Indian women to become a boxing coach and an international…
The Big Pineapple Film Competition Launched
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According to Screen Australia about Australian filmmakers there are just 16% female directors, 23% female screenwriters, 34% female producers and shockingly 7% female cinematographers*. The inaugural Big Pineapple film competition will be an active step in changing statistics through the act of content creation. WIFT (Women in Film & Television) and FFS (For Film’s Sake)…