'Portrait of a Woman on Fire'
Contemporary cinema made by women is celebrating with the arrival of the second edition of the Women of Film Online Festival. Will be between March 19 and 28 when can they see each other 10 movies directed or co-directed by women at the modest price of €6.95.
Thus, the poster is made up of the winning film at the Goya 2021, the girls (Pilar Palomero); To half voice (Heidi Hassan and Patricia Pérez Fernández); Adam (Maryam Touzani); God is a woman and her name is Petrunya (Teona Strugar Mitevska); innocence (Lucia Alemany); The mommy (Laura Herrero Garvin); It snows in Benidorm (Isabel Coixet); Portrait of a woman on fire (Celine Sciamma); Almost Ghosts (Ana Ramon Rubio) and Little Joe (Jessica Hausner).
'The Innocence'
The films on the poster for this second edition come from Cuba, Morocco, Belgium, Macedonia, Mexico, Austria, France and also Spain; and their stories, told through fiction, documentary or suspense, offer us the genuine vision of their directors on love, friendship, motherhood, the yoke of patriarchy and machismo, religious education, the passage from childhood to adolescence, empowerment, emigration or sorority.
The tapes of this festival, which can be seen through women of cinema VOD, first video on demand platform dedicated entirely to films made by women, add awards obtained in competitions of the stature of the Goya, the Feroz, the César, LUX, Forqué, CEC Film Writers Circle, London Critics Circle Film Awards, the Lumière Awards, or the National Society of Film Critics Awards.
The Best Film award of the second edition of the Women of Film Online Festival will be appointed by an official jury made up of Belen Funes , film director, screenwriter and winner of the first edition of the festival with her film La hija de un ladrón; juliet martialay , director of Fotogramas Magazine, and Lara Lopez Conde, Director of Purchase of Spanish Film Rights at Movistar+.
There will also be award for Best Director of Photography, with which you want to stand out the work that women do in cinematography, a field that is especially masculinized. The jury will be composed of Gina Ferrera, cinematographer; Jose Alayon, filmmaker, producer, founder of El Viaje Films, and director of photography; Y Nuria Prims, actress. In this edition the nominees are Celia Rivera, for her work in Almost Ghosts; Daniela Cajias, for her work in The girls; Y Laura Herrero Garvin , for her work in The mommy.
Sarita Choudhury and Timothy Spall, in 'It snows in Benidorm'
And you, as a spectator or spectator, will also have a voice when decide with your vote which film wins the Audience Award of a contest that you want vindicate and make visible the work of women filmmakers through works that provide a broader, more inclusive and complete vision of the spectrum of contemporary cinema.