WHAT IS WOW?
The World of Women (WOW) Film Festival is a short film festival that promotes and awards the talents of women directors, producers, writers, editors and cinematographers in the Australian film industry and in Oceania. It is a unique festival that offers emerging and established filmmakers the opportunity to screen short works giving a thematic perspective of “seeing the world through the eyes of women”.

UPCOMING EVENTS :

CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2008

March 6 & 7 2008: Two film events presented by Women in Film & Television NSW

AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM SHOWCASE
Featuring 8 exciting short films by Australian women at the Parliament House in Sydney.

Hosted by: Hon. Verity Firth MP, NSW Minister for Women

When: Thursday 6th March 2008, 1.15pm for screening 1.30pm

Venue: Theatrette, Parliament House, Macquarie St, Sydney

Tickets: $10/ $ 7 Concession / $5 WIFT members (ticket includes afternoon tea)

Bookings: contact wowfilmfestival@nsw.wift.org or phone 0402 246 601

(see flyer and program for details)*

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM SHOWCASE
Featuring 9 International shorts selected by Women in Film & Television International (www.wifti.org)

When: Friday 7th March 2008, 6pm for screening 6.45pm

Where: Roxy Theatre at Film Australia, 101 Eton Road, Lindfield

Tickets: $15 / $10 Concession / $5 WIFT members (includes complimentary glass of champagne)

Bookings: contact wowfilmfestival@nsw.wift.org or phone 0402 246 601

(see flyer and program for details)**

*Download Australian Showcase flyer here
Download Australian Showcase program here

**Download International Showcase flyer here
Download International Showcase program here

AUSTRALIAN SHORT FILM SHOWCASE

The Hon. Verity Firth MP, NSW Minister for Women will be hosting the Australian Short Film Showcase screening at NSW Parliament House on Thursday 6th March at 1.15pm. Eight stimulating short films, both fiction and documentary, showcase the variety of Australian shorts made by women. Documentaries such as Nigger Lovers deal with bigotry and prejudice, while The Eye of a Lie explores the situation in Palestine . The mix of fiction themes covers self-discovery and family relationships in Custard, adolescent turmoil in Kindle, and the poignant conflict experienced by a child in a dysfunctional family in Sexy Thing. A thriller, Humidity Rising is contrasted with the comedies, Sex with the Ex and Hush. Two of the films are directed by upcoming Indigenous filmmakers. A provoking program to entice you to think and to laugh.

Selected programs from the WOW Film Festival tour will travel to venues throughout Australia such as the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, the Film and Television Institute in Fremantle, the Deckchair Cinema in Darwin, Sun Cinema in Broome, to Wide Angle Tasmania, locations in Queensland such as Cairns and Innisfail and many regional centres in NSW such as Dubbo, Bourke, Coonamble, Deniliquin, Yamba, Byron Bay, Nambucca, Kempsey and Lake Macquarie.

Australian women’s films will be promoted internationally when the WOW Film Festival programs screen in March at the prestigious Italian festival Sguardi Altrove in Milan .

The WOW Film Festival & WOW National Tour are proudly sponsored by NSW Film & Television Office, Panavision, Spectrum Films, Atlab, AFTRS (Australian Film, Television & Radio School), Metro Screen, City of Sydney, Art Resistance, Film Australia, the Chauvel Cinema, iDRINX, TressCox, the Photo Studio, Corben & Blair, Watershed Premium Wines, Ellenet and Maxinet.

WIFT NSW acknowledges the support of the Australian Film Commission for the WOW National Tour.

WIFTI INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM SHOWCASE

Presented by WIFT NSW is Australia ’s exclusive screening of the International Short Film Showcase featuring nine outstanding short films which will screen in twenty WIFT Chapters around the globe from March 5th – 9th, 2008!

Together, the nine short films finalists in the Showcase have garnered over fifty international awards including Official Selection: Shorts Competition Festival de Cannes, France 2006 and Winner: Creative Excellence Award at the Melbourne International Film Festival for Denie Pentecost’s SEXY THING; Winner: Best Live Action Short under 15 mins: Palm Springs International Short Film Festival 2007 for Sophie Barthes’ HAPPINESS; Official Selection : Palm Springs International Shorts Festival 2007 for star on the rise Bryce Dallas Howard’s (Spiderman 3, As You Like It) ORCHIDS; Winner: Best Short Documentary and Best Emerging Director: 2006 New Zealand International Documentary Film Festival for Kirsty MacDonald’s BLACK AND WHITE; Winner: Special Jury Prize at the Funchal Film Festival, Portugal for Susan Jacobson’s ONE HUNDREDTH OF A SECOND; Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Brooklyn Film Festival USA 2007 for Valeria Ruiz’s A MOMENT and Winner: Gold Remi Award at the WorldFest Houston USA, 2007 for Genevieve Poulette’s MEET-MARKET.CA.

The International Short Film Showcase is proudly supported by WIFTI and Content & Technology Magazine. WIFT NSW is supported by City of Sydney.

For Bookings contact: wowfilmfestival@nsw.wift.org or phone 0402 246 601

Further information: www.nsw.wift.org/wow

Women in Film and Television NSW is committed to improving the status of women, both on and off the screen, by supporting and advancing women working in the film, television and related screen industries. We are a membership based non-profit organisation.

WIFT NSW is part of a global organisation, Women in Film and Television International (WIFTI), which provides a foundation for global co-operation as well as a public voice representing and unifying our members worldwide.

WOW NATIONAL TOUR 2007 /2008
The WOW Film Festival 2007 programs will tour to major and smaller venues in capital cities and regional centres throughout Australia from November 2007 to May 2008.

The WOW National Tour will offer four curated screen programs including the finalists of the WOW Short Film Competition to our Tour partners. Each venue will select its own programs.

The national tour will go to over 18 destinations Australia-wide. WOW Tour destinations will be advertised as they are confirmed.

For further information contact Sil-Nyin Cameron, Festival Director/Co-ordinator on 0402 246 601 or by email: wowfilmfestival@nsw.wift.org