Female Eye Film Festival Celebrates 19 Years
Films from Canada and around the world will be screened on Encore+ and on Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox. by TV News Desk
The Female Eye Film Festival (FeFF) founded by Canadian filmmaker Leslie Ann Coles, celebrates its 19th year March 8-28, 2021. Films from Canada and around the world will be screened on Encore+ and on Digital TIFF Bell Lightbox.
The Female Eye Film Festival is an international competitive women s film festival providing an exclusive showcase for Canadian and international independent filmmakers. FeFF pays tribute to the best and most creative the film and television industry has to offer, bridging the gap between the written, visual, and media arts. MovieMaker magazine voted FeFF one of the World s Top Fifty Film Festivals for the ninth consecutive year in 2021.
Courtesy Walter Reuther Library/Wayne State University
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Those were some of the surprises to me in
9to5: The Story Of A Movement, a 90-minute documentary by Emmy- and Oscar-winning filmmakers Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar airing Monday Feb. 1 on PBS
Independent Lens (10 p.m., Channels 48, 54). I thought it was a really important story, says Reichert, a 1971 Antioch College graduate and Yellow Springs resident who has a long resume of documentaries about blue-collar workers (