Women X Film Festival Podcast

Welcome back to our series of interviews recorded LIVE at the 2023 edition of Women X Film Festival! Charlotte from the Women X team chats with Samantha Castro, director of ‘Love That’. They talk about how Samantha went from attending Women X last year to becoming one of this year’s filmmakers, why she founded Newcastle Film Club, and what’s on her bucket list as a filmmaker.

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Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.

Welcome to the first in a series of interviews recorded LIVE at this year’s Women X Film Festival! Charlotte from the Women X team sits down with Joanne Michael, producer of ‘Blind Spot’, to talk about her film and all things crowdfunding. She tells us why she wanted to be a filmmaker, the inspiration for ‘Blind Spot’, and how a successful crowdfunding campaign made it happen.

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Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.

Women X's Emily Garbutt chats with filmmaker Sascha Lo about her film 'Model of Life'. They discuss Sascha's career journey from standup comedy to comedic filmmaking, how she made a film using only an incredible £30 budget while at university, and how filmmaking can be very accessible to anyone who has an idea and the drive to give it a go.

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The Women X Film Festival Podcast is produced by Rianne Pictures:

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Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.

Women X's Neha Vyas interviews filmmaker Sinéad O'Loughlin about her film 'Lamb'. They chat about Sinéad's inspirations for her short film, the funding process in Ireland & how she overcame challenges while shooting. Sinéad also talks about the film's journey on the film festival circuit ('Lamb' is now on the longlist for the Oscars!) and why networking at festivals is so valuable.

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The Women X Film Festival Podcast is produced by Rianne Pictures:

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Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.

Women X's Ashton Clarke interviews Yangming Liu about the female gaze in film, the process of writing, directing and editing 'Body Rhapsody' & how she developed her filmmaking style.

You can watch Yangming's short film 'Body Rhapsody' at Women X Film Festival 2023, which will run from 9-10 September at the Darlington Hippodrome. You can also join us online. Get your tickets here: https://www.riannepictures.com/womenx

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The Women X Film Festival Podcast is produced by Rianne Pictures:

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Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.

Women X's Amy Ware is joined by filmmakers Jadey Duffield and Gabriela Staniszewska to talk all things funding and festival strategy. They discuss some of the ways they funded their film 'Yummy Mummy', their strategy for distributing to festivals, and how they work so well together despite having very different backgrounds in film.

You can watch Jadey and Gabriela's short film 'Yummy Mummy' at Women X Film Festival 2023, which will run from 9-10 September at the Darlington Hippodrome. You can also join us online. Get your tickets here: https://www.riannepictures.com/womenx

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The Women X Film Festival Podcast is produced by Rianne Pictures:

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Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.

If you've never submitted a film to a festival using FilmFreeway, you might have a lot of questions about the process. In this episode, Women X's Caris Rianne and Ashton Clarke discuss everything you need to know about what to include in your FilmFreeway application, and what festival programmers will be looking for.

Tickets are now on sale for the Women X Film Festival 2023, which will run from 9-10 September at the Darlington Hippodrome. You can also join us online. Get your tickets here: https://www.riannepictures.com/womenx

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The Women X Film Festival Podcast is produced by Rianne Pictures:

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Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.

Women X's Lilia Pavin-Franks chats with Anna Járai about her film 'Virágom, Virágom', inspired by folk communities, heritage, and Anna's Hungarian culture. She talks about the experimental nature of the film including the use of archival material and folk-inspired soundscapes, the process of crowdfunding and distributing a small-budget student film, and the shooting on Kodak Super 8.

You can watch Anna's short film 'Virágom, Virágom' at Women X Film Festival 2023, which will run from 9-10 September at the Darlington Hippodrome. You can also join us online. Get your tickets here: https://www.riannepictures.com/womenx

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The Women X Film Festival Podcast is produced by Rianne Pictures:

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Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.

We're delighted to welcome Lucy Chappell back to this year's Women X, after she won Best Director in 2021. Emily Garbutt spoke with Lucy about how being an actor made filmmaking seem more possible, her experience creating an experimental film this time round (and filming a club scene in a Tesco car park), and why you shouldn't let fear hold you back from filmmaking.

You can watch Lucy's short film 'The Witching' at Women X Film Festival 2023, which will run from 9-10 September at the Darlington Hippodrome. You can also join us online. Get your tickets here: https://www.riannepictures.com/womenx

Find us on social media:

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The Women X Film Festival Podcast is produced by Rianne Pictures:

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Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.

Mel and Caris return for the second instalment in our series on scam film festivals!

Fake venues, gapekept meals, tax evasion and expensive flights - we cover it ALL!

CW: Mention of transphobia

We're so excited to bring you (our very real festival) Women X from 8-10 September 2023 in Darlington. Find out more about Women X here:

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The Women X Film Festival Podcast is produced by Rianne Pictures:

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Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.