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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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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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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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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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

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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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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.

Caris Rianne and Mel Fielding kick off our new series about film festival scammers! Following some investigating into dodgy film festivals, Mel tells Caris all about them and the red flags filmmakers can look for when selecting festivals to submit their films to. Stay tuned for part 2 coming soon!

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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We’re back with another Women X Podcast episode! This week we were elated to sit down with Alia Ghafar, who took home the award for Best Director at the 2022 festival for her heartwarming short SCUZZ. Alia talks everything writing and directing, the importance of finding great collaborators, and being mistaken for Lynne Ramsay at an awards ceremony!

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In the final instalment in our five-part tips series, our festival director, Caris Rianne, shares a marketing mistake we made in the past. As she says, it's good to look at not only the great things we've done and the challenges we've faced, but it's important to acknowledge our mistakes too and how we learn from them!

We're so excited to bring you the 2023 edition of Women X from 8-10 September 2023 in Darlington. Find out more about Women X here:

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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 Festival Director, Caris Rianne, shares 2 ways we're improving our festival this year and what we've learned over the past few years. Our motto is better not bigger! This episode is part of our top tips series, stay tuned for our final instalment in the 5-part series next week!

We're so excited to bring you the 2023 edition of Women X from 8-10 September 2023 in Darlington. Find out more about Women X here:

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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.