Women X Film Festival Podcast

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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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 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!

Subscribe to the podcast for 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 Women X filmmakers, other festivals and more.

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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:

https://riannepictures.com/womenx

Find us on social media:

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

https://riannepictures.com/

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:

https://riannepictures.com/womenx

Find us on social media:

https://www.instagram.com/riannepictures/

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

https://riannepictures.com/

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're wondering how to get the most out of networking at film festivals, Women X's Caris Rianne & Ashton Clarke share their 3 top tips!

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.

Find out more about Women X here:

https://riannepictures.com/womenx

Find us on social media:

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

https://riannepictures.com/

This week on the Women X Festival Podcast we chatted to director-producer Tulsi Behl, whose short film Pigeon screened at our 2022 festival. Tulsi took us through her varied industry career, the making of Pigeon (all the way from development to the edit), and gave us insight into what it’s like juggling the roles of producer and director on set.

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:

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We're back with another episode from our five-part advice series. This time our festival director, Caris Rianne, is joined by Ashton Clarke, to share 4 ways to improve your festival campaign. Between them, they must've watched over 2,000 short films for our festival, so they really know what makes an effective campaign.

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.

Find out more about Women X here:

https://riannepictures.com/womenx

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

https://riannepictures.com/

Women X's Emily Garbutt interviews Shamim Sarif to discuss the making of her new film 'Polarized', which screened at this year's BFI Flare, the UK's largest queer film festival. She also shares what it was like to direct an episode of Netflix's 'You' and what's next for her as a filmmaker.

Thank you to Shamim for coming on the Women X Film Festival Podcast!

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.

Find out more about Women X here:

https://riannepictures.com/womenx

Find us on social media:

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

https://riannepictures.com/

Izzy Hill interviews our 2022 Rising Star Averi Israel, whose short film Sequin was a part of last year’s programme. Averi talked through her career so far, what it was like shooting in New York under a strict time limit, and how her acting experience aids her as a director.

Subscribe to the podcast for 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, listen to interviews with Women X filmmakers, other festivals and get tips for your short film.

Women X:

https://riannepictures.com/womenx

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We're beginning a mini-series to help you prepare your short film for the film festival world! Our festival director, Caris Rianne, shares 5 common mistakes we see people make with their short film scripts. Listen for tips on how to best prepare your script!

Subscribe to the podcast for 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 Women X filmmakers, other festivals and more.

Find out more about RP: Evolve - a mentoring and training experience that builds confidence, skills, and knowledge of working in the industry as an independent writer and director:

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More about Rianne Reads - our new Script Reading Service:

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