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Join us for the IFFBoston screening of Love and Other Anxieties

Named a critic’s pick of Independent Film Festival Boston by The Boston Globe’s Ty Burr, Lyda Kuth’s debut film, a personal documentary about love, marriage, and long-term commitment premieres on April 29 at 3:15 pm at Somerville Theater. LOVE AND OTHER ANXIETIES was produced in collaboration with Lucia Small (MY FATHER, THE GENIUS), Amy Geller [...]

New Day Films 40th Anniversary at Full Frame Film Festival

Full Frame Film Festival will honor the 40th anniversary of New Day Films, a groundbreaking distribution company democratically operated by over 100 filmmakers.  The festival will exhibit New Day Film’s very first titles, directed by the founding members, which were recently archived at the Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University.  The four [...]

Join us for a Boston-area Screening of Losing Control

Come to the Kendall Square Cinema to see the feature film LOSING CONTROL on Saturday, April 7, 2011 at 7pm.  (Watch the trailer here.) We’re proud to co-present the film along with The Independent, a print and online source of information for indie, grassroots and activist media-makers. LOSING CONTROL is a quirky romantic comedy about a female [...]

WAM! Film Festival 2012

WAM!Boston Film Festival 2012 Saturday, March 24 Brattle Theatre 40 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA WAM!Boston presents a unique lineup of films made by and about women from up-and-coming filmmakers, many from the Boston area. Q&A with the filmmakers or film subjects will follow each screening.  Get your tickets in advance here. Tickets may also available [...]

International Women’s Day is March 8th

Celebrate International Women’s day with WIFV/NE, at these events! Monday, March 5th 5:30 – 8:30pm MCLE Auditorium 10 Winter Place, Boston The Women’s Forum at the United Nations Association of Greater Boston, will be screening War Redefined, the final film in the Women, War and Peace series, and featuring a panel discussion after the film [...]

10th Annual Screenwriting Competition

Women in Film & Video/New England (WIFV/NE) is now accepting entries for our  Tenth Annual Screenwriting Competition, sponsored by Su-City Pictures, Inktip, Final Draft, and Lesley University. The WIFV/NE Screenwriting Competition aims to promote the work of women screenwriters and support the creation of worthy film roles for women. Entries must be authored or co-authored [...]

Feb. 6th DocYard screening of “Our School”

  WIFVNE is proud to co-sponsor this DocYard screening of Our School, a film by producer and director Mona Nicoara. Shot over four years in rural Transylvania, Our School follows three Roma children who are among the pioneer participants in an initiative to integrate the ethnically segregated Romanian schools. This award‐winning work will screen February 6 at 8pm [...]

“Writing Is Rewriting”: Our Script Contest Winner Talks Shop

Every year we hold a screenplay competition to help promote women screenwriters and strong, positive roles for women.  All entries must be authored or co-authored by a woman and/or feature a woman or women in prominent roles. This year’s batch of entries was impressive and our judges ultimately awarded the Grand Prize to Phil Ferriere [...]

“Silent Killer” Wins 2011 WiFVNE Screenplay Contest

Every year Women in Film & Video of New England holds a screenplay competition with the goal of promoting women screenwriters and strong, positive roles for women.  (Entries must be authored or co-authored by a woman and/or feature a woman or women in prominent roles.) We had lots of great entries for our 9th annual [...]

Questions Answered – Valerie Weiss

By Shannon Mullen Women in Film & Video of New England presents a new series of Q & A interviews with professional female filmmakers who live and work in New England or have strong ties to the region. In this edition WiFV features director Valerie Weiss, who started her film career while earning her PhD [...]