11th Annual International Women's Film Festival -- Call for Work!

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Jan 19th 2007, 12:54pm By Gabrielle Bouliane

crossings.jpg CROSSINGS, the Gender Institute's 11th Annual International Women's Film Festival will be held at the Market Arcade Film and Arts Center at 639 Main Street in downtown Buffalo.This year's festival showcases films that cross time, culture, memory and mortality to discover community and renewal. The festival features a visit from renowned Mexican director Guita Schyfter and will close with a night of innovative shorts from Buffalo women filmmakers.

January 25: The Faces of the Moon / Las Caras de la Luna with director Guita Schyfter in person! February 1: Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams February 8: My Cultural Divide February 15: Festival February 22: Compensation March 1: A Night of Shorts (SEE BELOW)

CALL FOR WORK: A Note from Ruth Goldman, curator of the March 1st Night of Shorts: I am curating a program of shorts for the UB Gender Institute's 11th Annual International Women's Film Festival at the Market Arcade Film and Arts Center this spring. I am looking for work by women that is new (ideally created for this program but at the least made in the past year and not previously screened in Buffalo). It should be 3-10 minutes long and can be any genre. The program will take place on March 1st and I will need your completed work in hand by February 24th. It must fit into this broad theme: A program of short films by WNY women filmmakers takes on the theme of "Crossings": women's lives and women live across and through time, place and culture, memory and mortality and community and creativity. If you would like to submit a completed work or a proposal, please contact me at rbgoldman@gmail.com ASAP.

Market Arcade Cinema, 639 Main Street, Buffalo, 14203, Box Office 716.855.3022, 7 PM, Tickets: $8.50 general, $6.50 students & HALLWALLS members, $6 seniors.

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