Festival Data:

• Established: 1997
• Genre: General
• Attendance: 33000
• Total Number of Films Screened: 73
• Total Screenings: 150
• # of Shorts Screened: 40
• # of Features Screened: 33

• Competitive
• Has Panels

Festival Website:

Festival Description:

The International Women's Film Festival in Seoul aims to focus on the variety of lives through women's perspectives and create a space in which sharing a positive feminist culture with the audience can be achieved. In addition, as a leading international women's film network in Asia, its goal is to raise the visibility of films/videos of and about women and support Asian new women directors on the basis of the alliance crossing boundaries of different regions, generations and disciplines.

The IWFFS presents any type of film and video including fiction films, documentaries, animations, experimental films, short films and visual productions for digital media. The programs are basically non-competitive with one exception "Asian Short Film & Video Competition." The program consists of the following sections:

New Currents Presents recently produced outstanding films by women filmmakers Queer Rainbow Focuses on films made by and about the LGBT Girls on Film Screens films made by or about teenagers Asian Short Film & Video Competition Discovers and supports emerging Asian women filmmakers

Open Cinema Introduces women’s films made by men filmmakers Heroines Sheds light on the activists, artists, and celebrities of our times BODY: Transformative & Performative feasts female body which transforms and performs through exercise and sports Fantastic Women's Cinema Explores the past, present, and future of women through fantastic film genres such as Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, etc.

Retrospectives and Special Screening themes change annually.

**THERE IS NO FEE TO SUBMIT TO THIS FESTIVAL**

Film Submissions:

• Accepts direct submissions
• Submission formats: Beta-SP, Digi-Beta, 16mm, 35mm, Other
• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.wffis.or.kr/ wffis2008/ eng/ movie_intro/ download/ iwffis2008_regularsubmission_entryform_eng.doc