The Rights And Roles Of Women: Redefining Our Shared Reality Is The Theme Of The 8th Annual Women’s Voices Now Film Festival

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Sony Pictures, Filmocracy, the Lantos Foundation and OUT.LI.ER, introduce the 8th Annual Women’s Voices Now Film Festival. The festival will take place on March 24, 2022 and the keynote Speaker is Jaina Lee Ortiz.

Like the previous year, the festival will again take place virtually. The festival promotes emerging women and femme-identifying filmmakers creating social-change films that advocate for women’s and girls’ rights around the world.

The Women’s Voices Now Film Festival provides a total of $10,000 USD in cash prizes to our winning filmmakers. In light of a world rocked by a global pandemic, the immediate backlash felt by women and girls around the world reminds us of the importance of the Women’s Voices Now Film Festival,” said executive director Heidi Basch-Harod. “We must spread awareness, spark dialogue, and inspire action to prevent the rollback of hard-earned women’s rights in these challenging times.

The medium of film and its ability to generate empathy is the most powerful tool we have to keep women’s rights issues front and center.”  Women’s Voices Now Films are submitted for the festival from around the world and 2022 saw submissions from nearly 40 countries, including Sweden, Turkey, Argentina, and Iran, among others.