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As you might have noticed, Femfilmfans is undergoing some construction right now while we try out a new look. Please bear with us as we continue updating the site to make it even more fabulous. We are open to feedback about the design and set up, so if you have any comments or suggestions, let us know on the Contact page! Your Femfilmfan Team 
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 You might have noticed this logo on the bottom right of our homepage, which then might have left you wondering: What is the Kinothek Asta Nielsen? Well, we’d like to tell you about them right now! The registered association Kinothek Asta Nielsen was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1999 by a group of women cinema-lovers: women film curators, film historians and theorists, film critics and students, and cinemagoers. The goal of these women is to find, document and make publicly accessible the film work of women both past - such as Danish silent cinema star Asta Nielsen (1881-1972) who gives the Kinothek its name - and present. They also want to showcase the full range of diversity cinema has to offer, which includes showing Super-8 amateur films, B-pictures and experimental films. For example, they recently presented two short film programs of films made by women in Frankfurt!
Happy #femalefilmmakerfriday to our Femfilmfam! Today we want to take the time to say thanks to everyone who has supported us so far IRL or online. Every little bit helps. Thanks to you, our fam is slowly growing and we couldn't be happier! Which is why we decided to buy the domain name femfilmfans.com and show off our new logos designed by Chicago-based graphic designer D. E. Schultz. Speaking of logos, we had a tough time deciding which ones to use since they were all so good. For those who weighed in at the polls, we appreciate your feedback. We decided, however, to use the triple f design (see below) and here's why... 1. Our name is Femfilmfans, written as one single word. The version on the left takes this into account. The version of the right has the three words stacked, which we felt did not truly represent our name. 2. Since we wanted to emphasize all three parts of the word Femfilmfans equally, we liked the name-only logo with the fs written in boldface, as shown above. The version on the left has three fs, again emphasizing the three parts of the word, rather than only one in the version on the right. 3. The italicized fs might look familiar to those of you who play or read music. The "fff" dynamic stands for "fortississimo," which means to play very very loudly. The root of this word, "forte," also means strong in Italian. We felt this symbolism best reflected our mission of empowering women in the visual media.
And please: Don't forget to update your browsers and bookmarks. You can now find our fabulous content at femfilmfans.com! The team at Femfilmfans thanks you for your support.  The Future of Film Showcase (FOFS) is a not-for-profit media arts organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The artistic objective of FOFS is to organize an annual film festival geared towards providing an opportunity for young Canadian filmmakers to network, cultivate and share their talent. The goal of FOFS is to help usher in the new generation of Canadian filmmakers through their festival.
FOFS was founded in early 2014 by filmmakers Eric Bizzarri and Shant Joshi. Today, the FOFS team is made up of young, Toronto-based filmmakers who seek to diversify the industry, as well as bring to light the work and extreme talent of emerging filmmakers. The festival - now in its fifth year - screens short films from Canadian filmmakers aged 30 or younger, or who attend a Canadian post-secondary institution. Over the past four years FOFS has grown into an exciting event for young and emerging filmmakers from Canada to come together, and enjoy outstanding shorts created and selected by their peers. Eric Bizzarri reached out to Femfilmfans editor Christina Schultz because he likes the work the team does (aw shucks, the feeling is definitely mutual) and an exciting collaboration was born. Over the coming months, Femfilmfans will feature profiles and interviews of several female filmmakers whose films have been shown at FOFS. Stay tuned for more information! We at Femfilmfans strongly encourage our readers to check out the film festival and what it has to offer. This year the festival takes places at the Scotiabank Bank Theatre Toronto on Monday, May 14 at 7:30pm. Tickets are available here. |
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