ECOFeminism Short Film Festival

The Documentary Short category is for nonfiction films anywhere from 2-20 minutes aimed to educate, inform and inspire the viewers in the theme of ECOFeminism in any of the suggested modes of documentary: poetic, expository, observational, participatory, reflexive, and performative.

The Animated Short category is for films shorter than 20 minutes that feature primarily animated content or stop-motion animation, and usually falls into one of the two general fields of animation: narrative or abstract. Some of the techniques of animating films include but are not limited to hand-drawn animation, computer animation, stop-motion, clay animation, pixilation, cutout animation, pinscreen, camera multiple pass imagery, kaleidoscopic effects created frame-by-frame, and drawing on the film frame itself.

The Experimental Short category is for films shorter than 30 minutes. Films submitted in this category often reject traditional narrative structure and filmmaking tools, and seek to convey a meaning or story through a unconventional and often abstract application of the film medium. Experimental films (with few exceptions) do not have the linear, conventional story structure that you would find in narrative or documentary shorts. If your film does not heavily employ abstract or non-narrative tools, it may not belong in this category. For examples of experimental work, see the filmography of Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage, or Hollis Frampton.

Narrative film, fictional film or fiction film tells a fictional or fictionalized story, event or narrative. In this style of film, believable narratives and characters help convince the audience that the unfolding fiction is real.

d'Eaubonne Archival Film category is a special category to honoured the work and memory of Françoise d'Eaubonne, who coined the concept of ECOFeminism in 1974, in her book 'Le Feminism ou la Mort'. A libertarian writer, feminist theorist, and militant, she published more than 50 novels and essays. We welcome archival short films produced during the first ECOFeminism movement of the late 1970s. Time to dig into your Archives!