Store this angel in big sizeMIAMI, FL — The Women’s International Film and Arts Festival will be adulatory its 5th celebration from March 26th – April 2nd 2010 in Miami, Florida. The Women’s International Film & Arts Festival (WIFF) is a unique, cultural accident featuring films, beheld and achievement arts and added aesthetic expressions by women. It is one of alone two blur festivals in the Southeastern United States accurately committed to women, acquainted their accuracy and accomplishments. Film entries for this anniversary accept been continued to December 7th 2009. The Host auberge for the anniversary is the Opera Suites and Marina auberge on 1750 North Bayshore Drive, Miami, FL 33132. The anniversary will be captivated at assorted locations throughout South Florida.
Founded by Yvonne McCormack- Lyons in 2004, the Women’s International Film and Arts Festival is captivated annually during Women’s History month. The accident is advised to bless women and to advice them apprehend their dreams, visions and voices. Throughout the accomplished four years, WIFF has accustomed added than 2,000 films from added than 60 countries such as Brazil, Chile, France, Taiwan, Germany, Mexico, Ghana, Egypt, Australia, Peru, New Zealand, Poland, Japan, Dubai, and of advance films from the U.S., including our actual own South Florida. Some films accept accustomed Emmy & Oscar nominations & Awards.
“We’re absolutely analytic advanced to our 5th celebration accident as we bless this appropriate anniversary year and abide to accommodate opportunities for women’s issues and visions to be heard on an all-embracing level,” said McCormack-Lyons.
The Festival has garnered abiding abutment of abounding of the a lot of arresting women in the industry and South Florida Notable mentions cover Founding Honorary Chair Ms. Ruby Dee, Emmy, Grammy & Golden Globe Award Winning Actress and 2010 Honorary Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, US Congresswoman.
Some of the anniversary attendees accept included 2007 Oscar appointee (“Babel”) Adriana Barraza, 2008 Golden Globe Winner (“American Gangster”) Ruby Dee, “The Breakfast Club’s” Alley Sheedy, all-embracing assuming artisan Lucrecia, Nighttime TV host Chelsea Handler and abounding more. Films submitted cover all genres and lengths (documentaries, abbreviate films, biographies, activated films, anecdotal features, etc.) are primarily directed, produced or edited by women. Some submissions are aswell fabricated by men, but abode a women’s issue, angle or certificate a woman in history.
ABOUT THE WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
The overarching mission of WIFF is to accommodate year-round programming which accompany women artists from all over the apple to South Florida to analyze and appoint in chat about issues apropos women. With women apery alone 7% of blur directors, every accomplishment should be fabricated to enhance the befalling for women’s choir to be heard, and to present a
wider ambit of roles and character choices for women. Through console discussions, workshops, and symposia, WIFF’s goals cover allotment women of all ages to see themselves in a broader context. To advance in the future, WIFF has created the WIFF “Reel Girls, Real Women” program. This affairs empowers girls-at-risk and with low self-esteem by
teaching them media literacy. The girls accretion aplomb as they aftermath abbreviate documentary films of their own.
FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT
Yvonne McCormack-Lyons has spent the accomplished 20 years in the fields of communications and women based arts and ability programs. She is absolutely international. Mrs. McCormack-Lyons is a Canadian citizen, a additional bearing Jamaican, who was complete in England and aloft in Canada. A alum of York University Mrs. McCormack-Lyons has been spearheading the accolade acceptable Women’s International Film & Arts Festival for the accomplished four years. She oversees the anniversary alternative of added than 500 films, develops arts and blur programs allotment women, the media literacy/film apprenticeship affairs for adolescent girls and oversees the all-embracing anniversary which occurs annually in March.
With a amount in advertisement journalism and production, she spent a amount of years advertisement and anchoring a account television affairs in Washington, D.C., which accent contest about the accessible academy system. She was recruited to backpack to Miami to aftermath and balance and account television affairs which served both the bounded admirers in Miami as able-bodied as in the Caribbean through the West Indian International Network in Miami and the Caribbean Broadcasting Union in Guyana, WI.
She went on to serve as Public Information and Marketing Directors for the State of Florida and Miami-Dade County, area she advance teams of advice specialists and marketers to advance arts programs such as music and ball concerts, all-embracing antic accessories and contest such as the Junior Olympics and the Nasdaq 100 tennis tournament, as able-bodied as bounded association contest such as art & music festivals. Her plan included: advertising, blur production, television production, accumulated sponsorships, accessory assembly and abundant more.
She currently sits on the Miami-Dade County Film & Entertainment Advisory Committee, The Broward County Cultural Executives Committee and has accustomed a amount of civic awards for her plan in communications and arts. She has been arrive internationally to allege on areas apropos women in the arts, women and the media and films about women, advertising, blur production, contest planning, agenda designs and advertisement communication.
The Women’s International Film and Arts Festival was accustomed with the “Best Miami Film Festival” in 2007 by the Miami New Times. With women apery alone 7% of blur directors, the Women’s International Film and Arts Festival is authoritative every accomplishment to access this amount and advice enhance the befalling for women’s choir to be heard, and to present a
wider ambit of roles and character choices for women in this billion dollar industry.
To apprentice added about the Women’s International Film and Arts Festival, amuse log on to www.womensfilmfest.com
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