February 2022 New York Feedback Festival – Highlights and Videos

Showcase of the best FILMS in the world today.

Audience Award Winners:
BEST FILM: Alongside the Water
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Running Home – The Run4Water Story
BEST STORY: We Are Story
BEST DIRECTION: Uta – The Climb of Kosovo
BEST SOUND & MUSIC: Within Arm’s Reach

Watch the Audience Feedback Video for each film:

WE ARE MORYAK, 15min., Germany, Documentary
Directed by Tom Vetteri
In our modern societies there is a certain expectation towards what we do with our lifes.
What we have to achieve.
These linear life models are not made for everyone.
Some of us need more freedom. More adventure. More vitamin sea.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

CLICK HERE and see full info and more pics of the film!


UTA – THE CLIMB FOR KOSOVO, 20min., Latvia, Documentary

Directed by Jake Tupman, Jack Somerville
In 2017, 34 year-old Uta Ibrahimi became the first person from Kosovo to attempt to climb Mount Everest. Her goal was to inspire a new post-war generation in Kosovo to move on from the war and help create a better future for their country.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

CLICK HERE and see full info and more pics of the film!


ALONGSIDE THE WATER – GENEVE AND IT’S NATURE, 16min., Switzerland, Documentary
Directed by Hassan Lakhdar
Geneva is a densely populated international canton with a humanitarian vocation. But it is also a canton that harbors natural treasures, much less known, including the wetland of international importance “The Geneva Rhone, Allandon and Laire Valleys”, protected by the international RAMSAR convention.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

CLICK HERE and see full info and more pics of the film!


WITHIN ARM’S REACH, 15min,. France, Documentary
Directed by Charlotte Cayré Tisseyre
Within Arm’s Reach explores the journey of a team of marine biologists on a quest to save Mar Piccolo seahorses.
Exposed to heavy water pollution, bycatch, and illegal traffic threats, what was once one of Europe’s biggest population of seahorses, is now at a crucial crossroad: face extinction or find a way to fight for its life.
The exceptional team the film follows deep dive in one of Mediterranean’s most untold stories, trying to shed light on the causes of their decline, and enact original solutions.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

CLICK HERE and see full info and more pics of the film!


RUNNING HOME – THE RUN4WATER STORY, 25min., USA, Documentary
Directed by Katie Spotz
Over the course of 11 days, clean water activist and adventurer Katie Spotz, best known for breaking a world record as the youngest person to complete a solo row across the Atlantic Ocean, ran 341 miles across the state of Ohio breaking yet another incredible world record – the most ultramarathons run consecutively by a female. Fueling her journey was the goal of funding 11 water projects in Uganda with every step getting us closer to a world where everyone, everywhere has access to safe water.

WATCH HERE – The audience feedback video of the film!

CLICK HERE and see full info and more pics of the film!


By femalefilmfestival

The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes. Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival. This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way. When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival. A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

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