Glasgow Feminist Film Festival
Femspectives is looking for a Festival Assistant who will support the delivery of the Online Festival Weekender 2021 and work closely with the two festival co-producers. The role comprises tasks including support on marketing, admin and technical aspects of the delivery of online events and is limited to 40 hours spread out over one month. All tasks will be carried out remotely.
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Save the Date for a special online edition of Femspectives – Glasgow Feminist Film Festival!
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We are so grateful for every single person who has contributed to Femspectives in the past, attended our events or engaged with us in other ways.
We started Femspectives in 2018 to create a platform for feminist storytelling in Glasgow and champion the creators of this work. We wanted to use film as a means of community building and provide opportunities for non-hierarchical conversations and learning experiences. Recent events have shown that we needed to take a step back and return to our starting point. We apologise for letting you down.
This is a public statement in response to Samar Ziadat’s Twitter thread from 6 June 2020.
Read MoreFemspectives supports and stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and pledges to work against and challenge the systemic oppression and egregious violence that has been perpetrated on black lives.
As a white-led organisation that benefits from white privilege, we are examining our own complicity within the system. We are listening, learning and unlearning and have a long way to go. There are a lot of resources out there and we need to educate ourselves, without relying on our black friends, colleagues and families to shoulder that burden.
These are unprecedented times and with the government’s lockdown announcement from last night (Monday, 23 March 2020), we will all spend a lot more time in our homes than we are used to – and that can get boring and isolating!
The Femspectives team got together and brainstormed ideas for how we could provide something to do that battles both of these things. And we are very happy to present –
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“Every period of time presents a range of things that must be resisted.” – Marko Stojiljković about MOMENTS OF RESISTANCE
Even though it only refers to one specific film in our programme, this quote could easily refer to all five events in our strand COLLECTIVE MEMORY: TRAUMA AND NATION.
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Celebrating local filmmaking talent, MADE IN SCOTLAND will close Femspectives 2020 with a bang! Read on to meet the incredibly talented filmmakers on the bill.
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The right to personal autonomy and self-determination is a central concern for activists and allies across feminist, queer and trans movements around the world.
And while some gains have been made in the past, these issues still persist:
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We are delighted to announce two visiting filmmakers at this year’s festival!
Beryl Magoko, director of IN SEARCH… (Germany/Kenya 2018) and Jo Schmeiser, director of MOMENTS OF RESISTANCE (Austria 2019) will attend Femspectives 2020. We will host discussions with both filmmakers after their respective films.
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