WILDsound Shines Spotlight On Female Filmmakers


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Recent WILDsound podcasts have featured Matthew Toffolo, owner and CEO of WILDsound Festival, interviewing some of the brightest rising stars in the world of female filmmakers. “It’s important to pay tribute to these talented people,” says Toffolo. “Female filmmakers are still greatly underrepresented in the industry.”

The Celluloid Ceiling Report found that women made up only 12% of directors working on the one hundred top-grossing films of 2021. This is down from 16% in 2020. By featuring female filmmakers in the festival and the associated podcast, Toffolo and WILDsound hopes to move toward progress in equal representation.

The podcast is an exhilarating gateway drug to the WILDsound Festival TV app, a streaming daily festival of the world’s finest creative content. The Canadian company broadcasts a unique film festival each day of the week and highlights the world’s best indie films, readings of original screenplays, novels, short stories, and poetry. 

Katarina Krstic of The Lark

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“The Lark” was the winner of Best Long Form Short Film at the May 2022 Female Feedback Film Festival. The film tells the story of nineteen-year-old Ivy and her struggles with repressed childhood trauma, coming of age, emotional challenges, and learning how to cope in the world of adulthood. 

Serbian filmmaker Krstic discusses in the WILDsound podcast why she chose the theme of the young woman moving to the city of Belgrade. She talks about how young people, such as Ivy in the film, can be manipulated by the wrong people and how this can lead to painful life choices, particularly when young people consider themselves to be in love – again, like the film’s main character.

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In the film, Krstic says, Ivy deals with the trauma of sexual violence and why she chose to utilize this theme in her film. “It’s very hard to face that kind of trauma,” she says. “That’s why I wanted to make a movie with this topic – because I want to encourage victims to know that they are not alone, and that they can talk to other people and have their feelings understood.”

Josefine Ezinga Van Asdonk of The World to My Daughter

“The World To My Daughter” was extremely well-received at the May 2022 Toronto Female Feedback Film Festival. It features the story of a father and daughter living together during the pandemic lockdown – the everyday moments, both frustrating and touching, bittersweet, even melancholic. Ironically, Asdonk has shared with Toffolo that she got the idea for the script before lockdown even began – she had a semi-apocalyptic vision of a grey city, citizens wearing masks; and then COVID-19 happened.

During the podcast, Asdonk talks about the mother in the story being absent due to her vital work as a doctor and describes it as a kind of love story (non-romantic, of course) between a father and daughter. “People were asking me if the mother was dead,” she laughs. “But she’s not. I just wanted to focus on the relationship between the father and daughter.”

While most viewers might assume that the story was based on COVID, Asdonk reminds listeners of the podcast that the story is about the characters, not the situation. Her vision was to show the father connecting with his daughter over time, and she utilized tight, concise storytelling to draw a narrative that stretches across decades, ending in 2040.

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WILDsound Connects Filmmakers to Audiences

Toffolo created the WILDsound Feedback Film Festival in 2007 with the dream of providing filmmakers and screenwriters with the opportunity to achieve a meaningful film festival experience focused on audience feedback. Toffolo says, “Even if your work makes it onto the screen, you might not get the response you’re looking for. Worse yet, you might not receive any. This was a way to not only give these creators a platform, but to give them a chance to get the feedback they want – or even need – on their work.”

Since its inception, the WILDsound festival has shown over 10,000 films (both feature-length and short films) and has provided readings of over 8,000 screenplays. It began as a monthly event in Toronto, Canada, and has expanded to Los Angeles and Chicago. The Toronto festival is now weekly and offers a wide variety of films from all genres.

The podcast is free to listen to; but hearing the intriguing interviews will certainly make listeners eager to try the app. There is a free 7-day trial period for WILDsound TV and afterward the service is only $3.99 per month. Users can watch the daily film festivals and access an ever-expanding library of content.

Learn more about WILDsound

Website: http://www.wildsound.ca

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Phone: 416-568-9046

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