Davis Feminist Film Festival

For inquiries about the 2022 festival, please email femfilmfestdavis@gmail.com. The 2022 Davis Feminist Film Festival (DFFF) will begin accepting admissions on October 3 2021. Admissions will close on November 6, 2021. The 2022 format for the festival has yet to be decided. The Davis Feminist Film Festival is an annual grassroots event that uses alternative media as a springboard for linking art to social issues. The festival aims to showcase independent film including documentary, narrative, and experimental genres in order to explore perspectives often missing from mainstream media and culture. Now in its 16th year and increasingly international in scope, the festival provides an inclusive public space for artists at the margins - particularly those with marginalized racial and/or gender identities - to raise consciousness about gender, race, class, sexuality, and many other dimensions of social inequality. The festival takes place in Davis, CA in May of each year. It is a fun, inspiring, community-building event for artists and audiences alike! The Davis Feminist Film Festival started in 2005 as a fundraiser for international internships with grassroots feminist non-profit organizations run through the Gender and Global Issues Program (GGI) housed in Women and Gender Studies at UC Davis. In 2007, when the funding for GGI ended, the Consortium for Women and Research partnered with other campus units in order to sustain and grow the festival until 2014. Since 2015, Davis Feminist Film Festival has been run through the Women's Resources and Research Center. The Davis Feminist Film Festival welcomes films from professionals, students, and community members locally, nationally, and internationally. People underrepresented in the media field are especially encouraged to submit a film for consideration. The Davis Feminist Film Festival is a short film festival. Films must be 25 minutes or less in length.