Hollywood is the ultimate boys club with women making up only 3% of all movie directors. SheFilms.org intends to change that by encouraging and exposing girls to filmmaking - the most powerful storytelling medium of our time. Shefilms.org is an ongoing online short film festival showcasing films directed exclusively by teenage girls.
SheFilms.org has just begun a call for entry for short films (5-15 min. in length). Teen girls between 13-19 can send in their short films and SheFilms will show the best 10 on their website for a month. Each month another 10 are selected, so if a girl doesn't have her short picked one month, she can always try again the following month. Each month, a winner will be selected out of the top 10. The winner will receive $1000, a multimedia computer with tons of moviemaking and editing software and $100 worth of beauty products. At the end of the year, the most recent 12 winners will compete for the grand prize of $3000 cash and the Dorothy Arzner SheFilms award. The award will be presented during the Sundance Film Festival in conjunction with the Gen-Y Studio at the Sundance Institute.
"We know that teenage girls can do more than apply make-up and idolize celebrities and we're also aware that the media doesn't always portray them in a flattering light," says Kettia Ming, the Executive Director of SheFilms.org. "SheFilms.org provides girls with a venue to tap into the depth of creativity and intelligence that they're more than capable of."
The goal of SheFilms.org is to create an opportunity, through which young girls are encouraged to explore their unique life story and individual point of view while exposing them to a new form of expression. Entry forms, guidelines and additional information can be obtained at www.shefilms.org.