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The 10th Edition
Imagine This Women's Film Festival

From September 25- 28, 2025Experience the perfect blend of cinematic excellence through digital screenings, engaging panels, and networking events. Join us at the 10th Edition Imagine This Women's Film Festival, where the extraordinary unfolds, and the spirit of women in film takes center stage. Let the Imagine This experience begin – an ode to bold narratives and the limitless power of women in filmmaking.

ITWIFF is an NYC-based women's film festival that aims to amplify and empower independent and aspiring women and non-binary filmmakers from around the world. Imagine This goal is to support women by sharing their work with the public, promoting equal opportunities for BIPOC women and the LGBTQIA+ community while providing educational and professional development, and serving as a resource information network.  

“The films here–which include shorts and features, documentaries and fiction films–are as diverse as the women who made them. Subjects range from the experience of transgender teenagers to a young woman’s quarter-life crisis to the effects of PTSD on veterans’ families. ” - CBS New York

OUR IMPACT:

 

Celebrating 10 years, Imagine This Women’s Film Festival and Girl Power Film + Media Summit has screened over 910 films curated from 6,600 submissions from women and non-binary filmmakers; hosted 75 Screenplay table reads selected from more than 700 submissions; hosted more than 125 panels, masterclasses, and special events; and given away over $25,000 in kind-donations and cash prizes.

Screened Over 910 + Films

Hosted 75 Screenplay Table Reads

Hosted More Than 125 + Panels, Masterclasses, & Special Events

Over 200 + Submission Waivers to BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ Filmmakers

 WE EMBRACE DIVERSITY AND RISK-TAKERS: 

  100% of our writers are women or non-binary

98% of our directors are women

52% of our directors are women of color

25% of our directors are LGBTQIA+

Imagine This Women's Film Festival :A Conversation With Sara Bennett

Imagine This Women's Film Festival :A Conversation With Sara Bennett

Sara Bennett is a visual effects supervisor and one of the co-founding owners of Milk, a multi-award winning, independent visual effects company, based in London. Sara became the second ever-female VFX Oscar winner when she received a 2016 Academy Award for best visual effects in Alex Garland’s feature Ex-Machina​ ​, for which she also received a 2016 BAFTA Film Award nomination. Since Milk's launch in 2013, the team has created an impressive range of innovative and complex sequences for high-end TV and feature films, winning an Emmy for the BBC/Hartswood’s Sherlock;​ three consecutive BAFTA Craft awards for the BBC's Doctor​Who ​(2014 and 2015) ​and Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell ​(2016) and receiving seven BAFTA Craft Award nominations. Sara has just completed production as an overall VFX Supervisor on Netflix’s upcoming feature film The​ Old Guard. Sara’s VFX and 2D Supervisor credits at Milk include Baltasar Kormakur’s Adrift;​ Alex Garland’s Annihilation​ ​; The​ Alienist (TNT/Paramount); Kingsman:​ The Golden Circle (Lionsgate);the Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them; ​Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise;​The Martian ​(20​ Century Fox); Poltergeist​(Fox/MGM); The Divergent Series: Insurgent; Brett Ratner’s Hercules ​ ​(Paramount/MGM); Dracula​ Untold ​(Universal);​ 47 Ronin ​and Sherlock (BBC/Hartswood); Thunderbirds are Go​ (ITV) and Jonathan Strange​ ​& Mr. Norrell​. #VFX #specialeffects #womeninfilm

PANELS AND WORKSHOPS

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR PAST
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