Kati Egely's Land Without Evil and Myrsini Aristidou's Aria take High Honors at the Femme Filmmakers Festival

The short film prizes for the 3rd annual Femme Filmmakers Festival were announced earlier today. Hungarian Kati Egely and Cypriot Myrsini Aristidou took several honors, with Kate Lefoe’s Somersault Pike nabbing both Cinematography and Editing. Egely’s blissful animation Land Without Evil dominated the tech categories, finally winning the grand prize, The Gold Sovereign. Placing 3rd with The Dog Tooth, Aria also won Female Performance for Chryssa Platsatoura, with Aristidou adding the Directing prize to the film’s tally. Check out the full results below:

Male Performance — Hervé Laudière – Listening Eyes

Female Performance — Chryssa Platsatoura – Aria

Original Music — Tonolec – Land Without Evil

Bronze Bell (Third prize) — Aria – Myrsini Aristidou

The Maya Deren Short Film Innovation Prize — Morgan Gruer – “for excellent, emotive hand-drawn animation with Reflections, and incorporating her vibrant talent to live action work including music videos”

Silver Sword (Second Prize) — Creswick – Natalie Erika James

Gold Sovereign (Grand Prize) — Land Without Evil – Kati Egely

With the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2018 just about at its close, we would like to thank everyone involved in the organising and the execution of this 10 day event. A special mention of course goes to those filmmakers, that have graced out screens for weeks now, and long may they be remembered.