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Join us for some short and snappy episodes as we share exclusive behind the scenes details of the film festival, alongside exciting interviews with our team.

Women X Film Festival Podcast Rianne Pictures

    • TV & Film

Join us for some short and snappy episodes as we share exclusive behind the scenes details of the film festival, alongside exciting interviews with our team.

    Film Festival Scammers (Part 3)

    Film Festival Scammers (Part 3)

    Mel and Caris return for the third episode in our popular film festival scams series. They cover a well-known, successful festival that flopped after promising 1,000 films and bogus hotel packages, and a scam script competition offering AI feedback!

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    Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.

    • 38 min
    Exploring Horror Shorts with Jessie Craig Roche

    Exploring Horror Shorts with Jessie Craig Roche

    Abbie from the Women X team is joined by Jessie Craig Roche, director of the short film ‘Three Things We Don’t Talk About’. She talks about why horror is so interesting as a genre, particularly for short films. They also discuss Jessie’s filmmaking experience, making a film in between COVID lockdowns, and more.

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    The Women X Film Festival Podcast is produced by Rianne Pictures:
    https://riannepictures.com/


    Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.

    • 30 min
    How Loss Led to Filmmaking with Cat White

    How Loss Led to Filmmaking with Cat White

    Emily Garbutt talks with Cat White about how healing from family loss led her to make her film ‘Fifty-Four Days’. She also shares her unique, organic funding process for the film, being a gender equality advisor the UN, and creating her own production company for Black and minority filmmakers.


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    The Women X Film Festival Podcast is produced by Rianne Pictures:
    https://riannepictures.com/


    Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.

    • 12 min
    Athanasia Bartzoka on How Crowdfunding £10k Was a Lot of Work

    Athanasia Bartzoka on How Crowdfunding £10k Was a Lot of Work

    Emily Garbutt from the Rianne Pictures team chats with Athanasia Bartzoka, whose film ‘Raja’s Had Enough’ screened at last year’s festival. Athanasia talks crowdfunding £10k for the film and how much work it took to get there, getting into filmmaking after a finance undergrad, and the challenges of balancing life and freelancing work.

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    The Women X Film Festival Podcast is produced by Rianne Pictures:
    https://riannepictures.com/


    Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.

    • 12 min
    Ella Maree Carey on Embracing & Learning From Failure

    Ella Maree Carey on Embracing & Learning From Failure

    Women X’s Abbie is joined by Ella Maree Carey, whose film ‘Prawn’ screened at WXFF 2023. Ella discusses making a film during lockdown, her bad directing experience which taught her to embrace failure and learn from her mistakes, and her top tips for making short films.

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    The Women X Film Festival Podcast is produced by Rianne Pictures:
    https://riannepictures.com/


    Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.

    • 28 min
    Why You Should Enter Script Competitions with Zoë Bullock

    Why You Should Enter Script Competitions with Zoë Bullock

    In this episode, Caris Rianne is joined by Zoë Bullock, one of the Rianne Pictures script competition finalists! They discuss top tips for entering script competitions, how Zoë got into writing scripts, whether creative industries are becoming more accessible for women, and the differences between writing for theatre and TV.

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    The Women X Film Festival Podcast is produced by Rianne Pictures:
    https://riannepictures.com/


    Make sure to subscribe to the podcast to stay up to date with more episodes. Through this podcast, we take you behind-the-scenes of an exciting, fresh short film festival. Learn about the ins and outs of running a film festival, get tips for your short film, listen to interviews with filmmakers, other festivals and more.

    • 23 min

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