Women Over 50 Film Festival

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🎦 Annual, hybrid short film festival est. 2015 ✨ Fun, fearless, real stories told by or about women >50

Free creative meet-ups for over 50s, including free hot drinks, low impact exercises like chair-based yoga and short films by or about women over 50. Just drop in from 2pm on Thursday 4 June at Good Shepherd Studios, 15A Davies Lane, Leytonstone, E11 3DR
2 older women looking at each other with love. Text says: "FUN FEARLESS FILMS short films all made by or about older queer women. Tuesday 26 May, 4pm-6pm. The Community Centre at Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial St, London, E1 6LS"
2 older white women sit outside a London cafe at a table. They're smiling. In front of them on the table are 2 pots of tea and 2 teacups. Both women are wearing some blue and they're sitting behind a blue table, near a blue door.
A collage of photos from a community film screening event. Filmmaker Christine Seow sits on a chair speaking and smiling during a discussion. In other images, she sits with members of an LGBTQ+ group around tables in a bright community space decorated with paper chains and hanging crafts.
Graphic for elop’s LGBTQ+ Over 50s Group: Fun Fearless Films. A smiling older woman with short grey hair laughs with joy beside a brick wall. A rainbow pride flag appears on the left with the words “Short films all made by or about older queer women.” Text reads: “Tuesday 28 October, 4pm–6pm, The Community Centre at Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial St, E1 6LS.” Logos: WOFFF, The National Lottery Community Fund, and elop. Background colours are soft lilac and teal.
Women Over 50 Film Festival WOFFF X Virgin Atlantic Dementia Friendly Cinema celebration post for being a finalist in the Best Age-Friendly Outreach at the Fantastic for Families Awards
Japanese text with details of the Senior WOmen's Film Festival in Osaka, Japan, with images of older women in action
Text: WOMEN OVER 50 FILM FESTIVAL and SENIOR WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL IN OSAKA MY MAMA, A MAN. 6 film posters showing older women in action - in a swimming pool, hugging each other, in a bath, in the sea.
Japanese text with details of the Senior WOmen's Film Festival in Osaka, Japan, with images of older women in action
Jodie Foster sits on a chair in front of a cinema screen, holding a microphone ready to take audience questions as she attends a cinema screening of her new film A Private Life.
Short films by or about older queer women with elop’s LGBTQ+ over 50s group Fun, Fearless Films East London dates Tuesday 23 September Tuesday 28 October Tuesday 25 November The Community Centre at Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial St, London, E1 6LS
A woman in a green and white top is smiling and holding a book that's green, white, black and red and called "Pitch Invasion - my story as a Feminist on a Football Club Board". The book's by Karen Dobres
elop's LGBTQ+ Over 50s Group Fun, Fearless Films Short films all made by or about older queer women Tuesday 22 July, 4pm-6pm The Community Centre at Toynbee Hall 28 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LS Logos of Women Over 50 Film Festival, The National Lottery Community Fund and ELOP
You're not too late A woman runs across a bridge
elop's LGBTQ+ Over 50s Group Fun fearless films: short films all made by or about older queer women Tuesday 24 June, 4pm- 6pm, The Community Centre at Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial Street, E1 6LS.
Nuala O’Sullivan (left), founder of the Women Over 50 Film Festival, and Bhavini Goyate (right), Director of Inclusion at the British Film Institute, smiling as they hold up a copy of the “Shifting Representations of Ageing in Advertising, the Media, and the Creative Industries” report. They are standing on the terrace of the House of Lords with the River Thames and the London Eye visible in the background.
elop's LGBTQ+ over 50s group, fun, fearless films short films all made by or about older queer women Tuesday 22 April, 4pm-6pm, The Community Centre at Toynbee Hall, 28 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LS
Short Script Competition Advice
Submit your short script Our short script competition for our 2025 festival is now open. Sponsored by Shedunnit and with expert advice from Founder Helen Jacey.
A film screening at Fabrica, text reads All the Beauty and the Bloodshed A Fresh Perspectives Screening 20 March 2025 The photograph is of two women in a bathroom, one looking in the mirror seemingly applying mascara, the other looking at the camera.
Comedy shorts wanted Pie chart showing percentage of submissions to WOFFF25 so far Drama 32.9% Documentary 27.3% Experimental 13% Student 9.3% Animation 9.9% Comedy 7.5%
Top rate festival January, Women Over 50 film Festival Top 100 Best Reviewed Festivals
1) people doing at-seat yoga 2) a screen with an image of a woman and baby projected onto it
Loneliness or villainy? Loneliness or villainy? Analysis of the top-performing films and TV shows from 2010-2020 found that older characters are pigeonholed into a narrow set of storylines, often being portrayed as lonely or frail or bitter and villainous.
Promotional image for early bird submissions to the Women Over 50 Film Festival, featuring a woman lying on her side in bed, with her arm outstretched, looking into the distance, lost in thought, it's a still from Crave by director Lois Norman. Overlaid text announcing the deadline for early bird submissions is January 12, 2025, on FilmFreeway. Text next to the FilmFreeway Gold logo reads: Exclusive discounts on submissions for FilmFreeway Gold Members
Submit for 2025 WOFFF25 is open Animation, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Experimental, Short Scripts Submit early, save £££
Remember! Vote in the Audience Choice Award
Best Student Film 7 SEPT - 7 OCT WOFFF24 ONLINE Festival Formula
Profile picture of actor Greta Scacchi smiling warmly, displayed in a social media frame with like and comment icons. The Women Over 50 Film Festiva logo is in the bottom right corner.
In Conversation with Thelma Barlow This Saturday at Depot, Lewes Film critic and author Corrina Antrobus talks with national treasure, actor and writer Thelma Barlow, about her career, starring in some of the UK’s best-loved TV shows, Coronation Street and Dinnerladies.
A box of salad with tomatoes, sweet potato, leaves, quinoa and flatbread with text overlaid reading Book your linch for your day at Depot on Saturday 21 September
4 still from films: 1) an older white woman swims in a river 2) a white person with their back to us looks at a light 3) close up of white hands writing on very small pieces of paper 4) an older and younger Black woman hold each other close
Big pop-art blue eye with long lashes. Text: Women Over 50 Film Festival Lewes RC Sister Ship Equality is a rising tide that lifts all boats
Colourful book cover. Text: A manifesto in 100 Romcoms. I LOVE ROMCOMS & I AM A FEMINIST Corrina Antrobus illustrated by Vulga Drawings
The harbour St Ives, Cornwall from sunrise to sunset