We asked women across the globe what the word Entanglement meant to them. How do we connect? After over 300 responses, this is a selection of the stories we received.
12 women writers.
12 personal stories
Heroic. Humorous. Powerful. Raw.
From across the globe.
12 points of view
12 performers
all entangled
yet all have never met.
Produced by Voices of Women
Created by Lliane Clarke.
Directed by Lliane Clarke, Kaye Tuckerman and Otgadahe Whitman-Fox.
Produced by Lliane Clarke, Kaye Tuckerman, Otgadahe Whitman-Fox, Sally Paridis and Laura Patinkin.
Music by Elizabeth Jigalin.
Written by Jeannine Acantilado, Cynthia Arsenault, Di Bird, Ari Groover, Donna Hughes, Gayle Kennedy, Charle Malcyon, Brenda Saunders, Danielle Starkey, Erin Quill, Hope Ward, Otgadahe Whitman-Fox.
Cast: Di Bird, Meghan Clarke, Ari Groover, Keeley Karsten, Melanie Nicholls-King, Victoria Kennedy, Pooya Mohseni, Brenda Saunders, Kaye Tuckerman, Erin Quill, Amelia Wray, Otgadahe Whitman-Fox.
Directors of Photography: Clare Hawley, Jerry Aquino, Rebeca Durán, Dan T Hall.
Editor: Gennesis Erize Pantaleon.
Supported by: Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Consulate New York, New Mexico Women in Film, First Nations Australian Writers Network, First Draft.
Entanglement, the feature film, and the 12 short films within it, have won awards and accolades across the globe. The films have been highly commended, nominated, Officially Selected, and have won Awards in film festivals from Dublin to Iran, from Zagreb to New York, London and Madrid.
Awards
Award Winner, Best Educational Film, Snow Leopard Int Film Festival, Madrid, 2022
Award Winner, Best All Female Director/Actor/Producer, Close Film Festival, 2022
Award Winner, Best Documentary, New York Arthouse Film Festival, 2023
Award Winner, Best Screenplay, London Independent Story Prize 2023
Award Winner, Best International Narrative Feature, Int Manhattan Film Awards 2022
Award Winner, True Story Narrative (scripted) over 60 Minutes, The NewsFest 2022
Official Selection
Best Feature Documentary, Zagreb International Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature, Lonely Seal International Film, Screenplay and Music Festival, Boston, USA.
Best Feature Score, Lonely Seal International Film, Screenplay and Music Festival, Boston, USA.
Best Original Score, Zagreb International Film Festival
Best True Story Narrative, The NewsFest, Pasadena USA.
Best Womens Work 2022, Masters of Cinema, Rome.
Best Female Filmmaker, Cannes International Cinema Festival.
Best International Documentary Feature, New York Independent Cinema Awards
Best Feature Film, Sydney Women’s International Film Festival
Finalist, Women Deliver Arts and Culture Festival, United Nations Women Conference, Rwanda 2023.
Artistic Director, Lliane Clarke, awarded Carla Zampatti Arts and Culture Medal, Multicultural NSW for Entanglement program in 2022. Launched at Government House by Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC in 2022. Launched in New York by Australian Consul-General to New York The Hon Nick Greiner AC in 2022.
SHORT FILM AWARDS
On Being Twelve
Award Winner, Best Child Actress Keeley Karsten, Sydney Indie Short Festival
Award Winner, Best Child Actress Keeley Karsten, Snow Leopard International Film Festival
Official Selection, Best All Female Director/Actor/Producer, First Women Film Festival
Official Selection, Seoul International Film Festival
Official Selection, Close Film Festival
Semi-finalist, London International Film Festival
Semi-finalist, New York International Film Festival
Isolation in Lockdown
Award Winner, Best Youth Actress Amelia Wray, New York Independent Cinema Awards
Shortlisted, Outstanding Achievement in Writing Donna Hughes, 2022 Western Australia Screen Culture Awards
Now You See Me
Award Winner, Best LGBTQ+ Film Short, Snow Leopard International Film Festival
Official Selection, Iranian Film Festival
Official Selection, NYC Downtown Short Film Festival
Semi-finalist, Dublin World Film Festival
Queen Bessie’s Gal
Official Selection, Best Documentary Short, Mixed Asian Media Fest
Official Selection, Capricorn Film Festival
Invisibility
Award Winner, Best International Narrative Short, New York Independent Cinema Awards, 2022
Semi Finalist, Stockholm Short Festival, 2022
Trap Musik
Official Selection, Best Experimental Film, LA Sun Film Fest
Our Mob
Official Selection, Best Indigenous Short Film, Lonely Seal International Film, Screenplay and Music Festival
Award Winner, International Documentary Short, New York Independent Cinema Awards
Award Winner, Snow Leopard International Film Festival, 2022
Official Selection, Melbourne Women in Film Festival
Semi-Finalist, Very Short Film Festival, Artology, Tasmania
Body and Breath
Official Selection, Best All Female Director/Actor/Producer, First Women Film Festival
Award Winner, London International Film Makers Festival
We Are Still Here
Official Selection, American Indian Film Festival
Official Selection, Kalakari Film Festival
Official Selection, Latino and Native American Film Festival
Official Selection, Lonely Seal International Film Festival
The Dress
Selection First Nations Night, Flickerfest Short Film Festival, 2023
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