WELCOME
That’s a wrap on the 9th Annual Nevada Women’s Film Festival which took place in fabulous Las Vegas June 22-25, 2023!
This year our event took place at the UNLV Department of Film and featured 108 films, by and about women, from 22 countries.
Highlights included our 2023 Nevada Woman of Achievement, Berenice Chávez, who was honored for her outstanding work as an editor. Berenice’s credits include the Netflix documentary, Pamela, a Love Story. A special screening of this film was shown in conjunction with a conversation with Berenice Friday night, followed by our Filmmakers’ Mixer at Tuscany!
Our Saturday evening Vanguard Event featured the Nevada Premiere of Miranda’s Victim, a powerful historical drama with an all-star cast. Filmmaker Michelle Danner and lead actress Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) were our 2023 Vanguard Award honorees for their work on this film, and sat down with Dr. Heather Addison for an in-depth conversation about the experience.
Our festival concluded on Sunday with the Ninth Annual Femmy Awards. Check out the incredible nominees and winners!
Please see our NWFFest 2023 page for the complete schedule. The festival was held within the Flora Dungan Humanities (FDH) building at UNLV.
NWFFest is a project of Women in Film Nevada (formerly Nevada Women’s Film Collective). WIF Nevada is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and all donations are tax deductible.
This festival is supported, in part, by the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. This festival is made possible by support from Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
NWFFest is a FilmFreeway Gold Festival and is IMDb-qualifying.
En Avant by Sarah Jean Williams | 2022
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Your support makes it possible for the festival to continue bringing great films, filmmakers and programs to Southern Nevada while keeping ticket prices affordable. We cannot do it without the support of donors like you! The Nevada Women’s Film Festival is a project of Women in Film Nevada (formerly Nevada Womens Film Collective), a 501(c)(3) organization, and all donations to WIF Nevada are tax-deductible.
Warrior Spirit by Landon Dyksterhouse | 2022
A LOOK BACK AT NWFFest 2022
The 8th Annual Nevada Women’s Film Festival, was the first in-person event since March of 2019. It took place June 23 – 26, 2022 and hosted 63 Films from 13 Countries. The festival included Panels, Interviews, Awards & Parties!
REVIEWS
This festival is so well organized and everyone is delightful.
Their communication is great. I really enjoyed the virtual aspect included with the live events. Thank you for selecting Guardian and for inviting me to be part of the Q&A after the festival screening! We met a lot of fantastic filmmakers this year and we can’t wait to attend in person next time!
It was such an honour for our film ‘Dandelion’ to be selected to this awesome festival that celebrates women’s stories. Despite not being able to attend in person we were kept well informed and given lots of opportunities to take part virtually. Thanks everyone at NWFFest!
I love NWFFest!!! The staff makes your entire team feel like their work is valued, and you can tell that love went into planning every phase of the event. The staff is so d*** lovable, and they take the time to get to know each filmmaker by name, which isn’t very common at festivals nowadays. I appreciate NWFFest because they appreciate us! Thank you, NWFFest!
After traveling to many festivals all over the country, I’m still so glad that we premiered at NWFFest. It was the best atmosphere. I loved how the blocks were curated so shorts and features shared the same block. I think it really opened up for more people to see more of a cross section of films. I made great contacts there with other filmmakers that have helped throughout this process. Such a great weekend in so many ways.