Women X 2023 – That's a wrap!

🎬 That's a wrap on Women X 2023!

We hope you enjoyed the festival as much as we did – we loved meeting all our filmmakers and attendees and we’re so grateful to everyone who travelled to our venue or joined us online for our fourth year.

✏️ If you attended the festival in person, we'd really appreciate it if you could fill out our feedback form and let us know what you liked most and what we can improve on for next year.

👩‍💻 We’d also be very grateful if you could complete this survey as part of our funding from Film Hub North. This takes just 60 seconds and really supports our future funding opportunities.

🧘‍♀️ We're taking a short break post-festival to recharge, but keep an eye on our social media @riannepictures for more updates very soon.

🏆 And, finally, a huge congratulations to our award winners, announced at our ceremony last night…

Best Film: Candy

Best Documentary: Pricks

Best Northern Film: Drowning

Best Student Film: Objects of Desire

Best Director: Anastasia Bruce-Jones (All Girls)

Best Writer: Mo Bayliss and Steph Leigh (A Television Broadcast From Outer Space)

Best Producer: Molly Young (Barricade)

Best Lead Performance: Sarah Grant (Candy)

Best Ensemble Performance: Blind Spot

Best Cinematography: Salt Wounds

Best Editing: The Witching

Best Production Design: What Would Julie Do?

Best Sound: Blind Spot

Rising Star: Natalia Fox (Eggs)

Script Competition – 1st Place: Grace Cassidy (White Gold / Aur Gwyn)

Script Competition – 2nd Place: Zoe Bullock (Applicant)

Script Competition – 3rd Place: Lucy Chappell (Termagant)