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MAD MISSION
The MadCat Women’s International Film Festival seeks to exhibit provocative and visionary works that are original in their use of the medium. The festival’s goal is to emphasize innovative works by women that challenge the use of sound and image and explore notions of visual storytelling. This international festival advances an alternative vision by emphasizing work that exploits the medium.
A NEW LOOK AT THE CURATORIAL PROCESS
MadCat has established a strong reputation for programming series of acute and insightful films audiences would be hard pressed to find anywhere else. MadCat sets itself apart from other women’s festivals by curating its programs thematically as opposed to looking for films solely about women’s issues. Thus, with each year comes a completely new set of films and topics. MadCat’s distinctive angle on programming often refreshes and surprises its audiences. MadCat allows viewers to look into the vast array of topics women film and videomakers are wrestling with and expand traditional notions of “women’s issues”.
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MadCat’s unique programming incorporates experimental films with more accessible works and links them thematically to draw in a diverse audience and allow viewers to understand the films set before them. MadCat encourages viewers to be active participants. The audience will not sit back and wait for the images to wash over them nor for a simple narrative to tell its story. Whether the audience is watching a documentary, narrative, animation or experimental film they will be on the edge of their seats grappling and participating with the visual texts set before them.
“The MadCat Film Festival tests, expands, and evolves the traditional, politically motivated, 20th Century definition of ‘the women’s film festival."
–Independent Film and Video Monthly
“Its time for some lean and mean cinema at the MadCat Film Festival.” – San Francisco Examiner
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