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PRAISE FOR MADCAT “If you free associate the descriptive phrase "woman
filmmaker" with Penny Marshall, and if the word "independent" causes you to draw
a blank, the MadCat Women's International Film Festival aims to expand your
consciousness and refine your discretion.”
“MadCat isn't just a women's film festival - it's
an arty showcase of avant-garde experimental shorts that veer far from the
traditional modes of storytelling.”
“Refreshingly unique!”
“Ben-Dov has become curator par excellence!" ”
“As a genre, as a space for talking about,
documenting, dramatizing, and inventing ourselves on camera, women's filmmaking
can only grow and improve through ambitious events like MadCat. MadCat gets a big,
big hand for insight, excellence, attitude, and chic.”
“MadCat shows women's work from around this great,
grand world of ours. If you tend to poo-poo superfem vaginocentric diatribes, fear
not the MadCat Film Festival -- it's primarily about high-quality experimental
shorts by lady-flavored makers. ”
“Thanks to MadCat, female filmmakers have a festival
of their own in San Francisco.”
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“Female filmmakers have evolved, based on the stellar
slate highlighted at the MadCat Film Festival, where post-feminism morphs into
profound humanism. This is an exciting time for women filmmakers, and for all
moviegoers.”
“Its time for some lean and mean cinema at the MadCat
Film Festival.”
“Best Film Festival [That Still Caters to the
Underground] You probably won't discover the next big commercial thing at the
MadCat International Women's Film Festival. For those of you looking for that
kind of relief, MadCat delivers. The films are top-notch; they're so creative,
in fact, that you wonder why all movies aren't made for the art of it. Offering
content that only women can provide, MadCat takes the show on the road each year,
but Ariella Ben-Dov started it all in San Francisco.”
“MadCat Film Festival selected as one of the ‘101
Reasons Why We Love the Bay Area.’”
“I've rarely ever seen a festival that is as engaging
put together as MadCat.”
“Both the festivals content and concept are radical
in a manicured film landscape where only those marginal makers working in standard
formats and digestible genres can get past the groundskeepers.”
“I saw notices for MadCat in The Independent, After
Image, and Release Print and thought, right on! This is the revolution.”
“MadCat screens some of the best experimental
programming I've ever seen!”
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