PRAISE FOR MADCAT
“The MadCat Film Festival tests, expands, and evolves the traditional, politically motivated, 20th Century definition of ‘the women's film festival.’”
– Independent Film & Video Monthly

“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.”
– SF Reader read the article

“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.”
– Seattle Weekly

“Refreshingly unique!”
– Film/Tape World

“Ben-Dov has become curator par excellence!" ”
– Bay Area Business Woman read the article

“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.”
– Art Papers

“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. ”
– Metro Active

“Thanks to MadCat, female filmmakers have a festival of their own in San Francisco.”
– SF Metro Active

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ARIELLA BEN-DOV


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Shimako Dominguez


“At MadCat, being avant-garde is just as important as being female”
- SF Chronicle read the article

“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.”
- SFWeekly

“Its time for some lean and mean cinema at the MadCat Film Festival.”
- SF Examiner

“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.”
– SF Bay Guardian

“MadCat Film Festival selected as one of the ‘101 Reasons Why We Love the Bay Area.’”
- San Francisco Chronicle

“I've rarely ever seen a festival that is as engaging put together as MadCat.”
- Festival goer

“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.”
- Susan Gerhard, SF Guardian

“I saw notices for MadCat in The Independent, After Image, and Release Print and thought, right on! This is the revolution.”
– Barbara Hammer, award-winning filmmaker

“MadCat screens some of the best experimental programming I've ever seen!”
- Festival goer

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