think that was hard on him.”
This film is fascinating for the
music fan and Coles says it was
completely designed for the big
screen where the photos truly
pop. The film will be screened
at New Jersey Film Festival
(held on the Rutgers campus
in New Brunswick) on Sun-
day, September 17 at 7:00pm.
Coles will be on hand for a Q&A
following the film.
between the arts. The inspira-
tion for the festival came from
the experiences Coles had after
hitting the festival circuit with
her first film.
“I happened to notice that
there weren’t a lot of women
at these international film festi-
vals and it raised questions with
me,” she explained. “Are there
so few women directors? Or
are our films not getting seen?
Are there so few women directors?
Or are our films not getting seen?
In addition to filmmaking, Coles
runs her own film festival in To-
ronto. She is the founder of Fe-
male Eye Film Festival, Canada’s
annual competitive international
independent women director’s
film festival. The Female Eye em-
braces the visual arts and script
writing and engages actors, mu-
sicians, and a broad variety of
performers to bridge the gap
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And whenever there’s a ques-
tion, I want an answer so I held
an event in Toronto in 2001. We
showed 42 films and invited
many Americans who I met at
festivals. I just noticed women
were a minority among the di-
rectors and that sort of begat
the Female Eye. We just cel-
ebrated our 15th edition of the
festival in June.” w
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