The annual MadCat festival showcases cutting-edge experimental and independent films and videos by women from around the globe. The festival aims to expand traditional notions of “women's issues” by inviting viewers to look into the vast array of topics women filmmakers wrestle with in their work. MadCat was selected as one of the San Francisco Chronicle's “101 Reasons Why We Love the Bay Area”; the Bay Guardian has hailed it as the Bay Area's “Best Film Festival (That Still Caters to the Underground)”; The Independent Film and Video Monthly says, “MadCat tests, expands, and evolves the traditional, politically motivated, twentieth-century definition of ‘the women's film festival.'”
For more information and film listings, go to MadCat's website, http://www.madcatfilmfestival.org, e-mail info@madcatfilmfestival.org, or call (415) 436-9523. MadCat is also presented in San Francisco at Artists' Television Access (September 12, 19, 26) and El Rio (September 9, 16, 23, 30), and tours throughout the U.S. Program guides will be available at PFA.
Ariella Ben-Dov
Curator, MadCat