ConnectHER Film Festival 

High school and college students submit original short films focused on critical women’s issues such as girls’ education, ending violence against women, poverty & economic independence, and authentic beauty/body image and more! Learn more.

We're thrilled with how the film festival is turning students into filmmakers—and filmmakers into activists.

ConnectHER Film Festival

High school and college students submit original short films focused on critical women’s issues such as girls’ education, ending violence against women, poverty & economic independence, and authentic beauty/body image and more! Learn more.

We're thrilled with how the film festival is turning students into filmmakers—and filmmakers into activists.

JUL. 1

SUBMISSIONS OPEN

OCT. 1

ENTRY DEADLINE

NOV. 19

GALLERY GOES LIVE

If your film is selected to be in the 2024 festival, it will appear on the Watch page around November 19.

DEC. 17

VOTING ENDS

JAN. 17

FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

TBD

AWARDS CEREMONY

Winners announced at ConnectHER's Film Festival Awards Ceremony

 


2,250

FILM SUBMISSIONS


$300,000

SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED


64

COUNTRIES

 
 


2,250

FILM SUBMISSIONS


$300,000

SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED


64

COUNTRIES

 

Featured Films

AndThatsonPeriod
And That's on Period

Period poverty is a much bigger problem than we think. It affects girls in more ways than we can imagine. Health wise, education wise, mentally, and more. People don't how serious this problem is, and my film serves to bring to light the harsh realities faced by the girls.

 

YellowCard
Yellow Card

Winner of the 2020 Judges’ Choice Award, Yellow Card focuses on a girls’ soccer team’s campaign for equal pay for women in sports—a campaign that surprised the players by going viral. “I didn’t think my voice really mattered,” one of the campaigners told the filmmaker. That was before Billie Jean King and Hillary Clinton tweeted about the girls’ #EqualPay campaign. And before the phone started ringing with Anderson Cooper and Good Morning America on the line.

Passoon
Passoon

Move over, Greta Thunberg. Passoon (“rising up for a cause” in Pashto) introduces viewers to 12-year-old Manal Shad, a passionate and outspoken Pakistani climate activist. In a country already suffering devastating impacts from climate change, Manal inspires other young people to rise up and get involved. Like Greta, she is fearless in her call for politicians to do their job and protect our planet.

BeBold
Be Bold & Win the Dream

In Be Bold & Win the Dream, a group of girls breaks with tradition to form a soccer team in a conservative village in Bangladesh. The dream of competing nationally gives the girls a goal—and provides a powerful incentive to resist pressure to marry young. In a country where 22% of girls marry by age 15 and 59% before their 18th birthday, that’s a big win indeed.

This project is supported in part by the City of Austin Economic Development Department.