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Womanimation! is a festival showcasing acclaimed animated short film stories created by women from around the world.

Saturday, March 30th, a special MassArt Encore Edition of the festival takes place at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

DJ Madame B will be weaving soundscapes from women around the world before and after the special screening, and audience will vote for their favorite three films to determine the winner.

Co-sponsored by the MassArt Animation Department, this educational screening is free and open to the public.

Festival Films

The festival will screen twelve films from ten countries on three continents, with styles from stop-motion to 3D to traditional 2D and computer/2D hybrids.

Nine films are from the 2023 edition of the festival, along with three from the 2019 edition, whose rescreening was cancelled due to Covid.

With running times between 2 and 15 minutes, the films emphasize well-developed narratives as well as visual experimentation, with themes touching on history, family, romance, or self-discovery, along with regular detours into realms of fantasy.

Click here for a list of the films.

Womanimation! 2024

Beginning in April, we will start accepting submissions for our 2024 edition, taking place on Saturday, 29th June.

In the meantime, you can read more on the festival concept, including submission guidelines, here.

More on Womanimation!

The thirteenth edition of Womanimation! took place on Saturday 8th July, 2023, at Greenwood Features in Bethel, CT, USA.

Click here to find out more on this and other previous versions of the festival.


Music Charting

World Music

Toni (aka DJ Madame B) is a global music genre director showcasing sounds from around the world. She hosts Pacifica affiliate syndicated and regional world music shows.

She submits MergingArts Global Radio weekly charts to NACC (North American College & Community Chart) and RMR (Roots Music Report).

She is an active panelist of international charting organizations, TWMC (Transglobal World Music Chart), BWMC (Balkan World Music Chart), and RWMC (Russian World Music Chart), representing MergingArts.

Click here to view weekly and monthly world music charts and adds.


Radio Syndication

World Music

Donne del Mondo showcases global music by women, celebrating musical women of the world. Available Saturday afternoons, it is distributed via the Pacifica Radio Network on select affiliates throughout North America.

Transworld Airwaves features a cross-cultural musical journey united in voices and rhythms. As well as syndicating on Pacifica, it broadcasts every other Sunday evening from 7:00 to 8:00 pm (US Eastern time) on WZBC 90.3 FM from Boston College in Newton/Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

You can hear more international sounds every Sunday from 8:00 am to 11:00 am Eastern, by tuning in to World Wide Waves, with rotating hosts. It can be heard on 90.3 FM WRIU, non-commercial radio broadcasting from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI.

Spoiler Alert Radio

Featuring conversations on the craft of filmmaking, Spoiler Alert Radio continues to syndicate weekly on selected Pacifica affiliates.

You can find out more about the show, including syndication information, by clicking here, or visit our podcast and archive page by clicking here.


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Short Short Story Film Festival

The Short Short Story Film Festival is a competitive international festival of films that tell a story in under six minutes, celebrating brevity in filmmaking with films from across the globe, both live-action and animated.

The 16th edition of the festival took place at Cinestudio on Saturday, 25th November.

Festival Awards

Each of the two programs awards both an audience and jury award. Award winners receive commissioned custom art objects created by past festival participants.

For the jury awards, a panel of film industry professionals, previously interviewed on Spoiler Alert Radio, reviewed the films in each program. For a complete list of jury members, click here.

Audience awards are voted on by those in attendance, who select their three favorite films in each program to determine award winners.

Click here to see detail on the award winners and the unique art object creations.

Film Selections

From several hundred submissions representing over fifty countries, we selelcted 35 films, from more than twenty countries on six continents, including 23 US premieres and seven world premieres.

Two programs, Heartstrings and Headtrip, both showcased dozens of films tightly sequenced in under ninety minutes, each with a distinctive tone yet wide-ranging styles and topics.

Click here to see a list of festival films.

More On The Festival

To learn more about the festival concept and history, click here.

For requirements to submit to future editions, click here.

There is no fee to submit your film to the festival.


World Music Charts 


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SSSFF 2023 Heartstrings Jury Award

Jury Heart

A custom creation by Katariina Haukka


SSSFF 2023 Heartstrings Audience Award

Audience Heart

A custom creation by Virginia Rodriguez


Womanimation! Jury Award 2023

Womanimation!

A custom creation by Indra Sproģe

Spoiler Alert Radio

A weekly broadcast and podcast featuring conversations on the craft of filmmaking.

For more information about the program, click here.

This week's episode:

Chris Ruggiero - Film Composer - Tribal Justice, Minding The Gap, One Child Nation, Resynator

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DJ Madame B

Global Sounds


SSSFF 2023 Headtrip Jury Award

Jury Head

A custom creation by Davide Pellino


SSSFF 2023 Headtrip Audience Award

Audience Head

A custom creation by Koki Saito


Womanimation! Audience Award 2023

Womanimation!

A custom creation by Joanna Lurie