Film Otsego Announces New Film Festival for New York Women

ONEONTA—Film Otsego will premiere a new film festival aimed at female New York filmmakers when the Made by New York Women Film Festival debuts at Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center next year, March 7-9.

Any women who is in a key position—writer, director, producer, cinematographer, line producer, art director—can enter work in feature, short or student film categories. A filmmaker is eligible to submit if she is a native New Yorker or a New York resident, or if she shot her film in New York.

The film festival is the second event the film commission has organized specifically for female filmmakers. In October 2021, the film commission staged a four-day Women in Film familiarity tour (“fam tour”) for women filmmakers, connecting more than a dozen professional filmmakers with each other and Otsego County.

“Among the many wonderful results of our first women in film event were two ‘customers’ on the tour—Alysa Blasetti and Cheyenne Phillips—who became board members,” Otsego County Film Commissioner Greg Klein said. “Now they are taking leadership of our next women in film event, and it is exciting to see them create something special.”