We wanted to shout out to all our supporters so far and hopefully mint some more by sharing this. The GOFF team has been working so incredibly hard (like really, the people in this team are angels made of diamonds and plated with gold) and talking to so many journalists and schools and interested parties about why we are doing what we’re doing. We’ve thought so much about it and distilled it for snappy soundbites so many times but here we can expand a little and get some righteous anger off our chests. SO THIS IS IT.

We were so sick of seeing movies with women as cliches, victims, objects, vessels, sidekicks, distractions, trophies, ciphers, set decoration and vehicles for male empowerment that we created GOFF to show ten feminist movies that feature women and girls as powerful agents in their own fucking stories! It was CRUCIAL to us that we do this in a party atmosphere. So much to be angry about in this world, that often protesting can feel like more pain. Enter GOFF. Here, your party is a protest and your protest is partying in the face of patriarchy. With movies.

It’s our first year and we’re relying on your support to help and make this party HUGE. So if you’re tired of the same boring or horrific or sexist or irrelevant roles for women, on offer at cineplexes, film festivals, on television and in so many of our shared stories, then and make GOFF as big as she can be. I know a lot of you have heaps of feminist irons in many misandrist fires but this festival is pulsating with so much excitement and work and love and hope that we really want to scream from the rooftops: