About Festival
Are you fed up with the politicization of art in contemporary society? Do you believe that you are an excellent filmmaker because of the inner artistic quality of your work and not because of the political layers of your film?. Do you find it irritating that festivals constantly ask you about your identities, your political views and make you fill interrogative forms in which you have to justify that you are a "good" morally correct artist for society? If you think any of this, welcome to the Hollywood International Golden Age Festival for ALL! We believe that an artist should be free to create her work, and no institutions for any reason should impose on her how her art should look. For us, a just and democratic cinema is a cinema that treats everybody the same and equally without imposing any artistic criteria to follow. This is the first principle of democracy. Each artist's "dignity" and free opinion is more important than the "assumptions" of intellectuals who feel they know what justice is and want to teach it to everybody. Every artist is equal, and every artist should be treated equally and with the same degree of respect. We have created this radical festival which this specific line of thoughts. This is the festival in which the only criteria to judge your work is its "artistic" quality and not any political demand of the current society. We judge films based on their inner qualities, and we don't care to be a politically correct festival. We want to prioritize once more the "art" of filmmaking. The organizing and administrative team of Hollywood Golden Age started their activities in New York 2 years ago. This is a monthly New York-based film festival with a yearly event. Every month, our Jury will award the best films through private screenings. Monthly Award Winners will be chosen to compete in the online Award.
Why Golden Age:
We know that past was not perfect, we are aware of the misogynistic form of the past, but everything at its transitory moment is closer to the “truth”. There are surely bad experiences in those moments of transition, but those “naughty” actions don’t happen due to the evilness of character: adolescent is the best example of those pure moments of utopian dream. Let us go back to the adolescent age of Hollywood, the Golden Age, when there was a hope that cinema could transform things, a time in which we laughed and cried with films, and we sympathized with the protagonists of the films, no matter what their gender or sexuality was. Let us go back to those times, and hear once again the promise of the Great Cinema.
