In the small Seven Stages theatre in Little Five Points, a group of women from across the world gathered on Sept. 24 for an evening with a little bit of everything: Strip club vampire action horror, experimental animation, a Coen Brothers-style heist comedy, and an African girls documentary.

They’re all short films made by women filmmakers, and they make up the opening night of the Atlanta Women’s Film Festival.

It’s the intimate festival’s fifth year in business. AWFF kicked off five years ago through film collective CinemaLife and its founder and CEO, Caroline King. She gathered submissions to host the single-day event in the back of a local brewery during COVID-19.

Now, AWFF is a four-day festival with over a hundred entries and enough attendees to fill a theater. But Caroline King’s

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