Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017

Here we are once again. I literally salivate at the mouth at the prospect of spending hours and hours in a darkened room with all ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival --- Day One Program --- Friday 1st September 2017 Like all the fine female filmmakers you are hopefully about to embark on, ...

At just 3 minutes in length, brand new film short I Just Said That from Stefanie Davis shows a familiar side of the fiery temperaments ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day Two Program — Saturday 2nd September 2017 The Femme Filmmakers Festival flies into its second day, and with it the ...

“I just don’t know what I’m supposed to be.” In her sophomore smash hit, Sofia Coppola introduces us to a familiar world within the realms ...

Roughly twenty years is probably enough time for most audience members, if not this particular critic, to forget one of the most famous twists in ...

I saw the short film The Dresser about 2 years ago, and wrote about it as part of the Made by Women series. Having watched ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day Three Program — Sunday 3rd September 2017 So here we are a Day Three of the Femme Filmmakers Festival already ...

When the movie Toni Erdmann entered our lives last May we assumed without agenda this was about a father's relationship with his (grown-up) daughter. Which ...

Discovering such mini marvels as Speed Dating, written and directed by Meghann Artes, is not only tipping the iceberg of new film ventures, but also ...

Originally published over at On The Screen Reviews Before Hollywood discovered the benefit of locking their doors when leaving town, a group of gutsy, celebrity-obsessed ...

Beautifully filmed, A Million Miles Away is an ensemble film that delivers with so much intimacy and thought in spite of the many cast members ...

Welcome to Day Four of the Femme Filmmakers Festival, and it shows no sign of slowing down. Today's showings include a brand new retro-comedy-horror, a ...

Sofia Coppola’s latest feature, The Beguiled, carries the theme of loneliness, which was present in her previous work like The Virgin Suicides and Lost In ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day Five Program — Tuesday 5th September 2017 Among the recommended shorts and features on Day Five of the Femme Filmmakers ...

This four-minute portrait of the filmmaker’s mother combines the texture of 1970s-color-saturated found footage with an oddly avant-garde structure. The editing rhythms are distinctly recognizable ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day Six Program — Wednesday 6th September 2017 Welcome to the second half of the Femme Filmmakers Festival. Day Six has ...

Talented 24 year-old filmmaker Sofija Sztepanov appears to have a humble yet dynamic perspective on her corner of the film world. There is also an ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day Seven Program — Thursday 7th September 2017 Women's rights are the direct subject of one of the feature films coming ...

A single travel writer undergoes a personal conflict on an unexpectedly extended stay in Barcelona in Alex Burunova’s Lonely Planet. A young American woman long ...

There's an earnest, smart filmmaking brain in the young head of Billimarie Robinson, whose diverse short films over the years have perhaps allowed her to ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day Eight Program — Friday 8th September 2017 Day Eight of the Femme Filmmakers Festival sees the first day of the ...

A representation of reality with which too few of us are familiar, Rachel Israel’s Keep the Change is a beautiful, earnest depiction of blossoming love ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day Nine Program — Saturday 9th September 2017 Well here we are at the penultimate of the Femme Filmmakers Festival, and ...

Agnès Varda. A name synonymous with a film revolution still, astonishingly, under-recognized. A name that reminds us of rich, fluent, and oh-so varied cinema. Stayed ...

Femme Filmmakers Festival — Day Ten Program — Sunday 10th September 2017 And there we have it. The final day of the Femme Filmmakers Festival ...

To close this magnificent #FemmeFilmFest I have assembled a small jury of film-lovers to honor a select few of these outstanding new short films. There ...

Well, the four other members of the jury and I debated over the eight short films in the ten categories as described in the prior ...

I recently began writing my first screenplay. My story, which centers on a male protagonist, is not only something I love to tell, but I’ve ...