Femme Filmmakers Festival 2020

As the COVID-19 era brings greater emphasis on aligning film festivals with the online platform, here at Filmotomy we are ...

With just over six weeks remaining before the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival kicks off, now is a very good time ...

I hope this is the moment you have all been waiting for, as we finally get to announce the 59 ...

With the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival just two weeks away, here is the preview trailer for the 2020 event. Including ...

Day One of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival kicked off with a bang on Friday afternoon as our opening film ...

Trübes Wasser (Troubled Water), is a short film written, directed, and animated by Elena Wiener. Even from the first frame, ...

Before we talk about the film, it is important we talk about the filmmaker. Lynn Shelton was a dynamic, humanist, ...

A home movie calls to mind childhood memory. They're time capsules, going back to an age before we know the ...

At the 2018 Femme Filmmakers Festival, a flourishing filmmaker, Katalin Egely, brought two short animations to the online event. Alegría ...

On Day One of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival, the second of the 20 Competition Selections films was seen by ...

Two year's ago we spoke to Spanish director, Amanda Lago, about her short film, Mrs. Poucheau, as part of the ...

Gretl Clagget’s STORMCHASER started as a poem. And so fitting that it opens with our heroine Bonnie Blue remembering her ...

The first of two Filmotomy Podcasts during the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festivals sees host Robin Write joined by two of ...

It's always special when a filmmaker is able to create a world that shows off their unique sense of humour ...

One of the most unusual (that's a compliment) offerings at this year's Femme Filmmakers Festival is Softer. Created by Ayanna ...

I've known Sarah Louise Dean for some time in a virtual capacity. Speaking to her about In a Hole, which ...

Love and relationships are often considered to be sacred and private. When one betrays the social contract which is a ...

One of the 20 films featuring in the Competition Selection at this year's Femme Filmmakers Festival is Sahera Khan's short ...

Young people with serious illnesses have an especially hard cross to bear. Fear of being stigmatized socially, frustration with potentially ...

Ella Greenwood is the writer, actor, director of the short film Faulty Roots which is due to become a feature ...

A word of caution. Keep Mum will buzz around in your head long after its final scene. It is a ...

We are delighted to have filmmaker Suchana Saha talk to us about not just one but two films in the ...

20 years ago, the world looked very different, especially in regard to LGBTQ+ rights. 11 months before But I’m a ...

What do you know about Luana Di Pasquale? Well, she is, handily for the involvement with the 5th Femme Filmmakers ...

Salt Lake City, Utah looks to be a beautiful place, at least from what can be seen from the windows ...

One of 20 short films in the Competition Selection of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival is The Pregnant Ground from ...

I honestly didn't expect to rekindle a teenage crush or crave expensive coffee from Montmartre when I sat down to ...

Our teenage years are essentially made up of mimicry. We leave the nest of our parents, flocking together, or perhaps ...

Diane Keaton is a film about the anti-romanticism of being a muse. Of the impracticality of being sung or written ...

Blessed with an array of interview opportunities for Georgia Michailidi's short film 'Diane Keaton' for the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival, ...

Pregnancy and birth are often not discussed in society, other than for the expected highlight reel: pregnancy announcement, gender reveal, ...

Growing up in the shadow of a father who crafted some of the most influential and talked about films of ...

Filmotomy got the opportunity to speak to the write, producer and director of the short film, Diane Keaton, part of ...

Set entirely in one apartment, Georgia Michailidi's short film 'Diane Keaton' is shot by Daphne Lazou, the film's Director of ...

Valerie Barnhart’s Girl in the Hallway may have a short runtime, but the film is brimming with a stunning artistic ...

A young man paces up and down, by a tree, reading poetry. The same young man interrupts himself in voiceover, ...

Three Poplars in Plyushchikha Street (1968) is a Russian romantic-comedy, being a success for the Russian film industry with 26 ...

Concealer is an insightful short feature which proposes a very ambitious discussion of a pressing contemporary concern - falling victim ...

Just Me and You (Juste moi et toi) is a short, Canadian film directed by Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers. It takes us ...

Every year at the Femme Filmmakers Festival we are dazzled by the array of talent that shines through the endless ...

One of the most highly acclaimed short films to play as part of the Competition Selection at this year's Femme ...

Kristine Gerolaga is the writer and director of Concealer, one of many great short films featuring at the 5th Femme ...

Welcome Home is a funny, awkward, and simple look at different cultures and religions along with the combination of the ...

Though called Crossing the Line in the UK, Little Woods is the debut film from Nia DaCosta. Released two years ...

Mira Nair was born in Orissa, a remote state in North East India. And although she had become interested in ...

The second podcast of the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival sees Robin Write host, and he is joined by festival jury ...

Margot Douglas joins the Femme Filmmakers Festival fray to chime on four of the short films featured in this year's ...

Nora Kirkpatrick’s Long Time Listener, First Time Caller is a jewel of a film that like any precious stone, never ...

Previously working on Booksmart, which marked her directorial debut and received Golden Globes and Bafta nominations in 2019, Olivia Wilde ...

Sunday 6th September 2020. The 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival comes to a close later this evening. Earlier, the Roll of ...

The low rumble of an audience is accompanied by the crash of water, where a young woman is painstakingly poised, ...

In Kitty Green’s The Assistant, the slow simmer of impending doom permeates the film. Its 87 minute runtime still manages to ...

The story of a young girl in a refugee camp struggling with her period, Ghazaal offers a powerful depiction of ...

When the short films were whittled down to the final 20 for the Competition Selection of the 5th Femme Filmmakers ...

The whole world seem virtual now. How do we watch movies together? Have we forgotten? The Femme Filmmakers Festival began ...

The dearly departed Agnès Varda, is not dead at all. We can go back and cherry pick from her illustrious ...