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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Seven Program, Thursday 13th September

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Seven Program, Thursday 13th September Somersault Pike (Kate Lefoe) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo 275360779 w=640 h=360] – –…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Electrick Children (Rebecca Thomas)

Writer-director, Rebecca Thomas, brought more than a handful of her own background to Electrick Children. Her 2012 feature, an eclectic surprise I might add, was…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Andrea Arnold’s Red Road

What happens when the only person who makes you feel alive, is the very person you want dead? Andrea Arnold’s first feature-length film is uncomfortably…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Liberty Hill (Katie Graham)

How many accounts or perspectives have we had from a woman about the greatness of Trump’s America? Sure, we’ve heard all the squawking – I…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Creswick (Natalie Erika James)

Creswick is a compelling and haunting horror film, playing on our fears of memory. The film follows a young woman, Sam, who has returned to…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Six Program, Wednesday 12th September

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Six Program, Wednesday 12th September Creswick (Natalie Erika James) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo 265695677 w=640 h=360] – –…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Listening Eyes (Julie Colly)

There’s a beautiful opening shot in Julie Colly’s award-winning, Si Tu T’imagines (Listening Eyes), of a girl’s hand holding an orange aloft in the daytime…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Daniéla de Lange talks to Filmotomy about diving into Animation

With the Femme Filmmakers Festival taking to the deep end, now five days in, animation director Daniéla de Lange stopped by, to answer some of our…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The Diver (Daniela De Lange)

This quirky short animated film is about a young women who is insecure and self-conscious about her passion for diving. What the diver does, and…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Under the Skin (Carine Adler)

Carine Adler’s 1997 drama, Under the Skin, stars Samantha Morton in her debut role as Iris Kelly. A young, curious woman, who dives headfirst into…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)

Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar is a film that is quite unexpected and unusual, this isn’t a criticism of the film but rather praise. The film…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Five Program, Tuesday 11th September

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Five Program, Tuesday 11th September Listening Eyes (Julie Colly) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo 270210472 w=640 h=360] – –…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni)

When a film sets out to tell the story of a young girl, who is essentially abducted and forced to live in a Zambian witch…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Exclusive Q&A with Fry Day director Laura Moss

It was sheer coincidence, or perhaps a touch of fate, that the day we scheduled Fry Day in the Femme Filmmakers Festival, director Laura Moss…

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