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Film Review: Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’ (2023)

Based on journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s best-selling and award-winning non-fiction book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Origin is written, directed and co-produced by Ava DuVernay…

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Festival de Cannes: Meet The Jury

The 2018 Cannes Film Festival runs from May 8-19, and now have their jury of nine ready and waiting for the main competition. The previously…

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Direct Like a Woman: Great Films Made by Female Filmmakers

What better way to celebrate International Women’s Day than to sit down and watch some excellent films directed by some extremely talented women. This is a…

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100 Not Nominated For Oscars – Part 11

Remembering the day after the night before in 2015 when it was Birdhood versus Boyman, but there will be no talk of the twelve year…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017: Day Ten Program

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

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Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017 – Line-Up Announced

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…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Middle of Nowhere

DAY THREE Sunday 4th September 2016 (all-day event) Film: Middle of Nowhere Femme Filmmaker: Ava DuVernay A hit at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival where…

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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #1

So my site, or at least a few pieces in particular, has been mentioned in a couple of great sites which, more than anything else,…

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