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Filmotomy Podcast Episode 45: Female Filmmaker Favorites

Podcast 45 brings together Robin and host Bianca once again, along with yet another new, fresh face to proceedings. Audrey Fox of 1001moviesandbeyond.com jumps in…

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Directed By Women September – Player: Rose Leslie in Honeymoon

Honeymoon is an underrated science fiction thriller/horror, which needs more attention. The film is directed by Leigh Janiak as her feature film directorial debut. As…

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Directed By Women September – Location: Winter's Bone

Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone takes place in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, where teenage Ree (Jennifer Lawrence) is trying to provide for her household: her…

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Filmotomy Podcast Episode 44: Female Filmmakers – Past, Present, and Future

Episode 44 marks the very first time the Filmotomy Podcast has an all female line-up. The topic of conversation is the history of female filmmakers,…

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Directed By Women September – Player: Dark River (2017)

Clio Barnard’s follow-up to the brilliant The Selfish Giant, is the psychological drama Dark River, which deals with the effects of post traumatic stress disorder,…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Interview: Morgan Gruer Mixes Animation With Live Action

The Maya Deren Short Film Innovation Prize — WINNER — Morgan Gruer – “for excellent, emotive hand-drawn animation with Reflections, and incorporating her vibrant talent…

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Kati Egely’s Land Without Evil and Myrsini Aristidou’s Aria take High Honors at the Femme Filmmakers Festival

The short film prizes for the 3rd annual Femme Filmmakers Festival were announced earlier today. Hungarian Kati Egely and Cypriot Myrsini Aristidou took several honors, with…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Ten Program, Sunday 16th September

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Ten Program, Sunday 16th September Short Film Prizes Online Announcement Online roll of honor prize ceremony. The winners of the 13…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Alice Rohrwacher's The Wonders

When Italian filmmaker, Alice Rohrwacher, came to the stage to collect the Grand Prize of the Jury, for Le Meraviglie (The Wonders) at Cannes in…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Eva Husson’s Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)

Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story), or as the French like to call it, Bang Gang (une histoire d’amour moderne), is the debut of Eva…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Caramel (Nadine Labaki)

A romantic comedy set in Beirut, Caramel is a decadent piece of foreign cinema that significantly grows on you as you start to feel its…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The Greatest Luxury (Kathryn Ferguson)

The Greatest Luxury, Kathryn Ferguson’s vibrant, bold short docu-commercial, or this arty presentation of the fashion biz, or even a surreal promo of sartorial splendor,…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Morgan Gruer’s Reflections

Reflections, is an astonishing, stunning 2D animated film composed of approximately 1,100 individual drawings. It’s an absolute delight to watch, and will leave the viewer awestruck….

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Nine Program, Saturday 15th September

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Nine Program, Saturday 15th September The Greatest Luxury (Kathryn Ferguson) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo 252719177 w=640 h=360] –…

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