Tag: directed by women
Animation and Canadian Short Films Win Spread of Awards at 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Films from H264 Distribution (winner of the Special Contribution prize) were heavy in numbers but it was Sacrebleu Productions (last year’s recipient of the Special…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Bergman Island (Mia Hansen-Løve)
For an artist, whether you create on the shoulders of giants or in their shadow is all a matter of perspective. In Bergman Island, married…
FemmeFilmFest7 Interview: An Extensive Chat With ‘Assembly Line of Broken Hearts’ Creator JC Farris
Picking the brains of someone like filmmaker JC Farris is pretty much like opening a Pandora’s box of creative infection. Her latest short film, Assembly…
Welcome to Day Ten of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Day Ten of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival signifies the last leg of this amazing race. Those ten days have flew by. And no doubt…
FemmeFilmFest7 Interview: Animator Katalin Egely Returns to the Fest to Talk About ‘When It Comes From the Earth’
It’s fair to say that Hungarian born animator, Katalin Egely, is like part of the furniture at the Femme Filmmakers Festival. This year marks her…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Céu de Agosto // August Sky (Jasmin Tenucci)
Many great films confound and delight, but barely convey their message in two hours. So how has director Jasmin Tenucci managed to make August Sky…
FemmeFilmFest7 Director Roundtable: Dayna Reggero, Olivia Martin-McGuire, Cansu Boğuşlu, Lynn Tomlinson Talk Exclusively to Robin Write
Being the only male in a ‘room’ full of women is an intimidating wonder at the best of times, but when they are as talented…
Welcome to Day Nine of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
It’s my festival I can cry if I want to, cry if I want to. Not quite at the final curtain, but we have landed…
FemmeFilmFest7 Interview: We speak to ‘Down From the Clouds’ Director Cansu Boğuşlu
Let me just say first of all without any bias that the short film submitted by Cansu Boğuşlu to this year’s Femme Filmmakers Festival is…
FemmeFilmFest7 Interview: Former Directing Prize Winner Sophie B Jacques Returns to Talk About Cemetery
What an honour it was having Sophie B Jacques return to the Femme Filmmakers Festival after a few years since the brilliant Foyer, which won…
Welcome to Day Eight of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Well it’s been a long week. Yet somehow it zoomed by. Which reminds me, do look out for the Femme Filmmakers Festival Director Roundtable we…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Laundry Day (Rose E Knopper)
Current, moving and relevant, Laundry Day gently opens a conversation which a lot of people are likely to want and/or need to have in our…
Welcome to Day Seven of the 7th Femme Filmmakers Festival
I’m fairly certain there are no films made by God or Bergman in today line-ups so don’t be fooled by the feature film titles on…
FemmeFilmFest7 Interview: Planet Prescription Creator Dayna Reggero Speaks to Filmotomy
Dayna Reggero is a passionate and infectious soul. Her documentaries and projects outside of film show a genuine concern for the human beings and the…
