Tag: documentary
No Other Land Wins Best Feature at International Documentary Association Awards
No Other Land has been named Best Feature by the International Documentary Association at the 40th Annual IDA Documentary Awards. The film also won Best…
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story Documentary Review
Christopher Reeve is the ultimate Superman. Donning the red cape and boots. He’s known as Superman to the world but ‘dad’ to his children. After an equestrian accident in 1995 left him paralysed, Christopher Reeve’s journey took on a different meaning. Super/Man looks behind the hero in the cape.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story Dominates 9th Critics Choice Documentary Awards
Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui’s Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story has dominated the 9th Critics Choice Documentary Awards with six wins for Best Documentary Feature…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Interview: An In-depth Conversation with ‘Makeover Movie’ Director, Sue Ding
Writer, Editor and Director of Makeover Movie, Sue Ding discusses her film background, movie influences and the typical makeover movie montages seen in so many Hollywood Rom-Coms. The playful editing of this essay-style film covers pop-culture references from Old Hollywood to modern cinema. Get to know Sue and the influences behind the making of Makeover Movie.
The Winners of the 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Competition
It’s the 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival hosted by Filmotomy. The selection showcases the amazing talent on display from female filmmakers. Now it is time to award the film prizes across several categories from Directing to Music. The top three prizes awarded are the Gold Sovereign, the Silver Sword and the Bronze Bell.
9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Classic Short Weekend: Hysterical Girl (Kate Novack)
The opening seconds of Kate Novack‘s terrific visual case study, Hysterical Girl, sifts your psyche through several potential discourses of film story-telling. A blizzard of…
9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Classic Short Weekend: Ninnoc (Niki Padidar)
Ninnoc’s pensive, sombre stare might be a burdened distraction from those big blue beautiful eyes. The echoes of children in the school halls is deliberately…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: On Her Shoulders (Alexandria Bombach)
Meet Nadia Murad, a Sinjar refugee, who has more scars than we can imagine during a lifetime – let alone on the shoulders of a…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Fire Of Love (Sara Dosa)
In the history of unusual subjects that create romantic couples, the story of this real-life volcanologist couple, Katia and Maurice Krafft, is towards the top…
Bobi Wine: The People’s President Wins Best Feature at International Documentary Association Awards
Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp’s Bobi Wine: The People’s President has been named Best Feature by the International Documentary Association at the 39th Annual IDA…
Femme Film Fest 23 Review: Fire of Love (Sara Dosa)
There are love stories that seem impossible to believe until you watch the living proof of it. It isn’t just photos, but a full archive…
Femme Film Fest 23 Review: Knock Down the House (Rachel Lears)
The initials AOC have certainly trended on numerous occasions on Twitter over the last 5 years or so. And even those of us not fully…
Day Three of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 2023
Diversity is a word we use a lot when we want to curate a selection of truly worthwhile films, both feature and short length. Films…
All That Breathes Named Best Feature by International Documentary Association
Shaunak Sen’s All That Breathes has been named Best Feature by the International Documentary Association at the 38th Annual IDA Documentary Awards. The film also…
