Tag: Female Filmmaker
Interview: Screenwriter, Ella Valentine Discusses Her New Film, Revolution X
Writer and Screenwriter, Ella Valentine discusses her new film, Revolution X and her screenwriting journey so far. From her beginnings to her new film, Revolution X, which is streaming on Apple TV in North America right now. Ella’s new magazine, Horror Valentine’s is dedicated for women in Thriller and Horror.
‘Aftersun’ (2022), ‘How to Have Sex’ (2023) and the Dreams and Nightmares of the British Package Holiday
British tourists have always had a reputation. Since the days of Byron, Shelley and Keats in Geneva and Italy and the Grand Tour which wealthy…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Petite Maman (Céline Sciamma)
Autumn in its full glory is celebrated to the fullest in Petite Maman. It is a charming, delightful film from renowned French filmmaker Céline Sciamma…
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.
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Heat Spell (Marie-Pier Dupuis)
Heat Spell, written and directed with such an assured poise by Marie-Pier Dupuis, is yet another flourishing example of the kind of high quality short…
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.
Femme Filmmakers Festival Spotlight: Larisa Shepitko – Wings Of Ascension
One of the most influential figures of the film from the Soviet Union is a woman nearly forgotten to film history. With Eisenstein, Tarkovsky, Dovzhenko,…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: ‘The Rider’ Is A Beautiful Slice of Tragic Americana
The Western is a genre that has been reinvented time and time again. Many creatives have interpolated the classic American genre but no modern interpretation…
9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Classic Short Weekend: Land Without Evil (Katalin Egely)
What a journey this is. Katalin Egely, an extremely well-travelled Hungarian filmmaker, incorporates her extensive prowess with animation story-telling to not only embrace the indefinable…
9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Classic Short Weekend: Aria (Myrsini Aristidou)
The Cannes Film Festival get Rosetta so the Femme Filmmakers Festival get Aria. The comparisons to the Dardennes’ Palme d’Or winning drama are clear as…
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…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Goodbye First Love (Mia Hansen-Løve)
First loves can be sweet and fleeting, or intense and tumultuous. Goodbye First Love, the 2011 third feature from director Mia Hansen-Løve, lands in the…
9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Classic Short Weekend: Ghazaal (Ragini Bhasin)
Wherever we live in this world, or wherever we have been, seldom few of us can share our experiences of being a thirteen year-old girl…
9th Femme Filmmakers Festival Classic Short Weekend: Control (Alison Becker, Kimmy Gatewood)
In Kimmy Gatewood‘s masterful short film Control, the protagonist’s immaculate attention to detail is a truly admirable strength as well as a sign of her…