Tag: Female Filmmaker
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Confessions (Stephanie Kaznocha)
Once you understand the tone of Stephanie Kaznocha‘s Confessions, you’ll soon realize how much fun a pair of old ladies can be. And when they…
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 Short Film Review: Give It To Me (Courtney Hope Therond)
One pleasure of watching and reviewing the work of burgeoning female filmmakers is the juxtaposition you feel in how sexual relationships are portrayed in their…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Happy for You (Courtney Hope Therond)
What drives people to find success in their careers can be traced to many factors. Sometimes it’s as simple as seeking a loved one’s approval….
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Lizard (Emily Gularte)
While many filmmakers choose to romanticize childhood in their work, it takes an adept hand to craft a story that draws out the suffering and…
Animation Legend Katalin Egely Talks To Us For The 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival
What a pleasure it is to have super-talented animator Katalin Egely back at the Femme Filmmakers Festival. This marks her 4th time at the event,…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Water Ashes (Katalin Egely)
At one point in this film the words “estamos a tiempo” appear, which roughly translate to “in due time.” Water Ashes is very much about…
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…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Short Film Review: Hands (Lara Haciosmanoglu)
When you first watch the short film Hands, made by Chicago-based film student, Lara Haciosmanoglu, it is fairly easy to pick at the bones of…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Laggies (Lynn Shelton)
With her first (and only) fully scripted feature length film, director Lynn Shelton took audiences on a journey which captures the timeless experience of one’s…
Talking Sofia Coppola at the 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival
I am joined by Morgan Roberts to talk about the films of Sofia Coppola. This was on the back of Morgan’s Letteboxd ranking that she…
Read the Official Program Guide for the 9th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Program time! The countdown is over! It’s today! Oh my. The 9th edition of the Femme Filmmakers Festival has hurtled through its prepping stages with…
Full Line-Up of the Femme Filmmakers Festival 9th Edition
Another superb array of short film submissions (thank you Film Freeway) have made the line-up process a completely joyful breeze for the 9th Femme Filmmakers…
