Tag: Female Filmmaker
Review: Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir (2019)
In the opening of The Souvenir, we are gifted some black and white footage of Sunderland, a northern English city, as Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne…
EIFF Exclusive Review: Body at Brighton Rock
Body at Brighton Rock is a horror film. However, it’s not a very well executed one. There are a lot of jump scares in all…
EIFF Exclusive Review: Justine
This year’s Edinburgh Film Festival saw 43% of the films that made up the festival’s program being directed by a female filmmaker. While not every…
EIFF Exclusive Review: Love Type D
I shall start this review off with a confession, I have never really been a fan of the rom-com genre. Often I find these films…
EIFF Exclusive Review: Alice
On paper, Josephine Mackerras’ Alice sounds like a film we’ve all seen before. The story of a mild-mannered housewife/mother who becomes a high-end escort in…
Femme Filmmakers Festival: Middle of Nowhere
DAY THREE Sunday 4th September 2016 (all-day event) Film: Middle of Nowhere Femme Filmmaker: Ava DuVernay A hit at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival where…
Femme Filmmakers Festival – Line-Up Announced
Following Netflix taking The Hurt Locker, City of God, and Una Noche from their streaming service recently, I was near-devastated that I could not include those movies directed by…
