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Femme Filmmakers Festival Interview: Morgan Gruer Mixes Animation With Live Action

The Maya Deren Short Film Innovation Prize — WINNER — Morgan Gruer – “for excellent, emotive hand-drawn animation with Reflections, and incorporating her vibrant talent…

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Kati Egely’s Land Without Evil and Myrsini Aristidou’s Aria take High Honors at the Femme Filmmakers Festival

The short film prizes for the 3rd annual Femme Filmmakers Festival were announced earlier today. Hungarian Kati Egely and Cypriot Myrsini Aristidou took several honors, with…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Ten Program, Sunday 16th September

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Ten Program, Sunday 16th September Short Film Prizes Online Announcement Online roll of honor prize ceremony. The winners of the 13…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Alice Rohrwacher's The Wonders

When Italian filmmaker, Alice Rohrwacher, came to the stage to collect the Grand Prize of the Jury, for Le Meraviglie (The Wonders) at Cannes in…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Eva Husson’s Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)

Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story), or as the French like to call it, Bang Gang (une histoire d’amour moderne), is the debut of Eva…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Caramel (Nadine Labaki)

A romantic comedy set in Beirut, Caramel is a decadent piece of foreign cinema that significantly grows on you as you start to feel its…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The Greatest Luxury (Kathryn Ferguson)

The Greatest Luxury, Kathryn Ferguson’s vibrant, bold short docu-commercial, or this arty presentation of the fashion biz, or even a surreal promo of sartorial splendor,…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Morgan Gruer’s Reflections

Reflections, is an astonishing, stunning 2D animated film composed of approximately 1,100 individual drawings. It’s an absolute delight to watch, and will leave the viewer awestruck….

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Nine Program, Saturday 15th September

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Nine Program, Saturday 15th September The Greatest Luxury (Kathryn Ferguson) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo 252719177 w=640 h=360] –…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Special Podcast with Kate Lefoe / Plunge Review

[vimeo 275360568 w=640 h=360] Two women (Juliet Hindmarsh & Jeni Bezuidenhout) go into the countryside together to have fun at a lake, but then something…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Nora Twomey Shares the Making of the Masterful Animation The Breadwinner 

The Breadwinner, from Irish director Nora Twomey (I love Song of the Sea), is a rich, vibrant tapestry following the small footsteps of a girl…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review – Night (Joosje Duk)

Night starts off as a seemingly innocent film, two girls (Rachel Hilson & Genelva Krin) are getting ready for a night out, doing their make-up…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Many consider Walt Disney’s 1937 animation Snow White and the Seven Dwarves to be the first feature length animated film, when in fact it was…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Eight Program, Friday 14th September

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Eight Program, Friday 14th September Night (Joosje Duk) *** Film Short Official Selection *** – – – – – Plunge (Kate…

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