Coralie Fargeat
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Filmotomy Podcast 88: With Special Guest, Coralie Fargeat, Director of Revenge

Filmotomy’s third Podcast during the Femme Filmmakers Festival is a bloody special one. Pun intended. Robin Write is the lucky blighter joined not only by…

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Capernaum Nadine Labaki
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FemmeFilmFest Review: Capernaum, Nadine Labaki

With its award-winning streak and Oscar nominations Capernaum is a film that evidently a hit with critics and cinema goers alike with something bold to…

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Tigers Are Not Afraid Issa López
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Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #39: Watch Issa López’s Tigers Are Not Afraid Now on Shudder

Many of the film lovers of the universe didn’t perhaps even know you were anticipating this wonder. After a terrific theatrical run, an ever increasing…

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Day Eight
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FemmeFilmFest Interview: Kitty Faingold, director of the vivid animation, Body World

Body World, directed by Kitty Faingold, is an unforgettable venture through the inner workings of the human vessel. Imagery so permanently etched on our brains,…

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Day Eight
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Day Eight of the Femme Filmmakers Film Festival Might be the busiest yet

You want another podcast, you got it. More interviews, sure. Plenty of reviews coming your way too. Day Eight of FemmeFilmFest combines the feature genre…

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FemmeFilmFest Review: Short Film Thanksgiving directed by Van B. Nguyen

Van B. Nguyen’s Thanksgiving focuses on Ma (Elyse Dinh) while she prepares and hosts a holiday meal. And it is a beautiful, observant little film, about fitting in…

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Nancy
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FemmeFilmFest Review: Christina Choe’s Nancy (2018)

Film history has been impacted by a number of Anglo female characters with various mental disturbances and obsessions. Bette Davis in Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)….

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Rosanna Jimenez
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FemmeFilmFest Interview: Hyphen Actress Rosanna Jiménez

Four illuminating, radiant faces of different ages shine on the screen in Maria Servellon’s wonderful short film, Hyphen. One of those faces is, of course,…

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Lola Rose Bond
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FemmeFilmFest Interview: EVE director Lola Rose Bond and her leading lady Lisa Hughes

At 17 years old, Lola Bond is an Aussie filmmaker and actor with big ambitions and a firm future in the creative arts. “The Eulogy”…

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Nancy
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Day Seven of the FemmeFimFest is another Diverse Bunch of Films

Day Seven already of the Femme Filmmakers Festival. More of the same format-wise, but new avenues to explore for sure. There is even a music…

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Lissa Deonarain
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FemmeFilmFest Interview: Hyphen Producer Lissa Deonarain

From speaking to Lissa Deonarain, one of the producers of Maria Servellon’s serenely captivating short film, Hyphen, I was reminded that these behind the scenes…

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FemmeFilmFest Review: Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman (2017)

Ever wonder (no pun intended) the origin of a comic book superhero? Angela Robinson‘s Professor Marston and the Wonder Woman tells us how Dr. William…

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On Her Shoulders
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FemmeFilmFest Review: Alexandria Bombach’s Powerful Documentary On Her Shoulders

There is a deeply unsettling feeling that the truly empathetic experiences when informed of atrocities, regardless of the medium of conveyance. Documentary filmmaking, with or…

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Maria Servellon
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Filmotomy Podcast 87: Hyphen Short Film Director, Maria Servellon, and Composer, Monica Lyrae, at FemmeFilmFest

As the Femme Filmmakers Festival hits Day Six, the Filmotomy Podcast showcases one of the short films in competition, Hyphen. Joining Robin Write is the…

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