Kristine Gerolaga
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FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Concealer creator Kristine Gerolaga

Kristine Gerolaga is the writer and director of Concealer, one of many great short films featuring at the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival. An unexpected take…

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Sophie B Jacques
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FemmeFilmFest20 interview: the visionary director behind Foyer, Sophie B Jacques

One of the most highly acclaimed short films to play as part of the Competition Selection at this year’s Femme Filmmakers Festival was Foyer, written…

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Anita Bruvere
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FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Anita Bruvere the director of the animated short film ‘Home’

Every year at the Femme Filmmakers Festival we are dazzled by the array of talent that shines through the endless techniques of animated short films….

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Just Me and You
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FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Just Me and You (Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers)

Just Me and You (Juste moi et toi) is a short, Canadian film directed by Sandrine Brodeur-Desrosiers. It takes us on a poignant journey between…

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Concealer
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FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Concealer (Kristine Gerolaga)

Concealer is an insightful short feature which proposes a very ambitious discussion of a pressing contemporary concern – falling victim to multi-level marketing schemes. At…

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Plyushchikha
Posted in Review Women

FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Three Poplars in Plyushchikha Street (Tatyana Lioznova)

Three Poplars in Plyushchikha Street (1968) is a Russian romantic-comedy, being a success for the Russian film industry with 26 million people seeing it in…

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Orlando
Posted in Women

The Power of the Confrontational Gaze in Orlando (Sally Potter, 1992) and The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, 2019)

A young man paces up and down, by a tree, reading poetry. The same young man interrupts himself in voiceover, overlapping the diegetic dialogue with…

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Girl in the Hallway
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FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Girl in the Hallway director Valerie Barnhart blows our mind with her first Animation

Valerie Barnhart’s Girl in the Hallway may have a short runtime, but the film is brimming with a stunning artistic vision that marks every frame….

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Daphne Lazou
Posted in Cinematography Festival Interview

FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Daphne Lazou, Director of Photography on ‘Diane Keaton’

Set entirely in one apartment, Georgia Michailidi’s short film ‘Diane Keaton‘ is shot by Daphne Lazou, the film’s Director of Photography. For the 5th Femme…

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Diane
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FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: Georgia Michailidi and her short film ‘Diane Keaton’

Filmotomy got the opportunity to speak to the write, producer and director of the short film, Diane Keaton, part of the Showcase Selection at the…

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Marie Antoinette
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FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola)

Growing up in the shadow of a father who crafted some of the most influential and talked about films of the 20th century, would likely…

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The Pregnant Ground
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FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Haolu Wang’s The Pregnant Ground

Pregnancy and birth are often not discussed in society, other than for the expected highlight reel: pregnancy announcement, gender reveal, baby name announcement, etc, etc,…

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Margarita Siotou
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FemmeFilmFest20 Interview: ‘Diane Keaton’ lead actress Margarita Siotou

Blessed with an array of interview opportunities for Georgia Michailidi’s short film ‘Diane Keaton‘ for the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival, the lead actress Margarita Siotou…

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Diane
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FemmeFilmFest20 Review: Diane Keaton (Georgia Michailidi)

Diane Keaton is a film about the anti-romanticism of being a muse. Of the impracticality of being sung or written about and the muse lacking…

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