Tag: FemmeFilmFest
FemmeFilmFest Review: Official Selection – Earth • People • Words (Dayna Reggero)
Documentaries have long been an opportunity for filmmakers to make a statement, using real people’s stories combined with pointed interviews. The medium has been used…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Day Three Already?
Welcome to Day Three of the 2019 Femme Filmmakers Festival. So what are you watching today? What have you watched so far? As always, plenty…
FemmeFilmFest Interview: Claire Fowler Talks to Filmotomy about her Wondrous Short Film ‘Salam’
As there is a review to follow during the Femme Filmmakers Festival, I am not going to delve too deeply in how first-rate the beautiful…
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #38: Thirteen (2003) by Catherine Hardwicke at FemmeFilmFest
Catherine Hardwicke made one the most emotive, honest motion pictures in 2003 with Thirteen. The screenplay was co-written with 14 year-old Nikki Reed, who plays…
FemmeFilmFest Interview: Dayna Reggero on her poetic journey with ‘Earth • People • Words’
One of 20 films in competition at the 4th Femme Filmmakers Festival is Earth • People • Words, a documentary short drawing it’s inspiration from…
FemmeFilmFest Interview: Sanna Lenken talks to Filmotomy about her moving debut feature My Skinny Sister
In 2015, Swedish filmmaker, Sanna Lenken, invited us to see her debut film, My Skinny Sister. You’ve not heard of it? Shame on you. An…
FemmeFilmFest Day Two is Better Late Than Never
Due to some unforeseen technical difficulties yesterday, Day Two of the Femme Filmmakers Festival is running behind. That’s not to say you are missing out…
FemmeFilmFest Interview: Kimmy Gatewood Speaks to Filmotomy on Creating ‘Control’
Suicide is not the first subject matter than springs to mind when you think of a comedy film, but director Kimmy Gatewood doesn’t shy away…
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #37: Sarah Gavron’s Suffragette at FemmeFilmFest
Perhaps one of the most apt films to feature at an event such as the Femme Filmmakers Festival is Sarah Gavron‘s 2015 period piece, Suffragette….
FemmeFilmFest: Roxy Rezvany’s Little Pyongyang
Directed by Roxy Rezvany, this documentary short tells the story of Joong-wha Choi, a North Korean immigrant living in London. He’s a member of one…
Reading, Writing, Arithmetic #36: Agnès Varda’s La Pointe Courte at FemmeFilmFest
Oh what a loss the Agnès Varda is. And how how poignant it feels to go all the way back to 1955, and her very…
Filmotomy Podcast 86: Emma Kreienberg and Nicole Palermo are Ballin’ With No Balls at the FemmeFilmFest
As the 4th Femme Filmmakers Festival kicks into its first day, the Filmotomy Podcast invites Emma Kreienberg and Nicole Palermo, the creators and performers behind…
4th Femme Filmmakers Festival Opens With Aurora Fearnley’s Pulsar
The 4th Femme Filmmakers Festival is finally here. On Day One we begin our three-day salute to the incomparable Agnès Varda, with the feature film…
Filmotomy Podcast 85: 4th Femme Filmmakers Festival Preview
With just seven days to go until the 4th Femme Filmmakers Festival, Robin invites two of this year’s jury members to talk about their experience…
