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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Six Program, Wednesday 12th September

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Six Program, Wednesday 12th September Creswick (Natalie Erika James) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo 265695677 w=640 h=360] – –…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Listening Eyes (Julie Colly)

There’s a beautiful opening shot in Julie Colly’s award-winning, Si Tu T’imagines (Listening Eyes), of a girl’s hand holding an orange aloft in the daytime…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Daniéla de Lange talks to Filmotomy about diving into Animation

With the Femme Filmmakers Festival taking to the deep end, now five days in, animation director Daniéla de Lange stopped by, to answer some of our…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The Diver (Daniela De Lange)

This quirky short animated film is about a young women who is insecure and self-conscious about her passion for diving. What the diver does, and…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Under the Skin (Carine Adler)

Carine Adler’s 1997 drama, Under the Skin, stars Samantha Morton in her debut role as Iris Kelly. A young, curious woman, who dives headfirst into…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay)

Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar is a film that is quite unexpected and unusual, this isn’t a criticism of the film but rather praise. The film…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Five Program, Tuesday 11th September

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Five Program, Tuesday 11th September Listening Eyes (Julie Colly) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo 270210472 w=640 h=360] – –…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoni)

When a film sets out to tell the story of a young girl, who is essentially abducted and forced to live in a Zambian witch…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Exclusive Q&A with Fry Day director Laura Moss

It was sheer coincidence, or perhaps a touch of fate, that the day we scheduled Fry Day in the Femme Filmmakers Festival, director Laura Moss…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Laura Moss’ Fry Day

It is the night of Ted Bundy’s execution, and an entrepreneurial teenager decides to make a quick buck selling Polaroids of those attending. These are…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Awakenings (Penny Marshall)

Based upon the memoir of the same name by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings (1990) revisits the summer of ‘69 – when Sacks explored ways in which…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Mrs. Poucheau director Amanda Lago talks to Filmotomy

Here at Filmotomy, we have been aware of the short film, Mrs. Poucheau, by Amanda Lago, for a good few months. We saw it back…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Mrs. Poucheau

First published March 21st 2018 At some point in our lives, we will inevitably experience the loss of a loved one. It’s a sad and…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Four Program, Monday 10th September

Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Four Program, Monday 10th September Any queries about the streams, like availability, please contact us right away. Fry Day (Laura Moss)…

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