Tag: Film Festival
74th Festival de Cannes: Here are the Films of the Official Selection
Just hours ago, on an early June morning in Paris, Thierry Frémaux and Pierre Lescure announced the films coming our way at the 74th Festival…
Hot Docs 21 Review: I’m Wanita (Matthew Walker)
The documentary chronicles Wanita Bahtiyar’s journey in to record her musically diverse album in Nashville, New Orleans, and Memphis. Wanita is a binge-drinker, cigarette smoker,…
Hot Docs 21 Review: Bank Job (Daniel Edelstyn, Hilary Powell)
One of the most important documentaries you could see this year explores the relationship between everyday people and the banking industry. The system is meant…
6th Femme Filmmakers Festival Open For Submissions – and Official Poster Revealed
It seems to be earlier and earlier each and every year that we embark on the Femme Filmmakers Festival in the ultimate preparation for the…
SXSW 2021 Dispatch: Islands; Poly Styrene: I am a Cliché; Swan Song
Poly Styrene: I am a Cliché (2021, Paul Sng, Celeste Bell) Born Marianne Joan Elliott-Said she rechristened herself as Poly Styrene when she became a new wave/punk…
SXSW 2021 Dispatch: Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil; United States vs. Reality Winner; The End of Us
Demi Lovato: Dancing with the Devil (2021, Michael D. Ratner) The trigger warnings at the beginning of these four episodes don’t even begin to prepare you…
SXSW 2021 Dispatch: Hysterical; Executive Order; Introducing, Selma Blair
Introducing, Selma Blair (2021, Rachel Fleit) Supporting actress Selma Blair is known to late-1990s and early-2000s audiences who have seen her from everything to Cruel Intentions to Legally…
Allison’s Full Sundance 2021 Coverage
The editor-in-chief at Filmotomy would like to personally thank Allison for not only the extensive coverage of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, but also for…
Sundance 2021 Review: The World To Come
An adaptation of a short story by Jim Shepard, The World to Come meanders through Upstate New York in the mid-19th century. Mona Fastvold’s film…
Sundance 2021 Review: Summer of Soul
Acclaimed musician turned director, Ahmir-Khalib Thompson presents us with “A Qwestlove Jawn”. After a slew of assassinations including John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther…
Sundance 2021 Review: Cryptozoo
Dash Shaw has spent his career experimenting with various visual mediums and unique forms of storytelling with his newest feature Cryptozoo being no different. Premiering…
Sundance 2021 Review: In the Same Breath
With films like One Child Nation, I Am Another You, and Hooligan Sparrow, Nanfu Wang was already on her way to becoming legendary. In the Same Breath opens with a…
Sundance 2021 Review: The Most Beautiful Boy in the World
It is the 50-year anniversary of Lucino Visconti’s film Death in Venice. A film that circled festivals and garnered plenty of praise from critics and…
Sundance 2021 Review: Writing with Fire
As a female journalist, is it easy just to read the statistics and see the small implications of being female in this industry from the…
