Tag: Film Festival
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 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 #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…
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Diary #2
The first Saturday, Sunday, and Monday of TIFF, days three-through-five, are typically when the biggest premieres happen. And true to form, of the 8 ½…
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) Diary #1
Welcome to TIFF, where more than 200 features will play over 11 days. Some have already premiered at the year’s other major fests—Sundance, Berlin, Cannes,…
63rd BFI London Film Festival (LFF) Announces Programme for 2019
Honestly, my mouth was watering long before the BFI London Film Festival were to announce their official programme for the 2019 line-up. And now, quite…
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2019 – The Full Short and Feature Film Line-Up is Here
Firstly, thank you to Melanie Belmonte, the Femme Filmmakers Festival Delegate, who was a huge part of selecting these films. And boy, was it tough….
