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Femme Filmmakers Festival Makes it to Day Five

Maegan, Molly, Danielle, Ann, Elizabeth. Those names are what a director sounds like. Just a handful of the ever-increasing female filmmakers, that happen to grace…

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Courtney Hope Thérond
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FemmeFilmFest: Filmmaker Courtney Hope Thérond talks to Filmotomy about The Dress You Have On

Relationship can be tough at the best of times. We learn about each other, not necessarily getting to decide which aspects of the other person…

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Day Four: What to Expect Today and a Playlist of What You Might Have Missed

That’s right. As Day Four of the Femme Filmmakers Festival arrives, I thought it would be a good time to not only tell you what…

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FemmeFilmFest Interview: Actress Krista Jensen on the Comedy Short It’s Been Too Long

It took me a while to figure out the romantic leads in It’s Been Too Long, Krista Jensen and David Ebert, are married in real…

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Family Portrait Kelly Holmes
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FemmeFilmFest Interview: Family Portrait Director Kelly Holmes on Being a Filmmaker, Period Pieces, and Collaboration

It might be fair to say that the detailed period setting of the short film, Family Portrait, may well be the most extensive and cinematic…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Thirteen
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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…

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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…

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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…

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Kimmy Gatewood
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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…

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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…

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FemmeFilmFest
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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…

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