Posted in Festival Interview Women

Exclusive Interview with Marta Genova from London Feminist Film Festival

Here at Filmotomy, we are keen supporters on female filmmakers, and are all in agreement that women need more opportunity in film. We were giving…

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Alice in Wanderland: Why Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore is More Than Just a “Woman’s Picture.”

Despite having an impressive filmography Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) remains Martin Scorsese’s first and only film starring a female protagonist, but regardless of the gender…

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Posted in Director Women

Direct Like a Woman: Great Films Made by Female Filmmakers

What better way to celebrate International Women’s Day than to sit down and watch some excellent films directed by some extremely talented women. This is a…

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Posted in Oscars

For Your Consideration: Wonder Woman, Best Picture

Wonder Woman, the film, mercifully ticks all the big screen entertainment boxes here. Gracefully progressing from one crucial sequence to the next, the comic book…

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Rachel Morrison Makes History With The American Society Of Cinematographers Awards Nominations

After the amazing work he’s done over the years, it looks like Hoyte Von Hoytema is finally on track to get his first Oscar nomination…

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Posted in Oscars Women

For Your Consideration: Rachel Morrison, Best Cinematography, MUDBOUND

This is the closest a woman has gotten to being nominated for an Oscar in that impenetrable fortress of a category. As Morrison said when she was accepting her Kodak Vision Award in 2013, “It baffles me how women remain such a minority in an industry whose primary currency is visualizing human emotion….”

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Posted in Acting Women

Of Color, Creed, Culture, Country Of Origin: 21 Of The Very Best Lead Actresses From 2017

Its a sad look that there’s no WOC in this pic of us promoting our female lead films. The industry needs to become more inclusive…

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Posted in Awards Season Women

Women Film Critics Circle Honor Angelina Jolie's Foreign Language Film 'First They Killed My Father'

The Women Film Critics Circle (or WFCC) are the big wigs of the female critics association of women critics. A group of women writers, scholars,…

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