Interview: Premiere Film Festival Jury prize winner Kimberly Spohn

by Rebecca Martin

July 10, 2024

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We got to speak with emerging filmmaker Kimberly Spohn about her short film “Day with a Dick,” which was the Jury Prize winner at the Premiere Film Festival that screened at the Music Box Theatre on May 31, 2024. Premiere is the annual student film festival hosted by DePaul University’s School of Cinematic Arts.

Kimberly is an award-winning writer and filmmaker with an MFA in screenwriting from DePaul University. Her recent short film she wrote, directed and starred in, “Day with a Dick,” has screened at Premiere Film Festival, winning Best Writing and the Jury’s Choice Award. She has worked on many projects as a writer, director, producer and actor. ​She is the host of How to Artist podcast with Bryant Jager. ​She was trained in Meisner acting technique at Maggie Flanigan Studio. She began her acting education at Temple University in Philadelphia. She studied stand-up comedy with Rick Crom at the Comedy Cellar.

Kimberly Spohn

Learn more about Kimberly: https://www.kimberlyspohn.com/, follow her on Instagram at @kimberlyrosecomedy.

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Rebecca Martin

Rebecca Martin is the Managing Editor of Cinema Femme magazine and the Festival Director of Cinema Femme Short Film Fest. She founded her publication in 2018 because she wanted to create a platform for female voices in the film community. She has hosted film screenings in Chicago, led virtual panel discussions, Q&As, is the Cinema Femme Short Films Director, and has covered festivals like the Chicago International Film Festival, Sundance, Tribeca, and the Bentonville Film Festival.

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