Awards

2023 Awards, Awards, International Films, Interviews, LatinX

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Lila Avilés shows us how a young girl experiences the world in her award-winning sophomore feature, “Tótem”

by Rebecca Martin

February 8, 2024

Like Jonathan Demme did seamlessly, respectively in “Rachel Getting Married,” Lila Avilés (“The Chambermaid”) immerses us in a specific time and space full of people that resemble a family, which

2023 Awards, 2023 Films, Awards, Profile

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Cinema Femme’s Top Ten Films of 2023

by cinemafemme

December 14, 2023

This year has been a celebration of thought-provoking films, and audiences have been showing their gratitude for them by leaving their streaming platforms at home and going to the movies.

2023 Films, Awards, Profile

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BEYOND BARBIE: Ten must-see films now playing, including the new Joyce Carol Oates doc, Linh Tran’s feature debut, and the sensual coming-of-age gem “Piaffe”

by Rebecca Martin

September 7, 2023

Besides Greta Gerwig’s history-making “Barbie,” which became both the highest-grossing film of the year as well as the highest-grossing film directed by a woman, another of the most pleasurable experiences

Awards, Chicago, Film Festivals

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Video Interview: Chicago Spotlight award-winner Margaret Kellas on her film “this is not the morning i thought i was going to have”

by Rebecca Martin

May 15, 2023

Margaret Kellas, director of the short “this is not the morning i thought i was going to have,” is the recipient of the 2023 Cinema Femme Short Film Fest Chicago

Awards, Film Festivals, Short Films

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Encore! Watch our 2023 AWARDED shorts this weekend (5/12 – 5/14)!

by cinemafemme

May 12, 2023

With the success of our first hybrid (in-person and online) film festival, we wanted to bring back some of our shorts for one last weekend! All of these films received an

2022 Awards, Awards, Sexual Assault Awareness, Trailer Release

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New Trailer release: “Palm Trees and Power Lines,” coming to theaters and VOD on March 3rd

by cinemafemme

February 6, 2023

Jamie Dack’s directorial feature debut “Palm Trees and Power Lines” is a revelation in the way she cinematically captures the delicate complexity and vulnerability of being a teenage girl, lost

2022 Films, Awards

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Cinema Femme Top 50 Films of 2022 – full feature coming soon

by cinemafemme

December 21, 2022

What a year it has been! Next month we will have our full feature with all of our writers’ input on why they chose these films for our top list.

2022 Films, Awards, Chicago International Film Festival, Interviews, Sexual Assault Awareness

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Sarah Polley runs toward the danger in her directorial comeback, “Women Talking”

by Rebecca Martin

December 19, 2022

One of the most surreal experiences I had this year was meeting one of my favorite filmmakers, Sarah Polley. I had the opportunity to interview Sarah for my coverage of

2022 Awards, Awards, Indie Films, Interviews

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Gotham Award Winner Gracija Filipović on Starring in Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s “Murina”

by Matt Fagerholm

December 8, 2022

Of all the categories at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, the one that voters seem to get right year after year is the one devoted to promising young talent. In

Awards, Documentaries, Interviews, Profile

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Abigail Fuller’s latest doc “Shepherd’s Song” embraces visual cinematic approaches to non-narrative storytelling

by Dawn Borchardt

October 18, 2022

Filmmaker Abigail Fuller (“Chef’s Table”, “Do You Dream in Color?”) was the recipient of the 2019 The North Face’s Move Mountains Film Makers Grant that empowered her to hire female

2022 Awards, 2022 Films, Awards, Film Festivals, Profile, Toronto International Film Festival

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“So the privilege of being women filmmakers also comes with a heavy burden.” – Michelle Yeoh accepts the TIFF 2022 Share Her Journey Groundbreaker Award

by cinemafemme

September 15, 2022

“As women, we are privileged to work in one of the most open-minded and forward-thinking industries, yet women are still glaringly underrepresented in the top levels of our industry,” she

2022 Awards, 2023 Awards, Awards, Black History, Film Editing, Interviews

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Emmy-winning editor Stephanie Filo on making history with “A Black Lady Sketch Show”

by Rebecca Martin

August 19, 2022

I’ll admit that when I checked out Stephanie Filo’s IMDB page and her website, I was a little intimidated. I am always in awe of the women and non-binary people

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