Film Festivals

Black History, Film Festivals, Interviews, Short Films

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Emerging filmmaker Tiffany Tenille tells her own fairy tale in “Albion Rose”

by Rebecca Martin

July 17, 2023

Tiffany Tenille is a phenomenal woman. She is an actress (as displayed in Numa Perrier’s “Jezebel”), writer and an emerging filmmaker. We were so honored to host the Chicago premiere

Documentaries, Film Festivals, Interviews

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Kate Stonehill Talks Citizens’ Surveillance, Violations of Human Rights in Her Unsettling Debut Doc “Phantom Parrot”

by Davide Abbatescianni

June 27, 2023

Cinema Femme caught up with Kate Stonehill, an award-winning director and DoP whose body of work explores power, identity and citizenship in the digital age. In her first documentary feature,

Film Festivals, Interviews, Short Films

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Palm Springs Shortfest 2023: Noam Argov talks about her mother/daughter drama short “SULAM” (“The Ladder”)

by Rebecca Martin

June 16, 2023

See “SULAM” (“The Ladder”) at 2:30 PM PST on 6/24, reserve your spot! Filmmaker Noam Argov will be in attendance! Rebecca Martin Fagerholm, Managing Editor, spoke with Cinema Femme Short Film

Film Festivals, Horror, Interviews, Short Films

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Palm Springs Shortfest 2023: Lola Blanc on her horror short “Pruning”

by Rebecca Martin

June 9, 2023

“Pruning” premieres at the Palm Springs International Shortfest on June 24, filmmaker Lola Blanc will be in attendance, learn more. Cinema Femme had the opportunity to speak with Lola Blanc

Film Festivals, International Films, Interviews, LGBTQ+

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Cannes 2023: Lillah Halla on her directorial debut “Levante (Power Alley)” and the beautiful team-process of filmmaking

by Rebecca Martin

May 23, 2023

I had the opportunity to speak with Lillah Halla (she/her/them) about her beautiful film “Levante,” which centers on a promising 17-year-old volleyball player named Sofia, who is faced with an

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

Film Festivals, reviews, Sexual Assault Awareness

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Cinema Femme Short Film Festival Critics’ Choice: “Caroline”review

by Peyton Robinson

May 9, 2023

Juli Del Prete and her short film “Caroline” was awarded the Critics’ Choice award for the 2023 Cinema Femme Short Film Festival. With their award recognition a review was written

Documentaries, Film Festivals, Interviews, Sexual Assault Awareness

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SXSW 2023: Putting a lens on digital image-based sexual abuse in directors Sophie Compton & Reuben Hamlyn and producer Elizabeth Woodward’s “Another Body”

by Rebecca Martin

March 24, 2023

I had the privilege of speaking with three artists and activists, directors Sophie Compton and Reuben Hamlyn as well as producer Elizabeth Woodward, about their impactful documentary, “Another Body.” Just

Black History, Film Festivals, Interviews

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Luchina Fisher on Her Captivating Documentary Short Subject, “Team Dream”

by Rebecca Martin

February 28, 2023

When I turned 36, I put together clips from films that I felt represented my life at that moment in time, and I broke it up into six parts. I

Film Festivals, International Films, Interviews

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Zero Chou on Writing and Directing White Terror-set, Female-Led Drama “Untold Herstory”

by Davide Abbatescianni

February 22, 2023

Cinema Femme met up with Taiwan’s Zero Chou, helmer of “Untold Herstory.” The feature, world-premiered in the Harbour section of this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (January 25-February 5), and

essay, Film Festivals, International Films, personal essay, reviews

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Dhaka International Film Festival 2023: Female Characters in the Modern Bengali Cinema

by Elena Rubashevskaja

February 14, 2023

The festival year started for me in a most unexpected way, on January 14, 2023, I landed in Bangladesh, a place I’d never been before and would not have normally

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