“The Novice” is the feature directorial debut from accomplished sound artist Lauren Hadaway. The film follows college student Alex (Isabelle Fuhrman), who finds herself obsessing over whatever she puts her mind toward. Her new focus becomes being a collegiate rower and wanting to move up […]
Cinema Femme attended a press conference with the team behind “7 Days” which premiered at the Tribeca Festival on Thursday, June 10th. We asked some questions, and we’d like to share our exchange with star Geraldine Viswanathan. “7 Days” was shot during the pandemic and […]
I was fortunate to speak with “Holler” director Nicole Riegel and star Jessica Barden (“The End of the F***ing World”, “Pink Skies Ahead”) about their film that comes to select theaters and On Demand today. I talked to them separately, so the format of the […]
“Catch the Fair One” premieres at Tribeca on June 13th, and Cinema Femme was fortunate to speak with co-producers Kimberly Parker (“The Last Black Man in San Francisco”) and Academy Award-Winner Mollye Asher (“Nomadland”) about their film. “Catch the Fair One” is about former pro […]
When people collaborate, it’s a beautiful thing, especially when it’s a team of people who are passionate about the same cause. In this case, it’s bringing an awareness to mental illness on the screen in a real and creative way. I share this passion with […]
We had a pleasant virtual chat with Danish filmmaker Pernille Rose Grønkjær, who spoke about her latest thought-provoking documentary, entitled “Solutions.” The film world-premiered at this year’s CPH:DOX (April 21-May 12 2021), one of Europe’s largest gatherings celebrating documentary cinema, where it won the Nordic:Dox […]
Actor/writer Elliot Frances Flynn (“Shoplifters of the World”, “Mare of Easttown”), is an emerging talent who has been a strong supporter of Cinema Femme over the past year, and I’ve gotten to know her more through our social media and virtual events. This year, she […]
Artificial intelligence and science-fiction have gone hand-in-hand for a long time onscreen, from “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) and the “Terminator” films to “The Matrix” (1999), “Minority Report” (2002) and “Ex Machina” (2014). Since AI has infiltrated more and more of our present reality, taking […]
For AAPI Heritage month we bring back our interview with Lynn Chen about her film “I Will Make You Mine” from May 2020. Watch feature here. Imagine that you are listening to a record. It’s a good tune, one that you really savored during a […]
Sixteen years after her debut feature, 2005’s crowd-pleasing documentary, “Mad Hot Ballroom,” showed us how the art of dance transformed the lives of elementary schoolers throughout New York City, filmmaker Marilyn Agrelo has returned with the definitive cinematic portrait of the most beloved children’s television […]
*The following interview was conducted at the end of December 2019 and was featured on cinemafemme.com on January 2020. We are bringing the interview back for our site because she is stepping down from her role as CEO at the Swedish Film Institute. We are […]
Filmmaker Patricia Vidal Delgado (“La Leyenda Negra”), who served as the mentor for our Inaugural Short Film Festival, suggested I reach out to Italian filmmaker and actor Cecilia Abertini as a potential candidate for a future program mentor. Knowing little about her at that time, […]