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by Rebecca Martin
May 29, 2024
“Tell That to the Winter Sea” is a masterfully crafted journey into womanhood, filled with captivating performances, stunning visuals and assured direction. The film brings me back to being a
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by Rebecca Martin
May 22, 2024
My Great Grandmother was a maid at the Chicago Athletic Club in the early 1900s. She would collect the cigar wrappers that were left behind and make them into beautiful
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by Rebecca Martin
May 14, 2024
“As a filmmaker, my work has shed light on underrepresented people and stories. Films like ‘Enormous Changes,’ ‘Nobody’s Girls,’ ‘Last Dance,’ ‘The Only Real Game,’ and ‘No Fear No Favor,’ got
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by Rebecca Martin
April 19, 2024
I recently had the opportunity to speak with local film industry powerhouse Chris (Christine) Dudley, the Executive Director of the Illinois Production Alliance. Along with other leading Chicago-based women in
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by Ashley Shelton
April 11, 2024
When I think about the region where I am from, many words come to mind. Some positive, some negative. In geographical terms the south is beautiful. My home, Tennessee, captures
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by Matt Fagerholm
April 9, 2024
One of the finest female ensembles in recent years can be found in Bertrand Bonello’s 2011 masterwork, “House of Pleasures,” originally titled “L’Apollonide” in France, the name of the Parisian
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by Rebecca Martin
April 5, 2024
Our country is divided politically. This is no new news. I live in Chicago, which is predominately on the liberal side of politics, but when you drive into the farm
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by Rebecca Martin
March 29, 2024
I had the opportunity to speak with Zurich native Barbara Kulcsar about her uplifting film “Golden Years,” written by Swiss writer and filmmaker Petra Volpe. The film is about a
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by Rebecca Martin
March 27, 2024
To celebrate the release of the film, we bring back our 2023 New Orleans Film Festival interview (originally posted on 11/2/23) with filmmaker Nailah Jefferson about her feature documentary “Commuted,”
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by Rebecca Martin
March 18, 2024
Lizzie Borden’s films are coming to the Siskel Film Center this month! To celebrate her arrival in Chicago, and her upcoming program set to stream next month on the Criterion
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by Rebecca Martin
March 18, 2024
Cinema Femme had the opportunity to speak with actor/writer Jessica Sharples and producer/director Sam Miller about their short film “Hostile Exchange.” Support their project here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-femaleled-short-film-hostile-exchange FOR IMMEDIATE
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by Rebecca Martin
March 15, 2024
Stunt coordinating has been a part of filmmaking since the beginning, and it’s such an integral part of bringing magic to the screen. For example, I can’t help but think
