Tickets and VIP passes on sale NOW for the 2025 Cinema Femme Short Film Festival in Chicago from July 17 - 21!
Tickets and VIP passes on sale NOW for the 2025 Cinema Femme Short Film Festival in Chicago from July 17 - 21!
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by Matt Fagerholm
August 9, 2024
If only people had listened to her. She saw the warning signs while others kept repeatedly turning a blind eye, and now her only child is on the brink of
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by Rebecca Martin
August 2, 2024
The 20th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival starts next week on August 8th and runs until August 18th. The festival is Oscar-qualifying, and I will be cheering on our previously featured
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by Rebecca Martin
July 24, 2024
“Hot Water,” is a live-action short film created the talented duo Miles Gunter (comic writer for DC Vertigo, Dark Horse Entertainment, Image Comics and Amazon) and Cassie Kramer (credits include
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by Rebecca Martin
July 19, 2024
Oluwaseun Babalola is a force. I met her in 2019 when we talked about her docuseries “ṢOJU,” which focuses on a different niche of the African community around the world.
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by Rebecca Martin
July 10, 2024
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
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by Rebecca Martin
June 20, 2024
On the eve of her graduation from DePaul’s MFA Film and Directing program, I had the pleasure of speaking with emerging filmmaker Jewells Santos about her short film “Fatfish.” Jewells
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by Matt Fagerholm
June 3, 2024
Every once in a while, I come across a film that feels as if it has been made especially for me. That happened most recently at this year’s joyous in-person
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by Peyton Robinson
May 8, 2024
“[subtext]” is the recipient of the Critic’s Choice Award for the 2024 Cinema Femme Short Film Festival. This award is given by a film critic, and this year, the film
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by cinemafemme
May 7, 2024
On Thursday, May 2nd, at 2:00 PM Central, Festival Director Rebecca Martin Fagerholm and festival collaborators announced the award winners for the 2024 Cinema Femme Short Film Festival, starting with
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by Rebecca Martin
January 24, 2024
“I hope people not only see, but also feel hopeful that this isn’t really the end, in the end, and that we are all just friends walking each other home.”
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by Rebecca Martin
January 17, 2024
Erin Brown Thomas is a force. I met her at Indy Shorts, where she screened her powerful short film “[Subtext].” You go into the film thinking it’s one thing, and
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by Rebecca Martin
August 10, 2023
Cinema Femme had the opportunity to speak with filmmaker Rachel Annette Helson about her short “Good Daughter,” that will have its World Premiere at HollyShorts Film Festival on Saturday, August