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Black History, Documentaries, Film Festivals, Interviews, new orleans film festival, Social Justice

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Nailah Jefferson on Her Empowering Documentary, “Commuted”

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,”

Documentaries, Film Festivals, Interviews, Social Justice, Tribeca

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Tribeca 2022: “Battleground” Director-Producer Cynthia Lowen discusses her approach to documentary filmmaking  

by Katie Small

June 21, 2022

Driven by curiosity and a passion for social justice, Emmy-nominated filmmaker Cynthia Lowen uses the power of story to investigate difficult issues that often go overlooked; her debut documentary feature, 2011’s “Bully”,

Black History, Interviews, Juneteenth, Social Justice

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Celebrating Juneteenth, a look back: A conversation with documentarian Dawn Porter

by cinemafemme

June 17, 2022

February 2021 Cinema Femme had the honor of speaking with documentarian Dawn Porter about her impactful films. We bring back our interview with her to celebrate Juneteenth weekend. *Not an

Black History, Interviews, Juneteenth, Mental Health Awareness, Social Justice

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A mental breakdown breaks through stigmas in Maria Judice’s feature debut, “Elephant”

by Rebecca Martin

March 25, 2022

We had the opportunity to speak with activist and filmmaker Maria Judice about her directorial feature debut “Elephant,” which will have its in-person premiere at the Ann Arbor Film Festival on

Black History, Chicago, Chicago International Film Festival, Interviews, Juneteenth, LGBTQ+, Social Justice, Trans Awareness Week, Women's History Month

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A Look Back: Luchina Fisher’s “Mama Gloria” brings a hopeful outlook to the young trans community

by Rebecca Martin

March 16, 2022

For Women’s History Month and Trans Visibility Day approaching on March 31, we bring back our interview from the Chicago International Film Festival in October 2020. We are proud to

Awards, Black History, Interviews, Juneteenth, Social Justice

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Dawn Porter captures an awe-inspiring legacy in “John Lewis: Good Trouble”

by Rebecca Martin

November 26, 2020

We featured this interview on July 1st, 2020 before John Lewis passed. Dawn Porter won Mind the Gap (California Film Institute and Mill Valley Film Festival) Documentarian of the Year

All-Star, Asian American, Documentaries, Interviews, Juneteenth, Now Playing, Social Justice

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Shalini Kantayya shows how sci-fi is becoming reality in her AI doc “Coded Bias”

by Rebecca Martin

November 10, 2020

I have found myself in the midst of discovering another hero of mine. Shalini Kanyayya is my hero because she elevates, through her own work, trailblazing womxn in the AI

Chicago International Film Festival, Interviews, Social Justice

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Maya Zinshtein explores the complicated “love” between Evangelical Christians and Israelis in “‘Til Kingdom Come”

by Rebecca Martin

October 20, 2020

It is difficult for me to write an introduction for this piece, not because of the amazing interview I had with Maya Zinshtein about her documentary “‘Til Kingdom Come’, but

Earth, International Films, Interviews, Social Justice

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Iryna Tsilyk talks about the making of her doc “The Earth is Blue as an Orange”, an ode to the healing power of cinema set in Ukraine’s turbulent “red zone”

by Davide Abbatescianni

October 13, 2020

We had the opportunity to chat with Ukrainian filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk, director of the successful documentary “The Earth is Blue as an Orange”. The movie follows the lives of single

Asian American, Interviews, Mother's Day, Social Justice

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Diane Paragas tells a timely and timeless story in her narrative feature debut “Yellow Rose”

by Rebecca Martin

October 8, 2020

“Yellow Rose” is the timely story of a Filipina teen from a small Texas town who fights to pursue her dreams as a country music performer while having to decide between

Interviews, Now Playing, Sexual Assault Awareness, Social Justice, Womxn supporting Womxn

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Nancy Miller on “I’ll Be Gone in the Dark”, Michelle McNamara, and the true crime of sexual assault

by Rebecca Martin

September 30, 2020

I had no particular interest in crime aside from reading the occasional Nancy Drew book growing up. Yet two days after the killing, without telling anyone, I walked to the

Asian American, Interviews, LGBTQ+, Social Justice, Trans Awareness Week

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Isabel Sandoval beautifully elevates the marginalized in “Lingua Franca”

by Rebecca Martin

August 28, 2020

“Every image or sound is a vessel for emotion: rapture, despair, sensuousness, fury, a combination of these. That makes cinema a kind of legerdemain: the art of sculpting such seemingly

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