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
April 13, 2026
After seeing Chicago’s BDSM community turn out in huge numbers for a euphoric preview screening of Harry Lighton’s acclaimed movie “Pillion” earlier this year, it’s clear that Madison Young’s equally
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by Rebecca Martin
March 12, 2021
Abby Greensfelder is my new hero. She shares our mission at Cinema Femme of elevating emerging female-identifying creators and connecting them with seasoned womxn in the industry with the goal
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by Rebecca Martin
January 3, 2021
Interview took place 9/18/20, bringing it back for awareness of #StartWith8Hollywood mission and program. These days, in a time where we are mostly isolated and at home, hashtags are uniting
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by cinemafemme
October 1, 2020
This fall we talked to filmmaker Haroula Rose, actors Kenadi DelaCerna, John Ashton, Lindsay Pulsipher, Kenn E. Head, and producer Grace Hahn about their film “Once Upon A River”. Now
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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
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by Rebecca Martin
August 25, 2020
Recipient of 2020 “Of a Certain Age” grant announced. It started on the set of “We Go Way Back” in 2006. Lynn Shelton was directing her first feature at the
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by cinemafemme
August 19, 2020
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by Rebecca Martin
August 5, 2020
On the eve of Cinema Femme’s inaugural short film festival, it seemed fitting to post my feature with a team of talented and amazing women. I felt so honored to
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by Rebecca Martin
March 24, 2020
When you meet a woman who has the same mission as you, and is doing it in an impactful way, you can only feel an immediate connection and passion toward