Cinema Femme presents a LIVE Q&A withKristen Abate, co-director and star of the comedy-drama“Straighten Up and Fly Right”2:00 PM Central, Thursday, June 9, 2022 “Straighten up and Fly Right” is a comedy-drama that premiered at Slamdance and recently screened at the Chicago Critics Film Festival in […]
On 21 May, the Main Stage of Cannes’ Marché du Film (17-25 May) hosted a special event organized by the Swedish Film Institute. As many European and international industry stakeholders already know, the goal of gender equality permeates everything that is done at the Nordic […]
Cinema Femme will be featuring our Letterboxd reviews as a series on our website. We started as a magazine focused on film criticism, we are now using Letterboxd as our platform for this work. We begin with a review by Kate Hackett, Emmy-winning editor (“Cheer”) […]
A preview of our picks for the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival. We will cover most of these. Learn more about our picks below and buy tickets here: tribecafilm.com/festival GOOD GIRL JANE – Directed and Written by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz World Premiere — US Narrative Competition […]
“Breakdown, breakthrough,” Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) says in Cameron Crowe’s film of the same name, in a very cliche way, in a very cookie cutter scenario. Jerry gets inspired to change his life after he has a bad pizza. He wakes up with the sweats […]
As I watched the films for Short Block 3 at our virtual film festival a few weeks ago, we just finished Heidi Neff’s “The Long Goodbye”, an animated short film that explores the anxiety of the recent US election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, […]
We are taking a beat after our short film fest to share the 2022 female directed films we cannot wait to see. All of these films will either be premiering at a 2022 film festival or will soon be coming to streaming platforms or theaters. […]
With the recent news of the Supreme Court leak detailing their plan to overturn Roe vs. Wade, we wanted to bring back our interview with Kelly O’Sullivan about her film “Saint Frances”. At Cinema Femme, we stand for the human rights of women, and we […]
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon in about three years (April 30, 2025), it is astounding that Vietnamese-American stories have not been told by Vietnamese-American women and men much before. One of the sole exceptions is Heaven and Earth, the […]
Cinema Femme’s mission is to break down walls for female and non-binary emerging filmmakers and redesign the institutions we find ourselves in. We do this through our online film festival, mentorship program, online magazine and live workshops. “Breaking Down Walls” was inspired by the inspirational […]
Join Cinema Femme LIVE as we talk to Foley Artist and Sound Editor Katie Waters about her work and the awesome things she is doing at Noisefloor in Chicago. Noisefloor is a proud sponsor of the Cinema Femme Short Film Festival (4/28 – 5/1), […]
