We had the chance to interview Dr. Susan Liddy after the launch of her new book, entitled Women in the International Film Industry: Policy, Practice and Power and published by Palgrave Macmillan. The scholar edited it and coordinated a group of researchers to document the […]
It started on the set of “We Go Way Back” in 2006. Lynn Shelton was directing her first feature at the age of 39, and Megan Griffiths was her first AD. They both did not know of each other prior to the making of the […]
I don’t know a lot about VR. I did it once before, and I was in this Van Gogh painting, and it made me feel really dizzy. When someone I met through The Girls Club, Tigist Schmidt (filmmaker, producer) introduced me to Ainslee Robson, VR […]
My journey into becoming a film journalist started with my love and obsession with films, and the making of these films. That followed with me becoming more aware of the filmmakers behind the films I loved. I noticed that there was a shortage of female […]
Today we highlight Short Block 4 films and filmmakers. Short Block 4, and 1-3 are now available to watch until the end of today, our final day of the festival. Screen on our Seed&Spark festival platform. Today’s Q&A with the directors of the selected films […]
Today we highlight Short Block 3 films and filmmakers. Short Block 3 films and Short Blocks 1, 2 and 4 are now available to watch! Screen on our Seed&Spark festival platform. Today at 12 PM PT is our Q&A with the directors of the selected […]
Today we highlight Short Block 1 films and filmmakers. Short Block 2 films and Short Blocks 1,3and 4 are now available to watch! Screen on our Seed&Spark festival platform. Tonight is our Q&A with the directors of the selected films from Short Block 2, moderated […]
Today we highlight Short Block 1 films and filmmakers. Short Block 1 films and Short Blocks 2-4 films starting at 10 AM PT today thorough 8/9/20 on our Seed&Spark festival platform. Q&A with the directors of the selected films from Short Block 1, moderated by […]
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 womxn. I felt so honored to get the opportunity to interview the artists behind the excellent short film “As They Slept”, […]
Following the Women’s March in January 2017, I was witnessing a power in the collective, a power I hadn’t seen before in my lifetime. Though I didn’t have a name for this power, I knew that it represented some “fight”, some unrest with our country’s […]
During quarantine, a series of amazing cat videos have been produced once a month on Instagram by CongestedCat Productions. I encourage you all to check them out. That kind of ingenuity in a pandemic is brained by filmmaker Christina Raia, founder of CongestedCat. Christina Raia […]
Introduction In her infamous essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, written decades ago, Laura Mulvey concluded that to absolve traditional, classical filmmaking of its masculinity and misogyny, one should annihilate voyeurism as one of the basic pleasures to be extracted from the narrative cinema. Mulvey’s […]