chaz ebert

Awards, Cinema Femme Short Film Festival, Interviews, Oscars, Short Films

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“Holding Two Truths at Once”: A Conversation with Lauren Melinda on “Before You” and the Mission of Simbelle Productions

by Rebecca Martin

November 18, 2025

In the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (June 2022) decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, Lauren Melinda’s “Before You” emerges as an intimate, unflinching, and profoundly

Chicago, Interviews

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IPA Executive Director Chris Dudley on Illinois’ Economic Impact Study and her recent trip to LA

by Rebecca Martin

April 19, 2024

I recently had the opportunity to speak with local film industry powerhouse Chris (Christine) Dudley, the Executive Director of the Illinois Production Alliance. Along with other leading Chicago-based women in

Black History, Chicago, Film Festivals, Interviews, Sundance 40

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The Liberation of the Work: A Conversation with Jada-Amina, Lead Curator of Black Harvest Film Festival

by Rebecca Martin

November 2, 2023

I’ve been fortunate to interview some of the up-and-coming female programmers who have come out of Chicago. Earlier this year, I spoke with Imani Davis, who now is a programmer

Black History, Film Festivals, Interviews, Short Films

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Emerging filmmaker Tiffany Tenille tells her own fairy tale in “Albion Rose”

by Rebecca Martin

July 17, 2023

Tiffany Tenille is a phenomenal woman. She is an actress (as displayed in Numa Perrier’s “Jezebel”), writer and an emerging filmmaker. We were so honored to host the Chicago premiere

Documentaries, Indie Films, Indigenous in Film, Interviews, Sundance

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Rebecca Harrell Tickell on “Prancer,” “Regenerate Ojai” and “On Sacred Ground”

by Matt Fagerholm

February 23, 2023

With over two feet of snow piled upon the driveway, I spent this past Christmas Eve with my wife, Cinema Femme founder Rebecca Martin Fagerholm, binging holiday perennials at her

Black History, Chicago, Film Critics, Film Festivals, Interviews

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#TBT 2019 Sundance Ebert Fellows

by Rebecca Martin

January 16, 2020

Chaz Ebert introduced me to the 2019 Sundance Ebert Fellows Niani Scott, Whitney A. Spencer, and Tiffany Walden via Instagram as they were on their way to Park City, Utah,

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