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 Rebecca Martin
December 27, 2024
Hello friend of Cinema Femme, As we come to the end of 2024, I hope you’re able to take a breath and make time for reflection. In light of the
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by Rebecca Martin
June 20, 2024
On the eve of her graduation from DePaul’s MFA Film and Directing program, I had the pleasure of speaking with emerging filmmaker Jewells Santos about her short film “Fatfish.” Jewells
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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
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by Rebecca Martin
May 15, 2023
Margaret Kellas, director of the short “this is not the morning i thought i was going to have,” is the recipient of the 2023 Cinema Femme Short Film Fest Chicago
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by cinemafemme
May 12, 2023
With the success of our first hybrid (in-person and online) film festival, we wanted to bring back some of our shorts for one last weekend! All of these films received an
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by cinemafemme
August 30, 2022
Halyna Hutchins Tribute Event – “Labor” short film screening + panel discussion Honoring Halyna Hutchins tribute event “Labor”+ panel discussion with “Labor” director Cecilia Albertini, and camera assistant Patricia Vidal
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by Rebecca Martin
May 20, 2022
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
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by cinemafemme
December 9, 2021
Los Angeles, CA (December 9, 2021)—Filmocracy, the world’s premiere digital screening, distribution, and experience platform, has announced today its non-profit, The Filmocracy Foundation, is funding the first round of fellowships
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by Rebecca Martin
February 3, 2021
REBECCA MARTIN: How did you come to this project? JACQUELINE XERRI: Three years ago, I made my first short, called “Teen Night”, which is a coming-of-age story. This was my
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by cinemafemme
December 17, 2020
We could not have had the year we had without you. 2020 was hard for many reasons and in many ways, but we stuck together as a filmmaking and womxn
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by Rebecca Martin
September 13, 2020
This is my first year running a film festival, and I’m honored and blown away by all the amazing womxn from all over the world that showcased their films. All
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by cinemafemme
August 19, 2020