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 Rebecca Martin
May 5, 2026
This month’s lineup leans heavily into documentaries, with “The Invite” as the lone outlier. Watching these films, I kept circling back to my own life—each one opening up a different
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by cinemafemme
June 17, 2022
February 2021 Cinema Femme had the honor of speaking with documentarian Dawn Porter about her impactful films. We bring back our interview with her to celebrate Juneteenth weekend. *Not an
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by Rebecca Martin
June 21, 2021
Something about true crime has always drawn me in, but nothing like the case of the Golden State Killer. Why? Because of one woman, Michelle McNamara. I’ve always been drawn
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by cinemafemme
February 28, 2021
Cinema Femme Short Film Festival February Showcase | AwardsSunday February 28, 2021 | 11 AM PST / 2 PM EST / Announcements by February 2021 Mentor Kate Hackett and Cinema
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by Rebecca Martin
November 26, 2020
We featured this interview on July 1st, 2020 before John Lewis passed. Dawn Porter won Mind the Gap (California Film Institute and Mill Valley Film Festival) Documentarian of the Year