documentaries

Documentaries, Film Festivals, Interviews, Sundance, Women's History Month

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Sundance 2025: Cristina Costantini shows different kinds of bravery in her film “Sally”  

by Rebecca Martin

February 19, 2025

While growing up, one of my heroes was Amelia Earhart. She defied expectations by attempting to fly around the world. Rumors were that she had disappeared into the Bermuda Triangle,

Documentaries, Interviews

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Director Marci Darling and producer Dr. Sharon Gillen aim to rejuvenate your creativity with “The Nita & Zita Project”

by Rebecca Martin

May 22, 2024

My Great Grandmother was a maid at the Chicago Athletic Club in the early 1900s. She would collect the cigar wrappers that were left behind and make them into beautiful

Black History, Documentaries, Film Festivals, Interviews, new orleans film festival, Social Justice

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Nailah Jefferson on Her Empowering Documentary, “Commuted”

by Rebecca Martin

March 27, 2024

To celebrate the release of the film, we bring back our 2023 New Orleans Film Festival interview (originally posted on 11/2/23) with filmmaker Nailah Jefferson about her feature documentary “Commuted,”

Documentaries, Interviews

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Director Rebecca Stern combines her love for animals and filmmaking with ‘Well Groomed’

by Pamela Powell

December 17, 2019

Rebecca Stern, director of the much-talked-about SXSW film "Well Groomed," has married her love of animals and her passion, skills, and knowledge of filmmaking to create a visually entertaining film
Comedy, Documentaries, Interviews, Platforms for Women in Film

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CherryPicks founder and ‘Being Frank’ director Miranda Bailey is paving the way for women in film

by Rebecca Martin

May 28, 2019

Miranda Bailey is not just one thing—she is Miranda Bailey, the producer, director, actor, founder of CherryPicks, mother, and inspiration to women in the industry.
"Strong Island" Essays, Trans Awareness Week

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The contours of fear: a documentary elegy

by Marjorie H. Morgan

February 25, 2019

It is a pessimistic view of life in America, and for Yance Ford and millions of people who look like him, it is a daily reality: living with the fear

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