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Cinema Femme Short Film Fest among the 12 recipients of Filmocracy’s first-ever fellowship awards for female-centric film festivals
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 in its worldwide film festival mentorship program for underrepresented film festivals, co-founder Paul Jun and […]
Previewing Reeling 2021: The 39th Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival, screening in person and in virtual cinemas 9/23 – 10/7
We are so excited to share with you some of the films that will be screening and streaming at Reeling: The 39th Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival! Reeling elevates LGBTQ+ films and is the second oldest film festival of its kind that features films from […]
Support sustainable careers of female filmmakers
We’re over half way to our goal! The Cinema Femme Short Film Showcase is in need of a virtual platform that best elevates the emerging female-identifying filmmakers we spotlight. The virtual platform we need your support in purchasing is Eventive. This is the ideal platform that […]
Watch here February Showcase LIVE events 2/19/21 – 2/28/21
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 Femme Festival Director Rebecca Martin Emmy-winning editor and filmmaker Kate Hackett announces the recipient of […]
Marion Hill puts her own spin on a cinematic romance in the Sundance hit “Ma Belle, My Beauty”
I am in love. I’m in love with Marion Hill’s ‘Ma Belle, My Beauty.’ This film is a romance that involves many people, but at the heart of it is the love between Bertie (Idella Johnson) and Lane (Hannah Pepper). At one time, Bertie and […]
Jacqueline Xerri on her coming-of-age short “Monkey Bars”
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 first try at tackling a subject like this. Because for me, it’s super personal, and […]
Sparking joy during a pandemic: filmmakers Kaitlyn Schwalje and Alex Wolf Lewis speak about their Sundance short “Snowy”
Most people grow up with animals in their lives, whether it’s a pet, a neighborhood squirrel, or a trip to the zoo. Filmmakers Kaitlyn Schwalje and Alex Wolf Lewis did a beautiful thing by creating a short film about a pet turtle named Snowy. Snowy […]
Filmmaker Patricia Vidal Delgado breaks through biases in “La Leyenda Negra”
“La Leyenda Negra” comes to HBO Latino and HBO Max on 12/4 I love all of the interviews I do, but this one was very special. In a way, the universe brought director Patricia Vidal Delgado and I together, or rather it was meant to […]
Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival director Grainne Humphreys shares her view of European women in film
Grainne Humphreys has been the director of the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival (VMDIFF) since 2007. Under her direction, the prestigious Irish film event has significantly expanded its scope. We had the chance to interview Grainne and talk though the programme of this year’s […]
Basking in Sundance
Sundance is my “happy place”. It’s the place I go to in my mind when sh**t in the real-world gets too real. I fell in love with Sundance in 2016. When I was preparing to go to the festival in 2015, I started a blog […]
‘Maiden’: How an all-women sailing team fought sexism and made history
“Maiden” (2019) is the harrowing true tale of how Skipper Tracy Edwards pushed against the acceptable gender tides of racing in 1989–1990 and then changed the boat racing world and women’s education to today.