Staying in the Process: Nicole Riegel and KiKi Layne on their beautiful gem, “Dandelion”
I have to admit that when I started Cinema Femme, I was very focused on the disparity in opportunities for women and non-binary people both in front of and behind the camera. That is why I was so highly motivated to start this magazine. There was not enough media shining a light on these inequities. […]
Letterboxd review: “The Hitch-Hiker” (1953) directed by Ida Lupino, reviewed by Emmy-winning editor Kate Hackett
Cinema Femme will be featuring our Letterboxd reviews as a series on our website. We started as a magazine focused on film criticism, we are now using Letterboxd as our platform for this work. We begin with a review by Kate Hackett, Emmy-winning editor (“Cheer”) and director (“Oleander), on Ida Lupino’s “The Hitch-Hiker” (1953). Kate […]
Emmy winning editor Kate Hackett discusses her directorial debut “Oleander”
It was a pleasure speaking with Kate Hackett about her directorial debut “Oleander”, a shorter version of her feature script “Purify My Heart”. We discussed her experience of growing up in the Catholic schools that taught abstinence, her work as an editor (Cheer, Last Chance U) and in reality TV that brought her to this […]