HollyShorts 2024: Pinar Binay, K.D. Chalk, Kim Cohen, and Nicole Crespo on the power of collaboration
A happy place for me is talking to filmmakers. I love the way their faces light up with passion about the work they are doing. In most of my conversations with people in film I talk to them about their team, and their collaborators. I had the opportunity to speak to a powerhouse team of […]
A Different Conversation: Maia Scalia on Her Stunning Directorial Debut, “His Mother”
If only people had listened to her. She saw the warning signs while others kept repeatedly turning a blind eye, and now her only child is on the brink of committing an unspeakable act. For thirteen agonizing minutes, Julie (played by a shattering Bethany Anne Lind), races through traffic, frantically making calls that she hopes […]
HollyShorts 2024: Interviews with Jessica Barr on “Tight,” Louisa Connolly-Burnham on “Sister Wives,” Hanna Gray Organschi on “Merci, Poppy,” and Andrew Nadkarni and Nalini Nadkarni on “Between Earth & Sky”
The 20th Annual HollyShorts Film Festival starts next week on August 8th and runs until August 18th. The festival is Oscar-qualifying, and I will be cheering on our previously featured and festival-selected filmmakers from the sidelines! Below are three video interviews with Jessica Barr (“Tight”), Louisa Connolly-Burnham (“Sister Wives”), and Hanna Gray Organschi (“Merci, Poppy”). […]
HollyShorts 2023: Speaking with Rachel Annette Helson about her short “Good Daughter,” starring Samantha Sloyan
Cinema Femme had the opportunity to speak with filmmaker Rachel Annette Helson about her short “Good Daughter,” that will have its World Premiere at HollyShorts Film Festival on Saturday, August 12th at 7:30pm at the TCL Chinese Theatres as part of the Primetime Block. The short is written by Jesse Harris and stars Samantha Sloyan (Midnight Mass, Grey’s Anatomy) […]