immigrant

Film Festivals, Interviews, Tribeca

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Monica Sorelle illuminates the immigrant experience in her feature debut “Mountains”

by Rebecca Martin

August 3, 2023

This year, I’m seeing amazing first generation filmmakers bringing authentic stories about the immigrant experience to the screen. This is so important, as it was just a few years ago

Film Festivals, Interviews, Short Films

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Palm Springs Shortfest 2023: Noam Argov talks about her mother/daughter drama short “SULAM” (“The Ladder”)

by Rebecca Martin

June 16, 2023

See “SULAM” (“The Ladder”) at 2:30 PM PST on 6/24, reserve your spot! Filmmaker Noam Argov will be in attendance! Rebecca Martin Fagerholm, Managing Editor, spoke with Cinema Femme Short Film

Asian American, personal essay, reviews

7 min read

Celine Song’s “Past Lives” is a modern romance that is ageless

by Rebecca Martin

June 8, 2023

Filmmaker Celine Song had a unique moment when her childhood sweetheart and her husband met. This moment was very significant to her, and it became the seed of her film,

Film Festivals, Interviews

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Filmmaker Cecilia Albertini brings underrepresented female-centric stories of immigrants to the screen

by Rebecca Martin

April 23, 2021

Filmmaker Patricia Vidal Delgado (“La Leyenda Negra”), who served as the mentor for our Inaugural Short Film Festival, suggested I reach out to Italian filmmaker and actor Cecilia Abertini as

Asian American, Interviews, Mother's Day, Social Justice

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Diane Paragas tells a timely and timeless story in her narrative feature debut “Yellow Rose”

by Rebecca Martin

October 8, 2020

“Yellow Rose” is the timely story of a Filipina teen from a small Texas town who fights to pursue her dreams as a country music performer while having to decide between

Asian American, Interviews, LGBTQ+, Social Justice, Trans Awareness Week

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Isabel Sandoval beautifully elevates the marginalized in “Lingua Franca”

by Rebecca Martin

August 28, 2020

“Every image or sound is a vessel for emotion: rapture, despair, sensuousness, fury, a combination of these. That makes cinema a kind of legerdemain: the art of sculpting such seemingly

All-Star, Asian American, Interviews

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Sonejuhi Sinha’s refreshingly raw thriller ‘Stray Dolls’ flips the American dream

by Rebecca Martin

April 10, 2020

The American clichés of “Bonnie and Clyde”, the “American Dream”, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, are mixed together in the refreshingly raw new movie, “Stray Dolls”. It focuses on

Film Festivals, Interviews, Social Justice

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Filmmaker Patricia Vidal Delgado breaks through biases in “La Leyenda Negra”

by Rebecca Martin

March 5, 2020

“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

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