interviews

Film Gear, Interviews

17 min read

Dancing with the camera: an interview with cinematographer Valentina Caniglia

by Rebecca Martin

January 15, 2020

Featured back in April 2019 Cinema Femme is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn

Interviews, Short Films

14 min read

Ashley Shelton brings her movie vision to the lens with ‘Magnolia & Clementine’

by Rebecca Martin

January 14, 2020

Today we’re bringing back Ashley Shelton’s feature from June 2019. You can see Ashley in “The Evening Hour” premiering at Sundance 2020. Stay tuned for her future directed projects. I

Film Festivals, Interviews, Sexual Assault Awareness

8 min read

Aisling Franciosi dives deep into character in Jennifer Kent’s ‘The Nightingale’

by Pamela Powell

December 16, 2019

Repost of feature from August 23, 2019 in honor of Aisling Franciosi being awarded Most Promising Performer by the Chicago Film Critics Association’s! Watch “The Nightingale” on Hulu, Amazon Prime,

Documentaries, Interviews, Women's History Month

6 min read

‘Maiden’: How an all-women sailing team fought sexism and made history

by Pamela Powell

December 3, 2019

"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
Interviews, Uncategorized

5 min read

Filmmaker Louise Archambault brings cinematic beauty to love and life with ‘And the Birds Rained Down’

by Pamela Powell

November 5, 2019

Louise Archambault writes and directs the film “And the Birds Rained Down” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.  The movie is based on the novel by Jocelyne Saucier

Interviews, Platforms for Women in Film

7 min read

Kim Hoyos is giving women and GNC filmmakers a voice with The Light Leaks

by Rebecca Martin

October 2, 2019

After speaking with Kimberly Hoyos, founder of The Light Leaks, I can confidently say there is no other person that works as hard as she does for the women and

Chicago, Indie Films, Indigenous in Film, Interviews, Now Playing

35 min read

Fish out of water: Haroula Rose on ‘Once Upon a River,’ directing Maya Hawke, and much more

by Matt Fagerholm

August 9, 2019

I’m Greek, my family is from Greece, but I grew up in the Midwest, and I also love Americana as well as folk and country music. Who gets to have

Chicago, Indie Films, Interviews, LGBTQ+

5 min read

A religious experience with Molly Hewitt’s ‘Holy Trinity’

by Rebecca Martin

July 19, 2019

I am ready to share with the world that I am a freaky queer femme sex worker domme and I am also a fucking filmmaker.  —Molly Hewitt/Glamhag June, 2019  Molly