Dancing with the camera: an interview with cinematographer Valentina Caniglia
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 advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. I first met cinematographer Valentina Caniglia at the 2019 Girl Power Film + Media Summit in Brooklyn, […]
Ashley Shelton brings her movie vision to the lens with ‘Magnolia & Clementine’
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 had the pleasure speaking with filmmaker Ashley Shelton a month ago about her short film “Magnolia & Clementine” (2019). During our conversation, I learned Ashley […]
Aisling Franciosi dives deep into character in Jennifer Kent’s ‘The Nightingale’
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, Google Play, and YouTube. It’s 1825 and a young Irish convict, her husband, and infant son live in the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, surviving each and […]
‘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.
Filmmaker Louise Archambault brings cinematic beauty to love and life with ‘And the Birds Rained Down’
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 which depicts a small group of older people whose lives are interrupted by the addition of Marie-Desneige (Andrée Lachapelle); a woman with her own sad […]
Kim Hoyos is giving women and GNC filmmakers a voice with The Light Leaks
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 gender nonconforming (GNC) filmmaker community, especially for Gen Z filmmakers. At the heart of it, we share the same passion for creating platforms for women […]
Fish out of water: Haroula Rose on ‘Once Upon a River,’ directing Maya Hawke, and much more
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 a right to those things that are evocative of their experience? If you’re a fish out of water, you can find them anywhere. Director Haroula […]
A religious experience with Molly Hewitt’s ‘Holy Trinity’
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 Hewitt. Jennifer Reeder. Sofia Coppola. Three directors with different styles, but three directors that completely pull me in by their aesthetic and original cinematic art […]