“Year of the Fox” Director Megan Griffiths and Writer Eliza Flug on Shifting the Spotlight from Predators to the Women Living in Their Wake
Jeffrey Epstein. Still making headlines. But the women impacted by his crimes—by his misogyny—are rarely named. Many choose to remain anonymous, but not all. So where are their stories? Writer and producer Eliza Flug grew up in Aspen in the 1990s, surrounded by a certain kind of man—powerful, privileged, and protected. Adopted into a world […]
Sundance 2025: Megan Griffiths and Mindie Lind on “View from the Floor”
Sometimes you just need a best friend to collaborate with to bring something beautiful and meaningful into the world. It’s tiring and painful for me to see women who feel they have to make it on their own to be considered valuable in the work they do. But there is magic in a community. One […]
Sundance 2025 Preview – Highlighting Eleven Projects we are excited about
For the first time since 2020, Cinema Femme will be on the ground at Sundance this year! We are beyond thrilled to be returning to the festival in person, and we are so excited about the films we will see. Our site’s founder, Rebecca Martin Fagerholm, will be joined by contributors Peyton Robinson, Emily Jacobson […]
Megan Griffiths elevates an evocative conversation onscreen in “I’ll Show You Mine,” now in select theaters and VOD
Trauma and pleasure. Two things that are different, yet when it comes to sex, the one sometimes can bring shame to the other. One is not our fault, the trauma that happens to us, so why do we feel shame about feeling good when it comes to sex? Obviously, this isn’t the case for everyone, […]
Editor’s Picks: Top 25 Films of 2022
As a movie lover, I can’t help connecting the meaning in my life to what I’m seeing on the screen. Sometimes films expand my meaning, and sometimes they confirm it. That mirror reflection is what draws me to certain films and is what motivates which films I put in my top list of the year. […]
“We were both big voices in the room for each other”: Megan Griffiths on Lynn Shelton and the “Of a Certain Age” Grant
Recipient of 2020 “Of a Certain Age” grant announced. It started on the set of “We Go Way Back” in 2006. Lynn Shelton was directing her first feature at the age of 39, and Megan Griffiths was her first AD. They both did not know of each other prior to the making of the film, […]