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2025 Films, Awards, Comedy, composer, Directing, Drama, Film Editing, Indie Films, Interviews, Now Playing, producer, Queer Stories, Screenwriting, Sexual Assault Awareness, Sundance

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A Profound Experience of Rewriting: Eva Victor on “Sorry, Baby”

by Matt Fagerholm

June 24, 2025

As annoyed as I was about Barry Jenkins, one of the greatest filmmakers working today, recently helming a prequel to the worst Disney remake in history, the Oscar-winning director of

2024 Films, Indie Films, Interviews

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Hannah Peterson on her powerful feature debut “The Graduates” and her invaluable mentors

by Rebecca Martin

October 30, 2024

When the Columbine school massacre happened, I was in my sophomore year of high school. I remember this vividly. It was the first time I’d heard of a mass shooting

Black History, Coming-of-Age Essays, LGBTQ+

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Look back: ‘Moonlight’: removing the physical armour

by Marjorie H. Morgan

June 1, 2021

"Moonlight" (2016) is a poetic and universal tale. It is a coming-of-age story for everyone who has every questioned “Who am I?” The central character in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s story
Black History, Chicago International Film Festival, Interviews, Juneteenth, Oscars, Production Design

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Look Back: Breaking down walls and redesigning them: Production Design Oscar winner Hannah Beachler talks Wakanda, ‘Moonlight’, and more

by Rebecca Martin

February 18, 2021

Featured back in October 2019. We aren’t just taking down ceilings, we are busting down walls. Because you take out a ceiling and the building will stand, but if you

Black History, Chicago, Interviews, Juneteenth, Sexual Assault Awareness

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Kyra Jones’ directorial debut sheds new light on sexual assault in “Go to the Body”

by Rebecca Martin

December 4, 2020

Kyra Jones is a force bubbling up in the industry. Her directorial debut “Go to the Body” (which is aiming for a 2023 release), has been winning pitch after pitch

Film Editing, Interviews, Oscars

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“Stand and Deliver”, “Thirteen”, “Down in the Delta” editor Nancy Richardson shares her stories from the cutting room

by Patricia Vidal Delgado

November 5, 2020

Header photo: Directing Fellow Kibwe Tavares meets with Creative Advisor, editor Nancy Richardson, about his project “The Kitchen.”© 2016 Sundance Institute, Photograph By Brandon Cruz Feature film editor Nancy Richardson

Interviews

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Stream Movies from our Featured Womxn in Film

by cinemafemme

March 16, 2020

Josephine Decker’s “Madeline’s Madeline” Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop’s ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world

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