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 during the beginning of the Trump presidency that families who immigrated to the U.S. were […]
“To understand my work,” David Lynch once told a bewildered moviegoer in Chicago, “you must follow the emotion. Because if you follow the buttermilk, you’ll end up going to the dairy.” The same rule of thumb could be applied to writer/director Wendy McColm’s sophomore feature […]
When you meet a woman who has the same mission as you, and is doing it in an impactful way, you can only feel an immediate connection and passion toward their work. Past featured filmmaker Haroula Rose introduced me to Rhianon Jones, as she had […]