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Interviews, Uncategorized

6 min read

Cinema Femme Voices #FemaleFilmmakerFriday

by cinemafemme

November 22, 2019

Happy Female Filmmaker Friday! This Friday, instead of featuring one filmmaker, we’d like to showcase some of our Cinema Femme voices, which are excerpts from past Cinema Femme filmmaker features.

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Interviews

17 min read

Feminist filmmaker and ‘Maniac’ actor Ariel Kavoussi brings raw female characters onscreen with ‘The Poet and The Professor’ and ‘Birdshit’

by Rebecca Martin

November 18, 2019

I heard about Ariel Kavoussi through one of our featured filmmakers, Haroula Rose. Not directly, but through socials, I saw they did some collaborative work and had been featured on

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All-Star, Documentaries, Interviews

7 min read

‘Hail Satan?’: interview with documentary filmmaker Penny Lane

by Pamela Powell

February 25, 2019

“Hail Satan?” (2019) is not only an eye-catching title, the content is eye-opening! The upbeat, energetic, and talented documentary filmmaker Penny Lane gave Sundance audiences food for thought in this
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