SciFi

Chicago, Interviews, Short Films

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Coming Home to Hope: Kateryna Sazonova on Environmental Storytelling, Sustainable Filmmaking, and “2389: Coming Home”

by Rebecca Martin

August 6, 2026

Kateryna Sazonova’s work sits at the intersection of environmental advocacy and cinematic storytelling. A Ukrainian filmmaker and environmentalist based in the United States, she has built her career around films

Film Festivals, Interviews, Sundance

10 min read

Sundance 2023: Sofia Alaoui on her Supernatural Feature Debut, “Animalia”

by Rebecca Martin

January 25, 2023

Sofia Alaoui is an Arab filmmaker who grew up, as she says, “between China and Morocco.” Her mother is French and her father is from Morocco. What I love about

African Cinema, Black History, Interviews, Juneteenth

16 min read

“We are part of anything that is possible and imaginable”: Directors Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams on “Neptune Frost” 

by 'Seun Babalola

June 10, 2022

Africa’s cinematic history is as diverse as its people. There’s our Senegalese cinematic “father” Ousmane Sembène, the post-colonial emergence of Nigeria’s Nollywood (the largest film industry on the continent, and second

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