Sean Baker

2026 Films, Indie Films, Interviews

8 min read

Finding Healing Through Play: Megan Seely on “Puddysticks”

by Rebecca Martin

August 7, 2026

Few debut features arrive with the confidence and emotional honesty of Megan Seely’s “Puddysticks.” Equal parts dark comedy, psychological drama, and coming-of-age story for adults, the film follows anxious video

2024 Films, reviews

10 min read

Cinema Femme’s Top 10 Films of 2024

by cinemafemme

December 13, 2024

This year started as it usually does for Cinema Femme with the Sundance Film Festival. Although we didn’t get the kind of coverage we’d like, as we were covering mostly

2024 Films, Indie Films, Interviews

11 min read

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

Comedy, Coming of Age, Interviews, Television, TV

19 min read

A Sense of Authenticity: Olivia Edward on “Better Things”

by Rebecca Martin Fagerholm and Matt Fagerholm

October 21, 2024

When Pamela Adlon released her marvelous directorial feature debut, “Babes,” earlier this year, my husband Matt and I had not yet been acquainted with the filmmaker’s Peabody Award-winning FX series,

Interviews

16 min read

The Poetry of Everyday Life: Brooke Westphal on “Young People”

by Matt Fagerholm

August 4, 2023

A film lasting only a few minutes has the potential to impact viewers in a way that is tantamount to a feature, and that is certainly the case with “Young

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