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Awards, Cinema Femme Short Film Festival, Profile

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Cinema Femme Film Festival Announces 2026 Award Winners and Breaking Down Walls Mentorship Recipients

by cinemafemme

October 16, 2026

Cinema Femme Film Festival Announces 2026 Award Winners and Breaking Down Walls Mentorship Recipients Chaz Ebert honors Abby Pierce’s “So Boom” with the Phenomenal Person in Film Award as the

Awards, Cinema Femme Short Film Festival, Interviews, Oscars, Short Films

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“Holding Two Truths at Once”: A Conversation with Lauren Melinda on “Before You” and the Mission of Simbelle Productions

by Rebecca Martin

November 18, 2025

In the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (June 2022) decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade, Lauren Melinda’s “Before You” emerges as an intimate, unflinching, and profoundly