Tickets and VIP passes on sale NOW for the 2025 Cinema Femme Short Film Festival in Chicago from July 17 - 21!
Tickets and VIP passes on sale NOW for the 2025 Cinema Femme Short Film Festival in Chicago from July 17 - 21!
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by Rebecca Martin
January 28, 2022
Jamie Dack’s directorial feature debut “Palm Trees and Power Lines” is a revelation in the way she cinematically captures the delicate complexity and vulnerability of being a teenage girl, lost
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by cinemafemme
January 21, 2022
Opening Day Press Conference TABITHA JACKSON (Festival Director) on this year’s mission statement for the Festival: “The notion of community and joy speaks to our humanity–in a world dominated by screens,
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by cinemafemme
January 20, 2022
Happy Sundance! We kick off day one of the festival with a preview of our coverage. Also, Managing Editor Rebecca Martin will be attending the opening press event today with
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by Rebecca Martin
February 15, 2021
I am in love. I’m in love with Marion Hill’s ‘Ma Belle, My Beauty.’ This film is a romance that involves many people, but at the heart of it is
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by Rebecca Martin
January 15, 2021
Most people grow up with animals in their lives, whether it’s a pet, a neighborhood squirrel, or a trip to the zoo. Filmmakers Kaitlyn Schwalje and Alex Wolf Lewis did
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by Rebecca Martin
January 8, 2021
Erica Tremblay is the recipient of 2021 “Of A Certain Age” Grant, a grant created in Lynn Shelton’s honor. Northwest Film Forum is behind the grant, along with Duplass Brothers
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by cinemafemme
December 16, 2020
We could not have had the year we had without you. 2020 was hard for many reasons and in many ways, but we stuck together as a filmmaking and womxn
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by Rebecca Martin
December 8, 2020
I burned it all up, I burned it up until nothing was left, but the fire. And then in Eddie came with the baby. Jean, “I’m Your Woman” Attending Sundance
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by Rebecca Martin
December 7, 2020
NOW STREAMING Sundance Interview from February 4, 2020. What I love the most about dreams is that they can take you into worlds that you’ve never visited, introduce you to
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by Rebecca Martin
November 10, 2020
I have found myself in the midst of discovering another hero of mine. Shalini Kanyayya is my hero because she elevates, through her own work, trailblazing womxn in the AI
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by Rebecca Martin
April 15, 2020
Therese Shechter brings common female experiences that have been unjustly deemed taboo to the screen through her documentaries. Her latest “My So-Called Selfish Life” has started a movement for women
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by Rebecca Martin
April 3, 2020
After my conversation with Elizabeth Palmore, who wrote the film “The Evening Hour” for the screen, that premiered at Sundance this year, it made me remember how much I wanted