*The following interview was conducted at the end of December 2019 and was featured on cinemafemme.com on January 2020. We are bringing the interview back for our site because she is stepping down from her role as CEO at the Swedish Film Institute. We are […]
As I watched Nicole Beharie’s graceful and honest portrayal of this beautiful, overbearing and loving mother, I can’t help but think about my own. Enter Turquoise. Turquoise is beautiful, intelligent, nurturing, unapologetic. All heart. As a teen in small town Texas she had the honor […]
In light of the pandemic crisis we’re in, we are supporting organizations that support womxn in film during these difficult times. Mezcla Media Collective is an organization that supports over 500 women and non-binary filmmakers of color in Chicago by building community, increasing skill capacity, […]
The American clichés of “Bonnie and Clyde”, the “American Dream”, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, are mixed together in the refreshingly raw new movie, “Stray Dolls”. It focuses on three women who are outsiders living on the outside of the law: Riz (Geetanjali Thapa), […]