Keep an Eye Out for These Five New Women-Directed Horror and Action Films
“Those are the directors?” This question, delivered as a scoff, came from the man sitting behind me as the directors of the Etheria Film Night shorts program walked to the stage of Hollywood’s Egyptian...
View ArticleWomen-Directed Documentaries Screening at the Portland International Film...
This year at the Portland International Film Festival, there's a wealth of documentary films directed by women! Check out some of them below (or put them on your Netflix queue for later)!PINK RIBBONS,...
View ArticleSXSW Film: Fly Away Depicts Autism with Honesty, Tenderness
Fly Awayopens on Jeanne (Beth Broderick), a single mother, as she is awoken by her teenage daughter’s cries. “Bad girl! I hate myself!” It might not be a surprising sentiment from a teenager in the...
View ArticleSXSW Film: Small, Beautifully Moving Parts is a Road Movie for Tech Geeks
Sarah Sparks loves technology. A freelance tech geek, she fixes everything from new computers to old radios and calls her home pregnancy test a “nifty gadget.” When its digital face displays the word...
View ArticleSXSW Film: The Dish and the Spoon
Alison Bagnall’s The Dish and the Spoon opens with Rose (Greta Gerwig) despondently crying as she drives to the beach—clad in pajama bottoms, a boxy coat, and knit cap—after discovering her husband’s...
View ArticleGrrrl on Film: Part Two of the Grrrl on Film Director Spotlight on Kristy...
In this, the second part of my email interview with directors Kristy Guevara-Flanagan and Dawn Valadez, the collaborators talk about breaking the rules of documentary filmmaking, getting the girls to...
View ArticleChallenging "Post-Racial" America
How I wish I could say that Young Jean Lee was on my radar before today. However, I must thank Kai Wright at The Root for covering and exposing the world to a wonderfully fresh and brilliant theater...
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