Femme Film Fest 2018

Femme Filmmakers Festival Interview: Morgan Gruer Mixes Animation With Live Action

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The Maya Deren Short Film Innovation Prize — WINNER — Morgan Gruer – “for excellent, emotive hand-drawn animation with Reflections, and incorporating her vibrant talent to live action work including music videos”#FemmeFilmFest #directedbywomen pic.twitter.com/XkQO5QgJcU — Robin Write (@Filmotomy) September 16, 2018 Just hours ago, female filmmaker Morgan Gruer was given The Maya Deren Short Film […]

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Kati Egely’s Land Without Evil and Myrsini Aristidou’s Aria take High Honors at the Femme Filmmakers Festival

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The short film prizes for the 3rd annual Femme Filmmakers Festival were announced earlier today. Hungarian Kati Egely and Cypriot Myrsini Aristidou took several honors, with Kate Lefoe’s Somersault Pike nabbing both Cinematography and Editing. Egely’s blissful animation Land Without Evil dominated the tech categories, finally winning the grand prize, The Gold Sovereign.  Placing 3rd with The

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Ten Program, Sunday 16th September

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Ten Program, Sunday 16th September Short Film Prizes Online Announcement Online roll of honor prize ceremony. The winners of the 13 categories in the short film competition will be announced live on Twitter and Facebook. The official selection of short films are: Aria (Myrsini Aristidou) Creswick (Natalie Erika James) The Diver

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Eva Husson’s Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story)

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Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story), or as the French like to call it, Bang Gang (une histoire d’amour moderne), is the debut of Eva Husson, who took her latest film, Girls of the Sun, to Cannes earlier this year. Written and directed by Husson, the film kind of does what it says on the

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Caramel (Nadine Labaki)

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A romantic comedy set in Beirut, Caramel is a decadent piece of foreign cinema that significantly grows on you as you start to feel its invigorating warmth. Thanks to the wonderful ensemble of stories from Lebanese women across generations, it never promises you their “happy ending”, but it teases just enough to satisfy that craving.

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The Greatest Luxury (Kathryn Ferguson)

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The Greatest Luxury, Kathryn Ferguson’s vibrant, bold short docu-commercial, or this arty presentation of the fashion biz, or even a surreal promo of sartorial splendor, might not cater to everyone’s taste. But its about as fabulous as you can get in under five minutes. The final official selection short film to be showcased in the Femme

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Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Morgan Gruer’s Reflections

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Reflections, is an astonishing, stunning 2D animated film composed of approximately 1,100 individual drawings. It’s an absolute delight to watch, and will leave the viewer awestruck. Directed, animated, and edited by Morgan Gruer, a graphic designer and illustrator from Brooklyn. Gruer is a very talented and intelligent filmmaker. She understands the power of colour, therefore when

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Nine Program, Saturday 15th September

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Day Nine Program, Saturday 15th September The Greatest Luxury (Kathryn Ferguson) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo 252719177 w=640 h=360] – – – – – Reflections (Morgan Gruer) *** Film Short Official Selection *** [vimeo 197412946 w=640 h=360] – – – – – Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) (Eva Husson)

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Femme Filmmakers Festival: Special Podcast with Kate Lefoe / Plunge Review

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[vimeo 275360568 w=640 h=360] Two women (Juliet Hindmarsh & Jeni Bezuidenhout) go into the countryside together to have fun at a lake, but then something inexplicable happens. The viewer is plunged straight into the action. It’s a bright, sunny day. Two women leave their car and run into the wild, laughing. They seem happy, free-spirted

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