The whole world seem virtual now. How do we watch movies together? Have we forgotten? The Femme Filmmakers Festival began on Friday 28th August and ran for 10 days, and has always offered that discourse by default. Now in its 5th year celebrating films made by women, the FemmeFilmFest has always been a purely online […]
The Short Films of Femme Filmmakers Festival 2020 you can still watch Read More »
With the 5th Femme Filmmakers Festival just two weeks away, here is the preview trailer for the 2020 event. Including snippets of all 59 films in the line-up, both features and shorts. Check out the full line-up here: https://filmotomy.com/femme-filmmakers-festival-2020-full-line-up-feature-short-films-announced/ Let us know what you think in the comments. Song: “On My Way Back Home” by
Femme Film Fest: Watch the Preview Trailer with Two Weeks to Go Read More »
The 4th Femme Filmmakers Festival is finally here. On Day One we begin our three-day salute to the incomparable Agnès Varda, with the feature film where she began. We also highlight a film set a hundred years ago in light of one of the greatest women struggles in our history. Our Official Selection for the
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On the 15th April 2019, the Cannes Film Festival announced their brand new poster for the upcoming event, with none other than Agnès Varda in all her glory on it. Just two days prior, I spoke to my dear friend Sezen, about a certain photograph she took. I post the screenshot as a kind of
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Well, the four other members of the jury and I debated over the eight short films in the ten categories as described in the prior post – and here are the announcements. The two big winners were Anna Kerrigan, who wrote and directed Hot Seat, and Minhal Baig, writer- director of Hala (Baig also had After
Anna Kerrigan And Minhal Baig Dominate Roll Of Honor At Femme Filmmakers Festival Read More »
To close this magnificent #FemmeFilmFest I have assembled a small jury of film-lovers to honor a select few of these outstanding new short films. There are 5 of us in the jury, who will contest on the official selection and come to a (very difficult) decision as the top merit in each of the 10
Femme Filmmakers Festival 2017: Roll Of Honor Read More »
Agnès Varda. A name synonymous with a film revolution still, astonishingly, under-recognized. A name that reminds us of rich, fluent, and oh-so varied cinema. Stayed tuned for the remainder of the Femme Filmmakers Festival, Vagabond closes the the whole affair Sunday. Anyway, I’m only rippling the surface with the following links, but click away all
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This four-minute portrait of the filmmaker’s mother combines the texture of 1970s-color-saturated found footage with an oddly avant-garde structure. The editing rhythms are distinctly recognizable for anyone who has watched 70s home movies; the Kodak would often linger and jerk-pan for about twenty seconds, then (because the film ran out, because only so much could
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Originally published over at On The Screen Reviews Before Hollywood discovered the benefit of locking their doors when leaving town, a group of gutsy, celebrity-obsessed high schoolers ransacked the homes of Paris Hilton, Rachel Bilson, Orlando Bloom, and Lindsey Lohan…to name a few. And they posted their designer booty on Facebook feeling the temporary fulfillment
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Here we are once again. I literally salivate at the mouth at the prospect of spending hours and hours in a darkened room with all these women. Women directors, and their marvelous work, as we fast approach the Directed By Women Worldwide Film Viewing Party. Following the success of last year’s online viewing event, Femme
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