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This week's featured filmmaker is writer/director Jessica Benhamou. She shared with me some insight into her intimate short film Love Is A Hand Grenade, which is currently premiering online at BFI Flare 2021 until March 28th. A director who's love of filmmaking came after exploring a range of fields Jessica soon discovered that her life's …
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Keeping secrets from Nonna is like saying no to cannoli, impossible. For this week's feature we are doubling down on fabulous women creators by sharing the comedy web series Welcome To The Family written by and starring Elisa Cristallo and Directed by Angela Pezzano. I asked what attracted them both to the film industry. "I've …
It's 2021 and our 35th featured filmmaker on the blog! Jessica Redish's comedy short film The Last Croissant garnered enough interest to spawn filmic sequel Airway, a second short comedy about flying which also boasts a 98% female crew.
All Joking Aside! Women Are Funny Too. 2 Years ago I shared an article on this blog to support the crowdfunding campaign for Animal Mother Films production All Joking Aside. Directed by Shannon Kohli and Produced by Jon Ornoy the film has since gone into production with it's 50/50 gender split crew and come out …
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How Much Of Who You Are Is What You Look Like? Independent short film The Flip Side boasts an entire female crew and explores the concept of revenge through use of doppelgängers. The film has just opened up a crowd-funding campaign so I spoke to Director, Producer and Actress Rosalie Carn about the campaign, the …
Revisiting The Work Of Tamara Hansen Back in 2018 we featured the lovely Tamara Hansen and the music video she directed for artist Brielle Von Hugel (READ HERE). Now in 2020 she is back with an original short film that she wrote and directed; Windows To Nowhere. After a bit of a run around with …
Using Web Series To Tell Unique Stories Web series and independent filmmaking have often gone hand in hand. As an extremely freeing and creative platform Web Series are made in all kinds of styles, formats and tell a range of different stories that sometimes wouldn't work as well as short films or features. This weeks …
This weeks featured filmmaker, Kalpana Kumar, also has a passion for raising awareness about social issues. Her film Laskhmi - Untold Truths was shot entirely in India and seeks to open eyes to the sexual assault and abuse of women within Indian society, specifically the cases that don't necessarily make it to the news.
I think it's safe to say that no one truly predicted the impact that coronavirus would have on our daily lives. The biggest area that I could see effected by all of this was the arts.
30 Amazing Women & Counting Featured Filmmaker 30! It such a momentous occasion to have featured this many fantastic filmmakers on the blog and so for this post we're showcasing a director with two varying film projects to talk about. I asked Hannah Brooke what made her want to become a film director and I …