A Blog Supporting Female Filmmakers
Revealing personal truths about oneself can be difficult but also therapeutic and sometimes even inspiring to others. This weeks featured director has taken on the challenge of turning an incredibly personal and painful experience into a short film, a goal that most certainly hasn't been easy to achieve. Katie Sponseller has always been attracted to …
I have spoken previously on this blog about the superhero genre of films and the big impact they have on shaping our society. These films have a big responsibility when it comes to providing diverse representation because heroes act as role models to many, young and old, within our society. Only recently have females started …
I can't believe I have featured 20 filmmakers on my blog already! I've shared stories of independent and crowd-funded feature debuts, a bunch of short films, and some truly engaging web series over the last 3 years. These posts are the reason I do what I do and I've still got tonnes more amazing women …
One of my favourite styles of film making is the Mockumentary. For those that don't know a mockumentary is a narrative story filmed like documentary, often in a comedic or satirical fashion. It involves all the documentary tropes including handheld camera footage, interviews, and even sometimes "archival" documents. For director Jenny Bee it was the …
Life loves to throw challenges our way and these often make the best stories. All you need for proof of this is the sheer amount of films with the line 'based on a true story' after the opening credits. It can be easy to forget that art, particularly film, acts as a reflection of the …
Mylissa Fitzsimmons' desire to be a film director manifested in a similar way to a lot of the women I have featured on this blog. It even slightly mirrors my own journey of discovering a love of film and a need to tell stories from behind the camera. A daydreamer with a love for storytelling …
With the extensive media attention it can be easy to forget that film exists in other forms outside of the big blockbuster Hollywood world of cinema. I wrote an article recently about the Top 10 Indie films directed by women, all of which came from a world outside of a big budget. For many women …
When you exclude women from creating media you are cutting out a significant voice from the very medium that is supposed to reflect who we are as a society. As it stands today, the world population of females is 49%[1]. If we are equal in numbers it would make sense that we should be equal …
The internet. It has provided many avenues for content creation by everyone. No more is video a format saved only for professionals. Your next door neighbour could be a budding camera person and you would never know unless you found their channel of travel vlogs. Influencers and internet personalities are the new celebrity, but what …
The novel has offered much to the film world in terms of content. Many of my favourite books have been turned into films; Harry Potter, A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Hunger Games. Not all books have resulted in quality films, but the best film adaptations are often those that can capture the essence of …