A Blog Supporting Female Filmmakers
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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Dark, Poignant, Funny and Full of Style; I Promise You'll Be Blown Away Emerald Fennell's feature film debut Promising Young Woman is a tantalizingly dark yet comedic delve into the victim blaming culture of female sexual abuse. Staring Carey Mulligan as Cassie, a woman in her 30's that can't let go of the events of …
Did This Film Really Just Sexualise Children? Caught up in a marketing nightmare Cuties/Mignonnes directed by Maïmouna Doucouré had its fair share of controversy before it even released September 9th on Netflix. The films Netflix poster portraying 4 pre-teen girls in skimpy outfits had the internet in an uproar as people began calling the film …
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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 …
scripts don't often turn into films without the Director having a vision for that script. So how does that happen? Well... with Directors notes. A Directors Notes or Treatment is a document that explains your film, why you're making it and who you're making it with. So I thought it would be valuable to share some of the things I picked up during this exercise with anyone else out there who is writing a Director's Notes for the first time too.
An anthology series turned feature film Force of Habit combines the work of 6 female directors and 6 different stories of women going about their everyday lives openly revealing the often hidden world of female sexual abuse, the male gaze, and power dynamics within society.
I've never been to the Sydney Film Festival before. Whether it was timing, or funds, or simply forgetting that it was on. I've made all the excuses in the past. This year though I made it a mission of mine to attend, and not only just attend but make a point of seeing female directed …
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So far already I have seen an increase in my own news feeds of images and projects from female filmmakers and so to continue this ever-growing saturation it's time to feature yet another talented female filmmaker. This week I'll be showing you the work of Haley Biggins. For Haley filmmaking was something that started as a …
Every Friday I want to feature female filmmakers, and the work they have been doing, and try to help saturate the media with images and projects of women.
We all know the issue. That’s why you’re probably reading this. Gender diversity in the film industry sucks. And this isn’t an issue that is purely confined within the Australian border. Film as a global industry suffers from this lack of diversity and in this new series of blog posts I wanted to take a …