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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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.
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 …
We've curated all female directed Netflix content so you don't have to. There are 5511 titles in the Australian Netflix library (as of April 9 2020). That's more content than you could probably watch in your entire life. But how much of it was directed by a woman? How much of this content focuses on …
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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 …
Unfortunately working in the film industry can sometimes leave you with feelings of doubt, impostor syndrome, and a general lack of self confidence. But something you might notice in those that have moved their way up the film career ladder is that no matter how much skill you have or how much knowledge you possess, it's the confidence that sells it.
"I dream in full screenplays," were some of the first words first-time filmmaker screenwriter/director/actress/executive producer Shaun Rylee said to me when I began putting together this featured post. "All of my screenwriting work comes from actual real experiences from my life or inspired by them, which my dreams seem to take and formulate into cinematic …
I was having a conversation with a film/tv contact recently who generously agreed to meet me for coffee and impart some of her wisdom with regards to getting started in the industry. We got talking about making your own films and she had some interesting advice about film festivals standards, where to put in the …
"Life made me become a film director" says this week's featured director Luana Di Pasquale. We spoke about Keep Mum her new short film exploring the psychological impacts of a cycle of domestic violence.