A Blog Supporting Female Filmmakers
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.
It's considered the entry point into the film industry for a lot of people. A great place to start to gain experience on set, observe the process in action and make contacts along the way. If you do a good job it can also be a good way to gain respect from others as most people will have done their time with the role at the start of their careers. I am of course talking about being a Runner.
For the longest time the term horror film was synonymous to women being tormented by x threat for 90mins through an intensified predatory male gaze. So I thought I would walk through some of the key ways the genre is shifting for the better under the female gaze.
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 …
Back In Isolation With Nothing To Watch? For those currently living in Australia you would be aware of the second wave of COVID-19 currently hitting hardest in Victoria. I'm not about to get political in regards to mask-wearing and people flouting restrictions, but hopefully the next part of our curated list of female directed content …
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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.
Sick of wasting hours of my life looking for something new to watch I started the most comprehensive list of Netflix content directed by women that, I at least, have ever come across. With over 5000 titles in the Netflix library there always seems to be a circulation of the same 30 films on the …
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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.