We often forget that some of the greatest stories in cinema come from real life. The things we do as humans, the lives we lead, the experiences we have, and memories we collect are the basis for the things we turn into film, and by extension art. In When Tomatoes Met Wagner director Marianna Economou …
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Corruption, comedy, and caviar. Nadja, a Russian living in Vienna, is a translator for boorish billionaire oligarch, Igor. When Igor impulsively resolves to build an ostentatious villa on the Danube Canal, he sets out to bribe local officials into redeveloping the area. Meanwhile Nadja, her girlfriend, and her hipster nanny plot to dob them in …
When you think of the zombie apocalypse genre images of rotting corpses lumbering their way through empty streets in a mindless search for brains are probably what you'd picture first along with titles like 28 Days Later, The Walking Dead, or World War Z. Well Endzeit, the second feature from filmmaker Carolina Hellsgard, takes this …
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I'm going to be hard pressed to keep finding Parisian pun titles for my articles on this, but as long as Cannes film festival keeps seesawing on the scale of gender equality I will have to be cringe worthy. But seriously, what is going on with Cannes this year? Last years festival caused a stir …
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 …
With great unicorns come great responsibility in Brie Larson's Netflix exclusive directorial debut, Unicorn Store. Stuck in the middle between a childhood fantasy and a serious adult drama, the film is a rainbow coloured roller coaster of emotions that made me feel depressed, elated, unmotivated, and inspired all in the space of 90 minutes. After …
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 …
It is depressing to see that the 'top 10 greatest Indie films of all time' lists spattered around the internet host a large majority of male directed films. So I decided to make an all-female directed top 10 indie film list to counteract the biased lists you can get everywhere else.
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 …
