Female Filmmaker Tag Archive

Art & Fashion, Premiere

A Disconnected Woman Roams Through the Remnants of Her Relationship in Kate Harpootlian’s ‘Anyone Who Knows’

Kate Harpootlian explains how she employed more impactful minimal movement when choreographing her dance short exploring the dissolution of a relationship.

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Music Video

Emma Branderhorst Presents an Alternative to the Perilous Repercussions of Sexting in Campaign Short ‘Piece of Me’

Emma Branderhorst tells DN why it was important to take a new tack of addressing those who share intimate images without consent for her KPN campaign film.

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Art & Fashion

Julia Zlotnick Portrays a Young Man’s Crumbling Mental Health in Frenetic Dance Short ‘Seeking Thomas’

Julia Zlotnick walks us through how she melded the artistic worlds of narrative and dance for her visceral, emotionally charged short about mental health.

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Music Video, Premiere

Okay Kaya Finds Herself Amidst a Surreal, Sweltering Fantasy in Julia Patey’s Music Video for ‘The Groke’

Julia Patey breaks down the creative benefits of her instinctual, holistic approach to crew hierarchy on her inventive, desert-set Okay Kaya music video.

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Animation

Mansi Maheshwari Depicts the Nightmarish Nature of Parental Lies in Feverish Animated Cannes Short ‘Bunnyhood’

Mansi Maheshwari walks DN through how she created the intense and frenetic scrawled animation style of her manic Cannes-selected NFTS grad short.

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Live Action, Premiere

Ella Carey Plunges Us Into the Cloudy Area of Consent in Her Evocative Teen Drama ‘Prawn’

Ella Care speaks to DN about depicting the grey area of teen consent in her powerful short about the innocence of a girl's first kiss being dashed by reality.

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Live Action

Thousands of Women’s Experiences Coalesce Into One Exquisitely Painful Day in Bren Cukier’s ‘Thursday’

Bren Cukier shares how the intimate accounts of real women directly informed her film about a woman's isolating experience practising her reproductive rights.

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Live Action, Premiere

Youthful Abandon Clashes Against the Burdens of Impending Adulthood in Melina Valdez’ ‘Weapons and Their Names’

Melina Valdez unpacks her process of weaving magical realism into a grounded narrative informed by personal experience to portray the tumult of teenage grief.

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Article

Multi-Award-Winning Composer Hollie Buhagiar on the Art of Crafting Bespoke Scores for Film, TV & Games

Hollie Buhagiar reveals her approach to composition, her feelings about temp score and AI music generation, and the joy of experimenting with new instruments.

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Live Action, Premiere

Aleksandra Kingo Pays Homage to the Fine Art of Avoidance in Comedy Short ‘An Ode to Procrastination’

Photographer/Director Aleksandra Kingo explains the ideas first, technology second creative approach she took for her life imitating art debut short film.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Pet’s Ill-Fated Demise Leads a Guilty Housemate to a Bizarre Remedy in Dark Comedy ‘Dead Cat Film’

Josie Charles & Nathan Miller talk to DN about the unwanted attention they garnered filming in public with a taxidermied cat for their quirky comedy short.

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Art & Fashion, Premiere

Amaka Lin’s Experimental Dance Short ‘Stasis’ Finds an Ancient Force Inspiring a Peculiar Transformation

Amaka Lin reveals how the unsettling yet meditative textures of dark ambient music inspired her movement-led exploration of time, nature and the future.

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