Female Filmmaker Tag Archive

Documentary, Film Festival, Music Video, Podcasts

DN327: Johanna Schwartz Documents the Defiant Spirit of Malian Musicians in Sonic Feature ‘They Will Have to Kill Us

Director Johanna Schwartz joins DN with her feature-length documentary 'They Will Have to Kill Us First' - a film which charts the defiant spirit of Malian

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Documentary

“I’m a Proponent of Change”: Penelope Spheeris and The Decline Of Western Civilization

Penelope Spheeris & Anna Fox join us to discuss the long overdue release of 'The Decline Of Western Civilization' - a momentous trio of documentaries tracking

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Live Action

Exploring the Boundaries of Elliptical Storytelling in Maria Pia Fanigliulo’s ‘Fragments of May’

Director Maria Pia Fanigliulo discusses how she approached crafting an elliptical tale of a young woman battling mental illness in her new short film

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Live Action

Humanising the Struggle of America’s Undocumented Workers in Camille Stochitch’s ‘Interstate’

We speak to Director Camille Stochitch about the development and production of her Student Academy Award-winning and BAFTA nominated short film about

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Live Action

New Joys: The Wonder of Kelly Reichardt

Reichardt is not a great female director. She is a great director. Period. Seeing her work collected together is a reminder that she is a supreme chronicler of

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Live Action

Melissa Anastasi Takes a Meditative Look at Life, Loss and Longing in ‘This Feral Life’

Melissa Anastasi discusses the process of adapting a theatre monologue for screen and the importance of emotional truth and tone in storytelling.

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Music Video

Laura Sicouri Puts the Choreographed Fun Back into the Work Out in ‘Maria’ for Birdy Hunt

Laura Sicouri's move into live action music videos for Birdy Hunt track Maria, sees her choreograph a workout session that would tempt even the most reticent

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Documentary

ORION Unmasked: Further Adventures in Crowdfunding with Jeanie Finlay

Jeanie Finlay's latest feature, ORION: The Man Who Would Be King, has been waiting in the wings for several years but is now ready to take centre stage as

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Animation

Goyims Jens & Anna Discuss Jewish Culture…Carefully in ‘The Squirrel and the Penguin’

Jens Blank & Anna Benner wracked their brains for the perfect story to animate their way into a Jewish film fund, only to find that the solution was writing

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Awards, Live Action, Podcasts

DN312: Good Night – Muriel d’Ansembourg

In her coming of age short Good Night, Muriel d’Ansembourg mines the rich vein of dark teenage life experience whilst sidestepping the all too obvious route

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN310: Some Things Mean Something – Dee Meaden

Writer/director/producer Dee Meaden joins us to discuss the dramatic importance of small moments & why she wanted to avoid the dangers of over producing.

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN279: The Great Hip Hop Hoax – Jeanie Finlay

One of the few directors we’d trust to guide us through the web of lies at the centre of The Great Hip Hop Hoax documentary is our dearest of filmmaking

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