Female Filmmaker Tag Archive

Live Action, Premiere

An AI-Powered Sex Robot Exposes a Relationship in Crisis in the Nüesch Sisters’ Dark Comedy ‘Marriage Unplugged’

From a glossy sex shop to a sterile home, sister-directors Florine & Kim Nüesch describe using visual world-building to map a relationship’s decay.

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Live Action, Premiere

Jessica Barr Blurs Performance And Personal Trauma In Her Intimate, Visually Claustrophobic Acting Short ‘Private Moments’

Jessica Barr discusses using the meta-narrative of an acting class to explore the pressure on female filmmakers to mine personal trauma for their art.

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Article

Julija Fricsone-Gavriss on the Philosophy of Production Design and Building Worlds That Feel Real

For Julija Fricsone-Gavriss, a set must be an extension of the character. She details her process of building extensive PD boards to breathe life into film

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Documentary

Anna Fabricius Maps the Female Form as a Landscape of Empowering Transformation in Her Hybrid Short ‘Shaping Change’

Anna Fabricius details how she weaved documentary disclosures with choreographed movement to create her portraiture of the female body's unfolding over time.

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Live Action, Premiere

Love and Loathing Intertwine in Katie Lambert’s Perfectly Formed Teenage Desire Comedy ‘I Hate Helen’

Katie Lambert take us all back to school and maps out the disco choreography and swimming pool shooting of her effervescent coming of age comedy short.

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Animation, Premiere

A Woman Finds Relief in Self-Pleasure in Olivia Griselda & Sarah Cheok’s ‘She and Her Good Vibrations’

Olivia Griselda & Sarah Cheok reveal the hilarious true story that inspired their fearlessly funny animated short about a woman addicted to solo pleasure.

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Live Action

Isabella Eklöf on Condemning the Ones We Love in Her Adaptation of Nick Cave’s ‘The Death of Bunny Munro’

Isabella Eklöf talks to DN about her TV adaptation of Nick Cave's novel, starring Matt Smith as a sex addicted salesman in what may be his best performance

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Awards, Live Action

Laura Carreira Crafts a Sensory Portrait of Gig Worker Loneliness in Her Multi BIFA Nominated Debut ‘On Falling’

Laura Carreira explains why removing antagonists sharpened her film's critique of the gig economy and its deleterious effect on he isolated Portuguese migrant.

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Article

“Would This Exist Without the Brand?” Margo Mars Lays Out LIEF Entertainment’s Approach to Authentic Storytelling

Margo Mars introduces us to LIEF Entertainment Company, a studio launched with the express goal of auteur brands funding premium auteur driven entertainment.

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Animation

Inside the Hypnotic World of ‘Shapes’: How Tsz-wing Ho Let Music Lead the Way

Animator Tsz-wing Ho returns to DN to share how mastering time management and connecting deeply with music inspired the creation of mesmerising film 'Shapes'.

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Animation, Premiere

An Aspiring Accordion Player Falls Prey To Insidious Exploitation in Eva Louise Hall’s Stop Motion Horror ‘Mira’

From a modest thesis project to a celebrated festival short, Eva Louise Hall reveals the unexpected journey of her dark tale of abusive creative relationships.

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Live Action, Premiere

Ellen Rodnianski’s Claustrophobic Short ‘Family Matters’ Probes the Moral Paralysis Behind Systemic Violence

Forcing audiences to confront complicity, Ellen Rodnianski explains how the moral inaction in her short mirrors societal apathy towards large scale violence.

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