Female Filmmaker Tag Archive

Awards, Live Action

Cindy Lee & Darwin Shaw Explore the Human Cost of Conservation in Their Oscar Nominated Short ‘The Last Ranger’

Cindy Lee & Darwin Shaw share how they orchestrated powerful performances while tracking wild rhinos in a game reserve with less than 5 days to capture it all.

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Animation, Awards

The Art of Minimalism: Shirin Sohani & Hossein Molayemi on Oscar Winning Animation ‘In the Shadow of the Cypress’

We learn how Shirin Sohani & Hossein Molayemi battled against the headwinds of filmmaking in Iran all the way to the Academy Awards with their animated short.

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Awards, Live Action

An Online Annoyance Triggers a Complete Identity Crisis in Victoria Warmerdam’s Oscar Winning ‘I’m Not a Robot’

The lone genre film in the shorts Oscar race Victoria Warmerdam explains how a simple captcha fail became a gripping exploration of identity and control.

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Awards, Documentary

Molly O’Brien’s ‘The Only Girl in the Orchestra’ Celebrates a Life Well Lived as a Musician at the Vanguard

Molly O'Brien takes DN inside the creation of her Netflix Oscar winning doc short about the trailblazing musician Orin O’Brien and her beloved instruments.

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Music Video

A Woman Liberates Herself Through Booze and Dance in Dasha Gushchina’s Music Video for Musia Totibadze’s ‘Goodbye’

Dasha Gushchina explains why a bar was the perfect setting for the story of lonely catharsis in her expressive dance music video.

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Live Action

A Woman Endures the Silent Harassment of an Outwardly Innocuous Everyday Encounter in Debbie Howard’s ‘Safe’

Debbie Howard explains why handheld was the ideal aesthetic to fully immerse the audience in her disquietingly familiar short about unwanted male attention.

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Article, Awards

BAFTA Film Committee Chair Anna Higgs on the Awards, Membership and Building an Equitable British Film Industry

In anticipation of the upcoming nominations, Anna Higgs joins DN for a discussion about BAFTA’s Awards and its key role as a champion of British filmmaking.

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Article

T A P E Collective’s Isra Al Kassi on Building an Enduring Platform Addressing the Lack of Onscreen Representation

Isra Al Kassi shares the impetus behind T A P E Collective and their mission to provide a platform that highlights under-served films for new audiences.

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Animation

How Abandoning Filmmaking and Embracing Rural Life Inspired Pernille Kjær’s Short Film ‘Forår’ (Spring)

Filmmaker Pernille Kjær talks to us about playing with light and sound in her black & white animated exploration of place 'Forår' (Spring).

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Art & Fashion

Satya Gautam & Gili Twena Capture the Rhythms of Anxiety in Their Instinctual Dance Film ‘The Butterfly’

Satya Gautam explains the process of translating sensations of panic and unease into cohesive contrasting movements of loneliness and connection.

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Animation

Marie Valade Explores a Woman’s Complex Relationship With Her Breasts in Animated Short ‘Lolos’ (Boobs)

Marie Valade deconstructs how she created the visuals in her animated short where a woman suddenly finds herself adorned with breasts.

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Live Action

A Mother Learns the Horrifying Cause of Her Sudden Inability to Enjoy Sex in Jessica Barr’s Revenge Short ‘Tight’

We speak to Jessica Barr about embracing the art in social cause filmmaking for her disturbing short about a woman who has her sexual agency taken from her.

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