Female Protagonist Archives

A Lonely Woman Wonders if Her New Love Is Scamming Her in Lucy McKendrick & Charles Polinger’s ‘Fuck Me,

Lucy Elizabeth McKendrick & Charles Polinger talk about creating the fantasies a young woman loses herself to in their twisted long distance romance short.

Is There Anybody Out There? director Ella Glendining is a disabled white woman in her twenties with long blonde hair, short, unusual looking legs, and a few tattoos on her arm. Ella sunbathes on a sandy beach. She looks blissful, basking in the sunshine. A sliver of sparkling blue ocean can be seen in distance.

Documentary

Ella Glendining’s Debut ‘Is There Anybody Out There?’ Is a Captivating Battle Cry for the Disabled Community

Ella Glendining speaks about bringing together the patchwork elements of her empowering documentary about her search for someone else with the same disability.

Live Action

Savanah Leaf’s Blistering ‘Earth Mama’ Lays Bare the Struggles of Marginalized Motherhood in a Flawed Care System

Savanah Leaf details how shooting 16mm benefited her gritty, surreal debut feature which shines a unique authorial lens on motherhood, race and class.

Live Action

Cristina Sánchez Salamanca Illustrates the Fracturing of a Modern Family in Her Intimate Drama ‘Bebé’

Cristina Sánchez Salamanca reveals how she crafted the quiet, everyday gestures in her observant familial drama to build to a concentrated breaking point.

Live Action, Premiere

Emily Lucienne’s ‘Immaculate Deception’ Explores the Desperate Actions a Woman Takes As Her Options Narrow

Emily Lucienne details building the cloistered claustrophobic atmosphere of her short exploring the desperate measures dwindling options can push us to.

Live Action, Premiere

Chaconne Martin-Berkowicz Explores the Nuanced Complexity of Female Group Power Dynamics in ‘Scotty’s Vag’

Chaconne Martin-Berkowicz discusses capturing the subtleties of shifting female power dynamics within a college sorority in her gritty veracious short.

Live Action, Premiere

A Mother’s Love for Her Son Is Tested by Radicalisation in Robin Summon’s Unsettling Drama ‘Victim’

Robin Summons talks to DN about portraying the worrying pernicious mundanity of Incel radicalisation on young men in his unsettling drama short.

Art & Fashion

Sergii Shevtsov Takes a Metaphorical Ride of Whimsy With ‘the list of stupid questions i ask myself when i’m

Sergii Shevtsov breaks down the considered staging of the surreal compositions for his self-reflective visual poem about life, career and relationships.

Live Action

Tamsin Topolski Lays Bare the Dire Consequences of Toxic Positivity in Satirical Short ‘I’m a Good Person’

Tamsin Topolski details how she represented her protagonist's mental and physical demise through all aspects of her darkly comic satire's colour palette.

Live Action, Premiere

Jon Olav Stokke Depicts the Farcical Absurdity of the Pistol Duel in His Witty Period Comedy ‘Deloping’

Jon Olav Stokke talks about the benefits of having a wet draft script version of his satirical pistol duel between two women where miscommunication runs rife.

Live Action, Premiere

A Difficult Decision Causes a Looping Infinite Reality in Tom Moran’s Pastel-Coloured Fantasy ‘Romanesco’

Tom Moran reveals how he adapted his mind-boggling metanarrative concept into a self-referential spiral of a film about a woman trapped in an infinite dream.

Live Action

Arundati Thandur’s Modern Period Drama Mini-Series ‘I’m Dying Inside’ Eschews Outmoded Menstruation Advertising

Arundati Thandur details focussing on the wants and desires of Gen Z in the making of her viral TikTok mini-series for period underwear brand Modibodi.

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