Female Protagonist Tag Archive

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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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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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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Live Action

A Mother Finds Refuge In Her Own World With Her Blow-up Doll in Chanelle Eidenbenz’s ‘Elephant in the Room’

Chanelle Eidenbenz talks about leaning into cast insights and evolving the script of her drama about a delusional woman’s fraught relationship with her son.

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Live Action, Premiere

A Young Woman Reckons With the Questionable Past Behaviour of a Childhood Friend in Hannah Levin’s ‘Golden Child’

Hannah Levin shares how she balanced out the comedic beats, sticking to the story and keeping the narrative moving in her bold, reckoning comedy short debut.

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Live Action, Premiere

Alexandra Qin Unveils the Impacts of Sex Addiction on Two Sisters’ Relationship in Her Sobering Drama ‘Thirstygirl’

Alexandra Qin talks to DN about her personal experience with sex and love, drug and alcohol addiction, and the vital role it played in her debut short film.

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Live Action

Sasha Nathwani’s ‘Last Swim’ Envelops Us in the Nostalgic Ebullience of One Last Carefree Day

Sasha Nathwani reveals the subtle progression of colour he adopted to emulate the universal nostalgia of a day of fun and freedom amongst teenage friends.

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Live Action, Premiere

Jordan Chandler Plunges Us Into a Mother’s Relentless Surreal Nightmare in Her Psychological Wild Ride ‘Brutal’

Jordan Chandler talks about channelling her righteous indignation into her blistering thriller about a mother on a Sisyphean quest to save her missing child.

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Documentary, Film Festival

Sophie Compton & Daisy-May Hudson’s ‘Holloway’ Interrogates the Root Causes and Lasting Trauma of Incarceration

Sophie Compton & Daisy-May Hudson extol the benefits of the co-created trauma-informed filmmaking model underpinning their LFF award winning documentary.

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Live Action

Torn Between Ambition and Life’s Competing Demands a Woman Faces Her Fragmented Personas in David Findlay’s ‘Faces’

David Findlay discusses the melding of music and sound design integral to his fast paced descent into the surreality of a woman's frantic subconscious.

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Live Action

A Female Bull-Jumper Holds Her Own in a Sacred Androcentric Arena in Joe Weiland & Finn Constantine’s ‘Marion’

Weiland & Constantine deconstruct the 6 camera coverage needed to capture the set-piece of their heart-pounding short about France’s only female bull-jumper.

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