Tag: Female Filmmaker
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: R3D@CTED (Georgia Wood)
R3D@CTED is a short horror film directed by Georgia Wood. It premiered on Halloween of last year at the Liverpool Arts Bar. Marketed under the…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Stick Bug (Wylie Anderson)
Indie Film goers are conditioned to watching awkward, tension-filled romance stories no context or clue as to where the plot is going. But Stick Bug…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Nun’s Beach (Kate diRienzi)
Kate diRienzi’s Nun’s Beach (2024) is a quietly moving short film that explores the intersections of faith, family, and queer love with tenderness. Inspired by…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The High Road (Cheyenne Christie)
Cheyenne Christie’s The High Road (2025) is an intimate and honest short film that explores the complicated relationship between an estranged mother and daughter. Their journey on the…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The Shadow (Kyran Townley)
The Shadow, as its title suggests, is a very mysterious film. We begin with a woman being stalked by a looming figure on dark streets,…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Cicada (Roxana Stroe)
Roxana Stroe‘s coming-of-age short film Cicada blends 90s rave culture with themes of identity and friendship. The film follows Gallup, a young man facing pressure…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Come Lucciole (Giulia Badalassi)
Come Lucciole (As Fireflies), Giulia Badalassi’s 2026 short film, is a moving meditation on grief, memory, and the transition from adolescence into adulthood. Set on…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Cautivas (Itxaso Díaz)
Cautivas (2024) is an honest, powerful documentary that puts a human face to the harsh realities of El Salvador’s total abortion ban. The film follows…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Bristol One City (Aditi Ganesh, Peri Hammond)
For those who may not be familiar, Bristol is a city in the South West of England that is home to an incredibly diverse culture,…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: En mille pétales (Louise Bongartz)
In En mille pétales (2023), Louise Bongartz crafts a poignant and visually rich exploration of love, memory, and erosion within a relationship. Rather than relying on dialogue-heavy…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: The Call Centre (Louisa Connolly-Burnham)
At its core, Louisa Connolly-Burnham’s The Call Centre is a film that goes out of its way to be provocative. And it acknowledges that. This…
* Last Minute Updates * with the 11th Femme Filmmakers Festival Just 2 Days Away
Where to begin? And how much do I disclose? Weighing up an impossible balance of professional and personal, I have opted to make this short…
Watch the Official Trailer for the 11th Edition of the Femme Filmmakers Festival
The 11th Edition of the Femme Filmmakers Festival is just around the corner. So, yes, I have been unable to resist the urge to tantalise…
Meet the Official Competition Selection Jury for 11th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Every year for the Femme Filmmakers Festival we assemble a jury for the Competition Selection. It’s a huge job, to find 9 liked-minded souls who…
Screening Schedule Ready to Go for the Femme Filmmakers Festival 11th Edition
Mark your diaries and calendars, and cancel whatever plans you have during August 14th to 23rd, the 11th Femme Filmmakers Festival short film screening schedule…
Official Selection Announced for the 11th Femme Filmmakers Festival
Here is the line-up for the 11th Femme Filmmakers Festival. Filmotomy’s Senior Editor Hannah Taylor and I watched every short film submitted, and determined after…
Hind Rajab is the Official Poster for the 11th Edition of the Femme Filmmakers Festival
The designing of the official poster for our Femme Filmmakers Festival might be a small part of our unfathomable prep work each year. But definitely…
The 11th Edition is Coming of the Femme Filmmakers Festival
Back in January, perhaps February, I started throwing out there the notion of prepping super early for this year’s Femme Filmmakers Festival. I mean, in…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Sister Wives (Louisa Connolly-Burnham)
Louisa Connolly Burnham’s 2024 short Sister Wives opens with a long close up panning shot of lead Kaidence’s tightly plaited hair. The camera slowly follows…
Morvern Callar: a Suicide Note, a Sellout and a Spanish All-Inclusive
Opening your movie with a tableau-like scene of the titular character (Samantha Morton) awaking in the embrace of her dead boyfriend, only to have her…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Badger (Martha Crow)
Badger presents us with a seemingly innocuous situation that quickly morphs into something extremely uncomfortable. While waiting for a wildlife expert to come and remove an injured…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Fleeting (Louisa Connolly-Burnham)
Fleeting is the short film directed by award-winning Louisa Connolly-Burnham. It is a moving short on the tension surrounding the Repeal the Eighth movement in…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Profile and Opinion: Paradise Blue (Roxana Stroe)
Profile Roxana has studied Film Directing at the National University of Theatre and Cinema “I.L. Caragiale” in Bucharest. Her short movies have participated in numerous…
Femme Filmmakers Festival Review: Magpie (Erin Curran, Megan McDonagh)
Magpie, a 13-minute short film directed by Erin Curran and Megan McDonagh, crafts a poignant narrative, that beautifully captures the bittersweet intricacies of familial love…







































