Reel Jersey Girls: A Century of Women Filmmakers symposium reflects on Alice Guy Blache’s innovations and achievements as it fits in with the present day potential and opportunity for women filmmakers. Emerging at the end of the nineteenth century, it wasn’t immediately clear whether cinema would become a viable industry beyond sideshow attractions. Work at […]
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IFP Spirit Awards & Silent Films
02/16/2012
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The IFP Spirit Awards, where members of the Independent Film Project (myself included) get to vote for their films deemed the best that premiered at film festivals, with some having a successful theatrical run and recognition by mainstream audience and film critics. The voting ends on Friday, February 17 and Awards night takes place on […]
Agnieszka Holland Sheds Light on IN DARKNESS
02/08/2012
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The opening scene in IN DARKNESS sent hairs on the back of my neck stand straight as a straggle of naked women run through the forest not far from where two local Poles trudge on their way to work. The two can do nothing but stay out of sight as machine gun fire follow the […]
Woodstock Film Festival 2016
03/05/2012
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