Ninth Floor director Mina Shum: In Canada, “We’re racist but we like to apologize about our racism.” Shum discusses Canadian racism and her new …
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In Her Chair
Female-identifying directors reflect on their experiences making films and leading creative teams.
Kris Swanberg on Unexpected, her female-driven pregnancy film
Kris Swanberg's Unexpected is a quiet film full of small, wonderful revelations about what women go through during pregnancy. Swanberg maintains the perspective …
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Director Shira Piven talks Welcome to Me, Chauncey Gardner, and finding comedic rhythms
Kristen Wiig stars, in Shira Piven's Welcome to Me, as a woman with borderline personality disorder who wins an 86 million dollar lottery and …
Advantageous director Jennifer Phang talks bringing feminist sci-fi to the screen
Jennifer Phang's Advantageous is a feminist science fiction film for lovers of French New Wave cinema and intimate family dramas. I talked to Phang about the …
SFFS Artist-in-Residence Sally El Hosaini on writing and directing My Brother the Devil
Sally El Hosaini’s directorial debut, My Brother the Devil, is a touching and sensitive story of two Arab brothers in Hackney, London. During her …
‘Cinema is the only art ever where you share somebody’s loneliness’ and other insights from Céline Sciamma
Writer-director Céline Sciamma discusses Girlhood, the genesis of the film, how cinema is the only art form in which you can share someone …