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Between Waves Interview: Virginia Abramovich
I spoke to Between Waves writer and director Virginia Abramovich about mental illness, working with lead actor Fiona Graham and the path to her first feature.
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Saint Frances Interview: Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson
“We don’t have to do anything but present it and a lot of people will feel seen by it and a lot of people might feel like it's too much. But it will beg the question ‘Why do I feel like it's too much?’ ”
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The Pregnant Ground Interview: Haolu Wang
“I like to present complex, bold and unconventional women characters as they are, without much explanation, and let the audience simply react to them.”
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Spinster Interview: Andrea Dorfman
“The stories I want to tell are expansive, not reductive, they are about women who are in a constant state of becoming.”
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Ghost BFF Interview: Vanessa Matsui
“Female voices have been ignored for so long. Only seeing and presenting one gender’s perspective is not only boring but also dangerous.”
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Reelworld Film Festival 2019 Interview: Tonya Williams
“We also have a hand in creating a new and more realistic vision on what being a woman is (and it’s not about being pretty arm candy for men to ogle). We need more female characters that are smart — not pretty and smart, but just plain old smart.”
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Volcano Interview: Karen Moore
“The idea came from personal experience — both with romantic relationships and friendships. I’ve been both women in the film and it’s a sort of exploration of those different people that exist within us.”
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Firecrackers Interview: Jasmin Mozaffari
“I don’t think writing strong female characters is all about making them tough and unbreakable, it’s about showing women in their full complexity — the dark side, the melancholy, the flaws.”
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Shirkers Interview: Sandi Tan
“I never thought it was that much of a possibility for me there because there were no film classes, there was no film school. You are just watching a lot of movies and making movies in your head. So I was a filmmaker a long time before I became a physical filmmaker.”
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Fauve Interview: Maria Gracia Turgeon
“For years, the brilliance of female filmmakers has been overlooked or stifled. Let us give women from the past and now their due so that young filmmakers can easily name five female filmmakers when asked which filmmaker they admire.”
