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Interviews

Emmy-Winning Filmmaker Launches Creative Program To Help People Rediscover Who They Are

Emmy-Winning Filmmaker Launches Creative Program To Help People Rediscover Who They Are

Each of us are born with the ability to dream and imagine what we’d like to do with our lives. Along the way, as we get older, expectations, social norms […]

Interviews

30 Years Of Muslim-American History Recounted Through The Collective Memory Of A Community In ‘AN ACT OF WORSHIP’

30 Years Of Muslim-American History Recounted Through The Collective Memory Of A Community In ‘AN ACT OF WORSHIP’

Storytelling is a medium that privileges the storyteller. The person writing the script, directing the action, choosing the footage, and making executive decisions about what we as audiences see and […]

Contributors

I Decided To Release My Second TV Series During The Pandemic, And Here’s What Happened…

I Decided To Release My Second TV Series During The Pandemic, And Here’s What Happened…

By Alex Spieth Dear Readers, It’s your fave indie filmmaker, Alex Spieth. When last we spoke, I was in the midst of season two of my first series ‘Blank My […]

Entertainment, Interviews

Director Kimberlee Bassford On Featuring Women Of Color At The Center Of Her Award-Winning Films

Director Kimberlee Bassford On Featuring Women Of Color At The Center Of Her Award-Winning Films

March is Women’s History Month and one of the ways we love to celebrate is to amplify the work and stories of women, especially women of color and underrepresented voices […]

Entertainment

Vikas Khanna’s ‘The Last Color’ Film Unites Two Unlikely Outcasts In A Story About Empowerment & Friendship

Vikas Khanna’s ‘The Last Color’ Film Unites Two Unlikely Outcasts In A Story About Empowerment & Friendship

Based on the 2018 book of the same name, author, chef and filmmaker Vikas Khanna’s ‘The Last Color’ made its world premiere debut at the 2019 Palm Springs International Film […]

Interviews

Filmmaker A-lan Holt On Working With Lupita Nyong’o & Championing Diversity In The Arts

Filmmaker A-lan Holt On Working With Lupita Nyong’o & Championing Diversity In The Arts

She’s a writer, filmmaker, activist, educator, and mother, whose work is all about changing the equilibrium in Hollywood when it comes to representation of especially women of color. A-lan Holt […]

Interviews

Filmmaker Lisa Ebersole On Egg-Freezing & Treating Your Creative Projects As A Business

Filmmaker Lisa Ebersole On Egg-Freezing & Treating Your Creative Projects As A Business

You can definitely tell when women write stories about their own lives and experiences for TV and film, because it means you see a more realistic, complex and nuanced portrayal, […]

Entertainment

Director Rebekah Nelson On Making Films About Tough Subject Matters & Her Latest Project ‘The Shoulder’

Director Rebekah Nelson On Making Films About Tough Subject Matters & Her Latest Project ‘The Shoulder’

Right now there is a lot of focus on what is happening behind the scenes in Hollywood and the film industry at large, in the wake of explosive sexual assault […]

Interviews

Award-Winning Director Vanessa Parise On Diversity Initiatives & Gender Equality Behind The Camera

Award-Winning Director Vanessa Parise On Diversity Initiatives & Gender Equality Behind The Camera

Natalie Portman made headline news when she announced “And here are the all-male nominees” for the Best Director category at this year’s Golden Globe Awards. Emma Stone similarly caused a […]

Interviews

Award-Winning Bolivian Filmmaker Violeta Ayala Using Storytelling As A Weapon Of Truth

Award-Winning Bolivian Filmmaker Violeta Ayala Using Storytelling As A Weapon Of Truth

In an age of #resistance in the era of Trump and his cries of “fake news”, filmmakers, artists, storytellers and creatives have become a powerful vehicle for truth. However, these […]

Interviews

Academy Award-Nominated Director Jessica Sanders On The Holocaust, Racism, & Steve Jobs

Academy Award-Nominated Director Jessica Sanders On The Holocaust, Racism, & Steve Jobs

We’ve reached a tipping point across America and indeed the world where tensions around race an identity are at an all-time high. During this current US presidential cycle, the issue […]

Entertainment

Zuriel Oduwole, The World’s Youngest Filmmaker, Started Her Career At Age 9

Zuriel Oduwole, The World’s Youngest Filmmaker, Started Her Career At Age 9

If you ever hear someone talk about a person being “too young” to do anything of significance in the world, be sure to mention the name Zuriel Oduwole. This 14 […]

Contributors

These 4 Rowers Are Set To Make History As The First Women To Cross The Pacific Ocean

These 4 Rowers Are Set To Make History As The First Women To Cross The Pacific Ocean

By Sarah Moshman Four women are rowing across the Pacific Ocean. Right now. It sounds crazy doesn’t it? But you read correctly – 4 women in their 20s, 30s and […]

Contributors

Why Complex Female Protagonists In Films Are So Much More Than Escapism

Why Complex Female Protagonists In Films Are So Much More Than Escapism

By Chell Stephen There’s a cool important thing going around these days to the tune of “we can’t be what we can’t see.” It is, of course, not new or […]

Causes

Award-Winning Docu Filmmaker Launches Summit To Tackle Honor Killings

Award-Winning Docu Filmmaker Launches Summit To Tackle Honor Killings

Honor killings are still a relatively new type of crime in the western world, but they have been going on for many many years right under our noses. An honor […]