Ryan Murphy continues his television domination with a new Netflix miniseries exploring every filmmakers’ favourite topic: the film industry itself. Viewers are introduced to a crisp, shiny 1940s Los Angeles through the eyes of the studio system’s newcomers, has-beens, brightest lights, and castaways. This mix of historical figures —Rock Hudson (Jake Picking), Anna May Wong […]… Continue reading ‘Hollywood’ Wants Viewers to Consider Who Tells the Stories Without Interrogating Its Own — Screen Queens
Author: femalefilmfestival
The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes.
Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival.
This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way.
When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival.
A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.
Rewatching Rory Gilmore: How Our Relationships with Fictional Characters Change Over Time — Screen Queens
When it comes to comfort food, nothing hits like a delicious portion of Gilmore Girls. A cultural touchstone of the early 2000s and a springboard for the careers of the likes of Jared Padelecki, Milo Ventimiglo, Melissa McCarthy and Matt Czuchry, Gilmore Girls falls into the homey category of low threat television. Amy Sherman-Palladino’s family […]… Continue reading Rewatching Rory Gilmore: How Our Relationships with Fictional Characters Change Over Time — Screen Queens
Jessica Rothe Dazzles in This Musical Remake of 80’s Hit ‘Valley Girl’ — Screen Queens
Jessica Rothe is on the rise and with each new project she is showing off the range and depth of her talents. Having played one of Emma Stone’s roommates in 2016’s Oscar-winning musical La La Land, Rothe finds herself centre stage of the musical remake of 1983’s Valley Girl. Granted this is not the Oscar-winning […]… Continue reading Jessica Rothe Dazzles in This Musical Remake of 80’s Hit ‘Valley Girl’ — Screen Queens
Mental Health in Teen Drama: Growing Up With ‘Skins’ and Looking Back With ‘Sex Education’ — Screen Queens
If you ask any British twenty-something, the likelihood is they’ll recall when Skins first trailered on E4, back in 2007. Beth Ditto’s husky tones belted out the lyrics to ‘Standing in the Way of Control’ against a house-party backdrop of sex, pills, and vomit. Back then, my twelve-year-old brain didn’t know how to process what […]… Continue reading Mental Health in Teen Drama: Growing Up With ‘Skins’ and Looking Back With ‘Sex Education’ — Screen Queens
Beanie Feldstein is an Explosion of Charisma as the Flawed Protagonist in Delightful ‘How to Build a Girl’ — Screen Queens
Johanna Morrigan is going to be a writer. She doesn’t know what she will write about, but she does know that the written word is her passion. This is what our protagonist tells us in the opening of Coky Giedroyc’s How to Build a Girl, the film adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s novel of the same […]… Continue reading Beanie Feldstein is an Explosion of Charisma as the Flawed Protagonist in Delightful ‘How to Build a Girl’ — Screen Queens
Women and the Western: in Front Of and Behind the Camera — Screen Queens
When it comes to discussion of “women in westerns”, viewers unfamiliar with the genre might struggle to name more than a handful of female characters, beyond Sharon Stone as The Lady in Sam Raimi’s cheese-fest, The Quick and the Dead, or the character of Mattie Ross in True Grit, and no female directors at all. […]… Continue reading Women and the Western: in Front Of and Behind the Camera — Screen Queens
Sex is Power in Pablo Larraín’s ‘Ema’ — Screen Queens
“Burn in order to sow again.” The opening shot of Pablo Larraín’s psycho-sexual film, Ema, shows a traffic light burning whilst the camera slowly pans out to reveal the night-time streets completely empty, safe for one woman standing there with a flamethrower watching as the fire continues to rain down upon the ground. This first […]… Continue reading Sex is Power in Pablo Larraín’s ‘Ema’ — Screen Queens
Netflix Soap ‘Outer Banks’ is a Nostalgic Coming-of-Age Drama that’s Highly Addictive — Screen Queens
Are you dreaming of pre-social distancing days when you could go out boating on a hot summer day with your best friends? Me too. Within several days of hitting Netflix, Outer Banks became a huge hit. The series created by Josh Pate, Jonas Pate, and Shannon Burke stars Chase Stokes as John B, a 16-year-old […]… Continue reading Netflix Soap ‘Outer Banks’ is a Nostalgic Coming-of-Age Drama that’s Highly Addictive — Screen Queens
Series Adaptation ‘Snowpiercer’ Has Potential, Fails to Live up to the Film — Screen Queens
Based on the 1982 French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, 2013’s Snowpiercer followed a high-speed, non-stop train filled with the survivors of the second Ice Age which turned Earth into an uninhabitable icy wasteland. Humanity had attempted to cure climate change, but instead it plunged the Earth into a deep freeze, where the only means of […]… Continue reading Series Adaptation ‘Snowpiercer’ Has Potential, Fails to Live up to the Film — Screen Queens
Catherine O’Hara’s Perfect Comedic Delivery in the Films of Christopher Guest — Screen Queens
Trying to define film by the a decade it premiered is a fruitless endeavour. Time can give art context, but art doesn’t derive its value from time. However, some of the best-selling and best remembered comedies of the 1990s were Austin Powers and Dumb and Dumber, and this suggests that in mainstream comedy there was […]… Continue reading Catherine O’Hara’s Perfect Comedic Delivery in the Films of Christopher Guest — Screen Queens
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