Media Critic Calum Cooper promotes the upcoming short film The Intimacy of Privacy. To find out more and donate to the Kickstarter, read below. Continue reading ITOL Spotlight: The Intimacy of Privacy – Kickstarter
By Joan Amenn Just in time for Women’s History Month, there is a great new short film now available on a few streaming services about the trailblazing, brilliant Ada Byron Lovelace. Titled, “Ada” it focuses on her heartrending struggle to raise funds to build a form of mechanical tool, a tool that someday in the far future would be known as a computer. We were … Continue reading Exclusive Interview with “Ada” Actor/Writer/Producer Julie Bruns
Film critic Calum Cooper interviews the director of the upcoming short film I Love You, Guys, Billie Melissa Rogan. Continue reading Interview: Billie Melissa Rogan of “I Love You, Guys” (2024)
Film critic Calum Cooper reviews the short film “I Love You, Guys” a powerful short from exciting new voices that explores mental health and the weight of celebrity culture. Continue reading I Love You, Guys (2024) – Short Film Review
Year: 2023 Runtime: 22 minutes Directed by Sean Schiavolin By Joan Amenn Flashback to the Academy Awards 2021 and the nominations for Best Supporting Actor. Troy Kotsur won for his role in “Coda” (2021) and called his father his “hero” in his acceptance speech. For those that missed it, his speech and his win was remarkable because he is only the second deaf actor to … Continue reading To My Father: Tribeca Film Festival 2023 Review
Year: 2022 Runtime: 11 minutes Director: Bára Anna Stejskalová By Caelyn O’Reilly “Love is Just a Death Away” is a beauteous little film about finding love in unlikely places. It’s also about corpse-puppeteering brain parasites. Stop-motion animation seems to always have a fascination with the macabre, the misunderstood, and societal outcasts. From Burton-produced features like “The Nightmare Before Christmas”(1993) and “Frankenweenie”(2012) to the entire filmography … Continue reading Femme Filmmakers Festival 7 Review: Love is Just a Death Away
Year: 2022 Runtime: 25 minutes Director/Writer: Chloé Léoni Actors: Salomé Dewaels, Nade Dieu, Noé Englebert, Anae Romnys By Dominic Corr Discussions around class and inequality are often relegated to the conversations of the ‘adults’ in the room – as far as the political landscape is concerned at least. And yet, the harshest impacts of its existence ripple to the young, both as a generational issue … Continue reading Femme Filmmakers Festival 7 Review: Gold Plated (Plaqué Or)
Year: 2022 Runtime: 10 minutes Director/Writer: Sophie B. Jacques Actors: Sophie B Jacques, Jason Roy-Leveillee, Marianne Farley, Marc-Andre Doucet-Beauchamp By Caelyn O’Reilly “Cimetière” is a comfortingly Halloweeny short from French-Canadian writer/director (and in this case, actor) Sophie B Jacques. It follows two people sneaking into a graveyard before beginning a probing conversation about life and death that gets very personal. I love the film’s pumpkin-flavoured … Continue reading Femme Filmmakers Festival 7 Review: Cimetière
Year: 2022 Runtime: 30 minutes Director/Writer: Elvira Lind Actors: Oscar Isaac, Alia Shawkat, Brian Petsos, John Douglas Thompson, Kenneth Heaton, Eileen Galindo By Rosa Parra “The Letter Room” (2020) is a short film directed and written by Elvira Lind. Starring Oscar Isaac this film follows a correction officer who is assigned to the letter room where he must inspect every letter. Then suddenly he becomes … Continue reading Femme Filmmakers Festival 7 Review: The Letter Room
Year: 2022 Runtime: 9 minutes Director/Writer: Paule Beaudoin Actors: Benjamin Déziel,Olivia Leclair By Juli Horsford “On My Way”(Neige) begins with some stunningly beautiful shots of snow falling on a street. Snow is piled on the road and director Paule Beaudoin manages to capture an intensity in the snowstorm that keeps these early scenes interesting. Then suddenly we’re inside a home with a man who has … Continue reading Femme Filmmakers Festival 7 Review: On My Way (Neige)
In Their Own League 