Currently Browsing: Female director
“I… think this film is particular and it will find you when it’s meant to find you – if it’s meant to find you,” Eva Victor (the director of the 2025 film, Sorry, Baby) told an interviewer recently.
It found me.
Before seeing Sorry, Baby last July, I had deliberately avoided reading much about the film, so I didn’t realize until the credits rolled that the actress who played the protagonist Agnes so effectively was the director Eva Victor herself.… read more.
Catherine Hardwicke, a director most famous for the generation-defining Twilight, is today’s SWAN of the Day. Her innovative portrayals of teenagers have cemented her as a visionary director, screenwriter, and production designer, using her multiple talents to create “scrappy” and authentic movies that have resonated with generations of young people.… read more.
On this day in 2005, Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision—Dramatic at Sundance Film Festival. Miranda’s film, which serves as an early exploration of human connection in the digital age, certainly deserved a prize for originality at the time.… read more.
Before I was born, my mother had a cat with long black fur and green eyes. She had many cats, but those who are familiar with cats know what it means when a cat is really ‘yours’. The day she brought me home from the hospital, the cat took one look at me, a quick sniff, and from then on she didn’t leave my side. My mother lost her cat of years to someone who just showed up on this earth. … read more.
Biosphere is about a strong and unbreakable bond that brings magic, queerness, and science to the screen. The film opens brilliantly with just two men jogging around a geodesic dome roughly the size of a one bedroom apartment, arguing passionately about the dynamic between Nintendo characters Mario and Luigi.… read more.
Four years ago today, Otherhood was released on Netflix. A comedy about the complexities of motherhood, this film was both heartfelt and hilarious. There is no surprise that it was written and directed by the one and only Cindy Chupack.
Cindy Chupack is an American filmmaker who has worked on some of the most beloved TV series to date, including Sex and the City and Modern Family.… read more.