Vee Hua 華婷婷In its 24th year of programming, imagineNATIVE 2023 champions a program of Indigenous short and feature films from all over the world, as well as industry panels, music events, and much, much more. What’s notable about imagineNATIVE, held at...
Now in its fourth year, the Lynn Shelton “Of a Certain Age” Grant awards $25,000 in unrestricted funds to one woman, nonbinary, transgender, and/or intersex filmmaker over 39 who has yet to make their first narrative feature film. In...
Sundance Film Festival 2023 returns virtually and in-person, with events taking place from January 19 to 29. This list of short films represents our favorites out of this year’s nine short film programs — which include six focused...
Alison Jean SmithFilmmaker Emin Alper, director of several award-winning drama films, cites An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play about a doctor’s crisis of conscience, as a chief inspiration for his narrative film Burning Days (Kurak Günler)...
Mother of Color (2022), the first feature-length film from Portland-based filmmaker Dawn Jones Redstone, explores the nexus of race- and gender-based marginalization through a day-in-the-life of Noelia, played by Ana del Rocío. A second-generation...
Translations 2022 returns with a hybrid festival of transgender, nonbinary, and gender-expansive films from around the world! An initiative of Three Dollar Bill Cinema, Translations features short films, feature films, and networking events which...
Bass greets us before the evening’s performers do. With most of the house lights still off, an introductory hip-hop track rumbles through our bones with its low-end, offering a mysterious introduction of the unpredictable show to come. By the...
Jackie MoffittAutism representations in the media have had a troubled history. Very few films and television series claiming to depict the lives of autistic people have had any input from the autistic community. Characters on the spectrum are often slotted into...