#woman filmmakers

[ispyspookymansion]

indie horror filmmakers are like if i cant include a scene of a woman pissing ill kill myself

#maybe this is just a general indie filmmaker thing but why is there always the scene of a woman sitting and pissing !!!! #the sound is always so clear too #kora.txt

[theersatzcowboy]

Alma's Rainbow (1994)

Director: Ayoka Chenzira

Cinematographer: Ronald K. Gray

Costume Designer: Sidney Kai Innis

Starring: Kim Weston-Moran, Victoria Gabrielle Platt, and Mizan Kirby.

#alma's rainbow #1994 #female directed films #ayoka chenzira #90s films #black cinema #independent film #kim weston-moran #victoria gabrielle platt #mizan kirby #costume design #90s movies #90s aesthetic #cult classic #black films #black women #black history month #black filmmakers #female directors #woman director #black directors #35mm #brooklyn #90s black cinema #criterion channel #restoration

[machetelanding]

#wonder woman 1984 #action #adventure #movies #2020 #2020s #gal gadot #patty jenkins #wonder woman #hollywood #filmmaking #behind the scenes #superheroes #comic books #dc comics #dc universe #dc extended universe #dceu

[junior-stargazer-goke91]

The Woman King (2022)

Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood

Cinematographer: Polly Morgan

#fuckyeahwomenfilmdirectors #the woman king #gina prince bythewood #viola davis #lashana lynch #black films #black filmmakers #black directors

[johnny1note]

Barbie (2023) is thematically a traditionalist satire and I'm not kidding, the subtext theses are:

Liberal feminism is based in unreality, requiring women to place no value on male attention and agency, and sexuality in general, and this will catch up with them even if they're able to temporarily compartmentalize and deny the importance of these things.

Radical feminism is also based in unreality: firstly in the sense that women must consciously perform femininity in order to get ahead, and secondly that many "social constructs" in the radical feminist paradigm are really just aspects of woman's essential nature.

The mature, adult thing to do is to reject both utopias (the femininity-performing liberal feminist one, and the power-holding radical feminist one) and embrace the biological reality of womanhood and its telos: motherhood.

#i'm 100% sure that this is not what the filmmakers intended nor what the average 'male tears' mug owner will see #but in our crazy times the mere fact that such a widely-seen movie ends with 'real woman=vagina' is pretty impressive to me

[unproduciblesmackdown]

"...my one year anniversary being on testosterone!!! I had a vision of capturing my total gender euphoria [...] My trans and nonbinary body is divine I honor my body as it is now, and as it will be as I continue to become more and more myself..."

#hoping this doesn't get flagged labeled or otherwise restricted. hoping & blowing this whole building up #there Is queerness & an observable butt & such & [what i already know abt the stuff that does get flagged removed etc] #of course if there's a problem & this tag's commentary is irrelevant: the video! full thing!! their voice aaaa!!! #trans people trans people trans people Trans People Trans People Trans People!!!!!!! #asia kate dillon #injection vwv #their scruff their smiling their laughing the appreciatively lingering shots of leg & armpit & stomach hair #my never having heard their voice from this past year. seeing the post with the preview of this realizing it ft. testosterone like Exhale #hearing their voice after a year of hrt crying!!!! weeping!!!! been playing snippets over & over; getting familiar; getting misty; basking #selfies / home video journaling when it's also Theatre Performance Staging Modeling Photography Filmmaking Documenting Envisioning #seeing a not so unrelated like just. little documentation A Day In The Life type clip from '67 by a trans woman; resonating w/this #talking even theoretically abt Her future journey; shots of mannequins ft. the underwear/lingerie she'd like to wear then. wah

[rrrauschen]

Monika Treut & Elfi Mikesch, {1985} Verführung: Die grausame Frau (Seduction: The Cruel Woman)

#film #gif #monika treut #elfi mikesch #verführung: die grausame frau #seduction: the cruel woman #mechthild großmann #barbara ossenkopp #georgette dee #udo kier #1985 #female filmmakers #feature length #colour #1980s #people #west germany #germany #light reflection #film poster #seen on the big screen

[rosalyn51]

“2023 in film.”

- FilmUpdates

#greta gerwig #denis villeneuve #martin scorsese #christoper nolan #barbie movie #dune 2 #killers of the flower moon #cinema #oppenheimer #2023 #2023 in film #dune #directors #woman director #female filmmaker #movies #must see

[nitrocelulose]

PROMISSING YOUNG WOMAN (2020), Emerald Fennell

#promising young woman #carey mulligan #emerald fennell #2020s #movie #pallete #color pallete #moviepallete #pallete cinema #female directors #female filmmakers #female film directors

[filmnita-applebum]

The film blogger.

#filmmaking #tumblr selfie #my photos #black on tumblr #self portrait #blogger #blog #black films #films #black women #black woman beauty

[lesbiancolumbo]

I apologize if you have talked about this before but: what are your thoughts on Ray Carney, especially his beef with Gena Rowlands? I enjoyed his written works on Cass, but am having a hard time understanding what went down there irl

i hate him with a burning passion, think he’s completely in the wrong, and he’s fucking delusional if he thinks he is somehow a better judge of john and his wishes than the woman who was his life partner for twenty five years. he met him in the last year of his life! but gena is the villain for not wanting films john didn’t want shown to the public shown to the public lol. he can bite me. also his website sucks and i don’t hate his books about john but there’s a smugness there that i find hard to swallow

#asks #i just think we should question any man who befriends a filmmaker in the last year of his life #and then immediately picks fights with his widow and accuses her of trying to control his legacy or whatever #as his wife and muse and the woman he loved the most i think that’s her right

[beccasandergaard]

The Last Of Us just became the Greatest Video Game Adaptation!

#the last of us #last of us #tlou #joel tlou #tlou hbo #tlou show #tlouedit #ellie tlou #ellie williams #joel miller #pedro pascal #bella ramsey #the last of us part two #filmmaker #filmmaking #female writers #director #female filmmakers #trans woman #films #lgbtq+ #television #tlou series #tlou part 1

[machetelanding]

#wonder woman 1984 #action #adventure #movies #2020 #2020s #gal gadot #patty jenkins #wonder woman #ww84 #hollywood #filmmaking #behind the scenes #superheroes #comic books #dc comics #dc universe #dc extended universe #dceu

[nr1-logo-design-inspiration]

Left or right? 💬👇🙏

Thanks for the support! 🧡

#logo design #mark #symbol #icon #illustration #women artists #woman fashion #actor #filmmaking #filmindustry #concept art #negative space #califorina #los angeles

[comicweek]

"I never looked at it as the job, ‘Oh, I’m the architect of DC. I need to create entertainment for DC that sells toys and that is for the masses and fun for everyone. I didn’t care [about that]. I liked Batman, I liked Superman, I wanted to make something cool. You picked the wrong guy if you wanted a product." - Zack Snyder on his DC movies (Hollywood Reporter) "You have to game it. If you don’t, you end up with nothing. You end up really having to bury your soul, you just rip your heart out. Then you put it on the auction block. You put the movie out, it becomes a consumer product. You yourself become a consumer product. That’s the thing that I think can be really difficult for filmmakers. That’s the price of the transaction. That can be painful." - Zack Snyder on filmmaking (Wired)

#zack snyder #quotes #dceu #superman #batman #wonder woman #filmmaking

[ausetkmt]

A brave new voice has emerged on the independent film scene. Meet Nazenet Habtezghi, a Black creative who’s carved out a niche for herself as a documentary filmmaker. Her latest project, where she serves as both director and producer, is “Birthing A Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney” (MTV Documentary Films). It’s a story that takes the audience on an emotional rollercoaster as Habtezghi carefully unpacks the life of an enslaved woman who’s hellbent on preventing her enslavers from controlling her reproductive future. While the subject somewhat eerily mirrors some of the issues of agency that women are facing today, Habtezghi is able to keep the integrity of the era in which Mary Gaffney lived using testimonies from formally enslaved people. The film is only 19 minutes long, but each second grabs you in such a way that you’ll be thinking about Mary Gaffney many moments later.

The Brooklyn-based journalist-turned-filmmaker is a nurturing, compassionate storyteller who takes pride in disrupting the system. Habtezghi took her time to ensure she could frame Gaffney’s story in the most impactful way.

“It was important for me to say her name," said Habtezghi. “I like to say that Mary found me. I came across her testimony, and I was initially fixated on the part where she talked about chewing cotton root. I was like, ‘Are you kidding me?  The thing that you’re being forced to pick on the plantation is what you’re using to control your fertility,’" said the first-time director.

Gaffney’s audaciousness in defying her slave breeders is what makes her so badass and she wasn't the only one. There were others who also chewed on the cotton root as a "natural" contraceptive, exercising control of their own reproductive futures. “I was lost in that part of her testimony. It was just so incredible."

Habtezghi was working at Firelight Films, producing, researching, and developing a different project about the Transatlantic slave trade, when she came across the archival testimonies from the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a government work release program that provided 8.5 million jobs to Americans during the Great Depression in 1935. Most of what she discovered were detailed interviews with 2,300 formerly enslaved men and women.

“After reading buried testimonies of enslaved people, enslaved women, and enslavers talking about how they raped women, I was in this emotional space,” said Habtezghi.

She later explained how a mentorship with historians Dr. Jennifer L. Morgan and Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, both of whom are featured in the film as experts on the enslaved, helped her gain a greater understanding of the relationship between Black women’s physical labor and their reproductive labor and how, when combined, it emphatically dictated and sustained slavery in America through the 19th century once the Transatlantic slave trade market was no longer an option.

“It fueled slavery and gave rise to capitalism in the United States," said Habtezghi.“Capitalism could not have existed if it wasn’t for Black women. It’s Mary’s story but it’s also the collective [story] right? It’s important to be rooted in her resistance but then become empowered by it.” 

When COVID-19 happened, the project was put on pause. As luck would have it, another opportunity presented itself through Firelight Films and MTV Documentary Films. They were looking for filmmakers to create short films that could speak to the forgotten or unknown parts of Black history. Habtezghi knew exactly what story she wanted to tell. It took almost two years to bring details of Mary Gaffney’s life to light. Now, the film has been nominated for a Black Reel Award in the "Outstanding Short Film" category.

Habtezghi’s connection to this story goes even deeper. Her emotions get the best of her as she describes her personal journey as a young girl, fleeing her home in the war-stricken African nation of Eritrea and migrating to the United States. She grew up in Dallas, Texas, and would graduate with a B.A. in Journalism from Oklahoma University. In time, she landed her dream job as an editor at ESSENCE magazine. 

Habtezghi has earned her bones by contributing to documentaries that have been featured on PBS, Netflix, and HBO. She co-directed The ABCs of Book Banning with esteemed documentarian Sheila Nevins for MTV Documentary Films. Nevins, who has produced hundreds of projects for HBO, is also a 32-time Emmy winner.

In her next project, Habtzghi is set to produce and direct “American Problems, Trans Solutions,” a docuseries in partnership with transgender activist Imara Jones. She has made quite an entrance in the documentary filmmaking arena with Mary Gaffney’s story, masterfully breathing life into a buried tale and giving a voice to an otherwise unknown Black woman whose secret defiance in the face of slavery deserves to be told.

#Nazenet Habtezghi Unravels the Untold Story of an Enslaved Black Woman’s Bold Decision To Control Her Own Destiny #Birthing A Nation: The Resistance of Mary Gaffney #Mary Gaffney #formerly enslaved #Black Women #Nazenet Habtezghi #Black Women Filmmakers #Youtube