Female Filmmakers in Focus: Dea Kulumbegashvili on April | Interviews
Acclaimed Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili makes films that transport the viewer both to the rural region, at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains, where she was raised, but also to another realm of experience, made possible through the language of cinema. Like many of her contemporaries, Kulumbegashvili’s films are marked
Female Filmmakers in Focus: Fleur Fortuné on “The Assessment” | Interviews
Set in a future world where no one ages, there are no animals and precious few plants, Fleur Fortuné’s dystopian sci-fi drama “The Assessment” follows isolated scientists Mia (Elizabeth Olsen) and Aaryan (Himesh Patel) as they endure an arduous, week-long, and ultimately absurd government-mandated test, led by the wildly unpredictable
Female Filmmakers In Focus: Zeinabu irene Davis on “Compensation” | Interviews
The title of Zeinabu irene Davis’s landmark independent film “Compensation” comes from Paul Laurence Dunbar’s 1906 poem of the same name. The film follows the parallel love stories of two lovers—a deaf woman (Michelle A. Banks) and a hearing man (John Earl Jelks)—in both turn-of-the-century and modern-day Chicago. As the
