It's only been a few months since the LFFF's initial email to me, but judging from the film festival's program, the organizers efforts have really paid off. It's not every day I get to see I'm impressed with an organization's outreach efforts (and results). So, I'd like to take this…
Check out these powerful films -- Taxi Sister, KungFu Grandma, The Witches of Gambaga, and Ladies' Turn -- exploring the lives of African women through narrative documentary. They're showing at the London Feminist Film Festival, which was set up as a response to the under-representation of women in the film…
Check out my review of Beautiful Sentence, a short documentary about women in prison as they experience the liberating effect of creative writing, in which I reflect on gender segregation in prison systems and its impact on transgender women. Beautiful Sentence screens at the first annual London Feminist Film Festival…
The very first London Feminist Film Festival, held between Nov 29 - Dec 2, 2012 at the Hackney Picturehouse, is seeking submissions from African feminists. The organizers are actively working to solicit submissions from filmmakers with diverse backgrounds, including the LGBTI Diaspora. I may actually submit something, given how visually…