Film News: Cinema Femme Film Festival, Two Closing Night Shorts Programs on May 1, 2024

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CHICAGO – The Closing Night of the 2024 Cinema Femme Film Festival will be the short film showcase, based on letter writing themes, as the “Sincerely, Yours” block will start at 7:30pm, and “P.S.” will begin at 9:30pm. Both programs will be at Chicago’s historic Music Box Theatre. For more information and tickets, click SINCERELY or P.S.

Presented by Cinema Femme Magazine, the film festival emphasizes the importance of supporting emerging female and non-binary filmmakers, and connects those filmmakers to their Breaking Down Walls mentorship and retreat. The letter writing themes will include locally produced short films by Linh Tran (“Video Funeral”), Krista Kane (“Except”), Alison Torem (“Road Head”), Bridget Francis Harris (“Places of Worship”) and Lua Borges (“Madonna”).

Cinema Femme Short Film Festival
Photo credit: CinemaFemme.com

Festival Director Rebecca Martin Fagerholm is also the Managing Editor of Cinema Femme magazine. She founded the publication and began the film festival in 2018 because she wanted to create a platform for female and non-binary voices in the film community, and has hosted film screenings throughout Chicago and virtual panel discussions through the festival.

In a video clip, writer/director Linh Tran talks about “Video Funeral” …

Trailer, the Cinema Femme Short Film Festival …

By PATRICK McDONALD Editor and Film Writer HollywoodChicago.com pat@hollywoodchicago.com