"A spare film with complex and subtly developed relationships, TWO FRIENDS features nuanced performances..." Austin Chronicle "Sincere without being cloying, moving without being manipulative... A striking and powerful debut feature." Alternate Ending Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWWZ...

Two Friends Trailer

To watch the full film, go to https://milestone.vhx.tv/products/two-friendsTwo Friends, the first feature film by Academy Award® winner Jane Campion (Sweetie...

The rift between once-inseparable Australian teen girlfriends is episodically explored over one year, moving backwards in time. Written by novelist Helen Garner, Jane Campion's auspicious debut feature TWO FRIENDS (1987) is an astute, ambitious TV drama that premiered at Cannes.

I AM NOT A WITCH is "a remarkable, strange and politically potent first film." @washingtonpost.comwww.youtube.com/watch?v=telx...

I Am Not A Witch | Film4 Trailer

Set in Zambia, the birthplace of writer-director Rungano Nyoni, I Am Not A Witch revolves around a 9 year old girl, Shula, who is accused of witchcraft. Shul...

A stoic Zambian nine-year-old is exiled from her village after being accused of sorcery. Satirizing grim social structures, cultural tourism & misogyny itself with bone-dry absurdism, Rungano Nyoni's dazzling debut I AM NOT A WITCH (2017) is a tragicomic, fable-like picaresque.

Darnell Martin's I LIKE IT LIKE THAT is "fast-moving, funny and hugely entertaining." @telegraphnews.bsky.social@theguardian.bsky.socialwww.youtube.com/watch?v=JezF...

I LIKE IT LIKE THAT [1994] – Official Trailer (HD)

TRAILER REWIND: Today’s #FemaleFilmmakerFriday goes out to Darnell Martin. 🌟 In 1994, she became the first Black woman to write and direct a major Hollywood...

After husband Jon Seda goes to jail, Afro-Latina mom Luna Lauren Vélez steps up as the breadwinner in this exuberant Bronx dramedy. With her four-time Spirit Award nominee I LIKE IT LIKE THAT (1994), Darnell Martin became the first African American woman to direct a studio film.

FOXFIRE is "directed with a great deal of visual flair and imagination... [Annette] Haywood-Carter's handling of the female bonding and her highly atmospheric mise en scene make this something rather special." - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ-C...

FoxFire Trailer (1996)

Four high-school girls, dissimilar in every other way, find that they are all being made to perform sexually with their biology teacher. This discovery lead...

Angelina Jolie's star was rising as the butch drifter leader of a mutually oppressed girl gang. Annette Haywood-Carter's angsty coming-of-ager FOXFIRE (1996) transplants Joyce Carol Oates' novel of female empowerment from mid-century New York to the grunge-era Portland suburbs.

David Byrne voice: "How'd I get here?"

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Now I get to tag @aaronhillis.bsky.social. And I will. Welcome! (Aaron at last year's Cucalorus screening of Riddle of Fire.)

"Aimed squarely at fans of John Waters and Pedro Almodóvar, the arty oddity PLEASE BABY PLEASE is the kind of cinematic fetish object that should entice anyone who shares director Amanda Kramer's particular fascinations." @latimes.comwww.youtube.com/watch?v=nysF...

PLEASE BABY PLEASE | Official Trailer | Now Streaming

A newlywed couple witnesses a murder and becomes the obsession of a greaser gang, awakening a sleeping quandary about the couple's sexual identity. https://m...