Sundance Film Festival may be over officially for another year, but I confess I’m just getting down from the altitude high I got out of six days, four nights and one all-nighter– Sundancing in Park City. I’ll admit it was a last minute plan of action despite getting the nod for accreditation back in December. Life situations often get in the way and making the trip to Utah may not always be the most practical thing to do. Let’s face it,...
Writer, actor, director, Francesca Gregorini takes a giant step into the ranks of bold filmmaking that evokes opinion and conversation about her hauntingly beautiful film, Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes. She was one of the eight women directors out of sixteen filmmakers in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at 2013 Sundance Film Festival. No one truly knows what goes on within buried psychological pain in people seemingly balanced on the outside...
Women in the Director's Chair@Sundance, a networking special event and panel discussion presented by Women in Film & Television International (WIFTI) included female filmmakers– Lynn Shelton, Stacie Passon, Francesca Gregorini and Jendra Jarnagin – sharing their insights on their films, film festivals, the film industry at large including the “Celluloid Ceiling” report– a variant on the “Glass Ceiling” of the behind-the-scenes...
