#woman filmmaker

[dominairae]

Phyllis by Zina Saro-Wiwa

“Phyllis is real. Real in some sort of earthly or spiritual realm and I just tapped into her. Sounds weird but it was she that told me her name. It was only once I got to Nigeria that she began to tell me who she was, what she liked. Lagos, in a sense, directed this work and helped Phyllis become real”

[ioaki]

Summa Culpa Laude has officially released!

~A perfectionist high school senior strives to become valedictorian, but when her rival steals the top ranking, she devises a ruthless scheme to seize the number one spot~

Thank you to the wonderful cast and crew for all of the long hours, grit, passion, and mostly, thank you for believing in this film and me.

This story stems from my heart and past as a toxically overachieving high schooler with a terrible penchant for validation. I hope you and I can learn from this story that we don’t need anyone to tell us that we’re enough to know it. I’m honoured to share this film with you. I’m so proud of Summa, and I can’t wait for more projects to come:) 

Enjoy! And be warned——violence! :0

[that-butch-archivist]

"June as the champ, West Oak Lane, Philadelphia, 1962" from The Watermelon Woman: The Fae Richards Photo Archive

source: The Wild Good: Lesbian Photographs & Writings on Love, edited by Beatrix Gates

[benita-jj]

Life of a trans woman here for relationship ♥️ and ready to give love a chance.

[knightscanfeeltoo]

I'm sure the Femboys would Support Bridget for being just a Girl...

(I like the Femboys but Transwomen are Cute too and Why are these Anime Models So White????)

[bypreciousugo]

Y'all remember when I made a post about creating a Tumblr Community, called soFly Creatives, for Black creatives to come together and share our work? IT GOT APPROVED. Perioddddd!

Who wants an invite?!

[ispyspookymansion]

indie horror filmmakers are like if i cant include a scene of a woman pissing ill kill myself

[post-maester]

I'm stuck in a bit of a pickle at the moment. I've been a little kinda sorta completely fucking gutted by the election results. I feel so utterly saddened for 2SLGBTQIA+ people, BIPOC, women, people with disabilities who now have to live beneath that man's shadow.

Among the sadness is an ache.

An ache to do something. An ache to take action of some kind. I have no idea what kind yet, but I can't stop thinking about it. I am brewing. Do I mean to create something? I don't know yet. I'll figure it out. But I mean to do something.

Community.

I've been reading lately. A book called "How To Think Like A Woman," by Regan Penaluna. The book tells the author's personal memoir, as well as the stories of 4 Early-Modern philosophers (who were women). I'm not a particularly smart person, sometimes I needed to read a paragraph or even a passage multiple times to really 'get it,' but some things stuck with me.

These philosophers were steadfast in their beliefs that women were deserving of education, asylum from abusive husbands, that they shouldn't need to hide their sexuality, that they should be allowed to pursue their intellectual desires just as a man could. But in these demands they each were specific. These freedoms were not meant to enable selfishness in women, as they often did in men. They believed that these freedoms, for all people, also came with the duty to better one's community - to give back. That embracing the people, valuing the people, fostering each individual, would further the community.

This point of community is where I've been stuck all day long. We all need community right now. We need shoulders to cry on, we need friends to laugh with, we need wise folk to tell us what the fuck to do now.

I don't know what I'm going to do - or make - but community needs to be a central theme.

Queerness & Transness.

I also feel like I've created nothing inherently queer. I've abandoned writing for some years now, my projects are old. Older than my realizations about identity. Older than my epiphanies about transness. I want to do something fuckin' gay as hell. I want to pour energy into something that may in some small way counterbalance the hate being screamed into the universe, infecting the pretty space-dust that I wanted to use to highlight my blush. I want to create something that whispers with a forked tongue: "Fuck. You."

Fact or Fiction.

Will it be fact or fiction? Do I want to search for beautiful, real stories to tell and help spread them? Or do I want to create something entirely new? I'm not a documentary producer, but should I be? My heart is in crafting stories, but maybe it's time to set that aside for a while in order to spread true stories that inspire good and justice. Maybe I'd better stick to what I know and make something up.

Abilities // Restrictions.

I am one person. Alone I can write, but that is difficult without an idea. I have the tinder and plenty of firewood, but I need a fucking spark. Once I have the spark I can do more.

I'm a filmmaker, I produce and edit. That's what I enjoy doing best. Not shit I can do without the idea. So for now those sit on the backburner.

I also have a(n admittedly small) rolodex of lovely queer individuals who may also feel a little distraught at the moment. Might be time to meet with them to discuss working on... something?

Budget is zero. Don't know what the project is so right now necessary funds are also zero, which is great. But nobody's getting paid for whatever the fuck comes of this, unless I can be smart.

Ending For Now.

This is all I can bear to write and word-vomit for now. I have been so full of energy and stress thinking about this all day long. I needed to get my thoughts out. If you feel the same ache I do, if there's any way I can help you make your "Fuck. You." project, or if you want to contribute to mine, please DM me and I'll be so happy to discuss and talk.

Please be safe, please be there for your fellow human beings, please be good to each other.

[confusedandimagitive]

Autumn Best in Woman of the Hour directed by Anna Kendrick.

[rrrauschen]

Louis Feuillade, {1916} Judex - Episode 7: La femme en noir (The Woman in Black)

[unproduciblesmackdown]

"...my one year anniversary being on testosterone!!! I had a vision of capturing my total gender euphoria [...] My trans and nonbinary body is divine I honor my body as it is now, and as it will be as I continue to become more and more myself..."

[aglitchinmatrix]

Rachel McAdams in Red Eye (2005)

Director: Wes Craven

[ludinusdaleth]

"what's your lockscreen, last song you listened to, last picture taken and last movie you watched" - tagged by @wavebiders, thank you very much!

anyone can do it or not but ill tag @ghostcrustacean, @mikeehrmantrautshusband, @tunarath, @mehoymalloy, & @meadowsofmay!

[lesbiancolumbo]

all the people taking the substance at face value, surface level, and sooooooo seriously is like. i'm sorry for once again using the s word but. sexism is a hell of a fucking drug.

[machetelanding]

[filmnita-applebum]

The film blogger.