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Feminist film and media website founded in 2008. Film criticism through a feminist lens. We're passionate about women directors and inclusive representation.

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"I want everybody to know that you can be whoever you are, and be completely proud, and be doin’ it.” — Lena Waithe #Pride

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"I want people to be okay with the fact that it’s okay to be themselves and that they don’t have to check a box. Gay or straight, whoever you are, you need to be your authentic self and you don’t need to conform to people’s expectations of who you should be."—Dee Rees #Pride

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New month new releases! June theatrical releases directed by women: https://t.co/AzTyixSld7

#52filmsbywomen #femalefilmakerfriday

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Todd Haynes' CAROL (2015) received over 270 nominations across the film industry, including:
🏆 5x at The Golden Globes
🏆 6x at The Academy Awards
🏆 9x at The BAFTAs
#PrideOnScreen

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Initially panned by critics, Jamie Babbit's satirical BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER (1999)—which features Michelle Williams and RuPaul—tells the story of a high school cheerleader sent to a "reparative therapy camp". #PrideOnScreen

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"People still don't know what a black queer person looks like, unless it's a farcical, drag queeny, commercial way. That's not all that we are. We're a varied, beautiful 'rainbow' of identities." — Cheryl Dunye 🌈 #PrideOnScreen

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Cheryl Dunye's THE WATERMELON WOMAN (1996) was the 1st feature directed by a black lesbian filmmaker. #PrideOnScreen

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Dee Rees on the semi-autobiographical PARIAH (2011): “I had a struggle with my parents accepting who I was, and I also had the internal struggle of realizing that my spirituality and my sexuality were not mutually exclusive.” #PrideOnScreen

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“I made PARIAH (2011) to portray images on screen that we hadn’t seen before, and to bring to light the experiences of gay youth of color because those stories hadn't been fully told.”—Dee Rees #PrideOnScreen

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Mentored by Spike Lee while studying at NYU, Rees and went on to create PARIAH (2011), BESSIE (2015) & MUDBOUND (2017). #PrideOnScreen

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Director and Oscar-nominated screenwriter Dee Rees decided to pursue a career in film after working on set for a Dr. Scholl’s commercial. #PrideOnScreen

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Ranked one of the top 10 Canadian films of all time by TIFF back in ‘93, Patricia Rozema’s I'VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING (1987) 🍁 #PrideOnScreen

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Lesbian film pioneer Barbara Hammer has made 80+ moving image works, including DYKETACTICS (1974), which continues to provide a rare, radical and empowering representation of lesbian sex. #PrideOnScreen

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One of the first explicit representations of lesbian characters on screen, G.W. Pabst’s silent film PANDORA’S BOX (1929). #PrideOnScreen

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25 Essential Queer Films that “haven’t just imitated life—they’ve prepared us for it” via @outmagazine. #PrideMonth
https://t.co/XMgpBcSEi3

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We’re celebrating love in all its beautiful hues with our favourite #PrideOnScreen moments all month long. 🏳️‍🌈

What are your favourite LGBTQ+ filmmakers or films? 💬

[Orphan Black: Echoes @OrphanBlack]

It's #NationalDonutDay so you know the drill.
#OrphanBlack

[♥ Gloria Calderón Kellett ♥ @everythingloria]

About last night: @OneDayAtATime won a Television Academy Honor!!! So thrilled to have been in the company of my TV family & the other incredible & inspiring honorees who are making content to fuel positive change.

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BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER "exaggerates gender-'appropriate' color schemes throughout the film, presenting the audience with the ridiculousness of assigned gender roles that people are expected to embody throughout their lives." — @BitchFlicks #PrideOnScreen

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Wadjda and Mary Shelley director @HaifaaMansour will return to Saudia Arabia to film her next movie, The Perfect Candidate, a comedy about a young woman who decides to enter into local male-dominated politics. https://t.co/RvxEc5SH9U