Fantasia History: Screened in 2022
Category Archives: Female Filmmaker Friday
Deborah Esquenazi: Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four (2016) [Female Filmmaker Friday]
In 1994, four women, Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna Vasquez, were accused of sexually assaulting Ramirez’s nieces after they stayed the week with their aunt.
Jenn Wexler: The Ranger (2018) [Female Filmmaker Friday]
Chelsea and her punk friends are hiding from the police in a secluded cabin, but an unstable ranger is willing to protect his forest at any cost.
Natalie Erika James: Saccharine (2026) [Female Filmmaker Friday] [Pride 2026]
A medical student struggling with binge eating embarks on a diet that has her ingesting diet pills composed of human ashes.
Sophia Cacciola: Blood of the Tribades (2016) [Female Filmmaker Friday]
Two thousand years after the vampire Bathor established the village of Bathory, a growing tide of superstition and religious fanaticism fuels a bitter struggle for control between the men and women of the settlement.
Misundersood (aka Incompreso (Vita col figlio)) (1966) [Radiance Films Limited Edition] [Female Filmmaker Friday]
Out on Blu-ray on April 30, 2024, from Radiance Films
Following the death of his wife, a man returns home to Italy where their two sons await their return. There, he decides to inform his oldest, but withholds the information for his youngest for his protection. Soon, things turn sour in the household with big secrets and burdens affecting all that live there.
Monolith (2022) [Female Filmmaker Friday]
On Blu-ray April 23rd and currently on Digital from Well Go USA
A newly unemployed journalist starts a podcast and investigates large stones that have been showing up suddenly in random people’s lives.