Violin Scratches is a documentary about a woman with brittle bone disease who proves to the world that she is valuable, influential, inspirational, and simply not a quitter. From it we learn about courage and how not to let our limitations dictate who we can become. We can all learn from Gaelynn […]
Winner of Best Pro Action Feature for the Artemis Women In Action Film Festival 6th Edition, and official selections for Beloit International Film Festival, Heartland International Film Festival, and Dances with Films Film Festival, Where We Disappear is an intensely and beautifully told story both visually and emotionally. It chronicles the […]
During a time when zombie movies rule, Director Marlon “MJ” Jones takes his action thriller to a higher realm, literally with his faith-based movie Intercessors about strongholds (or demons) fighting us in the spirit world. The award-winning movie recently walked away with Best Feature Action Film at the Artemis Women […]
FIREWOMAN is a documentary that peers into the lives of five charismatic firewomen and follows their work from showcasing the challenges of rookies to life on the force as full-time squad member. Equipped as a firefighter and sitting in the fire truck, the director Louise Leroux spends six months documenting their […]
Zac Baldwin is an award-winning filmmaker and author of not one but two novels. He is the co-founder of the Artemis Women In Action Film Festival, which is going on now! Kaylene Peoples interviews him about Artemis’ first streaming festival with 50 incredible films, women-powered music, and more. Zac talks […]
Kaylene Peoples has a conversation with the author of With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Black Community Activism. Laura Lovett is a professor, historian, and author, and her newest book is featured in Agenda Collector’s Issue 2021: Changemakers! With Her Fist Raised peers into the […]
Kaylene Peoples has a conversation with Bryon Lars as he talks about his career as a fashion designer, his background, how he got started, and the celebrities he’s dressed. Designing for Barbie collectibles for Mattel was also a big part of his career and they discuss that, too. This is […]
Kaylene Peoples interviews Kevan Hall, co-founder and the new president of the Black Design Collective. They chat about the fast-growing nonprofit and how the BDC has fared during Covid-19. There are many new exciting things on the horizon: new designers, and new opportunities. Kevan Hall, Octavius Terry-Sims, and new BDC […]
Kaylene Peoples interviews Melanie Wise about the 6th Edition of Artemis Women In Action Film Festival. A lot has changed but a lot has remained the same in 2021 for this groundbreaking festival that has brought us strong women characters in both film! “We’ve always done live events, brick and […]
The Artemis Women In Action Film Festival (AWIAFF) celebrates its 6th edition with a virtual film festival that continues its tradition of strong women characters. With official selections for narrative features, documentaries, shorts, screenplays, songs and compositions, the landscape of artistic work continues in the form of independent and unconstrained […]
