Festival Interviews with Women Directors – SXSW
2022
- Jessica Edwards – “Skate Dreams”
- Vasilisa Kuzmina – “Nika”
- Zara Katz and Lisa Riordan Seville – “A Woman on the Outside”
- Gracie Otto – “Seriously Red”
- Camille Hardman – “Still Working 9 to 5”
- Julie Cohen and Betsy West – “Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down”
- Gretchen Stoeltje – “Shouting Down Midnight”
- Rosa Ruth Boesten – “Master of Light”
- Allison Otto – “The Thief Collector”
- Linda Goldstein Knowlton – “Split At The Root”
- Iliana Sosa – “What We Leave Behind”
- Vanessa Winter – “Deadstream”
- Amy Bandlien Storkel – “The Pez Outlaw”
- Nyla Innuksuk – “Slash/Back”
- Linda Yellen – “Chantilly Bridge”
- Daresha Kyi – “Mama Bears”
2021
- Manal Khaled – “Trapped”
- Megan Park – “The Fallout”
- Sonia Kennebeck – “United States vs. Reality Winner”
- Mei Makino – “Inbetween Girl”
- Mallory Everton – “Recovery”
- Ursula Macfarlane – “The Lost Sons”
- Mary Wharton – “Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free”
- Lissette Feliciano – “Women is Losers”
- Emily Cohen Ibáñez – “Fruits of Labor”
- Mari Walker – “See You Then”
- Leah Purcell – “The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson”
- Danielle Kummer & Lucy Harvey – “Alien On Stage”
- Alba Sotorra Clua – “The Return: Life After ISIS”
- Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstler – “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America”
- Hannaleena Hauru – “Fucking with Nobody”
- Paola Calvo – “Luchadoras”
- Andrea Nevins – “Hysterical”
- Stacey Gregg – “Here Before”
- Yngvild Sve Flikke – “Ninjababy”
- Caroline Catz – “Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and the Legendary Tapes”
- Natalie Morales – “Language Lessons”
2020
Note: The 2020 SXSW Film Festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019
- Brett Story – “The Hottest August”
- Julia Parnell – “The Chills: The Triumph & Tragedy of Martin Phillipps”
- Pollyanna McIntosh – “Darlin’”
- Miia Tervo – “Aurora”
- Anna Odell – “X&Y”
- Julie Smith Clem – “It Started As A Joke”
- Waad Al-Kateab – “For Sama”
- Hilary Brougher – “South Mountain”
- Jennifer McShane – “Ernie & Joe”
- Erin Derham – “Stuffed”
- Sandy K. Boone – “J.R. ‘Bob’ Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius”
- Jennifer Trainer – “Museum Town”
- Marlén Viñayo – “Cachada: The Opportunity”
- Catalina Arroyave – “Days of the Whale”
- Erin Lee Carr – “I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs. Michelle Carter”
- Linda Goldstein Knowlton – “We Are The Radical Monarchs”
- Chelsea Hernandez – “Building the American Dream”
- Rebecca Stern – “Well Groomed”
- Jenna Ricker – “Qualified”
- Elizabeth Carroll – “Nothing Fancy: Diana Kennedy”
- Barbara Vekarić – “Aleksi”
- Patricia Ortega – “Being Impossible”
- Gabriela Calvache – “La Mala Noche”
- Jessica Oreck – “One Man Dies a Million Times”
- Kestrin Pantera – “Mother’s Little Helpers”
- Emily Ting – “Go Back to China”
- Tracey Frazier – “Becoming Leslie”
- Numa Perrier – “Jezebel”
- Amy C. Elliott – “Salvage”
- Becs Arahanga, Amberley Jo Aumua, Matasila Freshwater, Dianna Fuemana, Mïria George, ‘Ofa Guttenbeil-Likiliki, Marina Alofagia McCartney, and Nicole Whippy – “Vai”
- Karen Maine – “Yes, God, Yes”
- Magdalena Zyzak – “The Wall of Mexico”
- Elizabeth Sankey – “Romantic Comedy”
2018
- Shana Feste – “Boundaries”
- Marja-Lewis Ryan – “6 Balloons”
- Jenn Wexler – “The Ranger”
- Jenny Murray – “¡Las Sandinistas!”
- Sasha Waters Freyer – “Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable”
- Stacy Cochran – “Write When You Get Work”
- Miranda Bailey – “You Can Choose Your Family”
- Nijla Baseema Mu’min – “Jinn”
- Nosipho Dumisa – “Number 37”
- Lola Arias – “Theater of War”
- Carol Brandt – “Pet Names”
- Laura Collado – “Constructing Albert”
- Alison Klayman – “Take Your Pills”
- Lynn Shelton – “Outside In”
- Jackie Van Beek and Madeleine Sami – “The Breaker Upperers”
- Suzi Yoonessi – “Unlovable”
- Kay Cannon – “Blockers”
- Becca Gleason – “Summer ‘03”
- Yuqi Kang – “A Little Wisdom”
- Jayne Loader – “The Atomic Cafe”
- Hannah Marks – “Shotgun”
- Megan Griffiths – “Sadie”
2017
- Lysa Heslov – “Served Like a Girl”
- Natalia Leite – “M.F.A.”
- Noël Wells – “Mr. Roosevelt”
- Ovidie – “Pornocracy”
- Anna Koch – “Win by Fall”
- Jessica M. Thompson – “The Light of the Moon”
- Erin Lee Carr – “Mommy Dead and Dearest”
- Emma Franz – “Bill Frisell, A Portrait”
- Mónica Álvarez Franco – “The Cloud Forest”
- Ana Asensio – “Most Beautiful Island”
- Ceylan Özgün Özçelik – “Inflame”
- Katherine Fairfax Wright – “Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall”
- Renée Felice Smith – “The Relationtrip”
- Magdalena Zyzak – “A Critically Endangered Species”
- Valerie Weiss – “The Archer”
- Laura E. Davis and Jessica Kaye – “Inheritance”
- Jennifer Reeder – “Signature Move”
- Julia Halperin – “La Barracuda”
- Miao Wang – “Maineland”
- Karen Skloss – “The Honor Farm”
- Leandra Leal – “Divine Divas”
- Kasia Rosłaniec – “Satan Said Dance”
- Jennifer M. Kroot – “The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin”
- Chris Shellen – “Spettacolo”
2016
2015
- Jessica Edwards – “Mavis!”
- Katie Cokinos – “I Dream Too Much”
- Alex Sichel and Elizabeth Giamatti – “A Woman Like Me”
- Phie Ambo (Director) and Malene Flindt Pedersen (Producer) – “Good Things Await”
- Alexandria Bombach and Mo Scarpelli – “Frame by Frame”
- Betzabé García – “Kings of Nowhere” (“Los Reyes Del Pueblo Que No Existe”)
- Zuzanna Solakiewicz – “15 Corners of the World”
- Anna Sofie Hartmann – “Limbo”
- Hannah Fidell – “6 Years”
- Samantha Futerman – “Twinsters”
- Lina Mannheimer – “The Ceremony”
- Olivia Wyatt – “Sailing A Sinking Sea”
- Katharine Emmer – “Life in Color”
- Sara Hirsh Bordo – “A Brave Heart”
- Ondi Timoner – “BRAND: A Second Coming” and “The Last Mile”
- Shannon Sun-Higginson – “GTFO: Get The F#$% Out”
- Rebecca Johnson – “Honeytrap”
- Micah Magee – “Petting Zoo”
- Nelly Ben Hayoun – “Disaster Playground”
- Karyn Kusama – “The Invitation”
2014
- Sarah-Violet Bliss – “Fort Tilden”
- Doris Dorrie – “Que Caramba Es La Vida”
- Iva Radivojevic – “Evaporating Border”
- Sandy McLeod – “Seeds of Time”
- Leah Meyerhoff – “I Believe in Unicorns”
- Diana Whitten – “Vessel”
- Catherine Gund – “Born to Fly”
- Kitty Green – “Ukraine Is Not A Brothel”
- Amy C. Elliott – “Wicker Kittens”
- Margaret Brown – “The Great Invisible”
- Liz Tuccillo – “Take Care”
- Leigh Janiak – “Honeymoon”
- Sandrine Orabona – “Lady Valor”