B. Monét – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

Middleburg FF 2024 Female Focus Wrap – Leslie Combemale reports

October 23, 2024January 23, 2025 Leslie Combemale B. Monét, Black Box Diaries, Bolanie Austen Peters, Danielle Deadwyler, gia coppola, Loren Hudson, Marielle Heller, Middleburg FF 2024, Middleburg Film Festival, zoe saldana

The Middleburg Film Festival is one fest that has leaned into its support for female filmmakers from its inception 12 years ago. It has always not only premiered and featured a wide variety of female-helmed documentaries and narrative features from all over the world, it has also made sure to invite those filmmakers to the fest for panels and Q&As, so that fans, film lovers, and press can learn what inspired them and their unique process for their projects. 2024 is no different in terms of highlighting female filmmakers and craftspeople, although this year there were more filmmakers and below the line artists in residence than ever before.

Festivals Reviews

BLACK GIRLS – (Middleburg FF 2024) – Review by Leslie Combemale

October 23, 2024October 22, 2024 Leslie Combemale Alex Elle, Allyson Felix, B. Monét, Black Girls, documentary, Jacqueline Alexander Sykes, Jon-Thomas Royston, Marley Dias, Middleburg FF 2024, Never Whisper Advocacy, Olympia Auset, Vanessa Rochelle-Lewis. Middleburg Film Festival

It’s always a good time to celebrate powerful Black women, but certainly now more than ever, as a Black woman is running for the presidency. The timing was perfect for Middleburg Film Festival’s screening of documentary Black Girls, which centers on six different intersectional Black women, working in a diversity of modalities or careers, making the world a better place. Black Girls is all about intersectionality, shining a spotlight on women who have been challenged by landing at the intersection of Blackness and other labels that make life more difficult in modern American society.