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AWFJ @ Middleburg Film Festival – Sandie Angulo Chen reports

October 23, 2024October 22, 2024 Sandie Angulo Chen cortland jacoby, jazz tangcay, lauren bradshaw, Lauren Veneziani, leslie combemale, mae abdulbaki, Middleburg FF 2024, Middleburg Film Festival, roxana hadadi, sandie angulo chen, Susan Koch

Eight members of the Alliance of Women Filmmakers members convened at Middleburg Film Festival 2024 for the festival’s program of high profile films and to interview and mingle with the celebrated artists who’d been invited to present their work. DC-based members Mae Abdulbaki, Lauren Bradshaw, Sandie Angulo Chen, Leslie Combemale, Roxana Hadadi, Cortland Jacoby, Lauren Veneziani and LA-based member Jazz Tangcay were invited to attend the festival’s annual Women in Film luncheon. AWFJ is honored to be part of the covering press corps and delighted to share some of the attending members’ highlight moments of this year’s festival.

Member News

AWFJ MEMBER NEWS May, 2024 – Wendy Mitchell reports

May 16, 2024July 26, 2024 Wendy Mitchell jazz tangcay, lynn venhaus, member news, sherin nicole, susan granger, t. j. callahan

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists brings together some of the world’s leading female film critics, writers and journalists, and we’re always amazed at the scope and breadth of our colleagues’ creative talents and achievements. Our Member News column spotlights these amazing women and their latest achievements in their professional and personal lives. Help us celebrate our members’ latest successes and milestones.

Festivals

AWFJ @ Middleburg Film Festival 2023 – Sandie Angulo Chen reports

October 30, 2023November 3, 2023 Sandie Angulo Chen jazz tangcay, lauren bradshaw, Lauren Veneziani, leslie combemale, Mae Abdulaki, Middleburg Film Festival, Middleburg Film Festival 2023, nell minow, roxana hadadi, sandie angulo chen, sheila johnson, Susan Koch

The Middleburg Film Festival turned eleven this year, showcasing 39 feature and documentary films in the bucolic Virginia town just an hour from Washington, D.C. The festival, founded by billionaire entrepreneur Sheila Johnson and run by executive director Susan Koch, always highlights women filmmakers and an impressive slate of titles. This year, the festival’s Best Narrative Feature went to American Fiction, written and directed by Cord Jefferson; Best Documentary Feature went to Invisible Nation, directed by Vanessa Hope; Best International Feature was director J.A. Bayona’s Society of the Snow; and the Special Presentation Audience Award went to filmmaker Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers’ The Last Repair Shop

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AWFJ’s Eyes on Middleburg Film Festival 2022 — Sandie Angulo Chen reports

November 17, 2022November 18, 2022 Sandie Angulo Chen jazz tangcay, leslie combemale, Middleburg Film Festival, nell minow, sandie angulo chen

This past October, the Middleburg Film Festival celebrated its 10th anniversary with a program-filled long weekend. The four-day festival, founded by Sheila Johnson and run by Susan Koch, featured an impressive selection of 45 narrative and documentary feature films. Several AWFJ members, particularly those who live in the Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia area, were in attendance, including Virginia-based critics Mae Abdulaki, Leslie Comebale, Nell Minow, and Susan Wloszczyna; Maryland-based Sandie Angulo Chen; and Jazz Tangcay, who flew in from Los Angeles. This year, instead of discussing the films and performances, we decided to share what we consider to be some of our favorite moments from the 10th annual Middleburg Film Festival.

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Middleburg Film Festival 2022: Female Focus – Leslie Combemale reports

October 18, 2022October 19, 2022 Leslie Combemale Gina Prince-Bythewood, jazz tangcay, Middleburg Film Festival, sheila johnson, Susan Koch, Terilyn Shropshire

The Middleburg Film Festival marked its 10th year in operation this October, and as founder Sheila Johnson and director Susan Koch have done from the start, they made the celebration of women in film both in front of and behind the camera one of the major priorities of the fest. There were 16 female-helmed films represented in the fest out of the 44 shown, including several by women of color, and many of those films also have female heads of departments, which is, of course, important to advancing gender parity overall.

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AWFJ @ Middleburg Film Festival – Sandie Angulo Chen reports

October 20, 2021October 26, 2021 Sandie Angulo Chen C'mon C'mon, jazz tangcay, lauren bradshaw, leslie combemale, Mae Abdulaki, mass, Middleburg Film Festival, nell minow, sandie angulo chen, sheila johnson, Spencer, susan wloszczyna, The Humans

The ninth year of the Middleburg Film Festival brought back the fest’s in-person programming in Virginia horse country. Founded by Sheila Johnson and run by executive director Susan Koch, the four-day festival continues to feature an impressive slate of diverse and thoughtfully-curated narrative and documentary feature films (34 this year).

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Whistler Film Festival 2020 EDA Award Winners – Jennifer Merin reports

December 20, 2020December 20, 2020 Jennifer Merin Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, ashley eakin, awfj eda awards, goddess of the fireflies, jazz tangcay, liz braun, lois alter mark, marina antunes, niav conty, Shauna Hardy Mishaw, single, small time, susan sloszczyna, whistler film festival 2020

For the eighth consecutive year, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists has had the honor to partner with Whistler Film Festival to recognize women filmmakers with presentation of EDA Awards for Best Female-Directed Feature Film and Best Female-Directed Short at the 2020 festival, held online December 1 to 20, 2020.

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AWFJ Welcomes Ten New Members in 2020 – Jennifer Merin reports

January 2, 2020January 5, 2020 Jennifer Merin 0 Comments april neale, carla renata, jazz tangcay, jessica kiang, julia swift, kathia woods, lynnette nicholas, sharronda williams, sherin nichole, tara mcnamara

The Alliance of Women Film Journalists is welcoming ten outstanding female film journalists as new members, starting in January 2020. They are film critics, commentators and reporters who hail from around the world and represent a wide range of media platforms, including popular and erudite publications, daily newspapers and other print journals, broadcast and online outlets.