by Amelia Elder | May 31, 2024 | Deep-dives, Representation
A current trend on TikTok has seen the rise of female rage, carried by the brilliant scene “Please! I’m a star!” scene in Pearl (2022), played by Mia Goth. These edits’ rise in popularity across social media, particularly TikTok, has seen...
by Caillin McDaid | May 30, 2024 | Deep-dives, Representation
The queer and LGBTQ+ community has been often sidelined by cinema and television for decades. Be it casual homophobia or transphobia that permeates films to potentially more harmful examples like The Danish Girl (2015). One could argue that the intentions were in the...
by Lucy Wilcox | May 30, 2024 | Profiles, Representation
Athena Mandis is an award-winning filmmaker and lecturer in Film Practice at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). Her works include the short films Daughter and Losing Grace. She is currently working on her first feature – which she’s keeping details...
by Henry Noble | May 28, 2024 | Deep-dives, Representation
In the 70s, women were up against a deluge of challenges. To put it into perspective: jobs were advertised by gender, marriage was seen as women’s end goal, and domestic violence and marital rape weren’t even considered crimes. Overall, it was not a very progressive...
by Angela Garcia | May 28, 2024 | Representation
Picture this: you’re in the cinema or at home, popcorn in hand, the lights are dimmed and you are ready to be impressed, but as the film plays, what do you see? The same old tropes and stereotypes are given to black women as if they’re going out of style. When there’s...
by Jesselyn Whiteside | May 28, 2024 | Profiles, Representation, Top reads
Tobi Kyeremateng is a BAFTA award-winning cultural producer, working across film, theatre, live events and community engagement. Her endeavours to showcase the experiences of Black British people across the diaspora has helped open up previously exclusionary spaces....
