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....
by Amelia Elder | May 27, 2024 | Deep-dives
The 77th Cannes Film Festival ended over the weekend. For those who may have missed it, or just want a reminder, here DirectHer’s round-up of key moments that you may have missed from the festival. The jury This year’s jury president was American actor and...
by Amelia Elder | May 25, 2024 | Deep-dives, Representation
If I were to ask you to name Western films with a South Asian protagonist, what could you name? Bend it like Beckham? Slumdog Millionaire? Life of Pi? Although South Asian representation in Western cinema has evolved significantly over the decades, the same story is...
by Ming Gana | May 24, 2024 | Deep-dives, Profiles
With the Sheffield International Documentary Festival, colloquially known as Sheffield DocFest, about to begin on 12 June, DirectHer has talked to Mita Suri, the festival’s Film Programme Producer, for a deeper look behind the UK’s largest documentary festival and one...
by Lucy Wilcox | Apr 18, 2024 | Genre
The deep American South is enmeshed in painful histories, sprawling sceneries and magic. The Southern Gothic genre has traditionally been associated with literature from the ante- and post-bellum century which reflected on the harrowing stories and culture that came...
