Category 'News & Updates'

7
Jan

Why Submit to the Fusion Film Festival?

By Siena Richardson Submitting to the Fusion Film Festival is a fantastic opportunity for young women to have their creative voices heard. From professional exposure to incredible prizes, there are so many ways to win just by submitting your work! Here are the top three simple reasons we at Fusion want to see your submissions […]

24
Feb

Fusion’s Woman of the Year, Reed Morano, Talks the Industry’s Gender Issue, Shooting While Pregnant, Her Proudest Works, and More

By Amanda Saiewitz and Ben Eisen, PR and Editorial Heads In many ways, 2014 was a great year for female filmmakers. Audiences adored Gillian Robespierre’s hilarious and progressive Obvious Child, Jennifer Kent’s terrifyingly visceral The Babadook, and Ava Duvernay’s authentic and complex Selma. Beyond these few names, however, women were again hugely underrepresented in the industry. According to […]

28
Jan

Reed Morano: A Celebration of Women Behind the Camera

by Daniella Duarte, Editorial Staff Writer This year, we are honoring cinematographer and director Reed Morano as our Woman of the Year for her astonishing body of work, as well as her induction into the legendary cinematographer’s guild, The American Society of Cinematographers. Reed is one of only 14 women of the approximately 350 active […]

12
Jan

Canon joins the FUSION family with two cameras!

FUSION is excited to announce its partnership with Canon. The filmmaking giant will award TWO prizes to this year’s student filmmakers to be awarded at the Showcase. Each prize will include a Canon EOS 5D Mark III with Kit Lens. Submit now through SATURDAY JANUARY 16. We look forward to seeing you at the 13th […]

30
Dec

Favorites of the Year

By Ben Eisen, Editorial Staff Head   Favorite Female-Directed Show: Olive Kitteridge “It baffles me, this world. I don’t want to leave it yet.” So closes HBO’s incredible four-hour miniseries that proved more vital, moving, and human than anything else I saw this year. The cast is pitch perfect, the direction empathic in its pacing, […]