Camera Roll with Amandine Gay

When filmmaker Amandine Gay is the creative force behind Speak Up, a documentary about Black Francophone women, and A Story of One’s Own, a documentary about transracial and transnational adoption. She’s also a frequent speaker on filmmaking, feminism, and adoption, and she has her own production company. She might spot you when she’s taking a well-deserved break people-watching in Montreal’s cafés. We spoke to Amandine about developing an Afro-feminist aesthetic, sleeping in on the weekends, and getting a hysterectomy.

FilmmakerGuest UserFebruary 1, 2024Camera Roll, Montreal, Saint-DenisComment

Camera Roll with Niki Kohandel

A third-year student studying art and film in London, Niki Kohandel can routinely be found across the UCL campus editing films, making prints, or passing the time outside with friends.

Filmmaker, StudentClemence PolesFebruary 27, 2022Camera Roll, LondonComment

Meet Charlotte Lindèn Ercoli Coe

A truly multi-disciplinary artist, Charlotte Lindèn Ercoli Coe got her start at a markedly young age. But, that doesn’t mean she wants to hold on to youth or play into how society fetishizes it: the opposite is true. In this interview, she gets into the films and books that have inspired her throughout her life; what starting her new company, Simulacra Pictures, was like; and how things all fall into place when you want something badly enough.

Filmmaker, EditorClemence PolesSeptember 5, 2021Silverlake, LA Comments

Meet Shirin Neshat

Shirin is a renowned visual artist who works across photography, video installation, and film. In this conversation, she generously shares how each stage of her life has led her to today: from her upbringing in Iran to her youth in California and her life now in New York. Her dedication to ritual and to her artistic practice has remained consistent through the tumult and triumph of all her days.

Artist, FilmmakerClemence PolesJune 27, 2021Bushwick, NYC Comment

Meet Isabel Sandoval

A groundbreaking trans filmmaker and actor whose work has screened around the world, Isabel is working on her third feature following the success of 2019 film Lingua Franca.

FilmmakerClemence PolesMarch 9, 2020Crown Heights, NYC Comments

Meet Crystal Moselle

Crystal Moselle is a filmmaker best known for her debut, Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary The Wolfpack, as well as her latest feature film Skate Kitchen. With a career defined by the unconventional and powered by social interactions, chance encounters and a dynamic editorial team, her life and travels routinely ask her to challenge her own perspective. Constantly in transit between reality and fantasy, she shares the habits and experiences that have brought her to her present.

FilmmakerClemence PolesSeptember 26, 2018Clinton Hill, NYC Comments

Meet Natalie Fält

Meet LA Passerby and filmmaker, Natalie Falt, the founder of Women and Film, a resource and community for women filmmakers who would like to make it in the industry.

FilmmakerClemence PolesMarch 20, 2018Echo Park, LAComment

Meet Elle Mckenzie

Elle McKenzie is a filmmaker from Maryland and earned a BFA in screenwriting form Drexel University.

FilmmakerClemence PolesDecember 5, 2017Bedstuy, NYCComment

Meet Tabitha Denholm

Tabitha Denholm is a VMA-nominated music video director and creative director for Florence & the Machine for her past three albums. She is also a frequent contributor to the Dazed, Ch4, I-D and Nowness. Since relocating from London to LA Tabitha has made a goal for herself to use her influence to make a positive impact in the industry that she loves.

FilmmakerClemence PolesMarch 30, 2017Los Feliz, LAComment

Meet Angela Kohler

Angela Kohler is an advertising photographer and commercial director in Los Angeles, where she is one half of Angela & Ithyle, the studio she runs with her husband. She gave birth to her baby boy three days before the publication of this feature.

Photographer, FilmmakerClemence PolesFebruary 9, 2017Echo Park, LAComment