Welcome to this week’s edition of Female Filmmakers in Focus, a column where you will find a recommendation for films directed by women to seek out each week. Shatara Michelle Ford has written and ...

Exclusive: The first-time feature filmmaker's BlackStar winner is one the year's first true discoveries. The year 2021 might still be a bit new, but it’s already high time for a film poised to become ...

Shatara Michelle Ford’s debut feature Test Pattern addresses sensitive material with clinically painstaking detail. The narrative begins in 2017 at an Austin bar as Renesha (Brittany S. Hall) meets ...

Unlike some of its A-list competitors at the upcoming Independent Spirit Awards, Shatara Michelle Ford‘s debut film “Test Pattern” was funded on nine credit cards the director took out themself.