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Welcome to my site! My name is Andrea Thompson, and I’m a writer, editor, and film critic who is a member of the Chicago Indie Critics and also the founder and director of the Film Girl Film Festival, which you can find more info about at filmgirlfilm.com! I have no intention of becoming any less obsessed with cinema, comics, or nerdom in general.

52 Films By Women: And She Could Be Next (2020)

52 Films By Women: And She Could Be Next (2020)

By Andrea Thompson

Watching the two part documentary series “And She Could Be Next” is an interesting experience, especially given the last film I watched that dealt with the state of our national politics. But where so many films about our election process tend to give in to the cynicism of a system that so often favors the white and wealthy, I’ve found people of color tend to take a different view, one that can’t afford to give in to despair.

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