We spoke with Shan Zhang, whose claymation short film Rabbit is featured in Women X Film Festival this year as part of the “Turn the Big Light On” slate of films. Rabbit has been nominated for the festival’s Best Student Film and Best Animated Film awards.

Super Yaki is all about showing love for movies – the people who make them, star in them and, yes, even watch them. We’re excited to announce our partnership with them for Women X Film Festival 2022 and want to share some of our favourites from their website that highlight women directors.

Filmmaker Calif Chong, whose short film Underneath was featured in Women X Film Festival 2021, speaks with us about her inspirations, experiences with Women X, future projects and work-life balance.

We spoke with filmmaker Lucy Chappell, whose short film Yellowbird was featured in Women X Film Festival 2021, about her inspirations, experience with Women X, future plans and work-life balance.

We spoke to Dania Bdeir about her short film, Warsha, about a crane operator from Syria finding freedom in the skies of Beirut. She talks us through green screens, learning from your mistakes, and collaborating with actors.

Seemab Gul tells us about making her short film, Sandstorm, a story of young women and sexual politics in Pakistan, as well as the challenges of filming during lockdown and the advice she’d give to her younger self.

Mahboobeh Kalaee talks us through the making of her short film, The Fourth Wall, an animated family confined to a household kitchen. She tells us about taking over her own family’s kitchen for the shoot and which filmmakers inspire her.

Asena Nour tells us about her first narrative film, See You in the Dark, which centres around a young female artist who’s hacked by an ominous troll on the opening night of her latest exhibition. What follows is the search for the perpetrator in a night-long odyssey and an exploration of sexual trauma.

We asked April Maxey about making her short film, Work, which follows a queer Latina in the midst of a break-up. She tells us about taking filmmaking classes from Karyn Kusama and her love of character-driven dramas.