March Review Sources
 
Davis, Clayton. “All 23 Best Picture Nominees Directed by Women in Oscars History.” Variety, Variety, 15 April 2025, https://variety.com/lists/best-picture-women-directed-movies-listed/children-of-a-lesser-god-1986/. Accessed 16 February 2026.
 
Kargman, Bess. “Film 101: What Is an Auteur? Learn About Auteur Theory - 2026.” MasterClass, 1 September 2022, https://www.masterclass.com/articles/film-101-what-is-an-auteur. Accessed 16 February 2026.
 
Letterboxd. “Greta Gerwig’s Official Barbie Watchlist.” Letterboxd, 13 July 2023, https://letterboxd.com/crew/list/greta-gerwigs-official-barbie-watchlist/. Accessed 16 February 2026.
 
April Review Sources
 
Albrecht, Glenn. “Solastalgia,” Alternatives Journal 32:4/5 (2006): 34-36.
 
Derrida, Jaques. Archive Fever, 1-31.
 
Fordham, Joe. “Gints Zilbalodis On The Improvisational Filmmaking Style Of ‘Flow’.” Cartoon Brew, 4 Dec. 2024, https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/gints-zilbalodis-on-the-improvisational-filmmaking-style-of-flow-244052.html. Accessed 18 April 2026. 
 
Siddi, Francesco. “Making Flow – Interview with director Gints Zilbalodis.” Blender, 22 Jan. 2025, https://www.blender.org/user-stories/making-flow-an-interview-with-director-gints-zilbalodis/. Accessed 18 April 2026.
 
Walker, Lucy. “Waste Land.” Lucy Walker Film, lucywalkerfilm.com/Waste-Land. 
 
WASTE LAND. www.wastelandmovie.com. 
 
Zilbalodis, Gints, and Matiss Kaza. Flow. Document Cloud, https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25471935-flow-read-the-screenplay/. Screenplay. 

May Review Sources

MCCLINTOCK, Anne. “Family Feuds: Gender, Nationalism and the Family.” Feminist Review, no. 44, 1993, pp. 61–80. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1395196. Accessed 23 May 2026.

Smiles of a Summer Night. www.ingmarbergman.se/en/production/smiles-summer-night. 
 
STOTT, Andrew. (2004). Comedy (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203312124 

 
August Review Sources
 
Baudrillard, Jean. "Simulacra and Science Fiction." The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader, edited by Neil Badmington and Julia Thomas, Routledge, 2008, pp. 267-271.

Cooper, Carol. "How YDA Gold winner Fiona Obertinca brought lost queer history to the screen." Shots, August 14th, 2025, https://shots.net/news/view/how-yda-gold-winner-fiona-obertinca-brought-lost-queer-history-to-the-screen. Accessed 17 August 2026.

“Hyperreality | Psychology | Research Starters | EBSCO Research.” EBSCO, www.ebsco.com/research-starters/psychology/hyperreality.

 “The Unconscious Expanse.” Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival at M+, aagff.mplus.org.hk/en/programme/the-unconscious-expanse.

Waters, Michael. "The Untold Story of Queer Foster Families." The New Yorker, February 28th, 2021, https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/the-untold-story-of-queer-foster-families?_sp=8c2fcacf-c65a-4168-8e55-16fe4e2f1917.1785866088850. Accessed 17 August 2026.

September Review Sources

R. Steinberg, S. (2011). Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood (3rd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429495090