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All too often, women\u2019s opinions are considered valuable only in certain situations: when there\u2019s a problem affecting women, when there\u2019s an opportunity to market to women, when there\u2019s a president that is a deeply reactionary sexual predator. Nellie Killian\u2019s series \u201cTell Me: Women Filmmakers, Women\u2019s Stories\u201d attempts to show the multitude of experiences and issues that come to light when a director takes the simple but radical step of having a woman tell her story to the camera. Spanning several decades as well as a variety of lengths, the 34 films in the series open up a free space for discussion of how issues of class, race, immigration, violence, crime, sex, or \u201cjust\u201d being a housewife affect women. Interspersing clips from the films, FC Digital Producer Violet Lucca speaks with Killian, who is also a contributing editor to FC; Farihah Zaman, filmmaker (Remote Area Medical), critic, and Field of Vision Production Manager; and Sierra Pettengill, filmmaker (The Reagan Show) and occasional contributor to Frieze magazine.\n\nFilms discussed: Soft Fiction, Janie\u2019s Janie, The Women\u2019s Film, Mimi, Suzanne Suzanne, Audience