I attended the Citizen Jane Film Festival for the first time last year. I was in a class where we learned how to write art reviews and had been assigned to cover a film, Cooked by documentarian Judith Helfand, for Vox. Even as a woman, I was intimidated by the festival because the intense aura of girl power surrounding it. I thought it was going to be hours of women patting themselves on the back for being women and making films.