Archive for April, 2008
Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things - Matt Strachan
Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things (2008)
Calum and Lucy, both twenty-something and ‘just good friends’, are forced to face up to the realities of life and love in a limbo landscape of their own memories.
Podfinder UK Review
So I was giving my WordPress Dashboard a finally look before bed - don’t pretend you don’t do exactly the same thing - and noticed an incoming link from Podfinder UK for a film and TV podcast special episode which included our own humble Directors Notes! I’m not sure where in the UK host Josephine [...]
DN EP 083: Escape From Luanda - Phil Grabsky
Director Phil Grabsky has been working in the film industry for over 20 years, creating documentary programmes for BBC strands such as Timewatch and Reputations, as well as arts programmes for Channel Five. However, I first came into contact with Phil’s work through his 2003 feature documentary The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of [...]
Escape From Luanda - Phil Grabsky
Escape From Luanda (2007)
In Luanda, one of the world’s poorest and most dangerous places, three students from Angola’s only music school work towards their end-of-year concert. The Music School is Angola’s first and only school of its kind. It houses some 80 students, most of them desperately poor. Many face disapproval and outright rejection [...]
Peter Bunzl’s On The Upside
Back on DN043 Peter Bunzl joined us to discuss his dark, thought experiment animation Mind Games and wet our appetites with talk of his new topsy turvy short On The Upside, in which an elderly couple overcome quirks of gravity to maintain their relationship.
On The Upside is now finished and there’s a clip over at [...]
The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan - Phil Grabsky
An eight-year-old boy called Mir Hussain, living in a cave in Bamiyan, Afghanistan may not appear to be the most obvious choice for a feature length documentary but producer/director Phil Grabsky’s film The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan uses Mir’s individual story to show how life is lived by ordinary Afghans post-Taliban [...]
Vote for Duelity!
Directors Notes’ friends Boca & Ryan Uhrich - DN076 - have rightly been nominated as finalists at FITC 2008 for their dual screen extravaganza DUELITY which automatic puts them up as an entry for the people’s choice awards - this is where you come in. Just go to http://awards.fitc.ca/pc, select DUELITY on the Motion Graphics [...]
Film Festivals for Free
Checking through my mail this morning I came across a useful link in the Shooting People bulletin for the Free Film Festivals website. As they put it:
Our schedules list free entry film festivals right across the planet, all of which will accept both submission and screening copies on either small gauge film or inexpensive and [...]
Tracey Re:Fragmented
In an industry that is often cutthroat and ruthless, I think it is always worth giving publicity and a lot of respect to those artists that decide to give something back to all us fellow creative types. It is with this in mind I wanted to bring to everyones’ attention the great act of giving [...]
The West Side Episode 3
This time the wait was shorter but no less painful, so once again it’s strangely satisfying to switch to town crier mode and let you know that Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo and Zachary Lieberman - DN053 - have hit us up with the third instalment of The West Side. It’s exciting because it’s great!
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