Archive for July, 2008
The Super Noble Brothers - Mark Escribano
The Super Noble Brothers (2007)
The Super Noble Brothers chronicles the ‘beautiful struggles’ of the uncompromising artists and entrepreneurs Davey, Tommy, and Andy Noble. Raised by independent art dealers and encouraged from the outset to pursue their artistic interests, they quickly garnered local celebrity in their home town of Milwaukee, Wisconsin as talented musicians, painters and [...]
DN EP 098: Seeking Wellness - Dan Schneidkraut
It’s with complete unashamedness that I admit we discovered this week’s guest Dan Schneidkraut from our well mined source of the Filmstock Film Festival when El Vez spotted Daddy’s Time, Part two of Dan’s Seeking Wellness: Suffering Through Four Movements quadrilogy of films. My interest in the films only grew when all four parts arrived [...]
Nobody’s Perfect
Nobody’s Perfect is a newly launched charity short film competition that’s open to 16 - 25 year olds interested in directing, producing, acting, writing or composing regardless of previous experience.
Submitted material will be judged by musician Sandi Thom (‘Punk Rocker’), actors Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter), Tom Hardy (Band of Brothers), JJ Feilds [...]
Seeking Wellness - Dan Schneidkraut
Seeking Wellness: Suffering Through Four Movements (2007)
A series of conceptual video projects exploring ideas relating to victimization, recovery and empathy.
Part One: Cup of Friendship, Shrine of Scars
Part Two: Daddy’s Time
Part Three: Malignant Love
Part Four: Final Project
DN EP 097: Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott
It’s not often I experience the films we feature in their full cinematic glory, and even rarer that I also get face to face time with the directors, but of the many films we’ve covered on the show Marcy Garriott’s feature documentary Inside the Circle - which opens a window into B-Boy culture, friendship and [...]
Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott
Inside the Circle (2007)
Capturing the raw power of a grassroots hip-hop movement, the award-winning documentary Inside the Circle tells the stories of strikingly talented b-boys Josh and Omar, former best friends who become rivals when they join competing dance crews. Immersed in the b-boy culture of defiant creativity, Omar rises to international renown, while [...]
Vote Yes to Mind Games
This seems to be the weekend of updates for past guests, which I suppose means that their work’s permeating throughout the collective consciousness and that can only be a good thing. It also means you guys have another opportunity to flex your muscles by way of a vote.
Back on DN043 Peter Bunzl took us through [...]
DN EP 096: Tokyo Cowboys - Daneeta Loretta Saft & Patrick Jackson
What happens when you’re far from home and on-route to living your dream? Do you come back to start again with nothing to show for your years of effort when things get rough or do you hang on in the hope that success and the life you’ve imagined is just round the corner? Co-directed by [...]
Tokyo Cowboys - Daneeta Loretta Saft & Patrick Jackson
Tokyo Cowboys (2008)
Tokyo Cowboys follows the stories of four western men living long-term in Tokyo. The film’s delicate and humorous portrait illuminates the price some pay for a taste of Tokyo’s success.
Dislocation Festival
As part of my effort to get some of the Directors Notes’ films out to a wider non-podcast audience whilst trying to become cool by association, I’m getting to curate some films for the Dislocation Festival which is being hosted by VSTM Records in my old stomping ground of Luton.
As well as the afore [...]
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