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DN248: What You Need – Nickolas Duarte

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Director Nickolas Duarte joins us today with What You Need, his film about a boy out of step with the world around him. We discuss how the idea for a 15 second animated logo morphed into a four minute melancholic short and why the monkeyboy you see downtown may not just be in your head.

The logistical elements of any shoot are absolutely just as important as some of your creative decisions.

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What You Need
Nickolas Duarte
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What You Need makes its online debut today so you can watch the full four minutes of monkeyboy malaise right here, right now!

Author: MarBelle

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  1. [...] may remember Nickolas Duarte from our interview with him for surreal short What You Need, but a melancholic monkey boy looks positively run of the [...]

    Posted by Joke | Directors Notes | March 27, 2013, 10:20 pm

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