Dannilizaitis
Twin Bricks
So lego recreations are done all the time now, but this is special. Mainly just because it’s very funny, and we all love Twin Peaks a little more then we probably should.
Best Coast – Crazy for You
Another day, another music video filled with cat cameo goodies. It’s only fair I share such delights with you! Lead singer of Best Coast, Bethany Cosentino is known for her love of cats, especially her own, “Snacks” who not only has a twitter account but is also the cover star of the band’s very successful debut [...]
LSFF2011: Landscapes
It’s a real shame I didn’t have more time to attend screenings at this year’s London Short Film Festival. This, my third and final screening, was another really great one. Again seeing two shorts I previously watched at Underwire a couple of months ago: Tom and Esther Learn Lessons and Love at the End of [...]
LSFF2011: Family Affairs
One thing I forgot to mention on my last London Short Film Festival review was the surprising standard of films I saw. I mean, not that I expected to see anything terrible, but I was pleasantly surprised to be impressed with all the shorts in the Fucked Up Love screening for one reason or another. [...]
LSFF2011: Fucked Up Love
Last weekend the 8th London Short Film Festival hit the capital’s various screening venues and bars. Returning for its biggest year yet, having had well over a 1000 submissions, LSFF aims to showcase the best of UK-made short films with twenty screenings featuring over 250 new shorts, proving the short film industry is far from [...]
Danni Lizaitis 2010 Top Ten
I think my New Years resolution for 2011 will be to document every film I watch, I’ve compiled this list with the niggling feeling I’ve left something quite special out. Although I’ve attended Birds Eye View, Underwire and the London Film Festival this year, there are still several films I feel ashamed of not having [...]
DN UnderWire
Underwire Film Festival had its launch last Thursday and I had the pleasure of being there. A festival that aims to showcase the raw cinematic talents of female filmmakers, it focuses particularly on women at the beginning of their filmmaking careers. Receiving over 100 shorts in the two months they were open for entries, Underwire [...]
UnderWire: Editing
The final category shown at UnderWire was Editing. Probably the largest part of the industry still predominantly known as a man’s job, years ago in the days of cutting and splicing, editing was almost seen as a sewing technique allowing women to fill editing houses. As the edit become more technical and computer based, men [...]
UnderWire: Directing
The directing category brought along two films right up my street- beautifully shot and composed, yet sinister and dark. Beautiful Enough is a haunting but gorgeously shot film. A dark look at our cultural obsession with beauty, a young girl becomes fixated with images of women from magazines. When her parents go to bed, she [...]
UnderWire: Cinematography
There was one film that will undoubtedly win this category. Sis, written and directed by Deborah Haywood and shot by Director of Photography Gabi Norland alongside a crew full of females. Gabi Norland has spent the past ten years working through camera departments for film and TV leading her to this, her first work as [...]
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