Have a read and watch.

• SotW: I Love Sarah Jane
• SotW: En Tus Brazos
• SotW: Daylight
• Short of the Week Piece
• Overnight

For most successful filmmakers putting out a film that’s well received by an audience and your peers is the pinnacle of success on a project, but if your film then goes on to inspire others to jump into the fray and give proof to the mantra of ‘just get out there and shoot,’ then you know you’ve got something very special on your hands. Director Ayz Waraich has both entertained and inspired with his short White Red Panic and joins us to discuss his call to arms film.

White Red Panic Materials
Stills
Colour Correction Before & After and Prolost Article
Script

Showlinks
Dimeworth
White Red Panic on Vimeo
White Red Panic Rebel Café Discussion
Prolost
Trigger Street
Rebel Without a Crew
a thousand words series
Canon HV20
Rode NTG-2
Sony Vegas
3pm
I, Boy

• White Red Panic - Ayz Waraich
• Miss D 2007 Top Ten
• DN LFF07: Water Lilies - Celine Sciamma
• DN EP 102: Sun in the Night Time - Anne Wilkins
• DN EP 101: The Greatest Gift - Daniel Bloomberg

White Red Panic (2008)
A thriller about two guys mixed up in the wrong side of life, and the toll it takes on their character and soul…

Do yourself a favour and get the HD version

Via the ever great No fat clips!!!

• DN EP 104: White Red Panic - Ayz Waraich
• The West Side - Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman
• The Shovel - Nick Childs
• The Leafcatcher - Leo Sedgley
• The Greatest Gift - Daniel Bloomberg

A recent animation graduate, Anne Wilkins has hit the ground running with her film Sun in the Night Time, a study of childhood and the transformation of relationships and roles in the shadow of loss.

Sun in the Night Time Materials
Stills, Character Sheets & Storyboards

Showlinks
Emily & Anne
anneimation
Arcade Fire
Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe After Effects

• Sun in the Night Time - Anne Wilkins
• DN EP 067: Four Eyed Monsters - Arin Crumley & Susan Buice
• Miss D 2007 Top Ten
• Filmstock #8
• DN LFF07: Water Lilies - Celine Sciamma

Sun in the Night Time (2007)
Cecily protects her mother from hysterical grief by maintaining the pretence that her dead brother is still alive and living in their house.

• DN EP 102: Sun in the Night Time - Anne Wilkins
• Carlin - Brent Green
• _grau - Robert Seidel
• ZOMBIE ZOMBIE: Driving Clip - Simon Gesrel & Xavier Ehretsmann
• White Red Panic - Ayz Waraich

This week I’m joined by director Daniel Bloomberg to discuss his Jacques Lacan inspired, chocolate sauce massacre short The Greatest Gift.

The Greatest Gift Materials
Treatment
Shotlist
Storyboards

Showlinks
Daniel Bloomberg
Videology Interview
Slavoj Žižek
Jacques Lacan

• The Greatest Gift - Daniel Bloomberg
• Miss D 2007 Top Ten
• DN LFF07: Water Lilies - Celine Sciamma
• DN EP 102: Sun in the Night Time - Anne Wilkins
• DN EP 098: Seeking Wellness - Dan Schneidkraut

The Greatest Gift (2008)
A short film of green jello, chocolate sauce massacre and a cafeteria full of pretty women inspired by the psychoanalytic ideas of Jacques Lacan.

via No fat clips!!!

• DN EP 101: The Greatest Gift - Daniel Bloomberg
• White Red Panic - Ayz Waraich
• The West Side - Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman
• The Shovel - Nick Childs
• The Leafcatcher - Leo Sedgley

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 and I discovered that it was going to take some work on my part to fully engage with their themes. Dan joins us to discuss challenging cinema, the strengths of video and a lifetime ban from the 48hr Film Challenge.

Seeking Wellness: Suffering Through Four Movements Materials
Production Stills
Cup of Friendship, Shrine of Scars Treatment
Daddy’s Time Shooting Schedule
Final Project Shooting Schedule
Malignant Love Shooting Schedule

Showlinks
Seeking Wellness: Our Suffering In Four Movements
Water Passing Through Weeds
Filmstock
Stan Brakhage
Yasujiro Ozu
Chris Mars
Earth
Sunn O)))
Pachelbel’s Canon
Lasse Marhaug

• Seeking Wellness - Dan Schneidkraut
• Filmstock #8
• DN EP 094: Das Dores - Gabriel Tupinamba
• DN EP 069: Somewhere, Anywhere - Chris Dundon
• DN EP 067: Four Eyed Monsters - Arin Crumley & Susan Buice

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 098: Seeking Wellness - Dan Schneidkraut
• Now You See Me, Now You Don’t - Attila Szasz
• Four Eyed Monsters - Arin Crumley & Susan Buice
• Dead Bird - Brek Taylor & Clare Tinsley
• And the Colors Are Like Summer & Das Dores - Gabriel Tupinamba

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.

• DN EP 096: Tokyo Cowboys - Daneeta Loretta Saft & Patrick Jackson
• We Dreamed America - Alex Walker
• The Super Noble Brothers - Mark Escribano
• Routes - Alex Reuben
• Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott

Sometimes I go after a director for one film and they’ll come back at me with another that completely trumps my already high appreciation of their work. This week is such a case with director Gabriel Tupinamba and his lyrical study on repetition Das Dores.

Das Dores Materials
Stills
Script
Storyboard, Shotlist & Lighting Plan

Showlinks
Nonada Filmes
Das Dores
Festivus Film Festival
Met Film School
Cannes Film Festival
Groundhog Day
Magic Realism
Sony HDW F900
Sofia Coppola
Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design

• And the Colors Are Like Summer & Das Dores - Gabriel Tupinamba
• DN EP 098: Seeking Wellness - Dan Schneidkraut
• DN EP 078: Garage - Lenny Abrahamson
• DN EP 069: Somewhere, Anywhere - Chris Dundon
• DN EP 067: Four Eyed Monsters - Arin Crumley & Susan Buice

And the Colors Are Like Summer (2006)
And the Colors Are Like Summer is a short film that deals with the passage from hate to love and with the place that violence and aggression have in the sexual and love discourse, specially when taken to its limits.

Das Dores (2008)
Das Dores tells the story of two teenagers that end up trapped in an abandoned petrol station while trying to run away from home. Their car ran out of fuel and they are looking for a way out of there. While they get a chance to reconsiderate if running away together is such a good idea, strange noises and events enwrapped them and it becomes apparent that beyond their actions lies another - always repeating - pattern.

• DN EP 094: Das Dores - Gabriel Tupinamba
• Seeking Wellness - Dan Schneidkraut
• Four Eyed Monsters - Arin Crumley & Susan Buice
• Dead Bird - Brek Taylor & Clare Tinsley
• _grau - Robert Seidel

This week we’re joined by Scott Keiner whose career has seen him direct TV pilots, music videos for bands such as OK Go and the recent short Sizzlean, which is a prequel to the complete feature script of the same name penned by Scott.

Sizzlean will be screening in the Cannes short film corner 20th - 22nd May and Scott will be there in person to discuss the project if you want to check it out in full.

Sizzlean Materials
Stills
Call Sheet
Character Breakdown
Directorial Strategy
Location Reference
Shooting Order & Shotlist

Showlinks
Scott Keiner
Sizzlean
OK Go
New York Television Festival
The Kardiac Kids
Film Independent
George Washington
The City of Lost Children
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Terry Gilliam
Sigur Ros
Alfred Hitchcock
Beirut
Cinequest Film Festival
Short Film Corner

• Sizzlean - Scott Keiner
• DN EP 043: Mind Games - Peter Bunzl
• Time Piece - Kat Mansoor
• The West Side Episode 3
• The West Side Back…Again

Sizzlean (2008)
In a time when the world is emptied out, and only a few lost souls remain, a group of children sets out on a quest. Led by the Pirate Sizzlean, and the Captain who tells him what to dream, the children are on a quest most hope never to face, for these children are orphans, and they have set out to find their family. When the orphans find a strange man living in a tunnel, they discover that the end of their quest, may be closer than they think.

• White Red Panic - Ayz Waraich
• The West Side - Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman
• The Shovel - Nick Childs
• The Leafcatcher - Leo Sedgley
• The Greatest Gift - Daniel Bloomberg

Jim Threapleton joins us to discuss his directorial debut Extraordinary Rendition and the challenges of striking the correct balance of tone in a film that depicts the personal effects of a wrongly accused man caught up in a system with little regard for the rights of the individual.

Extraordinary Rendition Materials
Stills

Showlinks
Extraordinary Rendition Blog
Trailer
London’s Burning
The Tell-Tale Heart
Amnesty International
Liberty
George Orwell
Franz Kafka
Sony HVR-Z1U
Waterboarding
Apple Final Cut Pro
Locarno Film Festival

• Extraordinary Rendition - Jim Threapleton
• DN EP 067: Four Eyed Monsters - Arin Crumley & Susan Buice
• DN LFF07: Water Lilies - Celine Sciamma
• DN EP 097: Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott
• DN EP 085: Hotel Harabati - Brice Cauvin

Extraordinary Rendition (2007)
A man is abducted from the streets of London and transported via secret flights to an unknown country. Held in solitary confinement and cut off from the outside world, he is plunged into a lawless nightmare of detention without trial, interrogation and torture. Returned without explanation to the UK many months later, he is left to pick up the pieces of a shattered life in a world he no longer recognises.

• DN EP 086: Extraordinary Rendition - Jim Threapleton
• Sugarhouse - Gary Love
• Hotel Harabati - Brice Cauvin
• Garage - Lenny Abrahamson
• Four Eyed Monsters - Arin Crumley & Susan Buice

After many years working in the French film industry as an assistant director on over 35 features, Brice Cauvin decided that it was time for him to step out and direct his feature debut Hotel Harabati, which despite (or perhaps due to) problems with financing he managed to complete on his own terms, remaining true to his initial vision.

Check out our Hotel Harabati competition to win one of three copies of the DVD.

Showlinks
Brice’s Hotel Harabati Blog
Hotel Harabati
Lemming
Hidden
Harry He’s Here to Help
The French New Wave
CNC

• Hotel Harabati Competition
• Hotel Harabati - Brice Cauvin
• Miss D 2007 Top Ten
• DN EP 078: Garage - Lenny Abrahamson
• Garage - Lenny Abrahamson

Hotel Harabati (2006)
While waiting to catch a train from Paris to Venice, French couple Philippe and Marion pick up a bag left behind by a polite, vaguely Middle Eastern man. Inside, they find neatly bound bundles of foreign currency; on the tag, it reads ‘Hotel Harabati.’ At the last moment, they decide not to go to Venice (though they tell their families and friends they did); but when Marion collects her film from the developer’s, the reel is inexplicably filled with shots of canals, vaporetti, crowded piazzas … and suddenly, terrifyingly, their whole world seems to have turned upside-down.

As reality blurs, the couple start to grow apart. Marion leaves Paris with the children and Philippe takes refuge with a young man that he meets. Until eventually he is compelled to try and find Hotel Harabati…

Check out our Hotel Harabati competition to win one of three copies of the DVD.

• DN EP 085: Hotel Harabati - Brice Cauvin
• Hotel Harabati Competition
• Garage - Lenny Abrahamson
• Sugarhouse - Gary Love
• Miss D 2007 Top Ten

If you want to be in with a chance to grab a copy for your collection - and help spread the word about Directors Notes at the same time - either submit a review of Directors Notes to the iTunes store or post about us on your blog. Either way drop a line to directorsnotes@googlemail.com to let us know so we can stick your name in our competition hat.

• DN EP 085: Hotel Harabati - Brice Cauvin
• Miss D 2007 Top Ten
• Hotel Harabati - Brice Cauvin
• MarBelle 2007 Top Ten
• DN EP 078: Garage - Lenny Abrahamson

Director Matt Strachan joins us this week to discuss his switch from writing to directing on his self-penned short Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things.

Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things Materials
Budget
Lounge Floorplan
Moodboard
Production Breakdown
Production Timeline
Script

Showlinks
Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things
Matt Strachan
The Room
Lime Pictures
Raindance
Panasonic AG-DVX100
Shooting People

• Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things - Matt Strachan
• DN EP 067: Four Eyed Monsters - Arin Crumley & Susan Buice
• Miss D 2007 Top Ten
• DN LFF07: Water Lilies - Celine Sciamma
• DN EP 102: Sun in the Night Time - Anne Wilkins

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.

• DN EP 084: Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things - Matt Strachan
• White Red Panic - Ayz Waraich
• The West Side - Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman
• The Shovel - Nick Childs
• The Leafcatcher - Leo Sedgley

Following an almost interview at last year’s London Film Festival I finally got a chance to see Lenny Abrahamson’s second feature Garage which was the most successful film of 2007 in its native Ireland and critically well received throughout its festival run, picking up prizes along the way.

Lenny joins us today to discuss Garage which begins its UK theatrical run on the 7th March.

Garage Materials
Shooting Script
Trailer

Showlinks
Garage
Soda Pictures - Garage
Adam & Paul
Carlsberg Dream Flat Ad
Mark O’Halloran
Jim Jarmusch
Aki Kaurismaki
Father Ted
Kino Flo Lighting System
Terrence Malick
The New World
Bruno Dumont
The Life of Jesus
London Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
Prosperity

• DN LFF07: Water Lilies - Celine Sciamma
• Garage - Lenny Abrahamson
• DN LFF07: The English Surgeon - Geoffrey Smith
• MarBelle 2007 Top Ten
• DN LFF07: My Kid Could Paint That - Amir Bar-Lev

Garage (2007)
Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west of Ireland. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. Garage is the story of Josie’s hapless search for intimacy over the course of a summer which sees his life changed forever.

• DN EP 078: Garage - Lenny Abrahamson
• Hotel Harabati - Brice Cauvin
• Sugarhouse - Gary Love
• Four Eyed Monsters - Arin Crumley & Susan Buice
• Extraordinary Rendition - Jim Threapleton

Chances are that if you’re into music, but have had your fill of the sanctioned, glitzy, over produced pop promo you’ve at some point stumbled over the work of director Vincent Moon co-creator of The Take-Away Shows (Concerts A Emporter). Beginning back in his photography work and now in video, Vincent has re-define the approach to capturing live music, mutating it into a new form that’s best described as a performance documentary of the moment, in which multiple takes and planned setups are unwelcomed conceits. He joins us this week to discuss his work.

Showlinks
Vincent Moon
La Blogotheque
The Take-Away Shows
William Klein
Michael Ackerman
Antoine D’Agata
The National
Chryde
Arcade Fire
Banksy
Marla Hansen
Sony HVR-Z1E
Sony HVR-A1U
Scout Niblett
R.E.M.
Supernatural Superserious
Step Across the Border
Gimme Shelter
Dont Look Back
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup

• The Take-Away Shows - Vincent Moon
• Taxi!!
• DN EP 097: Inside the Circle - Marcy Garriott
• Routes Hits a Cinema Near You
• Routes - Alex Reuben

Today’s guest Chris Dundon not only comes highly recommended by our friends Justin and Neil over at Filmstock, but was part of the crew on Justin’s short Clandestine, which you may recall was the very first film / interview to feature on Directors Notes. When deciding to make his directorial debut, Chris worked with Justin and Neil to help him realise his short Somewhere, Anywhere, which he joins us to discuss.

Showlinks
Filmstock International Film Festival
The Weekend
Met Film School
My Summer of Love
David Gordon Green

• Somewhere, Anywhere - Chris Dundon
• DN EP 098: Seeking Wellness - Dan Schneidkraut
• DN EP 094: Das Dores - Gabriel Tupinamba
• Miss D 2007 Top Ten
• Filmstock #8

Somewhere, Anywhere (2007)
Somewhere, Anywhere tells the story of two very different middle class teenagers whose strong desire to be anywhere but at home leads to a day they will never forget. After a chance meeting, Kelly and Luke decide to journey across the green landscapes, fuelled by boredom and intrigue they make a discovery that will bring one of them crashing back to reality.

• DN EP 069: Somewhere, Anywhere - Chris Dundon
• White Red Panic - Ayz Waraich
• The West Side - Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman
• The Shovel - Nick Childs
• The Leafcatcher - Leo Sedgley

Mike Rymer joins us to discuss his short film ‘SICK’, which explores the rarely openly discussed problem of depression and the life altering effects it can cause for its suffers.

‘SICK’ Materials
Stills
Press Pack

Showlinks
EgoProject Films
Patchwork Productions
‘SICK’ Mini-Site
‘SICK’ IMDb
EgoProject Films’ MySpace
EgoProject Films’ YouTube
International Film School of Wales
21 Grams
Film London
The Actors Centre
Stagecoach
Dazzle Films
Red Road
Screen South

• SICK - Mike Rymer
• Miss D 2007 Top Ten
• Mercy - Candida Scott Knight
• DN LFF07: Water Lilies - Celine Sciamma
• DN EP 102: Sun in the Night Time - Anne Wilkins