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The 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards Submissions
Well of course they weren’t going to stop after just one year! Yep the submission clock has started for 2012′s Vimeo Festival + Awards. The categories have been opened up this time round to include Advertising, Lyrical, Action Sports and Fashion (a DN favourite), all of which could net you a cool $5,000 grant, while [...]
Why Don’t You Join Us?
Loving this appropriated Pong animation from MK12 which opened the Zero Film Festival’s Occupy Wall Street NYC screening. MK12 ZeroFilm NYC Open from MK12 on Vimeo.
Kerry Film Festival 2011
Part One I’ve been incredibly quiet on DN this year. Apologies for that, but the reason is I have been studying for my doctorate in cinema and writing a feature screenplay. Let’s just say you aren’t the only people I’ve been neglecting. The past week however saw me leave my relative hermit’s existence to see [...]
DN LFF2011: Superheroes – Michael Barnett
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Some are called, some are chosen but all attempt to work for the greater good of their communities. No it’s not the synopsis for Kick-Ass 2, but rather Michael Barnett’s feature documentary Superheroes which delves into the world of Real Life Superheros across North America. Michael joined us [...]
DN LFF2011: Li and the Poet – Andrea Segre
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Andrea Segre’s debut feature Li and the Poet tells the story of Shun Li, a Chinese woman working off her debt to a better life in Italy and the forbidden friendship she forms with retired fisherman Bepi. Andrea joined us at the London Film Festival to discuss his [...]
DN LFF2011: Natural Selection – Robbie Pickering
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Although I’ve been chasing Robbie Pickering for an interview since seeing his multi-award winning Natural Selection at SXSW, it was the London Film Festival that delivered Robbie for an extended chat, where we spoke about self belief not getting you on the basketball team and the many reasons [...]
DN LFF2011: The Dish and the Spoon – Alison Bagnall
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Alison Bagnall’s The Dish and the Spoon features a woman betrayed, who takes a romantic English teen on her journey through blind rage. Alison and I discuss the creative benefits of forced limitations and why it’s fine to not have all the answers. I feel like movies are [...]
DN LFF2011: How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire – Daniel Edelstyn
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] I’m pretty sure that Daniel Edelstyn is the only director I met at the London Film Festival this year who’s the rightful heir to a Russian vodka factory. We spoke about connecting with relatives from beyond the grave and working as a film outsider. I’m still trying to [...]
DN LFF2011: Shock Head Soul – Simon Pummell
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Based on the famous book Memoirs of My Nervous Illness from German judge Daniel Paul Schreber, Simon Pummell’s feature Shock Head Soul depicts Schreber’s ‘madness from the inside’ through the combined use of live action, expert interviews and animation. Simon and I discussed transmedia and blurring film disciplines [...]
DN LFF2011: The Somnambulists – Richard Jobson
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Angered by the way he and the rest of us allowed the UK to sleepwalk into the Iraq war, Richard Jobson’s The Somnambulists is a departure for the director which explores the lost lives of 15 service men and women in stark visual style. We discuss collective responsibility [...]
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