‘Ton’derful

Well Directors Notes has hit the 100th episode mark and still no telegram from the Queen, which is a bit weird, as I know she was one of our first subscribers.
It seems like only yesterday, I was kicking back with my slippers and pipe listening to the first episode of DN, when MarBelle interviewed good [...]

Should Money Talk?

Doc It Out has posted an interesting piece about a subject that raises its head again and again in the ethics of documentary filmmaking; should subjects get paid for their participation? This latest hubbub has centred around Errol Morris’ admission that some of the ‘bad apples’ interviewed for his Standard Operating Procedure doc did receive [...]

Film Festivals for Free

Checking through my mail this morning I came across a useful link in the Shooting People bulletin for the Free Film Festivals website. As they put it:
Our schedules list free entry film festivals right across the planet, all of which will accept both submission and screening copies on either small gauge film or inexpensive and [...]

Tracey Re:Fragmented

In an industry that is often cutthroat and ruthless, I think it is always worth giving publicity and a lot of respect to those artists that decide to give something back to all us fellow creative types. It is with this in mind I wanted to bring to everyones’ attention the great act of giving [...]

“Charlie Rose” by Samuel Beckett via Andrew Filippone Jr.

Remember Happy Monday, Andrew Filippone Jr.’s documentary film object (DN066)? Well Andrew’s applied his skills to distort the world of Charlie Rose in a new experimental piece. I could mangle together my own description of the piece and probably still be way off the mark so instead read Andrew’s description, watch the film and let [...]

Jack Palms Sunday

Long term listeners will know that we’re big fans of our buddy Seth Hardwood’s Jack Palms crime mystery podcast series. Well Jack Palms Sunday has finally rolled round and our chance to help Seth shake down the Amazon charts by buying a copy of Jack Wakes Up.
Check out the Jack Palms promo:

and you can [...]

Robert Seidel Brings Painting to Life

Past guest Robert Seidel (DN065) puts his experimental approach to animation to work on a canvas worthy of his talent. In his own words: “processes: living paintings” is a 35 by 16 meter full facade projection with a corresponding light choreography, ambient music and synced sound effects shown on the 2/2/2008 in Jena, Germany.
Not satisfied [...]

Meadows of the Past

If you know a little bit about us at Directors Notes, then you’ll know we’re big fans of British director Shane Meadows and whenever possible we try to cover his work and keep a beady eye on what he’s planning next. A quick glance at the top ten lists for 2007 will reveal that This [...]

Happy Birthday Miss D

Miss D turns the fine age of 25+? today and while we haven’t see much of her here in ‘07 as she’s been tending to the DN heir CaBelle while I interview, post and the like, I’m sure you’ll all be wishing her Happy Birthday along with me!

Site Redesign

OK, so I posted this thought out loud several hours back, then due to the utter dreadfulness that was Celebrity Dance on Ice or something like that - Miss D’s mum’s visiting so our TV is currently committing crimes against humanity - I was spurred on to actually do something about it and after a [...]