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A New Animation Studio Beakus

If you have a love for animation as great as ours, then you too probably have a list of favourite studios which consistently bang out top notch work. Well, looks like the time has come to add another name to the group with the formation of Beakus.
Besides the work already featured on their site, [...]

Welcome to Portable.tv

I’ve long known about the Portable Film Festival and have regularly scoured the works it presents for films to feature on DN, but never really gave much thought to what or who may lie beneath. Well obviously I should have, because the new look Portable.tv site is a mighty fine thing to behold. And frankly, [...]

The Divine River Teaser

Shame shame shame on me. If I wasn’t so lazy and kept a closer eye on my newsfeeds and/or twitter flow, I’d have known by now that Ayz Waraich had wrapped the shoot for his new short The Divine River and had a teaser in the wild. Damn!
If you’re new to DN and wondering why [...]

Flattr Makes Social Micropayments Easy

We all know there’s a massive disconnect between consumption and commerce online – after nearly four years of DN it’s something we’ve been thinking about more and more. Well, Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde’s been thinking about it too and has come up with a possible solution in Flattr.
The video below explains how the [...]

The Vice Guide to Liberia

As part of their ongoing Vice Guide to Travel series which sees, “correspondents from VBS and Vice magazine dispatched around the world to visit the planet’s most dangerous and weird destinations”, VBS are currently running an eight part series looking at life in Liberia.
I got to take a sneak peak at the film and while [...]

Back to Back to the Future

Due to the moody winter weather, Film Friends Forever had to put their Back to the Future event on ice (see what I did there!). However, no need to despair as the event will now take place on Wednesday 3rd of February instead.
Details after the jump.
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Building an Audience and a Creative Career with Scott Kirsner

If you caught the episode a few months back when Scott Kirsner joined us to discuss his latest book Fans Friends & Followers, you’ll already know Scott is a fount of knowledge, with a lot of practical things to say about building a sustainable creative career with today’s online tools. Well if you’re fortunate enough [...]

Back to the Future Event

To help us all get past the post Christmas hump, the fine folks over at Film Friends Forever are presenting their Back to the Future London screening event on Wednesday 6th January, which will be ‘a look at how the film pioneers from a 100 years ago thought we would be living our lives today.’
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Watch 7 Classic French Films for Free

Next week The Auteurs (one of my favourite film viewing sites) is partnering with Stella Artois to present Le Recyclage de lux Online Film Festival, 7 days of “the best French classics of the 60s.”. From the 15th December you’ll be able to watch a film a day for absolutely free on the site.
Here’s hoping [...]

Sundance 2010 Shorts Announced

With 35 picked from a legion of 3,504 submissions, these really should be the cream of the crop.
Details after the jump.
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