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Life Just Is: Getting Out There and Doing It

Award winning short filmmaker Alex Barrett, cinephile and sometime DN contributor is nearing production on his debut feature Life Just Is. His cast has just been announced and it’s a belter, including Paul Nicholls and Jayne Wisener who played Johanna in the Burton/Depp Sweeney Todd. Presumably they’ve been drawn in by the calibre of the [...]

Indie Film’s 25 New Faces Revealed

If lists and the freshest talent in film are your thing – they are ours – then, like us, you’ll be poring over Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces list with interest. These are the folks likely to be rocking our screens in the near future so take note.

Vimeo Lets Users Get Their Remix On with Creative Commons

The fine folks over at Vimeo have decided it’s time to officially support the remix, resample and reimagination culture that goes hand in hand with filmmaking by allowing users to tag their uploads with one of several Creative Commons licenses. From the blog post: Sharing videos on Vimeo has always gone beyond passively viewing the [...]

The Kickstarter Film Festival

It great to see a site that’s enabled filmmamkers to fund their visions, by directly connecting them with the people willing to support their work has decided to showcase some of those projects. Friday, 9th July will see Kickstarter and Rooftop Films launch the inaugural Kickstarter Film Festival, on the roof of the Old American [...]

LYNCHthree Wants You!

It’s become increasingly apparent that filmmakers need to look, not to the ever conservative and risk adverse Hollywood machine for the funding of their projects, but to the fans of film and the numerous crowd sourcing options which have sprung up in recent years to connect makers with consumers. Whether this will eventually become the [...]

Mind Your Figure

I’m a bit late bringing this to you but if you happen to be free this weekend and in the Manhattan area, you should take a trip to 409 West 39 St. for Mind Your Figure; a group art show featuring works in a variety of media by eight young, New York-based artists including our [...]

onedotzero Call for Entries

onedotzero’s Adventures in Motion film festival will be hitting the BFI Southbank in November (10th-14th) before setting out on its global tour. However, you’ve still got till the end of this month to impress with your visual skills and earn a spot in the programme. Full details can be found on the submissions page but [...]

PodCastle: The Behold of the Eye

For those of you not yet sick of the sound of my voice, there’s a change of pace from our usual DN inteviews over at the wondrous Podcastle, where I was let loose to indulge my inner foul mouthed fairy in a reading of Hal Duncan’s The Behold of the Eye. Head over and have [...]

Robin Bushell Update

If you’re looking to add another fine animator to your bookmarks, Robin Bushell has launched the all new and sparkly robinbushell.com for your perusing pleasure. If the fact that Robin’s surname appears to describe a particularly harrowing double decker journey isn’t enough to tempt you into following the link, here’s his reel: Summer Reel 2010 [...]

The Creators Project

The Creators Project is what you get when you mash-up Vice, Intel and 80+ talented, creative, boundary pushing artists from music, art, film, design and architecture, who all believe that technology can be used to serve the creative process. Spanning seven countries, it promises to deliver a mix of proven big names alongside the next [...]

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