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DN221: Littlerock – Mike Ott
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Director Mike Ott joins us this week to discuss his second feature Littlerock, a beautifully balanced fish out of water story, with the added complication of a language barrier. It’s just a scary thing to hand over your film to someone & trust that they’re gonna take care [...]
Littlerock – Mike Ott
Littlerock (2010) When her car breaks down on a site-seeing tour of California, a Japanese student winds up stranded in a small desert town. Exhilarated by a sudden sense of freedom, she extends her stay and finds friendship, romance, and what promises to be a new home. But as she pulls back the layers on this unlikely [...]
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 [...]
DN LFF2011: The Waves – Alberto Morais
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] In his debut feature The Waves (Las Olas), director Alberto Morais explores the conversations we have with history and ourselves through his lead character Miguel’s (Carlos Alvarez) journey into his past. We spoke to Alberto at the London Film Festival about shooting a film which merges the present [...]
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