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Directors Boca & Ryan Uhrich describe their creative relationship as an ongoing tennis match in which each of them pushes the other to create the best work possible. Their animation Duelity presents the two main arguments for the origins of man as separate films which come together in a third split-screen piece to debate the [...]
If you’re one of our more regular visitors to the site and have been checking us out since the early days, then you’ll know our love for lists. MarBelle and I have already dedicated a post to the list earlier in the year, when I wrote about a book dedicated to filmic lists (Faber and [...]
As a Lutonian and a devoted film fanatic, I rarely get excited about the choice of films I get to view in my hometown. However, once a year I get 11 days to get truly excited about, the Filmstock festival. For those of you that don’t know what Filmstock is…shame on you!
A well-worn maxim suggests that it’s always best to create stories about ‘what you know’, and Yousaf Ali Khan’s accomplished short Talking with Angels goes a long way to show why this is advice best followed. Based on Khan’s own childhood and created with the intention of bucking the social ideals of what constitutes [...]
Today’s guest director Richard Fenwick had two of his films play at this year’s Rushes Soho Shorts; The Box and the animated information packed documentary What We’ve Found Out About Stem Cells which we discuss in our interview and toured as part of the onedotzero_10 programme perspectives 06 - a compilation of the most innovative [...]
Billed as ‘the essential annual meeting of every key player in British documentary production’, I travelled to Oxford to meet up with some old friends, and get inspired.
The Britdoc Festival is associated with The Channel 4 British Documentary Film Foundation, giving grants and assistance to British independent filmmakers, and offering a collection of world [...]
With two shorts already under her belt (Working for Christmas and Fly), along with several commercials, Candida Scott Knight cast her net wide to find the right script for her next project. “Mercy tells the story of Ben, a young boy who’s bullied at school and neglected at home by his heroine-addict mother. It’s a [...]
“I don’t know anything about that jigga jigga stuff - you play that and I’ll play this!” - Paul Humphrey
What happens when the original old school beat makers meet the new school of hip-hop beat jugglers? Renowned hiphop photographer B+ set the wheels in motion with the inspired idea of bringing together the most revered [...]
Director Nick Childs’ approach to adaptation holds a lesson for us all, as his choice of material centres on pieces which already have a strong cinematic spine within them and don’t need to be mangled into something unrecognisable to make it to the screen, which would explain why writer Steve Hamilton was willing to give [...]
Our long-time friend, director Lee Kern discusses his Lo-Fi approach to filmmaking, which has enabled him to develop a singular style whilst maintaining creative freedom on his broadcast documentaries.
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