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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!
This week’s guest director Jesse Lawrence is one of the founding members of La Famiglia, a self confessed mobile guerrilla film unit who are well versed in the advantages of keeping crew to an essential core and shooting at speed to produce impressively ambitious and successful films such as Mash Up a dark supernatural urban [...]
In partial homage to the sensation of dark imagination in the work of Tim Hope, Roman Dirge and Tim Burton, Anita Shukla’s animated short The Scent of Seth portrays beauty and charm in a twisted environment, with its take on the isolation and misery of adolescence and the desire to escape from it.
Produced over [...]
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 [...]
Most of the guests on Directors Notes have had to self finance and hustle to get their projects to screen, but every once in a while a directors’ passion and drive for a project manages to push through the maze of questions and checks to grab a share of the funding pot. Robin King and [...]
This quarter of a century numbered interview focusses on an inspiring, experimental, fairy-tale animation called Sweet Salt from director Katerina Athanasopoulou, which was commissioned by animate! for their annual Channel Four slot.
Sweet Salt Materials
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Showlinks
Kineticat
Royal College of Art
Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival
animate!
Becalelis Brodskis
Repairman
Adobe After Effects
BBC Film Network
Red Stick International Animation Festival
stray cinema