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BRITDOC, one of our favourite film festivals will be kicking off its third year on the 23rd - 25th July at Keble College, Oxford and are now on the hunt for films to screen in their British Feature Documentaries and FourDocs Short Film competitions. In their own words: “We’re looking for films that [...]
Kat Mansoor is a founding member of Brighton production company Animal Monday and joins me to discuss her short documentary Time Piece, which reveals the magical and unknown world of Swiss artisan watchmakers.
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Animal Monday
Spoiler Alert Radio
Digital Shorts Special
Bournemouth University
Vital Edge Aid
Robin Saidman
George Soros
Loop Brighton
The Go Team
John Metcalfe
Macro Photography
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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 [...]
Today’s interview is for a project that certainly falls out of the norm and is unlikely to be repeated or copied anytime soon. With a film that was over 20 years in the making, director Mark Craig’s documentary Talk To Me, is a tour through lives captured by answer phone messages, set to a collage [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I got to attend the cast and crew screening for Screen South’s 2007 slate of Digital Shorts and crashed the post screening party to find out more about the Digital Shorts experience from the Screen South team and this year’s supported directors.
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Screen South
Screen South Winning Films
UK Film Council Digital [...]
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.
The Suburbs Materials
Stills
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Twinklebum UK
Twinklebum on MySpace
Shooting People
William Carlos Williams
Walt Whitman
Pavement
The Silver Jews
3 Minute Wonder
Modern Toss
Sony XM2
Avid Xpress DV
BritDoc
Rooftop Films
Scott Morgan Interview
The See Documentary Festival
Halo Panda