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DN EP 086: Extraordinary Rendition - Jim Threapleton
Jim Threapleton joins us to discuss his directorial debut Extraordinary Rendition and the challenges of striking the correct balance of tone in a film that depicts the personal effects of a wrongly accused man caught up in a system with little regard for the rights of the individual.
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Extraordinary Rendition - Jim Threapleton
Extraordinary Rendition (2007)
A man is abducted from the streets of London and transported via secret flights to an unknown country. Held in solitary confinement and cut off from the outside world, he is plunged into a lawless nightmare of detention without trial, interrogation and torture. Returned without explanation to the UK many months later, he [...]
DN EP 085: Hotel Harabati - Brice Cauvin
After many years working in the French film industry as an assistant director on over 35 features, Brice Cauvin decided that it was time for him to step out and direct his feature debut Hotel Harabati, which despite (or perhaps due to) problems with financing he managed to complete on his own terms, remaining true [...]
Hotel Harabati - Brice Cauvin
Hotel Harabati (2006)
While waiting to catch a train from Paris to Venice, French couple Philippe and Marion pick up a bag left behind by a polite, vaguely Middle Eastern man. Inside, they find neatly bound bundles of foreign currency; on the tag, it reads ‘Hotel Harabati.’ At the last moment, they decide not to [...]
Hotel Harabati Competition
A few days ago it was my pleasure to interview French director Brice Cauvin about his feature debut, the excellent Hotel Harabati, which you may recall appeared in both Miss D’s and my top ten lists of 2007. I’ll be posting clips from the film and our interview in a few days, but right now [...]
INSIDE THE CIRCLE Breakin’ Convention Screening
You’d think that running Directors Notes would mean I spend all my time at screenings and hobnobbing with directors, but the sad reality is that most of my filmmaker contact is via Skype, email and screeners, partially because they live in different countries to me, but more often than should be the case laziness and [...]
DN EP 083: Escape From Luanda - Phil Grabsky
Director Phil Grabsky has been working in the film industry for over 20 years, creating documentary programmes for BBC strands such as Timewatch and Reputations, as well as arts programmes for Channel Five. However, I first came into contact with Phil’s work through his 2003 feature documentary The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of [...]
The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan - Phil Grabsky
An eight-year-old boy called Mir Hussain, living in a cave in Bamiyan, Afghanistan may not appear to be the most obvious choice for a feature length documentary but producer/director Phil Grabsky’s film The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan uses Mir’s individual story to show how life is lived by ordinary Afghans post-Taliban [...]
Tracey Re:Fragmented
In an industry that is often cutthroat and ruthless, I think it is always worth giving publicity and a lot of respect to those artists that decide to give something back to all us fellow creative types. It is with this in mind I wanted to bring to everyones’ attention the great act of giving [...]
DN EP 082: 1000 Journals - Andrea Kreuzhage
As a producer with over 20 years experience in the business Andrea Kreuzhage was well aware of the advice against funding a pet project, but that didn’t stop her from selling her house to finance her directorial debut, the feature documentary 1000 Journals; an exploration in to the 1000 Journals project initiated in 2000 by [...]
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