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As anyone will know who reads my posts on Directors Notes, I’m a big supporter of my local Film Festival, Filmstock and unashamedly try to promote it whenever I can. It’s with that in mind, I’m posting to all our filmmaking readers out there, to let them know that Filmstock is now accepting submissions for [...]
The Raindance Film Festival will be moving into its 16th year from the 1st - 12th October, but before it throws open the screening doors, is looking for your shorts and features of all genres from anywhere in the world. The festival takes place in London’s West End and last year’s Jury Prize Winners were [...]
Checking through my mail this morning I came across a useful link in the Shooting People bulletin for the Free Film Festivals website. As they put it:
Our schedules list free entry film festivals right across the planet, all of which will accept both submission and screening copies on either small gauge film or inexpensive and [...]
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 [...]
Far from content to wreak havoc solely on the music industry, Nine Inch Nails have announced the expansion of the Ghosts project with the launch of a YouTube based virtual film festival comprising entrants’ inspirations to tracks from the album.
“This isn’t a contest and you don’t win elaborate prizes - it’s meant to be an [...]
Following an almost interview at last year’s London Film Festival I finally got a chance to see Lenny Abrahamson’s second feature Garage which was the most successful film of 2007 in its native Ireland and critically well received throughout its festival run, picking up prizes along the way.
Lenny joins us today to discuss [...]
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 [...]
Today I’m joined by Dan Gitsham to discuss his dark comedy, horror, Film Eight which is quite fitting as I’m recording this on Friday the 13th. Dan describes Film Eight as a run, hide, run, film which I suppose categorises the coming section as chat in the talk, chat, talk structure of Directors Notes.
Film Eight [...]
While some projects get turned around at blistering speeds that defy all reason, others need to slowly mature in the background, as was the case for this week’s guest director Peter Bunzel who began work on his animated, thought experimentation film Mind Games in 1996 finally completing it in 2004 once the time was right [...]
Making counting to ten one of the creepiest things ever shown on screen, Brendan Muldowney’s The 10 Steps will have you going to bed with the lights on for the foreseeable future. Shot in Dublin over three days, The Ten Steps uses the horror movie staples of a haunted house, lone baby sitter and unreliable [...]