I like to think that I’ve put in a fair amount of miles when it comes to time spent watching short films and generally submerging myself in the filmmaking world, be that as it may, my time with shorts looks like a trip to corner shop when laid against the curatorial career of Joe Bateman. [...]
“A” is much more than a feature film, it is inspired by the ancient myth of Antigone and has a totally different approach to filmmaking as a whole. We’ve been featuring and following the work of Greek director Stathis Athanasiou for several years here on DN and even from his first appearance on our pages [...]
Long term DN friend and accomplished filmmaker Kurtis Hough seems incapable of taking a break from creating (something we’ll be talking to him about in the near future). His latest venture is Cryosphere, a short film about the melting glacier in Juneau, Alaska. Kurt plans to debut Cryosphere free online on Friday 30th November, but [...]
In 2008 we were introduced to the work of director Victor Solomon through his adaptation series of stories from Dan Rhodes’ book Anthropology and four years on, it’s held true that the five we got back then still have us wanting more. Hopefully this wont be a problem for much longer as Victor and Rhodes [...]
It was over four years ago that we spoke to Jossie Malis about the first two episodes of his shadow play inspired ten part animation series Bendito Machine. Well somehow we failed to bring you episode 3, but that just means you get the double pleasure of watching that and the freshly released episode 4 [...]
Monaco is the new short film by emerging Melbourne based writer/director David Easteal. It is an observational character study of a well-meaning young man, Lucas, set in the suburbs of Melbourne. Australian director David Easteal’s short The Father was one of my favourite films of last year’s London Film Festival and if you heard our [...]
If you’ve ever attended one of their events across the globe you’ll know that the All Tomorrow’s Parties festivals and gigs are all about two things; the music and the fans. ATP is one of the few live events that actively encourages fans to take pictures and shoot video of musicians performing on and off [...]
OK folks, we’ve already spelt out exactly why you should get behind Koo’s Kickstarter campaign for his debut feature Man-child and a quick look at the 1,538 backers (yep DN’s thrown its financial support in too) who’ve pledged $90,134 of the $115,000 goal shows we’re not alone in believing this is a film that NEEDS [...]
You know what it’s like. You wait around for months and months hoping against hope that the filmmaker you really respect, the one who’s proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that they support the filmmaking community and is working ceaselessly each and everyday to help all of us make it to the top of [...]
When El Vez posted Eric Power’s paper craft animation Path of Blood – Demon at the Crossroads of Destiny I was immediately struck by two thoughts: “Why does that bastard keep beating me to all the best films”, closely followed by “I wish I could see more of that brutal ninja action!” Well if we [...]