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It’s not often I experience the films we feature in their full cinematic glory, and even rarer that I also get face to face time with the directors, but of the many films we’ve covered on the show Marcy Garriott’s feature documentary Inside the Circle - which opens a window into B-Boy culture, friendship and [...]
What happens when you’re far from home and on-route to living your dream? Do you come back to start again with nothing to show for your years of effort when things get rough or do you hang on in the hope that success and the life you’ve imagined is just round the corner? Co-directed by [...]
Director Duncan Bone joins us this week to discuss his multi-discipline career and recent move into music promos with the stop frame piece Not in a Million Lovers for band The Beangrowers.
The Beangrowers: Not in a Million Lovers Materials
Production Sheet
Showlinks
duncanbone.com
The Beangrowers
Adobe After Effects
Sometimes I go after a director for one film and they’ll come back at me with another that completely trumps my already high appreciation of their work. This week is such a case with director Gabriel Tupinamba and his lyrical study on repetition Das Dores.
Das Dores Materials
Stills
Script
Storyboard, Shotlist & Lighting Plan
Showlinks
Nonada Filmes
Das Dores
Festivus Film [...]
Tim Plester joins us this week to discuss his DVD released trilogy of shorts and directorial debut English Language (With English Subtitles), which he also wrote and stars in.
English Language (With English Subtitles) Materials
Stills & Storyboards
Script
Shotlist
Music by Barbarossa
Afterglow Music Promo
Trailer
Behind the Scenes Footage
Showlinks
timplester.com
English Language (With English Subtitles)
Blurring the Line
KMIR6 Breakfast News Interview
‘Ant Muzak’, Blake’s Junction [...]
There’s so much great work out there that even if I spent the full 24 hours a day on Directors Notes I’d still only be scratching the surface, which is why I’m so pleased that the mighty Wholphin DVD magazine exists to bring the best of it straight into our homes every quarter. I managed [...]
Our guest Michael Johnson used his skills as an advertising writer to pursue his true passion for filmmaking by writing his own scripts to cut his teeth on whilst leaveraging his ad contacts into potential new projects. We sit down with him to discuss his take on Honey Honey’s Homeless Heart in his latest music [...]
Victor Solomon is a director in the rare and enviable position of being able to initiate his own projects through self-funding. He joins us this week to discuss his latest work Anthropology, a collection of five short films based stories from the Dan Rhodes’ book of the same name.
Anthropology Materials
Storyboards
Scripts
Showlinks
Victor Solomon
The Lovemakers
Faux Fox
Dan Rhodes
A Fine [...]
Jossie Malis joins us to discuss the first two episodes of his shadow play inspired ten part animation series Bendito Machine, which explore the ever problematic universal issues of power, corruption and religion.
Showlinks
Zumbakamera
Bendito Machine
Shadow Play
Adobe FreeHand
Adobe Flash
AWN’s “Best of the Web” Showcase 2007
Director Tomas Leach joins us to discuss his feature documentary All The Drunken Horsemen, which saw him travel to the isolated Mayan town of Todos Santos in the mountains of Guatemala to capture the preparations for its legendary annual drunken horse race.
Showlinks
Tomas Leach
3 Minute Wonders
FourDocs
Fabrica