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DN SXSW10: His & Hers – Ken Wardrop
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It’s been a long time coming but I’ve finally packed the DN bags, jumped on a plane and hit the indie directors’ favourite film festival, South by Southwest, or SXSW for those in the know. We open up with an interview for a film I originally saw at last [...]
DN EP 159: The Armoire – Jamie Travis
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The first time we had the pleasure of director Jamie Travis’ company was for his triplet of films The Patterns Trilogy. Well, working in threes once again, he’s recently finished The Armoire, the final installment of his The Saddest Children in the World trilogy, and joins us to discuss [...]
DN EP 158: Cotton Stones – Jonathan Entwistle
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I miss my days of living in the North of England, so when I find a film that perfectly captures the spirit of the people and the atmosphere of the landscapes I feel at home, amongst friends or possibly enemies, but either way in the company of truly living, [...]
DN Special: How Far Would You Go…? – Neil LaBute
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Director Neil LaBute’s career has spanned numerous theatre and feature film productions, but for his latest project, LaBute collaborated with the team behind new PS3 game Heavy Rain, to create a documentary where famous ‘witnesses’ answered the question How Far would You Go…? to save someone you loved.
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A Conversation with Jack Thorne
When people knew I was talking to a writer who lives in Luton and has written for Shameless and Skins they assumed he moved here for material, but Jack Thorne, an acclaimed writer for TV, theatre, radio and now film had a different motive.
“Price, sorry. I wanted somewhere where I wasn’t working in my bedroom [...]
DN EP 157: Jade – Daniel Elliott
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Here at DN we’re big fans of films that avoid spoon feeding an audience needless back story, but instead parachute you into the current narrative crisis and credit you with the intelligence to make sense of your new surroundings. The short drama Jade, is such a film and director [...]
DN EP 156: Stately Turrets Fall – Tony Comley
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Way back in the mists of DN time, director Tony Comley joined us to discuss his plane disaster animation Abigail. It’s my pleasure to welcome Tony back to the show for a catch up and look at his new experimental, time-lapse based short Stately Turrets Fall.
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Tony Comley
Sherbet
Emily Hall
Adobe After [...]
DN EP 155: The VICE Guide to Liberia – Shane Smith & Andy Capper
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I’m very pleased to welcome Andy Capper back to the show, to discuss the journey he and VICE founder, Shane Smith, took into the dangerous heart of Liberia for the latest revelatory film in The VICE Guide to… series.
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VBS
CNN Presents VBS.TV
Liberia
Lariam
William Bennett / Cut Hands
Jihad Milkshake
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The Wonder Of Wes
Regardless of what you think about Wes Anderson he is a unique force in contemporary cinema. An auteur in the classic sense with his visual, aural, tonal stamp on every frame of his films. For fans (like me) a new Wes Anderson film is an event and interviews with him are clamoured over.
I was curious [...]
DN EP 154: Panic Attack! – Fede Alvarez
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It’s an oft quoted phrase that ‘Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity’, well this week’s guest Fede Alvarez is certainly living proof of that. After working away on his pet ‘robots attack’ SFX project for a couple of years, Fede cashed in on the Facebook built, viral [...]
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