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DN EP 153: The Cat Piano – Eddie White & Ari Gibson
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Eddie White, co-director of the beat poetry meets Arabic Jazz, kidnapped felines short The Cat Piano, joins us to discuss the film’s creation and the tricky journey through film festival submissions, wins and eligibility rules to make it to the pre Oscar nomination short list.
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DN EP 152: Us Now – Ivo Gormley
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I’m joined this week by director Ivo Gormley, whose documentary feature Us Now explores the ways in which Internet communities are able to share knowledge and form intelligent, collective decisions, and how this could translate to the governing of our lives and society as a whole.
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DN EP 151: COLIN – Marc Price
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Get out there make the film you want, with the kit you have to hand and recognition will follow. Despite sounding like a fairytale that indie filmmakers tell each other during the tough times, director Marc Price did just that for his debut zombie feature COLIN, which not only [...]
DN EP 150: Swansea Love Story – Andy Capper & Leo Leigh
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After their successful collaboration on the decaying seaside town documentary Blackpool: Las Vegas of the North, directors Andy Capper & Leo Leigh have joined forces again and hit the streets of Swansea to produce their second film for VBS’ Rule Britannia series, Swansea Love Story. They both (separately) join [...]
Herzog Gets the Treatment
My favourite film podcast (even accounting for what we do here on DN) has the titan that is Werner Herzog on this week, talking about Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.
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DN EP 149: Down Terrace – Ben Wheatley
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Despite the open mind I try to always bring to cinema, I have to admit that the term ‘British gangster film’ makes my heart drop involuntarily as I brace myself for a parade of wide boys with imaginatively descriptive names such as Fingers Charlie, running round with shooters, spouting [...]
DN EP 148: Machan – Uberto Pasolini
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After reading about a group of desperate slum dwellers from Sri Lanka who daringly posed as the non-existent national handball team in order to secure their passage out of the country, producer Uberto Pasolini decided to temporarily sit in the director’s chair to bring their true life story to [...]
Filmstock: This One Goes to 11
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You know the sinking, gut wrenching feeling you get when your favourite TV show up and quits at the height of its success, or that band you love and adore call it a day after just a couple of kick arse albums? Well that’s something I’d always presumed wasn’t [...]
Doc/Fest 09 – Attack of the 50 Foot Reels
In the third installment of our daily Doc/Fest gems, Super 8 legend Norwood Cheek takes us through the Attack of the 50 Foot Reels filmmaking challenge.
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Doc/Fest 09 – The International Pitch
Sheffield Doc/Fest day two sees six filmmakers pitch for a £10k DFID funded opportunity to create a 10 minute short for the Community Channel. Greg Sanderson chairs a panel of judges including Executive Producer Jane Stephenson.
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