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DN LFF2011: The Somnambulists – Richard Jobson
Angered by the way he and the rest of us allowed the UK to sleepwalk into the Iraq war, Richard Jobson’s The Somnambulists is a departure for the director which explores the lost lives of 15 service men and women in stark visual style. We discuss collective responsibility and pushing technology and form to serve [...]
DN LFF2011: The Waves – Alberto Morais
In his debut feature The Waves (Las Olas), director Alberto Morais explores the conversations we have with history and ourselves through his lead character Miguel’s (Carlos Alvarez) journey into his past. We spoke to Alberto at the London Film Festival about shooting a film which merges the present with memory. I respect the locations as [...]
DN LFF2011: Amador – Fernando León de Aranoa
In the fifth feature from Spanish director Fernando León de Aranoa, a woman must reconcile dignity with personal necessity after forging a difficult friendship with the elderly, bedridden Amador. We caught up with Fernando at the London Film Festival to discuss his background as a writer and why his characters are his friends. You have [...]
DN LFF2011: Without – Mark Jackson
Named as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film, director Mark Jackson has crafted a perfectly balanced portrait of a young woman balancing on the edge of sanity, whilst drowning in the depths of grief in his feature debut Without. A lot of it is people watching and projecting ideas and backstory [...]
DN LFF2011 – The Black Power Mixtape 1967 – 1975 – Göran Hugo Olsson
After discovering a cache of nearly 85 hours of pristine 16mm film shot by Swedish news reporters documenting the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the black community, director Göran Hugo Olsson brought together contemporary commentators and musicians to bring the material to life and so create The Black Power Mixtape 1967 – 1975. [...]
DN LFF2011: Darwin – Nick Brandestini
In the first of our London Film Festival interviews we sit down with director Nick Brandestini to discuss his feature documentary Darwin; a look at an isolated community of 35 residents who live at end of a weathered road in Death Valley, California. When we saw there was a ghost town called Darwin, we thought [...]
DN220 – Kristoffer Borgli
We only discovered the work of director Kristoffer Borgli last year but instantly became lifelong fans of his style of filmmaking. Kristoffer joins us to discuss his career to date and why octopus faced kids are unlikely to appear in his ad work. I’m 26, I don’t feel the rush to make a feature film [...]
DN219: Breakfast | Screwed Up – Kris Hofmann
I’ve been a fan of animator Kris Hofmann’s stop motion work since seeing her true lives of the animals we eat piece Breakfast a couple years ago. Her new piece Screwed Up is a charming film about not knowing a good thing until it’s gone, which stars a nut and a bolt. Kris joins me [...]
DN218: Undying Love – Omar Hauksson
I was skeptical I’d ever come across another zombie short worthy to be mentioned in the same breath as the classic I Love Sarah Jane, that was until I got a sneak peak at Omar Hauksson’s Undying Love. Omar joined me to discuss the Icelandic film industry and pulling in favours to make a jaw [...]
DN217: Third Star – Hattie Dalton
I’ve been a fan of director Hattie Dalton’s darkly comedic work since her first short The Banker walked away with the BAFTA Film Award in 2005, so grabbed the opportunity for an interview about her feature film debut Third Star. Hattie joined me from Australia to discuss breaking ground in the can-com genre and the [...]
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