Free Fans, Friends & Followers

As a thank you to the South by Southwest community he mined for information, Scott Kirsner is offering the full e-book version of Fans, Friends & Followers as a completely free download for the duration of SXSW – where he’s also presenting a panel with Gary Hustwit (Helvetica & Objectified).
We were fortunate to get [...]

A New Animation Studio Beakus

If you have a love for animation as great as ours, then you too probably have a list of favourite studios which consistently bang out top notch work. Well, looks like the time has come to add another name to the group with the formation of Beakus.
Besides the work already featured on their site, [...]

Welcome to Portable.tv

I’ve long known about the Portable Film Festival and have regularly scoured the works it presents for films to feature on DN, but never really gave much thought to what or who may lie beneath. Well obviously I should have, because the new look Portable.tv site is a mighty fine thing to behold. And frankly, [...]

The Divine River Teaser

Shame shame shame on me. If I wasn’t so lazy and kept a closer eye on my newsfeeds and/or twitter flow, I’d have known by now that Ayz Waraich had wrapped the shoot for his new short The Divine River and had a teaser in the wild. Damn!
If you’re new to DN and wondering why [...]

Flattr Makes Social Micropayments Easy

We all know there’s a massive disconnect between consumption and commerce online – after nearly four years of DN it’s something we’ve been thinking about more and more. Well, Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde’s been thinking about it too and has come up with a possible solution in Flattr.
The video below explains how the [...]

The Vice Guide to Liberia

As part of their ongoing Vice Guide to Travel series which sees, “correspondents from VBS and Vice magazine dispatched around the world to visit the planet’s most dangerous and weird destinations”, VBS are currently running an eight part series looking at life in Liberia.
I got to take a sneak peak at the film and while [...]

Watch 7 Classic French Films for Free

Next week The Auteurs (one of my favourite film viewing sites) is partnering with Stella Artois to present Le Recyclage de lux Online Film Festival, 7 days of “the best French classics of the 60s.”. From the 15th December you’ll be able to watch a film a day for absolutely free on the site.
Here’s hoping [...]

Star Wars Uncut

When it comes to film fans, Star Wars probably has one of the most dedicated and somewhat obsessive followings since the birth of Cinema. So when the possibility arose to reshoot 472 15 second clips to recreate Star Wars: A New Hope for Star Wars Uncut, it was pretty obvious there would be no shortage [...]

Sundance 2010 Shorts Announced

With 35 picked from a legion of 3,504 submissions, these really should be the cream of the crop.
Details after the jump.
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Directors Notes Presents…

Tuesday – 1st December – 8pm – Sallis Benney Theatre
 

So once again it seems that the great films we curate here on Directors Notes refuse to be contained by our humble site and are making a break for the silver screen. This time round we’re honoured that CINECITY, the Brighton Film Festival, with whom DN [...]