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MarBelle has a strange compulsion to watch as many films as he can get his hands on and find jobs that give him a legitimate excuse to drill filmmakers about their work. Directors Notes is the multi-decade incarnation of this disorder and remains so much cheaper than film school.

Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Sixteen – Rob Brown

Rob Brown returns to DN with the feature debut about a former child soldier trying to make peace with his past and move on to a promising future.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Youth – Tom Shoval

Tom Shoval’s debut feature Youth shows the desperate lengths two brothers from a newly poor Israeli middle class family go to in an effort to help their

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: See You Next Tuesday – Drew Tobia

Definitely the only film screening at this year’s London Film Festival which promises that the whole family can enjoy cutting themselves to it; Drew

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Ilo Ilo – Anthony Chen

Already an art house hit in France and his native Singapore, Anthony Chen’s debut feature Ilo Ilo pulls inspiration from his younger experiences of family

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Northwest – Michael Noer

Danish director Michael Noer’s newest feature Northwest depicts just how fast petty disputes can spiral out of control for a pair of brothers caught up in

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF2013: Teenage – Matt Wolf

There used to be a time when there was no buffer between the stages of child and adult and although we take it for granted today, adolescents had to fight hard

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Music Video

Oliver Millar Gets His Party on for Young Wolf Hatchlings’ Promo

Who doesn’t like to break loose from the constraints of a working life and get their party on at the weekend? We have no idea, we never see those people

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Animation, Music Video

Fabricio Lima Weaves a Dream of Love for Two WWII Soldiers in ‘Sleepwalk With Me’

Fabricio Lima’s delightfully heartfelt animated promo Sleepwalk With Me for Young Galaxy, pulls inspiration for its imaginative narrative from the ONE

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Animation

Mail

Commission by his hometown audio/visual festival Fuochi Fatui to create a looping one minute film, Emanuele Kabu’s animation Mail speaks to that dark

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Music Video

Inside

In his video performance piece created for electronic music project Tegh, Iranian computer artist and visualizer Ali Phi deconstructs the musician’s

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Asides, Music Video

KN1GHT: Last Moon

In Nicolas Pomet’s neon silhouetted world, a man sets out on a dangerous ride to secure the ultimate score, all set to the electro sounds of

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Asides, Documentary

Brighton

If the love story of Lincoln Fishman and Hilary Costa at the centre of Jeremiah Zagar’s hybrid music video/documentary for Alagoas’ Brighton

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