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EIFF2013: What the Delegates Think

As I think my recent Returning Home piece made clear, I’m a big fan of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. But as well as sharing my thoughts

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EIFF2013: Returning Home

I was recently having a conversation with a filmmaker friend of mine. We were talking about three of the new film projects I’m currently working on. As

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Life Just Is: Beyond Completion

Early last year, I completed my debut feature film, Life Just Is – an arthouse drama about a week in the lives of some recent graduates who struggle to

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Life Just Is: Finishing the Film

Back in April 2011, I wrote a piece for DN detailing the journey that I undertook with my debut feature (as writer/director), Life Just Is, as we went From

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EIFF2011: Final Thoughts

In the introductory piece to my coverage of this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival I spoke of the changes that the festival has been through

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EIFF2011: The Passion of Béla Tarr

Among the many changes made to this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival was the presence of several ‘guest curators’, who included

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EIFF2011: Albatross

When spunky tearaway Emelia (Jessica Brown-Findlay) first meets prim and proper Oxford-applicant Beth (Felicity Jones) working behind the desk of Beth’s

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EIFF2011: The Last Circus

For a certain type of person, there will be much to enjoy in The Last Circus. Its strong cartoon violence and descent into surrealistic craziness will no doubt

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EIFF2011: Mysterious Object at Noon

Programmed as part of Edinburgh’s ‘Perspectives’ strand of “classic and rarely seen films”, Thai arthouse director Apichatpong

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EIFF2011: The Turin Horse

Even in a world where festival programmes are full to the brim with works belonging to the so-called ‘slow cinema’ form of arthouse filmmaking, the

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EIFF2011: The Bang Bang Club

At the start of The Bang Bang Club the South African photojournalist Kevin Carter (as portrayed in the film by actor Taylor Kitsch) is asked what makes

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EIFF2011: Mourning for Anna

Perhaps more than any other film I saw at the festival, the title of Catherine Martin’s Mourning for Anna serves as an effective summary for the film

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