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Live Action

Stake Land

In Stake Land teenage boy Martin (Connor Paolo) sees his whole family slaughtered by a vampire before being rescued by a rogue vampire hunter only known as

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Music Video

Speed Up the Search for Sound Effects

Adam A. Johnson from SFXsource.com got in touch to ask how much we enjoy searching through 1000’s of sound effects to find that one gem. “Not

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Live Action

A Human Sausage, a Human Torso, and Maybe Myself

Airports are meant to be transitory spaces; they are bleak and filled with transitory merchandise. At least, they should be, unless you’ve made a really

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Film Festival

ÉCU2010: The Shorts

Before the films started, the owner of the Cinéma le Grand Action, an intense-looking woman with miraculous cheekbones and a stubborn, unwavering coiffure

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Documentary, Film Festival

ÉCU2010: Reaching Roise – Jessica Morris

I am tumbling through a rainbow of identification tags, frantically scouring for red – a red tag means a filmmaker. In my as yet futile hunt (not for lack of

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Film Festival

ÉCU2010: The Grand Entrance

Try as we might, it’s just impossible for us to be at every festival worthy of DN coverage. The fourth year of Paris’ European Independent Film

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Film Festival

YARNfest

There’s nothing we like more here at DN than festivals, so when we heard about the impending launch of YARNfest we asked its director Gemma Mitchell to

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Documentary, Film Festival

A Virgin Doc/Fest Diary

This is a guest post from filmmaker, photographer and writer Craig Rook. So, here I was about to venture to the Sheffield Doc/Fest for my first time and its

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN Festival: Doc/Fest 2007

One hundred and seventy six miles north of Soho, there’s a mystical place called Sheffield, where powerful people travel from afar on an annual basis to

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN Festival: Britdoc 2007

Billed as ‘the essential annual meeting of every key player in British documentary production’, I travelled to Oxford to meet up with some old

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