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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 LFF2012: Good Vibrations – Glenn Leyburn & Lisa Barros D’Sa

Co-directors Glenn Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa’s second feature Good Vibrations tells the true life story of Terri Hooley Ulster’s Godfather of

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Live Action

The Audition

We know she can dance and put on a one woman shoe show, but can Celia Rowlston-Hall juggle whilst bending over backwards and walking a straight line? Guess

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2012: Shoot Me! – Kate Hardie

Actor, turned director Kate Hardie’s film Shoot Me screened as part of the Obsessive and Compulsive shorts programme at this year’s London Film

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Animation, Music Video

My Robot Friend: Goodbye

A man lost and adrift battles to make the ultimate journey back the one he loves in MakeMakeStudio’s animated promo for My Robot Friend track Goodbye.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2012: Spike Island – Mat Whitecross

Director Mat Whitecross held his cool in a special ‘speed round’ London Film Festival interview for his new feature Spike Island, which captures

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Animation, Asides

R.I.P. Run Wrake

Run Wrake’s is filmmaker who DN had always intending to interview ever since we saw 'Rabbit', his genre busting narrative about the dangers of greed.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2012: Le Grand Soir – Benoît Delépine

Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern continue their filmmaking partnership by transforming two of France’s most famous actors into anti-establishment

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Music Video

Die Antwoord: Fatty Boom Boom

Lady Gaga may not be too pleased by the new Die Antwoord video from Ninja, Terence Neale and Saki Fokken Bergh, but we at DN are feeling much Zef love for the

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2012: Kelly + Victor – Kieran Evans

I’ve been a keen follower of the work of director Kieran Evans ever since the DV experimental documentary Finisterre he co-directed with Paul Kelly for

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Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2012: Love Story – Florian Habicht

The London Film Festival is currently in full force for its 56th edition, which can only mean that DN has navigated the dangerous territory of the Filmmakers

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Film Festival

Looking Back, Moving Forward – Midpoint of the 56th London Film Festival

Once again it’s that time of year when my usual DN output grinds to a halt and is replaced by a stream of all things London Film Festival related. This

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Music Video

Corporate Occult: Huoratron

Cédric Blaisbois illustrates just why you mother may have had a point when she warned you about taking random girls home, in this NSFW, cautionary promo for

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