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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.

Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF2011 – The Black Power Mixtape 1967 – 1975 – Göran Hugo Olsson

After discovering a cache of nearly 85 hours of pristine 16mm film shot by Swedish news reporters documenting the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Darwin – Nick Brandestini

In the first of our London Film Festival interviews we sit down with director Nick Brandestini to discuss his feature documentary Darwin; a look at an isolated

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Film Festival

Back in the LFF

After leaving you in the capable hands of Danni Lizaitis last year, I’m extremely happy to be returning to the London Film Festival for its 55th

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Live Action

Go All Day

Directed by Colin Kennedy for sports drink Gatorade, Go All Day is a single shot journey through a high school day featuring the skating talents of Chaz Ortiz

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Live Action

Short Film in Fake English

Billed as “A Short film in Fake English” and created for Kino Sydney #47, Brian Fairbairn’s Skwerl is a film about the importance of

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Documentary

Everything Is A Remix: The Matrix

To help stop us getting antsy while we wait for the delayed fourth (and concluding) instalment of Kirby Ferguson’s Everything Is A Remix series of

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Animation

Countdown

Set to the sounds of Granulard Bastard by Berlin band Apprat, Céline Desrumaux’s (one half of Céline & Yann, the duo who brought us the fantastic

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Animation

Ready Steady Bang: 30 Ways

Ed Barrett’s rootin’-tootin shootin promo for the iPad/iPhone game Ready Steady Bang.

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Live Action, Music Video, Podcasts

DN220 – Kristoffer Borgli

We only discovered the work of director Kristoffer Borgli last year but instantly became lifelong fans of his style of filmmaking. Kristoffer joins us to

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Live Action

Mr.White

Presented in moody black & white (with a splash of colour) and shot over a weekend on a Canon 7D (with Canon 50mm 1.4 USM & Canon 24mm 1.4 L lenses)

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Documentary

Watch PressPausePlay Online

The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized

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Live Action

Doctor Glamour Trailer

After taking us on the chemical thrill ride of our lives in Frank DanCoolo: Paranormal Drug Dealer, we were pleased to see Andrew W Jones set his sights even

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