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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.

Animation

Opera Dulcineia & Trancoso

Stepping out from the usual beat of film titles, short films, and commercials, Marcelo Altino Garcia’s studio Molho picked up the commission to conceive

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Animation, Music Video

JUL & MAT

Although varied in execution and style the binding element of JUL & MAT promos is well thought out simplicity carried out with a playful precision

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Animation, Art & Fashion

555 Kubik – Urban Screen

If you’ve ever wondered How it would be, if a house was dreaming? Urban Screen have the answer. Specialising in transforming the sides of buildings with

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Animation, Art & Fashion, Asides

Max Hattler: New Films + New Job

Max Hattler delivers a transfixing pair of animation loops inspired by French outsider artist Augustin Lesage's paintings.

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Asides, Documentary

Ore-Kream Two

We get to see the offspring of a Canon 7d Redrock cinema package, Sony Ex1 & letus ultimate setup in Logan Triplett & Adam Kirschhoffer’s 'Ore-Kream Two'.

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Film Festival

Flatpack Festival 2010

Set in the heart of the Black Country, last week saw the fourth year of Birmingham’s Flatpack Festival, not so much a straight up film festival, but

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News

Apps for Cinema Artists from FWD:labs

I thought @fwdlabs had put together a useful list when I saw it last year, but that was nothing compared to now. If you’re a filmmaker and looking for a

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN SXSW2010 – The Loved Ones – Sean Byrne

A word of advice, if the quiet, mousy girl asks you to the prom say yes. Otherwise you too may find yourself slow dancing through hell under a disco ball, as

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN SXSW2010: Red White & Blue – Simon Rumley

Described as a slacker revenge movie, Simon Rumley’s latest feature Red White & Blue tracks the emotionally damaged Erica through the bars and beds

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN SXSW2010: This Movie Is Broken – Bruce McDonald

As a festival that features such strong music and film strands, SXSW was the perfect place for Bruce McDonald to premiere his Broken Social Scene concert meets

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2010: The People vs. George Lucas – Alexandre O. Philippe

No other filmmaker in history has been able to garner the equal levels of adoration and hate as George Lucas has through the Star Wars series of films.

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN SXSW2010: World’s Largest – Amy C. Elliott & Elizabeth Donius

Co-directed by Amy C. Elliott and Elizabeth Donius, World’s Largest takes a tour of small town America and the over-sized, roadside attractions hoping to

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