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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

DN Hits the Reading & Leeds 2008 Festivals

It’s raining. In fact I believe technically you could call this pouring, which means what should be a night of excited anticipation has become a scramble

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN101: The Greatest Gift – Daniel Bloomberg

This week I’m joined by director Daniel Bloomberg to discuss his Jacques Lacan inspired, chocolate sauce massacre short The Greatest Gift. The Greatest

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News

Routes Hits a Cinema Near You

Update: As a Brighton resident it’d be plain rude of me to not highlight the fact that Alex’s Routes screening at the Duke of York cinema is coming

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Music Video, Podcasts

DN100: El Senor Antipirina: Me Voy – Stathis Athanasiou

Well it seemed like the distant future back when I posted episode 1, but believe it or not we’ve now been bringing you Directors Notes each and every

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN Special: Storm – Kurtis Hough

Sometimes when I get really lucky, a director whose work we’ve featured will stick around once the interview dust has settled and become a firm friend

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN099: The Super Noble Brothers – Mark Escribano

If you’re tapped into a community, creative or otherwise, the laws of nature dictate that either through chance or shear determination certain

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Art & Fashion, Live Action, Podcasts

DN098: Seeking Wellness – Dan Schneidkraut

It’s with complete unashamedness that I admit we discovered this week’s guest Dan Schneidkraut from our well mined source of the Filmstock Film

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News

Nobody’s Perfect

Nobody’s Perfect is a newly launched charity short film competition that’s open to 16 – 25 year olds interested in directing, producing, acting,

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN097: Inside the Circle – Marcy Garriott

It’s not often I experience the films we feature in their full cinematic glory, and even rarer that I also get face to face time with the directors, but

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News

Vote Yes to Mind Games

This seems to be the weekend of updates for past guests, which I suppose means that their work’s permeating throughout the collective consciousness and

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN096: Tokyo Cowboys – Daneeta Loretta Saft & Patrick Jackson

What happens when you’re far from home and on-route to living your dream? Do you come back to start again with nothing to show for your years of effort

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Film Festival, News

Dislocation Festival

As part of my effort to get some of the Directors Notes’ films out to a wider non-podcast audience whilst trying to become cool by association, I’m

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