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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.

Live Action, Podcasts

DN086: Extraordinary Rendition – Jim Threapleton

Jim Threapleton joins us to discuss his directorial debut Extraordinary Rendition and the challenges of striking the correct balance of tone in a film that

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News

Should Money Talk?

Doc It Out has posted an interesting piece about a subject that raises its head again and again in the ethics of documentary filmmaking; should subjects get

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News

Film Friends Forever Present VBS

In the on-going conspiracy to make me feel bad for never getting organised enough to arrange screenings outside of the annual Reading/Leeds thing, the Film

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Documentary, News

INSIDE THE CIRCLE Breakin' Convention Screening

You’d think that running Directors Notes would mean I spend all my time at screenings and hobnobbing with directors, but the sad reality is that most of

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN084: Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things – Matt Strachan

Director Matt Strachan joins us this week to discuss his switch from writing to directing on his self-penned short Giraffes and Laughs and Feelings and Things.

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN083: Escape From Luanda – Phil Grabsky

Director Phil Grabsky has been working in the film industry for over 20 years, creating documentary programmes for BBC strands such as Timewatch and

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Live Action, News

Peter Bunzl's On The Upside

Back on DN043 Peter Bunzl joined us to discuss his dark, thought experiment animation Mind Games and wet our appetites with talk of his new topsy turvy short

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Documentary

The Boy who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan – Phil Grabsky

An eight-year-old boy called Mir Hussain, living in a cave in Bamiyan, Afghanistan may not appear to be the most obvious choice for a feature length

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News

Vote for Duelity!

Directors Notes’ friends Boca & Ryan Uhrich – DN076 – have rightly been nominated as finalists at FITC 2008 for their dual screen

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News

Film Festivals for Free

Checking through my mail this morning I came across a useful link in the Shooting People bulletin for the Free Film Festivals website. As they put it: Our

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News

The West Side Episode 3

This time the wait was shorter but no less painful, so once again it’s strangely satisfying to switch to town crier mode and let you know that Ryan

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN082: 1000 Journals – Andrea Kreuzhage

As a producer with over 20 years experience in the business Andrea Kreuzhage was well aware of the advice against funding a pet project, but that didn’t

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