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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, Podcasts

DN057: Kamp Katrina – Ashley Sabin & David Redmon

Through their production company Carnivalesque Films, co-creators Ashley Sabin & David Redmon have produced two documentaries with a third fast nearing

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN056: Time Piece – Kat Mansoor

Kat Mansoor is a founding member of Brighton production company Animal Monday and joins me to discuss her short documentary Time Piece, which reveals the

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN055: Mash Up – Jesse Lawrence

This week’s guest director Jesse Lawrence is one of the founding members of La Famiglia, a self confessed mobile guerrilla film unit who are well versed

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News

Marc Fennell's Film Ed 101

Ok it’s not like I could possibly enthuse about the shows Marc Fennell’s put out any more than I already have and I really don’t want to turn

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Podcasts

DN Special: Lighthouse Cineville – Script Development

Alkin Emirali chairs a Q&A with two of the most respected script executives in the UK Dan MacRae and Sarah Golding, who shed some light on the mysterious

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN054: Sugarhouse – Gary Love

Gary Love has the dubious pleasure of sitting in the Directors Notes’ hot seat this week, a long time actor turned TV director, Gary’s feature

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Animation

The Scent of Seth – Anita Shukla

In partial homage to the sensation of dark imagination in the work of Tim Hope, Roman Dirge and Tim Burton, Anita Shukla’s animated short The Scent of

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN053: The West Side – Ryan Bilsborrow-Koo & Zachary Lieberman

This is the first interview of the second year of the Directors Notes podcast. Yeah we’re 1!!! Just as Directors Notes has the majority of episodes ahead

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN Special: Lighthouse Cineville – London to Brighton

Screen South’s Miranda Robinson chaired a Q&A with Rachel Robey and Alastair Clark, both producers for Nottingham based Wellington Films. Their debut

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Live Action

Talking with Angels – Yousaf Ali Khan

A well-worn maxim suggests that it’s always best to create stories about ‘what you know’, and Yousaf Ali Khan’s accomplished short

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Podcasts

DN052: Dead Bird – Brek Taylor & Clare Tinsley

I’m joined today by not one but two directors Brek Taylor & Clare Tinsley, to discuss their podcast released short Dead Bird which to continue the

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Live Action

Stagnate – Miranda Bowen

Mildred is an eccentric, bird-like woman who desperately tries to do her job to the best of her ability – only there’s little to do and the more

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