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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, Documentary, Podcasts

DN051: What We’ve Found Out About Stem Cells – Richard Fenwick

Today’s guest director Richard Fenwick had two of his films play at this year’s Rushes Soho Shorts; The Box and the animated information packed

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN050: A Farewell Song – Arthur & Luther Jones

I’m joined by Arthur Jones who with his brother Luther spent six years creating A Farewell Song, a documentary that charts how a group of Chinese

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Film Festival

Reading & Leeds 2007 Cinema Tent…An Excess of Films and Music

So I’m writing this in between finding unbent tent pegs and making sarnies, which can only mean that we’re about to say bye to the summer with a

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN049: La Primavera – Rubén Obregón Casas

Rubén Obregón Casas, left a career in the US military to become a director and today joins me to discuss for his lyrical lovers parted tale, La Primavera. La

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Animation, Podcasts

DN048: Missing Pages – Jerome Olivier

My guest Jerome Olivier’s creative signature is so original a new term ‘fotomation’ had to be coined to describe his time travelling epic

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN047: Teenland: In Teenagers’ Bedrooms – Jeanie Finlay

Coming from an arts background, but well down the road of documentary directing, I’m joined today by director Jeanie Finlay whose 60 min film Teenland:

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Animation, Live Action, Podcasts

DN046: The Raftman’s Razor – Keith Bearden

Keith Bearden joins us to discuss The Raftman’s Razor, a film that redresses the distorted Hollywood view of teenagers in movies. The Raftman’s

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN045: The Upper Hand – Lana Schwarcz

My guest today is Lana Schwarcz talking about the plethora of creative roles she fills and her alternate reality piece The Upper Hand, where humans and puppets

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Live Action

A Young Boy Navigates the Trauma of School Bullies & His Heroin-Addict Mother in Candida Scott Knight’s ‘Mercy’

UK director Candida Scott Knight's 'Mercy' tells the story of Ben, a young boy who’s bullied at school and neglected at home by his heroin-addict mother.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN044: Film Eight – Dan Gitsham

Today I’m joined by Dan Gitsham to discuss his dark comedy, horror, Film Eight which is quite fitting as I’m recording this on Friday the 13th. Dan

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Documentary, Music Video

Keepintime: Talking Drums and Whispering Vinyl – B+

“I don’t know anything about that jigga jigga stuff – you play that and I’ll play this!” – Paul Humphrey What happens when

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Animation, Podcasts

DN043: Mind Games – Peter Bunzl

While some projects get turned around at blistering speeds that defy all reason, others need to slowly mature in the background, as was the case for this

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