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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.

Article, Live Action

MarBelle Top Ten Feature Films of 2017

There but for the grace of God go I - MarBelle shares his favourite (not so) feel good list of 2017's Top Ten feature films.

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Live Action

Nicholas Payne Santos Pays Tribute to the Slasher’s Kick Ass Final Girls in Festive Horror Comedy ‘Holiday Fear’

DN spoke to dir. Nicholas Payne Santos about flipping genre expectations and challenging masculinity in meta horror comedy short 'Holiday Fear'.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN356: Dustin Guy Defa Weaves a Whimsical Tapestry of New York Stories in Ensemble Feature ‘Person to Person’

Dustin Guy Defa shares why we had to wait 6 years for his second feature and how short films paved the way for his ensemble New York story.

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Animation, Asides

Help Refugees: The Journey

A young Syrian boy embarks on a long, dangerous journey to be reunited with his parents after his home is torn apart by war in Majid Adin's 'The Journey'.

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Asides, Live Action

Make it Home for Christmas

Mad Ruffian deliver a hard hitting warning about the dangers of texting whilst drive in their haunting campaign short 'Make it Home for Christmas'.

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Music Video

J.A.C.K Choreograph a Battle of Multiple MØS in Dance Off Music Video ‘When I Was Young’

Parisian duo J.A.C.K tell DN how they pulled off the visual feat of a trio of MØs facing off in a dance battle for their 'When I Was Young' music video.

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Art & Fashion, Live Action

Youness Benali Makes an Impassioned Plea to Look Beyond Stereotypes in Powerful Polemic ‘The Composer’

Youness Benali makes a welcome return to DN with his blistering monologue about the debilitating experience of being a minority defined by stereotypes.

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Music Video

Jessy Moussallem Unabashedly Presents the Strength & Grace of Arab Women in Mashrou’ Leila’s ‘Roman’

Jessy Moussallem tells DN how she reframed the narrative of Arab women as victims, to express their true reality as fierce feminist icons.

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Live Action

A Listless Art Graduate Tests Her Personal & Relationship Boundaries in Sam Icklow’s ‘Untitled, L.A.’

DN speaks to Director Sam Icklow about creating a lesbian relationship drama which was both relatable and authentic to LA’s queer art scene.

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Art & Fashion

Appreciate the Beauty of Frozen Moments in Arthur Valverde’s Sculptural Dance Short ‘Statures of Gods’

Arthur Valverde tells DN how he combined sculpture and dance to express the beauty of the frozen moment in Paris art short 'Statures of Gods'.

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Animation

Device Deliver a Picture Perfect Holiday from the Future in Sci-Fi Animation Short ‘The Postcard’

A woman shares her Southeast Asia holiday adventures from the future in animated sci-fi short 'The Postcard' from creative studio Device.

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Live Action

A Lovelorn Man Struggles Against Time, Memory & Oblivion in Carlos Lascano’s Wistful Short ‘The Puppeteer’

DN speaks to Argentinian filmmaker Carlos Lascano about his dark tale of a puppeteer who finds himself trapped in a labyrinth of memory and fantasy.

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