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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.

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DN Top Ten Feature Films of 2015

Team DN has selected a beautifully rounded list of 50 features from 2015 which are more than worthy of your time. Enjoy!

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MarBelle Top Ten Feature Films of 2015

Sanity proves to be a shaky concept in MarBelle's 2015 Top Ten Features list.

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Animation, Premiere

Love, Family & A Very Canine Christmas: Luke Kondor & Emma Reading Warm Our Hearts with ‘Doghouse’

Director Luke Kondor and Animator Emma Reading talk to DN about fear, locally sourced collaborators and how the pair captured the magic of confused

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN333: Passion & Insanity Make for Destructive Bedfellows in Jakob M. Erwa’s Tense Psychodrama ‘Homesick’

"Don’t sit & wait for the chance, do it!" Dir. Jakob M. Erwa shares the rallying cry that powered the production of his psychothriller feature

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Music Video

Floyd Russ Charts the Disturbing True Life Ordeal of a Sex Trafficking Survivor in ‘Crazy Heart’

DN invited Director Floyd Russ to share how he brought the harrowing story of Jennifer Kempton’s experiences as a sex trafficking survivor to screen in

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Documentary

Horacio Alcala Explores the Price of Life in the Limelight in Circus Documentary ‘Grazing the Sky’

Director Horacio Alcalá talks to DN about 'Grazing the Sky', his seven year journey to document the extreme levels of dedication and focus required to be a

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Animation

Paper, Plants & Sand – Justine Vuylsteker Takes a Textured Animated Stroll Through ‘Paris’

Justine Vuylsteker tells DN how a happy accident of project cross-pollination led to the creation of his textured animated crush, 'Paris'.

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN331: Matt Sobel Takes an Inverted Look at the Coming of Age Story in ‘Take Me To The River’

DN talks to Matt Sobel about his inverted coming of age feature 'Take Me To The River' and discovers how he harnessed the celebrity power of Taylor Swift to

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN330: Nightmares Become Unreality in AKIZ’s Dark Monster Tale ‘Der Nachtmahr’

Artist & Director AKIZ shares how he brought realism to his fantastical feature 'Der Nachtmahr' whilst augmenting the film’s abrasive techno soundtrack

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN329: Politics & Film Noir Combine in Alexis Alexiou’s Thriller ‘Wednesday 04:45’

Greek Director Alexis Alexiou joins us to discuss how he went about creating a lyrical, surreal quality for his crime thriller 'Wednesday 04:45' and why in his

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN328: The Child Assassin Comes of Age in Ariel Kleiman’s Debut Feature ‘Partisan’

DN tracked down 'Partisan' Director Ariel Kleiman to talk submarines, scoring Vincent Cassel for his debut feature & why kids can’t point guns in Australian

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Documentary, Film Festival, Music Video, Podcasts

DN327: Johanna Schwartz Documents the Defiant Spirit of Malian Musicians in Sonic Feature ‘They Will Have to Kill Us

Director Johanna Schwartz joins DN with her feature-length documentary 'They Will Have to Kill Us First' - a film which charts the defiant spirit of Malian

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