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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.

Music Video

Norman Bates Take the Pinocchio Story for a Retro-Futuristic Spin in ‘We Must Be Crazy’

Belgian directing twosome Norman Bates talk to DN about their powerfully emotional “cinematic retro-futuristic spin on the classic Pinocchio story”.

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN317: Echo – Lewis Arnold

With Lewis Arnold's short film 'Echo' being released online just over a week ago, it seemed the perfect excuse to delve even deeper into the director's time at

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Live Action

Kire Paputts Challenges Preconceptions About Special Needs Actors in ‘The Rainbow Kid’

DN alumni Kire Paputts tell us how his forthcoming feature 'The Rainbow Kid' bucks the norm without succumbing to lazy cinematic conventions, to tell the

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Art & Fashion

Ed Lawes Probes the Nature of the Mechanisms of Memory in ‘Glimpse’

In the short film 'Glimpse' Ed Lawes envisions memory as processed by a flawed machine and investigates the wider concept of the nature of memory itself. We

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Music Video

Stockton Lane Weave Together Precious Memories of Love Lost for Brothertiger’s ‘In Mind’

Robert Nyerges & Matt Hardman’s debut music video 'In Mind' for Brothertiger sees a dying man's desperate search through his past for his lost love. We speak

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Live Action

The McKinnon Brothers Talk Mysteries, Multimedia & Crowdfunding for ‘KIN Fables’

The first instalment of The McKinnon Brothers’ 'KIN Fables' masterfully draws you into a stunning world of mystery. We sat down with the brothers to discuss

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Animation

Goyims Jens & Anna Discuss Jewish Culture…Carefully in ‘The Squirrel and the Penguin’

Jens Blank & Anna Benner wracked their brains for the perfect story to animate their way into a Jewish film fund, only to find that the solution was writing

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Documentary

David Baksh Documents the Early Collaborative Steps of Eva Magyar’s ‘Nobodys Guests’

The last time director David Baksh took us behind the curtain of the dance artiste it was with a portrait piece which poetically presented the shifting form of

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Documentary, Music Video

Documentary & Fiction Blur in Kimmo Films’ Day in the Life of a Thai Prostitute Music Video ‘Promises of

Nina Spiering and Mirka Duijn of Kimmo Films employ their documentary and drama experience to create a Docu-Fiction music video look at the life and hopes of a

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Animation

Kickstart Lee Hardcastle’s Feature Length Claysplotation ‘SPOOK TRAIN’

If you happen to take a browse through the DN archives, it quickly becomes apparent that animation is one of our favourite forms of filmmaking, and while

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Animation

Nadav Nachmany Builds on his own Animation Ruins to Hail ‘The Swamp King’

Nadav Nachmany talks to us about transposing a classic Judaism story into 'The Swamp King', a tale about misguided idol worshipping frogs and how the film

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Music Video

Experience the Ultimate Summer Getaway with Remy Cayuela & Duke Dumont in ‘I Got U’

Cast off those Winter blues with the sound of Duke Dumont's 'I Got U' and director Remy Cayuela's ultimate getaway from it all solution, all from the comfort

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