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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.

Live Action

Charles Chintzer Lai Stays Up All Night with New Romantic Drama ‘Insomniacs’

The seeming tranquillity of a slumbering city in the early hours of morning holds little peace for the sleep deprived pair at the centre of Charles Chintzer

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Live Action

Dan Kokotajlo Talks Improvisation & Fractured Timelines in His Relationship Disaster Short ‘Off Yer ‘Ead’

As we all know, the course of new romance can be a rollercoaster ride of highs and lows – the hesitant getting to know you nervousness of the first date,

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN311: Dog Meet Goose – Jon Bryant Crawford

Jon Bryant Crawford's short Dog Meet Goose is awkward, uncomfortable cinema at its best. We sit down with Jon to find out what it’s like to have actors turn

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN310: Some Things Mean Something – Dee Meaden

Writer/director/producer Dee Meaden joins us to discuss the dramatic importance of small moments & why she wanted to avoid the dangers of over producing.

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Live Action

A Vulpine Twilight World Beckons in Lorcan Finnegan’s ‘Foxes’

Following an impressive festival run, Lorcan Finnegan’s foreboding short Foxes makes its online debut today so we took the opportunity to sit down with the

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Animation

Breaking Down Systems & Adapting to Life in Robert Löbel’s ‘WIND’

Inspired by the ingenious living abodes of some the worlds poorest people and their ability to adapt, work and raise families in impossible surrounds,

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Animation, Asides

Abita

Shoko Hara and Paul Brenner’s graduate thesis animation Abita, poignantly tells the story of Fukushima children who dream of being able to play in an

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Live Action, Podcasts

DN309: Hatch – Christoph Kuschnig

Christoph Kuschnig joins us to discuss the challenges of working with newborn actors and why characters don’t need to be likeable to be compelling.

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Article

DN Top Ten Feature Films of 2013

Collectively over the past few days we’ve bombarded you with hours of suggested feature film viewing, but for those of you having a hard time deciding

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Article

MarBelle Top Ten Feature Films of 2013

Looking over my final list I’ve noticed a conspicuous absence of documentaries, which isn’t to say that there weren’t some fantastic films which just

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Animation, Asides

Happy New Year

It’s New Years Eve and all of us here at DN would like to thank you for spending 2013 in our company and wish you all the best for the coming year. But

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Animation, Asides

Merry Christmas One & All

It may well have been said many times, many ways but we think Eoin Duffy, Blue Zoo and Griff all do a mighty good job of wishing us all a Merry Christmas in

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