Documentary Category

Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF07: The English Surgeon – Geoffrey Smith

Amidst the two weeks of screenings and events that was The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival sat the calm oasis of the filmmakers’ breakfasts, which

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN059: Tovarisch I Am Not Dead – Stuart Urban

Stuart Urban could be said to have pretty much been born a director, with his first film, The Virus of War screened at Cannes 1973 when he was just 13, making

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF07: My Kid Could Paint That – Amir Bar-Lev

Amidst the two weeks of screenings and events that was The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival sat the calm oasis of the filmmakers’ breakfasts, which

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF07: A Walk into the Sea – Esther Robinson

Amidst the two weeks of screenings and events that was The Times BFI 51st London Film Festival sat the calm oasis of the filmmakers’ breakfasts, which

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN057: Kamp Katrina – Ashley Sabin & David Redmon

Through their production company Carnivalesque Films, co-creators Ashley Sabin & David Redmon have produced two documentaries with a third fast nearing

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Documentary, Podcasts

DN056: Time Piece – Kat Mansoor

Kat Mansoor is a founding member of Brighton production company Animal Monday and joins me to discuss her short documentary Time Piece, which reveals the

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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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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN Festival: Britdoc 2007

Billed as ‘the essential annual meeting of every key player in British documentary production’, I travelled to Oxford to meet up with some old

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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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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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Documentary, Podcasts

DN039: Talk to Me – Mark Craig

Today’s interview is for a project that certainly falls out of the norm and is unlikely to be repeated or copied anytime soon. With a film that was over

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