Film Festival Category

Animation, Film Festival

Vimeo Festival 2012: Animation Finalists

Not since The Beatles have we witnessed a quartet as strong as the 4 finalists in the animation category of the Vimeo awards. Hailing from Canada, France,

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Documentary, Film Festival

TFF2012: Side by Side

This is a guest post from Renee Viterstedt, part of the team behind the feature documentary PressPausePlay. A film most likely to find its audience with film

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Asides, Film Festival

The 2012 Vimeo Festival + Awards Submissions

Well of course they weren’t going to stop after just one year! Yep the submission clock has started for 2012’s Vimeo Festival + Awards. The

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Animation, Film Festival

Why Don’t You Join Us?

Loving this appropriated Pong animation from MK12 which opened the Zero Film Festival’s Occupy Wall Street NYC screening.

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Film Festival

Kerry Film Festival 2011

Part One I’ve been incredibly quiet on DN this year. Apologies for that, but the reason is I have been studying for my doctorate in cinema and writing a

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Documentary, Film Festival, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Superheroes – Michael Barnett

Some are called, some are chosen but all attempt to work for the greater good of their communities. No it’s not the synopsis for Kick-Ass 2, but rather

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Li and the Poet – Andrea Segre

Andrea Segre’s debut feature Li and the Poet tells the story of Shun Li, a Chinese woman working off her debt to a better life in Italy and the forbidden

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Natural Selection – Robbie Pickering

Although I’ve been chasing Robbie Pickering for an interview since seeing his multi-award winning Natural Selection at SXSW, it was the London Film

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: The Dish and the Spoon – Alison Bagnall

Alison Bagnall’s The Dish and the Spoon features a woman betrayed, who takes a romantic English teen on her journey through blind rage. Alison and I

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Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: How to Re-Establish a Vodka Empire – Daniel Edelstyn

I’m pretty sure that Daniel Edelstyn is the only director I met at the London Film Festival this year who’s the rightful heir to a Russian vodka

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Art & Fashion, Documentary, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: Shock Head Soul – Simon Pummell

Based on the famous book Memoirs of My Nervous Illness from German judge Daniel Paul Schreber, Simon Pummell’s feature Shock Head Soul depicts

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Art & Fashion, Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN LFF2011: The Somnambulists – Richard Jobson

Angered by the way he and the rest of us allowed the UK to sleepwalk into the Iraq war, Richard Jobson’s The Somnambulists is a departure for the

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